Outside Anyone?
After my Facebook post “defending play” conversation yesterday I felt empowered to honor my kids today by letting them have extra outside time.
Isn’t it crazy that anyone would have to argue that 3-5 year olds should be allowed to play and enjoy their childhood instead of learn all the skills they will need in kindergarten BEFORE they actually get there?
Any who – Incase anyone wants to argue that your child will be behind in any way because we play all day –
We spent three hours outside but still :
Wrote our name
Did our heggerty “ work” which was: rhyming , switching phonemes , adding beginning sounds and deleting them, nursery rhymes, spotted ending sounds … wah.. need I go on?
Learning happens all day everywhere. If you are present you see it.
Listen to these boys exploring what they know about math.
If you notice on the sign in sheet Anna struggles with the confidence to write her name. No worries – even outside she gravitates to materials that build her fine motor skills
I’m a little salty from yesterday. I’ll get over it. In the mean time – let’s play
