Six-year-old+boys+curriculum

=Six-year-old boys curriculum= toc

Student Description
This curriculum is designed for children who want to know how things work, who like maps, trains, and building things, who yell in delight every time they see a cement mixer, who think a perfect day is not complete without a ride on public transportation, but who can also sit and play a game of checkers, listen to stories about dinosaurs, or spend an hour pretending the couch is a spaceship. While we have specified that this curriculum is for boys (primarily because the motivating force behind this curriculum is a 4-year-old boy who will enter Kindergarten next year), it is also open to girls who share these interests. We also welcome ideas on designing a similar curriculum for girls.

**Overview**
Twelve boys will meet with one teacher in a rented room in various locations. These locations will be determined by demand and are likely to be in places where the private schools are expensive and the public schools are unattractive learning places. The curriculum they will study is entirely project-based. Each project starts by reading about what they will do and planning out how to do it. They will make budgets and assign jobs to each student. They will plan the time and materials needed. They will build things that 6 year old boys like to build. They figure out how and where to purchase supplies. They will build various things and then have races or contests using what they have built. The teacher does not teach them what to do; she simply points them towards materials and makes sure they stay focused. When they are finished, they will present what they have done to another group of boys working on the same stuff in another city. They compare their results and then criticize, in writing, what the other class has done. They try again and try to improve. They write a newsletter about what they did. Later, they make a movie about what they did. They write the script as soon as they are able to do that. Later, they plan a trip to visit the other groups in Florida or Chicago or wherever they are. They make friends with the other kids in other cities and create Facebook pages about their activities so they can see how they compare to the other group. They teach each other and learn about the place that the others live. Eventually they plan a trip to visit the other kids.

They will learn and play sports in nearby parks and make up, write, video, and tell stories as well. They will learn some activities while using a foreign language. It will be fun, not stressful. No tests. No workbooks. No homework. No sense of a classroom in any way. But we will use directed activities. This is not a place which each kid does what he wants. The idea is sign up kids who would be attracted by the planned activities.

Projects
Click the name of a project to view its details. Robot building Airplane building

Additional Activities
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 * sports
 * playground time