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All in a Day's Work.
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National Forum
- Article date:
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September 22, 2001
- Author:
- Gambill, Jeannie
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Jeannie Gambill
Teach Me Your Name
Every morning at 7:30 A.M., the doors to our "one-room school" open. Children, aged three years to six years (prekindergarten and kindergarten) exchange greetings, deliver backpacks and jackets to cubbyholes in one of the four classroom areas, and return to the front of the school, where they visit with adults and with each other until breakfast is served. Waiting, or during breakfast, seated around tables, students dive into the day's initial "negotiations."
Approximately eighty students continue their interactive involvement with each other, with their teachers, and with their learning environment as they flow through the day, ...