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= Welcome to the OpenKindergarten! = = = For Weekly Breakdown of what to do in kindergarten, visit sister wiki: http://openkindergarten36weeks.wikispaces.com/

For Thematic ideas that you might use during the year, visit: http://openkindergartenthemes.wikispaces.com/

=openkindergarten.wikispaces.com is a collaborative wiki site for Austin ISD kindergarten teachers and other educators interested in creating content that is free for sharing and expanding upon.=

Note, just for clarification, that this site is intended as a convenient content-sharing website, but it does in no way supplant official AISD guidelines regarding curricula or other matters. It IS, however, a great place to share great ideas. Enjoy!

Some things to note:

I. The philosophy of this site is to share and extend knowledge as educators to further our aims in how to best serve our young students. We think that one good way further this purpose is to release all new works here under a creative commons license (this is what Wikipedia uses). This way, you do not have to worry about using/adopting/copying materials for sending home or what have you. If you release original material here, it does not strip you of rights to later publish or use your own materials for profit/personal gain. Please go to the site below for more information regading the Creative Commons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License

Also note that this page is has two sister-pages that need your help in developing. One is a week-by-week mapping of a kindergarten year, the other is Theme-related clearinghouse for kindergarten materials. You will quickly find that this site is rather empty of material at this moment, but the more people use it as a place to save their materials and ideas, the more worthwhile it will become over the years (or just become another defunct website that no one uses). I plan to use it, and I hope that you will too. Don't be afraid to post stuff and make it your own. (-Patrick).