This appeared in the March/April 2009 issue of NEA Today: “Even as many kindergartners in the United States are spending more time in their seats, rapidly learning to read and write by first grade, a growing number of German kindergartners are going back to their roots in the ‘children’s garden.’ Germany has about 700 forest kindergartens, where students spend their days among the trees, singing songs, building fires, and exercising their imaginations.”
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