Summer Adventure Day Camp 2020
Are you looking for some excitement to make the summer fly by? You look at the gazillion camp ads and wonder what children will gain from these experiences. You ask yourself if this camp
Don’t Let Your Child’s Summer Break Drag on
The summer adventure day camp for post kindergarteners through age 12 will open June 3rd at the Iliff Preschool, Kindergarten, and School-Age Summer Camp in SE Denver. Our adventure day camp staff is dedicated
Is Kindergarten The Best Time To Teach Literacy?
When given choices during child-directed play, children are learning key skills like self-regulation, empathy, creativity, imagination, and problem solving. Why is it then, that in America we have lost a joyfulkindergarten experience and replaced
Crushing Kids
“Kindergarten is indeed the new first grade,” declares Erika Christakis in an Atlantic Monthly article, “The New Preschool is Crushing Kids.” She explains that “children who would once have used the kindergarten year as a gentle
Muddy Explorers
An article in The Atlantic proclaims that “most American kids don’t spend large chunks of their day catching salamanders and poking sticks into piles of fox poop. In a nation moving toward greater standardization
What kind of people do we want to be?
"At the heart of education are two questions: What kind of people do we want to be? What kind of world do we want to live in?" write Ann Pelo and Margie Carter in