play schools

"Play is the key to giving children skills they need to succeed - creativity, innovation, teamwork, focus, resilience, expressiveness, empathy, concentration, and execution function. Yet our policies are destroying authentic play in our schools and replacing it with standardization and stress. Not so in Finland, which is ranked as having the #1 education system in the world as well as the happiest citizens . . . [the authors] announce a platform for bringing the Finnish style of education to the U.S. Providing a glimpse into the play-based experiments ongoing now all over the world, readers will find the book to be both a call for change and a guide for making that change happen in their own communities"--Provided by publisher.

As one smiling sister enjoys all the activities at her playschool, the reader can count different things in each illustration.

Emmie doesn't like her play group as well as she does the play group activity of playing in paint, which is fun until it gets out of hand.

Presents a tool for assessing the quality of preschool, kindergarten, and child care classrooms in the areas of space and furnishings, personal care routines, language-reasoning, activities, interaction, program structure, and parents and staff, with instructions for administration and scoring.

Edward, a shy, young bear unready for play school, feels out of place surrounded by students who are ready, busy, and happy.