How do kids learn?
All of our students learn to read, write and do math when they feel that it is vital to do so. These skills develop organically, not necessarily through a planned process. We make no judgments about when students are ready to learn; those decisions are left up to the students. The school provides a setting in which knowledge is useful. For example, the written word is everywhere at the school: in books lining the walls, on rules posted for computer and kitchen equipment, and on agendas and minutes relating to the school democracy. Sooner or later, every student recognizes the usefulness of learning to read. All skills are learned in the same fashion. All of us are learning every day. Every interaction we have with another human being, or object in our environment teaches us something about the world or ourselves that we may not have known before. Recent studies have shown that play is an integral part of the process of learning. Participation in unlimited play allows for a free-flow of
