Kindergarten is no longer free-play and finger-painting. The focus is academics and the pressure is real. It’s time to consider a course correction: less pressure and more play.

The five-day camp is free and includes everything from a school tour and learning lunchtime & recess skills to playing with toys and learning basic life skills.

He ended up in a kind of full-day kindergarten anyway. He attended JK at another nearby school in the morning, and in the afternoon, he went down the hall to an Aboriginal Head Start class. These ...

Time to play, move, connect with peers and breathe is a vital part of learning and essential to academic motivation.

In reversing the pendulum back toward play, Canada is following top-performing countries such as Finland, where children don't begin formal lessons in literacy and numeracy until the age of 7.

Kindergarten students usually start school in a class full of toys and other kids, but for some during the COVID-19 pandemic, their very first encounter with the education system will be from home ...

In a wooded area along the Elbow River, in Calgary's Parkhill Stanley Park neighbourhood, you will find trees, a beaver dam, owls, and a kindergarten class. Kids at Common Digs in action ...

Emphasizing more play, hands-on learning, and students helping one another in kindergarten improves academic outcomes, self-control and attention regulation, finds new UBC research. The study, ...