We got a call from Clementine’s school not too long ago — something about her collecting money from the other kids in kindergarten. We asked her about it, and all that she’d tell us was that it was a secret. She said that she’d stop, but assured that they had been pooling their money for […]
Tag Archives: kindergarten
The candy fortress
Posted in entrepreneurism, Food, Mark's Life Also tagged booby traps, candy, Clementine, healthy candy, Stanley 19 Comments
Nothing left to learn
Linette and I went in and met with Clementine’s kindergardten teacher a few days ago. At the end of the meeting, which had gone very well, her teacher opened a blue notebook and read to us a few of the things that Clementine had said to her earlier in the school year. Linette and I […]
Posted in Mark's Life Also tagged Clementine, knowing everything, overconfidence, totally quotable Clementine 16 Comments
The importance of play in kindergarten
Here’s a clip from today’s New York Times Magazine that I thought might be worth discussing: …When I was a child, in the increasingly olden days, kindergarten was a place to play. We danced the hokeypokey, swooned in suspense over Duck, Duck, Gray Duck (that’s what Minnesotans stubbornly call Duck, Duck, Goose) and napped on […]
Posted in Education Also tagged academic achievement, Bush, Crisis in the Kindergarten, drill and kill, HighScope, play, teaching for the test 28 Comments