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Vance Village School

Shohei Miyake and Carley Snyder

Contents• Our Classroom and students• Teacher Mrs. Gillett• What Were Students Like?• Family Involvement• Daily Schedule• Classroom Activity• Our role in the Classroom• Discipline in the Classroom• Comparison to Japanese Kindergarten• Connections to Class Framework• What We Learned•

Students

• 24 students• 11 boys and 13 girls•

Books

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Rug

Origami

Book Buddies

Our Role at Vance (centers)

• Assist Students’ work• Listening Section• Origami• Read-aloud• Working with Letters••

Connection to Our Class

• Different learning styles were accommodated using centers– Listening– Visual– Tactile/Kinesthetic

• Multicultural Aspects– Music with various

languages– Invites foreign activities

(origami)–

What Were Students Like?

・ Excited to learn

・ Responsible

・ Respectful

・Mature

・ Friendly

Class Activity

• Morning Greeting• Computer Room• Dancing and Music• Buddies• Recess• Field Trip• Centers••

Assigned Groups

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• Not ability based.• Various aptitudes in one

group• Heterogeneous • Groups can change if

too distracting•

Centers(Rule)

• The best worked group can get star• Stay with their group for work and clean up• Cooperate with each other• Use inner voice• Use their material carefully

Comparison to Japanese Kindergarten

Vance Village School Japanese Kindergarten

・ Huge building -Cafeteria, Library• 24 students• Focus on learning• Wide community• Diversity

• Small building

• 30-35 students• Focus on playing• Small community• No Diversity

Dancing/Music

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Morning Greeting

Daily Scedule

Computer Laboratory

Recess

Field Trip

• Field trip to New Britain Public Library• Behavior on the bus• Reading time• Choose the books

Field Trip

Field Trip

Read-aloud

Mrs. Gillett

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• Very calm• Talks on their level• “Friends” •

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Family Involvement

Discipline and Responsibility

Job Chart and Vance Pledge

As a proud citizen of the Vance Village, I will do

my personal best.I will be respectful,

responsible, fair, caring, and trustworthy.

When I do this, everyone will have a chance to

learn, be creative, and contribute to our world.

What We LearnedShohei

• The students can do a lot of things on their own

• Wide community help with students AND teacher

• Non-verbal communication is very important especially for lower-grade students

Carley

• Kindergarten is not that bad!

• Centers is a great way to incorporate different learning styles

• This is what I want to do