Good Pickin' Farm Connecting Class — Good Pickin' Farm Education

What is the Konnecting Class?

Five to seven year old students (of traditional Kindergarten age) are initially placed in our 'Konnecting Class' which provides the opportunity to make a smooth transition between Preschool and Elementary learning.

The Konnecting Class is like an expanded Kindergarten. With our smaller classes and low student-teacher ratios, we have the flexibility to respond to the individual needs of our students; the class might include a precocious child who is too young to enter public Kindergarten, or perhaps an older child who is still learning early reading skills.

The group overlaps with many of the learning activities of the older School House children, however they are also their own entity: all of the children are focusing on early reading skills, computational skills and strategies for becoming excellent students and independent learners.

They do some amazing artwork as a means to learning, and love to sing. They spend a lot of time outdoors exploring the farm and nature - the perfect way to nurture their curious, questioning and analytic minds. They learn from their older classmates, and in return, often model skills and knowledge themselves. Our students are insightful, proud of their work, eager to learn, amazing artistically, physically strong and - big bonus - tend to get along extremely well as a team.

We take our cues from the children: many of the students in this age group are ready for elementary academic work, but still need some development in areas of social/emotional learning, such as sharing, or putting on a snowsuit without help. Others are not quite ready to focus for the amount of academic learning required of the older children. Konnectors are ready to move into the School House group when they are reading independently, using basic computational skills and have developed social/emotional skills to work well independently and as a team member.