by admin | Apr 23, 2018 | Early Childhood, Kindergarten
Submitted by the Early Childhood Faculty In our kindergarten, it is routine for teachers to pull up a chair alongside children to confer about a piece of their writing. Two years earlier, those same children may have pulled up a chair alongside a teacher who is...
by Jung | Jan 27, 2017 | Early Childhood
Early childhood experts Dr. Allison Gopnik and Erika Chistakis, drawing upon decades of cognitive science, urge us to view young children as powerful learning machines. Preschoolers learn, they say, by making meaning of all they encounter in the world around them. In...
by admin | Dec 2, 2016 | Early Childhood, Kindergarten
Have you ever heard the saying, “Everything I need to know I learned in kindergarten”? The kindergarten teachers, Mr. Coyne, Mrs. Fiore, Ms. DeCos and Ms. Augustus, like to think it is more factual than just a saying, even though it puts some added pressure on us to...
by admin | Nov 11, 2016 | Early Childhood
November 2016 It’s hard to believe that we have successfully completed our first six weeks of school! The preschool 4 children have been productively and thoroughly engaged throughout this time period. For the teachers in the Lower School, these first six weeks of...
by admin | Oct 28, 2016 | Early Childhood, Student Voices
submitted by Lisa Dove Enter the music room during an early childhood class, and you may spy giants tromping through the woods, or perhaps you might get caught up in a herd of galloping horses or unicorns. Then again, you may come upon a village of prancing elves or a...
