A new age for kindergarten?  Check out the details of SB 1381,
including how it would phase in over several years and how it
might create a new, two-year kindergarten program.    A new age
for kindergarten?  Kindergartners in Danielle Zavala's class at
Horace Mann Elementary School use the "quiet " sign while
waiting to go out to recess recently. OC Moms    As I watched my
son standing at the end of the kindergarten line -- flapping
both his mouth and his arms -- I knew I had made the right
decision.     Even then -- when kindergarten still had a play
kitchen in one corner -- it was asking a lot of a 4-year-old.
Students spent a week studying the letter "A." They traced it
and glued rice to outline its shape. On Friday, they ate apples.
It's about time.  In Danielle Zavala's class at Horace Mann
Elementary School in Anaheim, kindergarten feels like
postgraduate work for preschool.  Apples still get a lot of
attention -- but not as the letter of the week. Apple is a word
in a sentence.   They build sentence