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Kindergarten Year Long Theme
Making Connections
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Making connections is a skill that allows children to find patterns in everything they learn. It changes the way children think!
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Making connections allows children to find similarities and differences in what they learn.
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Making connections helps the brain process new information, recall it and learn by overlaying a known pattern onto an unknown pattern to find similiarities and differences.
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Making connections promotes analytical thinking.
Research based on Marzano's Higher Level Thinking Strategies
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Target Goals
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I can make comparisons between things that are alike and different.
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I can "think" and discover new learnings.
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I can connect new information to past ideas
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I can connect information to real life experiences.
Questions
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What do I already know that will help me learn this new idea?
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How do you know?
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What is the same?
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What is different?
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