What to teach a preschooler?

[warmfuzzies]

I figured you were saying something like that, Dawn, I just hate it when kids have to 'play the game', even though I know it is something they eventually need to learn. I agree they definitely should not be questioning the authority of a teacher.

It is a very difficult thing to question the teacher without questioning her authority, especially for a little one.

I corrected my S.S. teacher's grammer once. Not a very good idea. LOL

 

[dlhunicorn]

an excerpt from the book, All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten These are the things I learned:
Share everything.
Play fair.
Don't hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don't take things that aren't yours.
Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Take a nap every afternoon.
When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.
Be aware of wonder.
Remember the little seed in the styrofoam cup: The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that. Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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I do agree with your first sentence, but cannot imagine a teacher who would not be thrilled at a child who asks questions to learn more! I am trying to recall if my kids ever had a teacher that reacted poorly to questions, and cannot for the life of me think of one--even the ones that I did not particularly think were good teachers.

There are kids who will try to distract a lesson, so it could be that a particular tone of voice or type of question will cause a teacher to believe that the goal is not to learn, but to avoid.