Foundations Nebraska

Isn't this wall giving 🤌 "perfect blank canvas"? 🤔

The academic push-down hurts kids, families, and communities.
When childhood gets compressed, society absorbs the cost.

In this series, we are sharing research that private equity, testing companies, curriculum vendors, and profit-driven education policy trends continue to ignore.

It may seem too frivolous or too simple, but study after study proves that children learn by playing.

Visit bit.ly/2G4B7jM for 10 things every parent should know about play in early childhood from The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).

During our spring cleaning, we found ourselves a WEALTH of loose parts for creation.

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Freedom of choice in early childhood environments means the innovation and creative use of materials that you'd be hard-pressed to get from the mind of a "curriculum developer".

We recently discovered that we have been over-ordering pipe cleaners for our curriculum.

We have so many that our animals got into them.

They were in peril, so we helped free them!

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