Letter B activities are a fun way to help preschoolers and kindergartners learn the sound and shape of the letter while keeping things hands-on. When my son was little, some of his favorites were ...

Helping kids get ready for kindergarten can start right at home! In this video, I share my favorite hands-on activities and playful tips to build fine motor skills—like coloring, cutting, and using ...

It’s that time of year when kindergartners proudly march across the stage to receive a certification of completion, enjoy the summer, and look ahead to 1st grade. This transition once represented a ...

Kindergarten is the new first grade. That's the big finding from researchers at the University of Virginia who compared kindergarten and first-grade classrooms between 1998 and 2010, and found that ...

This article about play-based kindergarten was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. EVERETT, Wash. — On a ...

[Note: In this guest post, two renowned former kindergarten teachers who wrote about the extraordinary literacy successes of children in their classrooms (Feldgus & Cardonick, 1999) show how today’s ...