Information and Society: Kindergarten Overall Expectations By the end of Kindergarten, students will: demonstrate an understanding of the nature and role of information demonstrate an understanding of how information is organized demonstrate an understanding of ways of creating and communicating information transfer information knowledge and skills to enrich personal life and contribute to society

Expectations in Specific Areas
Reasoning	Organizing
By the end of Kindergarten, students will: - identify safe and unsafe ways of obtaining information - identify familiar information-based and technological items and describe their use - recognize special places where information is found and describe their function - identify people in the community who provide information and describe what they do	By the end of Kindergarten, students will: - identify patterns, cycles and events in daily life and describe how such patterns provide information - identify elements and variations of textual and visual information
Communicating	Applying
By the end of Kindergarten, students will: - take turns in classroom activities and explain why turns allow for the sharing of information - describe features of art forms from a variety of cultures and what they tell us about those cultures - demonstrate an understanding of the information-based purposes of rules and routines in different contexts	By the end of Kindergarten, students will: - identify favourite texts and retell the stories in their own words - identify and discuss their own interests and preferences - connect their own experiences to those of characters in fiction and non-fiction - use a variety of simple strategies to solve social problems - use familiar materials to express information in new ways