Here is child psychologist Dr. Megan Koschnick on why Early Childhood Standards of Common Core are Developmentally Inappropriate. This is her…
Dropped by the prek-k last week and found them deep in a pattern block exercise (well it actually felt like…
A few years ago Ken Robinson urged us to bring on the learning revolution. Well some took him seriously. The…
An early morning visit to the kindergarten on Friday was a chance for a guided tour of the farm. It's…
For adults like me who work in schools September means being confronted with a world of change. There are new…
Childhood is another country: they do things differently there.* Great researchers and thinkers about education (think Froebel, Piaget, Vygotsky and…
Every year there are new hats on the shelf in the kindergarten. Every year there are so many opportunities for…
Learning about Sprout Creek Farm is a big part of the kindergarten curriculum but what exactly are they learning? Readers…
A school in May is like a two year old deprived of a nap. That's how my colleague Liz describes…
So the debate on the purpose of play in early childhood simmers on. It popped up on my Facebook page…
A colleague at a nearby school sent me this link to the NYTimes – just the latest bulletin from a…
“I want the bike,” “No. You can’t have it.” A problem negotiated and solved. Friendship maintained, feelings expressed and managed,…
Found in the kindergarten classroom yesterday - the hard hats lined up in the block building area ready for the…
The maple wood blocks . . . are in my fingers to this day. - Frank Lloyd Wright I have…
It was part of a math number and counting project and then both kindergarten classes brought in their personal collections…