kindergarten

Why are we doing this to our children?

Here is child psychologist Dr. Megan Koschnick on why Early Childhood Standards of Common Core are Developmentally Inappropriate. This is her…

10 years ago

Global Studies and Math Count

Dropped by the prek-k last week and found them deep in a pattern block exercise (well it actually felt like…

10 years ago

What can’t textbooks teach?

A few years ago Ken Robinson urged us to bring on the learning revolution. Well some took him seriously. The…

11 years ago

The Farm that Kindergarten Built

An early morning visit to the kindergarten on Friday was a chance for a guided tour of the farm. It's…

12 years ago

All this change ….

For adults like me who work in schools September means being confronted with a world of change.  There are new…

13 years ago

Childhood Is Another Country: Children Are Not Miniature Adults

Childhood is another country: they do things differently there.* Great researchers and thinkers about education (think Froebel, Piaget, Vygotsky and…

14 years ago

Stand back, Hats on: Kindergarten at work

Every year there are new hats on the shelf in the kindergarten. Every year there are so many opportunities for…

14 years ago

Life on the Farm

Learning about Sprout Creek Farm is a big part of the kindergarten curriculum but what exactly are they learning?  Readers…

15 years ago

Everyone is cranky

A school in May is like a two year old deprived of a nap.  That's how my colleague Liz describes…

15 years ago

State of Play

So the debate on the purpose of play in early childhood simmers on. It popped up on my Facebook page…

15 years ago

Testing Madness on the Race to Nowhere

A colleague at a nearby school sent me this link to the NYTimes – just the latest bulletin from a…

15 years ago

Student Conflict Resolution: The 30 second solution

“I want the bike,” “No. You can’t have it.” A problem negotiated and solved. Friendship maintained, feelings expressed and managed,…

15 years ago

Building? The Kindergarten is Ready

Found in the kindergarten classroom yesterday - the hard hats lined up in the block building area ready for the…

16 years ago

Blocked: Did Kindergarten Invent Modernism?

The maple wood blocks . . . are in my fingers to this day. - Frank Lloyd Wright I have…

16 years ago

Kindergarten Collectors

It was part of a math number and counting project and then both kindergarten classes brought in their personal collections…

16 years ago