Early+Years+27+Feb+2014

=**media type="custom" key="25682116"#pypchat 27 Feb 2014 Early Years**=

Questions -
 * 1) What age group does your school begin its PYP journey?
 * 2) What is your ‘image of the child’?


 * What does inquiry look like in the early years?
 * 1) What is your approach to play based learning?
 * 2) How do you assess and document learning in the EY?
 * 3) How do you manage the language of the PYP in the early years?
 * 4) How do you support individual inquiry and action in the early years?
 * 5) How do you differentiate for the needs of young students?
 * 6) What are the challenges of PYP in the early years?
 * 7) How do you manage learning time during the day?
 * 8) How do you integrate technology to enhance learning in EY?
 * 9) What are some great picture book texts you have used in UOI in the early years? #


 * Resources from IB Americas:**

IB document: Early Years in the PYP: Educator's Perspectives http://ibpublishing.ibo.org/server2/rest/app/tsm.xql?doc=p_0_pypxx_mon_1311_1_e&part=1&chapter=1

__Ideas for ePortfolios__
 * http://www.tashacowdy.com/2012/01/19/children-sharing-their-learning-journeys-through-portfolios/
 * http://k1ac.weebly.com/portfolios.html
 * Evernote
 * Audioboo
 * Wordpress blog
 * 30 Hands

__ Books __
 * Ten Tales from Different Cultures - available on IB bookstore
 * Emil Gravet's books
 * Jamie Lee Curtis' books
 * Melanie Watt's series (Scardy Squirrel, Chester)
 * Antoinette Portia books - Not a Box and Not a Stick
 * Franklin books by [|Paulette Bourgeois] and illustrated by Brenda Clark.