Last night we opened our doors to our incoming kindergarten students and their families. The response to our play/inquiry based kindergarten journey was overwhelmingly positive. We are beyond excited to begin the new school year. First day of school is Thursday, September 2016.
Since writing the grant for a play-based/inquiry-based kindergarten, I along with my colleagues have thought of little else. We lay awake thinking of new ideas and fight the urge to text one another in the middle of the night to share our ideas. We have spent many hours sitting around the table sharing research, interweaving our curriculum with a play-based/inquiry-based approach, making sure that our schedule allows time for our students to reap all of the benefits of this approach to learning, planning our kindergarten meet and greet night and the list goes on..... So, how could I even think about going on vacation for an entire week when there was so much more to do, let alone follow my colleague's and principal's orders and not think about work? I went on my vacation and, I admit, I thought about work. A lot!
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Julie AlexanderI am a kindergarten teacher at Kegonsa Elementary School in Stoughton, Wisconsin. Bringing play and inquiry back into the lives of our youngest learners has become my passion. Archives
August 2016
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