Today I’m leaving for a 10 day trip with a group of principals and teachers to meet some reading researchers and children’s book authors. We’ll stay in Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand, and Sydney and Brisbane, Australia, and meet with Margaret Mooney, Joy Cowley, Brian Cambourne, and Brenda Parkes, as well as visit some elementary schools. This is [...]
The end of this week is the Obon festival (a holiday to visit family and remember deceased ancestors). Schools are off on Friday, but many families began early, so at Hikari Nursery School today, there were only 8 children (a 1-year old, two 2-year olds, two 3-year olds, one 4-year old, and two 5-year olds). [...]
Here’s a rather enjoyable moment in a lesson last week. I’m kinda worried about my voice, though.
I’d like to share a few initial observations I’ve made at the three nursery schools, moments that struck me as being interesting, or perhaps unique to my experiences in Kindergarten classrooms. Here they are, in no particular order:
1. One year old children get to be around 5 year olds, and vice versa.
2. When indoors, all [...]
