More than three鈥憅uarters of students from low鈥慽ncome households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
Children need time to be kids! We've become so busy teaching them to read and write at earlier ages that we've forgotten how kids learn - through play. I have high expectations for my students, but I know that to really internalize learning, it needs to happen in developmentally appropriate ways.
Kids will make signs for stores, make labels for our block zoo, and use lots of oral language while playing. They'll learn to share and solve problems. Working with blocks is so much fun that the kids won't think twice about all the written and oral language they're using.
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Children need time to be kids! We've become so busy teaching them to read and write at earlier ages that we've forgotten how kids learn - through play. I have high expectations for my students, but I know that to really internalize learning, it needs to happen in developmentally appropriate ways.
Kids will make signs for stores, make labels for our block zoo, and use lots of oral language while playing. They'll learn to share and solve problems. Working with blocks is so much fun that the kids won't think twice about all the written and oral language they're using.