These kids were playing. Standing in front ... are rethinking the kindergarten curriculum and encouraging districts to revive time for block-building, coloring and imagining invisible force ...

In a 2019 whitepaper entitled “Taking Back Kindergarten,” authors Drs. Sarah Silverman and Sandy Husk linked the practice to preparing kids for the long road ... part of our day to unstructured play.

Despite the absence of updated analysis of federal data on kindergarten expectations, teachers say that standards have continued on a more academically accelerated trajectory, even as a fair number of ...

Arrow is teaching math concepts using block-like structures ... with your voice in play, you’re not going to think as well.” For an upcoming book project focused on kindergarten, Engel ...

O2B Kids, a new preschool in Sartell, is bringing a play-based learning approach to the St. Cloud area to help address child care shortages. The Florida-based preschool chain opened its Sartell ...

As pressure to raise scores on standardized tests has trickled down to the lower grades, kindergarten ... and joy in discovery, play-based learning also encourages kids to be more curious ...

Related: Full-day kindergarten is great for kids, so why isn’t it required ... Learn,” a nod to the fact that the two concepts are intertwined. The block of time devoted to play is bookended by a ...