I have always known that Kindergarten is an important stage in a child's development and the most important skills they are learning here are how to self-regulate themselves and set them up with the ability to learn. I liked the ideas in the article “Taking Back Kindergarten: Rethinking Rigor for Young Learners.” especially around the idea if we pressure them to jump through academic hoops without first doing the groundwork that enables them to learn effectively we can negatively affect their future growth. I am a strong believer in play-based learning and enjoy giving my students a challenge they can overcome in their play and watching to see how they apply the skills they have been taught. I will try to assess my children's zone of proximal development (ZPD) and seek to bridge the gap between what students know and can do and real-world challenges and phenomena. I instinctively do this on a day to day basis but I will attempt to hone in on each student's ZPD gap and ensure that each child is provided developmentally appropriate practices that challenge them. I really liked how they separated the idea of difficulty and rigour as we should not be focusing on making something difficult to stimulate learning but rather we should be focusing on making the activity rigorous and including multiple intelligences as well as linking multiple schemas to create a new schema that links multiple others to achieve a goal. I will keep these ideas in mind when I am developing my lessons to further challenge my children with rigorous activities and provide each child with developmentally appropriate learning opportunities tailored to their ZPDs.