![]() One kid talks about his sister, which I will repeat because it is something little kids should not know about, and the freak out scene has one of the kids urinating in a barrel in the classroom, which is something the real FBI would bust someone for watching nowadays. Then again, the first film had its fair share of content inappropriate for younger audiences. This sounds like a school I would not send my kids to, if I had kids. The school is basically liberal and PC, as one scene has Agent Sanders telling Zack about how time outs are so 90's and Indian Style is now Crisscross Applesauce. While they do use a new plot and cast, a lot of jokes and scenes are taken from the first film, with some changes. Kindergarten Cop 2 is another in the long line of films that serve as sequels to movies released long ago, skip theaters and are direct to video, and basically serve as nothing more than a studio's shameless attempt to make a quick buck off a classic film. How did it come up? Who thought it would be a good idea? What was anyone trying to achieve with it? Why did it get made? * This is just an all round beguiling project. He's joined by Paunovic's typical Russian villain, Bellamy's stereotypical black partner and Taylor as a worryingly younger love interest. Even so, many will feel he brought something to the original role that couldn't be recreated by anyone else, and it's true Dolph doesn't feel at home as much here, lacking Arnie's madcap spirit in the first film. You're left to wonder what his motives for making this were: trying to show a lighter, fuzzier side to his repertoire, even if it's all little heard of, straight to DVD fodder? The original was one of two films Arnold Schwarzenegger made to try and show a lighter version of himself, and it's been confirmed he's appearing in a sequel himself to the other one of those films, so you're left to wonder if he thought the follow up to this had lesser box office potential. Things were looking on the up for him recently, with the well received Skin Trade signalling a return to the sort of slam bang, unpretentious entertainment he was known for. This is a weird, unexplainable piece of work at best, but maybe most so for Dolph. Or even if it happens to be some bizarrely low budget, straight to DVD Dolph Lundgren vehicle. It's never too late to make a sequel these days, even to a more modern audience who may not even have heard of the original. Gradually, he forms a bond with the kids and pretty young teacher Olivia (Darla Taylor) and liaises with his partner Sanders (Bill Bellamy), but all the while, Zogu (Aleks Paunovic), the villainous Russian mobster behind the murder, lurks about. Pre-k seems a little young for this formal of an education, in my opinion.STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Morning *** Friday Night ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning When a teacher is killed after stumbling upon sensitive information, FBI Agent Reed (Dolph Lundgren) is assigned to go undercover in a liberal, PC modern kindergarten, where his 'no pain no gain' philosophy makes him a far from ideal candidate for the role. Here, kindergarten focuses on sight words and this curriculum type is introduced in first grade, not pre-k. ![]() This exactly, except for the age group this is taught to. Montessori adherents argue that knowledge of the alphabet is useful for using the phone book, the dictionary, and the encyclopedia, but not for learning to read. At a Montessori school where I once worked, I sang the ABC Song every day, but only because the children requested it every day. I made up a song to the tune of Oh, Susannah!Īs for the alphabet, I don’t push it. However, I can’t abolish letter names entirely, because the children have already been exposed to Sesame Street. ![]() July 18-22: bug, hug, jug, lug, mug, rug, tug (Play with u and g by Jane Belk Moncure)Īugust 1-5: bun, fun, nun, sun (Power Phonics: Family Fun)Īugust 22-26: bug, hug, jug, mug, rug, tugĪs much as possible, I call letters by their sounds rather than their names. July 4-8: big, fig, pig, wig (Play with i and g by Jane Belk Moncure) June 27-July 1: hip, dip, lip, nip, sip, tip June 20-24: fill, hill, Jill, pill, sill, Will June 13-17: Rick, lick, Mick, Nick, sick, June 6-10: bed, fed, Jed, led, Ned, red (Play with e and d by Jane Belk Moncure) May 16-20: lad, mad, pad, sad, Dad (Power Phonics: A Day with my Dad) May 9-13: bat, cat, mat, rat, hat (Play with a and t by Jane Belk Moncure) ![]() Suggested picture book titles are in parentheses: I am in the second week and I have been happy with the results. ![]() My rationale is Piaget’s finding that preschool children can focus on only one variable at a time. I am using a curriculum of my own invention, based on word families, or two or more words differing in only one letter and phoneme. ![]()
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