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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child's kindergarten has recess once a day for 35 minutes, nap time for the first half of school, gym 3 times a week, music 2 or 3 times, art for an hour a week, and I never felt it was too academic... all they were learning were the sight words, which they did in many creative ways, and then counting to 100, and colors, but it was definitely not sitting in their desks all day.  One of my sons, like to stand and sing while he worked, and that didn't bother the teacher at all.  My kids LOVED K.  And they were late summer birthdays.[/quote]

Our experience in K last year was nearly identical. Play-based stations in the morning, recess, PE/music three times a week, art for one hour, STEM lab for one hour, computer lab (all games)... I felt like they had a good balance of play and work. [/quote]

I really want to know what school this is.  This is fcps?  If so, how can our experiences be so different?  My kid has PE, music, art, and computer lab once a week each.  There are no play based stations and never were.  Recess is 20 minutes, and nap time ended in week 2.[/quote]

We're in Centreville (not title I or AAP). Other PP was right, it was more like free choice. I was always jealous of the FCPS kids that got two recesses - we've always had only one.  [/quote]

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