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[quote=Anonymous]In regards to the poster who said that kindergarten sets kids up to fail....YES.  I teach kindergarten.  While my past district finally added in time to play, if it had been up to me, I would have added in even more.  Our kids typically had 30 minutes of play in the morning and 30 minutes at lunch.  There was a lot of talk about "play to learn" on top of this.  Most teachers interpreted this to mean using active-ish centers as learning.  While I agree that doing active and fun things to learn is a good idea, that is still not play.  Imo, a typical day in K should look like this:

8:00 soft open with multiple choices for kids while attendance, lunch count and other administrative things happen
8:20 Reading/phonics/language arts/writing (not all sit and listen...movement included, centers, small groups included)
9:00 Indoor play/snack
9:45 Math (again, lots of movement, centers, etc)
10:30 Outdoor play
11:00 lunch
11:30 Science/Soc St./project based learning
12:00 Specials (music, gym, art, etc)
1:00 Play (indoors or out)
1:45 Reading and or math
2:15 read aloud and get ready to go home
2:30 Go home

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