April 21, 2020 - 10 Facts About Kindergarten
Today is National Kindergarten Day.
In this episode we learned:
- Kindergarten means Garden of Children
- The first Kindergarten in the US opened in 1856
- One of the first Kindergarten schools was a “Play and Activity” Institute
Here are 10 educational facts about Kindergarten that you didn’t know, that you didn’t need to know:
- Kindergarten dates way back to 1779.
- a couple of citizens in Strasbourg
- provide learning and enrichment to the young children of workers.
- The idea soon spread world-wide as cities and countries realized the importance of caring for the youngest members of their population.
- There are about 3.5 million Kindergarten students each year.
- Eleven of those states require districts to provide full-day kindergarten.
- Full Day Kindergarten is a thing
- Kids see both academic and social-emotional gains,
- especially when they are in low-income districts.
- Ages in Kindergarten can range as much as 18 months.
- four to six years old
- This holds true for developmental differences too, where the developmental age range can vary between three and eight years old mentally.
- The behaviors of students in kindergarten has shown to indicate the learning outcomes of 1st and 2nd grade.
- If they aren’t doing well, this is the time to address it.
- Kindergarten means Garden of Children
- It comes from the german words:
- Kinder- children
- Garten- Garden
- It was coined by Friedrich Froebel
- Because kids are like tiny flowers and they are varied and need care
- One of the first Kindergarten schools was a “Play and Activity” Institute
- It was opened by Friedrich Froebel
- It was supposed to be an experimental social experience for kids entering school
- The first Kindergarten in the US opened in 1856
- Almost 80 years after kindergarten started in Europe
- It opened in Wisconsin
- Kindergarten became publicly-funded in the late 1970s
- This is for 96% of the US
- It wasn’t until the 1980s that kindergarten became universal in the US
- The main activities they teach and participate in are addition, subtraction, and recess