Comments on: The Purpose Of Preschool http://planningwithkids.com/2008/04/25/the-purpose-of-preschool/ 2 parents, 5 kids, organised chaos Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:10:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Getting Ready For Schoolhttp://planningwithkids.com/2008/04/25/the-purpose-of-preschool/comment-page-1/#comment-126043 Getting Ready For School Tue, 08 Nov 2011 02:59:31 +0000 http://planningwithkids.com/2008/04/25/the-purpose-of-preschool/#comment-126043 [...] It is not about teaching them the alphabet or count to 100.The Purpose Of PreschoolMy post on Purpose of Preschool just helps you understand my philosphy on early childhood education in more detail:we all need to [...] [...] It is not about teaching them the alphabet or count to 100.The Purpose Of PreschoolMy post on Purpose of Preschool just helps you understand my philosphy on early childhood education in more detail:we all need to [...]

]]> By: louhttp://planningwithkids.com/2008/04/25/the-purpose-of-preschool/comment-page-1/#comment-541 lou Fri, 02 May 2008 07:38:38 +0000 http://planningwithkids.com/2008/04/25/the-purpose-of-preschool/#comment-541 Thanks for your blog it is such a fresh approach to Mothers issues, my husband even admitted to reading it when he couldn't get to sleep the other night! Our eldest who is now at school, often says to his little brother 'you are so lucky to be at kinder still, you can just play all day and you don't have to do any work'. Which I think is a lovely reflection of his years at kinder, because there was so much exploration and so many fun activities that he didn't even realise he was learning. He would go back in a flash, not because he dislikes school but because it was such a fantastic year of learning through play. Most kids learn very quickly to follow the rules when they get to school, I don't think kinder needs to be structured like school.In my opinion a good kinder gives them freedom to explore and develop social, emotional and personal skills not just that they will need to continue developing for the rest of their lives. Thanks for your blog it is such a fresh approach to Mothers issues, my husband even admitted to reading it when he couldn’t get to sleep the other night!

Our eldest who is now at school, often says to his little brother ‘you are so lucky to be at kinder still, you can just play all day and you don’t have to do any work’. Which I think is a lovely reflection of his years at kinder, because there was so much exploration and so many fun activities that he didn’t even realise he was learning. He would go back in a flash, not because he dislikes school but because it was such a fantastic year of learning through play.

Most kids learn very quickly to follow the rules when they get to school, I don’t think kinder needs to be structured like school.In my opinion a good kinder gives them freedom to explore and develop social, emotional and personal skills not just that they will need to continue developing for the rest of their lives.

]]> By: Babyamore (Trish)http://planningwithkids.com/2008/04/25/the-purpose-of-preschool/comment-page-1/#comment-534 Babyamore (Trish) Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:42:06 +0000 http://planningwithkids.com/2008/04/25/the-purpose-of-preschool/#comment-534 I loved my son's preschool 10 years ago - it had couches like home and teachers would be seen sitting with bundles of kids reading, lots of dressup and pretend play areas and great focus on out door play too. I am unsure what I will do with my twin boys ... they are only young once and they have their whole lives for formal learning.Kids grow up too quickly now and enter formal learning environments early. While some parents say their kids like it - the kids don't know any different.I think letting them free play to learn with basic structure or routines is a fun approach. Even activites like cooking with mum to learn counting and measuring instead of rote learning 1 to 10. <em>Babyamore (Trish)'s last blog post..<a href='http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/QHnl/~3/278827929/weekly-winners_27.html' rel="nofollow">Weekly Winners</a></em> I loved my son’s preschool 10 years ago – it had couches like home and teachers would be seen sitting with bundles of kids reading, lots of dressup and pretend play areas and great focus on out door play too.
I am unsure what I will do with my twin boys … they are only young once and they have their whole lives for formal learning.Kids grow up too quickly now and enter formal learning environments early. While some parents say their kids like it – the kids don’t know any different.I think letting them free play to learn with basic structure or routines is a fun approach.
Even activites like cooking with mum to learn counting and measuring instead of rote learning 1 to 10.

Babyamore (Trish)’s last blog post..Weekly Winners

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