Wonder

Children in Europe are learning outside more and more too, as an antidote to the indoor, digital worlds that they (we?) tend to inhabit by default. This article was written in 2018 by a Dutch Kindergarten teacher, Linda Willemsen .  I translate and share it with permission. Running 'Rithmetic with Kindergarten This past year, because of lack of classroom space, I had a class of 35 Kindergartners. Besides the amount of students, the boy/girl ratio was also not exactly ideal: 9 girls and 26 boys. And those boys were not interested in sitting still during circle time. Lots of wiggles! During my math mini-lessons, which really did not last more than 10-15 minutes, I noticed that I was giving more warnings than instruction. This is not what I wanted. I chose this career in order to be able to teach, so I decided that something had to change. I initiated Running 'Rithmetic; in other words, math on the playground. Management I started with one attempt per week, so that I could try ou...