Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Playing with Play

“It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.” Leo F. Buscaglia

I am an early learning educator. I have worked in the world of early childhood education as a day care and nursery school teacher in four provinces, rural and urban, northern and southern, as a children's advocate in social services and family violence, in anti poverty initiatives, provincial planning and policy groups, ECE workshops and teacher training, and most recently as a kindergarten teacher. What remains constant across these experiences is the miss understanding of play. Yes this kind of miss, They missed the boat. I missed that, could you repeat it? Am I missing something?

I want to use my blogging as a way to better express the value of play based learning as well as what it looks and sounds like. Indie Kindie is a place to remedy attitudes and preconceptions of play by building a more complete understanding of purposeful and developmentally appropriate play as and for early learning. Through collecting and curating the growing research,information and resources I will attempt to construct an ideal of the  Independent Kindergarten(er) This space is meant to provide for exploration and discovery of current play, work and learning for for Independent Kinders. Indie Kindie's.


Here is a sample of a Newsletter that I send home to families to  help them with some beginning questions they have about play based learning.