Sylvia Lieber, Creative Kindergarten Teacher, Dies at 102
She gave 5- and 6-year-olds an early introduction to classical music and museum art and taught them where milk comes from. She died of complications of Covid-19.,
Sylvia Lieber on her 101st birthday. She taught kindergarten and first grade, hoping to help build an educational and cultural foundation for her students.Credit.via Lieber family
Published Jan. 30, 2021Updated Feb. 4, 2021
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To Sylvia Lieber, there was no reason that the kindergartners and first graders she taught at P.S. 26 in Fresh Meadows, Queens, should not get a head start on understanding the world.