Wednesday, May 6, 2009

I want to study in Japan's...

Fuji Kindergarten!

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It's that oval looking thing in the middle!
The wooden top deck is an open space for kids to play.
And their allowed to climb up the stairs and slide down this 1 floor worth of slide!
How fun!

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It looks like some park instead of a school right?

Anyway, it's an open concept thingy.
No walls to separate classrooms,
only dividers and the dividers do not go all the way up to the ceiling.

That's what my house should look like!

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The coolest thing is that, during classroom time,
the children are allowed to face away from their teacher who's talking
due to the seating arrangement.
Apparently, it has boost the children's attention span.

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The tree growing up through the classroom is awesome!!

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Their school principal's idea is to teach them how to socialize from a young age and not be kept in a 'prison' as we've come to accept from the typical classroom designs everywhere.
So he thought that design would play an important part in his kindergarten.

I WANT TO GO BACK TO KINDERGARTEN!

If you're like me and thinking of enrolling back into kindergarten,
here's more information.
=)

An audio and picture video from Monocle.com

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