Much Needed Help

After school today the teacher next door pulled me aside to talk with me about the philosophy of the "curriculum" at our school. I don't think that we've been doing anything TERRIBLY wrong, and she didn't say we had, but there are some things that need to change. For example, we have been closing a certain center when it was not cleaned up properly the day before. Closing centers lessens the opportunities for children to problem solve. Instead of closing homeliving, we need to encourage children to problem solve. "Last time you played in home living it took a long time to clean up, are you sure you want to play there today? " or "You want to push the shopping cart? There are already fifteen people there, do you really think you'll have the chance to push it?" Another suggestion that this teacher gave was to have students clean up home living early. I think that having them clean up at nine, instead of nine-fifteen, will really help. We've also decreased the amount of floor space in home living by moving some book cases around. We'll see tomorrow how this works!
There was also something else that I wanted to write about, but I can't remember now! Oh well, if I remember I'll add it on later.