Carolyn Summers wrote: > Thanks! > -- > / //Carolyn Summers > 63 Ferndale Drive > Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706 > 914-478-5712 > / > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *From: *Beth Koebel <[email protected]> > *Reply-To: *<[email protected]> > *Date: *Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:23:26 -0700 (PDT) > *To: *<[email protected]> > *Subject: *[ENTS] Re: The Germans are doing something right > > Carolyn, > > I belive it stands for National Education Association. > > Beth > > "He plants trees to benefit another generation." --Caecilius Statius > > --- On *Thu, 4/2/09, Carolyn Summers /<[email protected]>/* wrote: > > From: Carolyn Summers <[email protected]> > Subject: [ENTS] Re: The Germans are doing something right > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, April 2, 2009, 11:15 PM > > What is NEA? I would like to read the article if it is available. > -- > Carolyn Summers > 63 Ferndale Drive > Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706 > 914-478-5712 > > > > > From: Ed Nizalowski <[email protected]> > > Reply-To: <[email protected]> > > Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 11:45:49 -0400 > > To: entstrees <[email protected]> > > Subject: [ENTS] The Germans are doing something right > > > > > > This appeared in the March/April 2009 issue of NEA Today: > > > > ³Even 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 Œchildren¹s garden.¹ Germany has about 700 forest > > kindergartens, where students spend their days among the trees, > > singing songs, building fires, and exercising their imaginations.² > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The article that appeared in the NEA was very sparse. I finally had some time to search a bit more. Doing an Internet search turned up numerous sites that give more information about the concept. I'm sharing this one which relates to a "forest kindergarten opening at a Waldorf School in Saratoga Springs, NY:
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