What is Transitional Kindergarten?

By Patric Hedlund

Linda Thomason was surrounded by pink hearts in her spacious classroom at Frazier Park School just before Valentine’s Day last week. Tiny five-year-olds clustered in small groups at low tables and on the carpet at half a dozen “choice center” activities. Those ranged from baking invisible pies to constructing what looked like a rainbow-colored bullet train rail system jetting up a carpet toward…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Linda Thomason teaches the Transitional Kindergarten (TK)class at Frazier Park School. It is a dedicated classroom for this one group.

Left: A parent volunteer helps with the dress-up corner.

In the TK classroom, students learn to work together as teams, using words to negotiate through emotions.

Frazier Park School’s TK class

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This is part of the February 19, 2016 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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