3: Lessons from the Sandbox
" All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten." -Robert Fulghum What is your best memory of Kindergarten? All of us have a memory or two of our first school experience. Some may be wonderful, some may not be as pleasant, but these experiences helped shape us into who we are now — even if we had them when we were just 5 years old. When I was that age, an author named Robert Fulghum published an essay called All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten . In his essay, he talked about the wisdom that we gain while playing in the Kindergarten sandbox rather than in grad school, and how essential these lessons are in making the world a better place. I found his essay to be a good reminder of what the children need to learn, apart from the ones that we planned for in our curriculum. This week, we made our first memory in Kinder 2 by learning lessons from the “sandbox ” — ones that are anchored on the