Over the last two months, we have had expert educators comment to us on “unusual” items they observed in the Small Steps classrooms. First, there were the large construction blocks in our Pre-K / K classrooms. Second was the use of shaving cream in our two-year old/three-year old classrooms. We knew that the ascendance of [...]
A study in the February 2009 issue of the journal Pediatrics entitled “School Recess and Group Classroom Behavior” suggests that there are a number of measurable academic benefits in school programs that offer their students recess. Although the full article is only available to journal subscribers, Tara Parker Pope summarizes the research well in an article in [...]
