Blue Blocks Bridging the Gap
A Kindergarten teacher’s perspective on how play-based learning is helping with deficits today’s students face.
A Kindergarten teacher’s perspective on how play-based learning is helping with deficits today’s students face.
Raising toddlers has always been an undertaking not suitable for the weak- hence the stereotypes of the “terrible twos” and “threenagers.” However, the parents, teachers, and caretakers of todays’ toddlers are reporting a new level of tantrums, overstimulation, and clinginess as these “pandemic babies” begin to experience life outside of quarantines and social distancing for the first time.
Throughout their childhood, kids are tasked with learning about the world: how it works and what they can do within it. A safe place for them to do this is during free play time.