Category: Our thoughts, plans and ideas
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Earth Day Celebration
I would love to invite you all to a free Earth Day event at Artree Preschool this Saturday April 22nd (from 10 to 12). – Create Earth day with us by creating clay pendants and painting a giant upcycled cake. – Plant sunflowers to take home. – Spin a wheel of fortune and win a crafty…
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What is a Provocation?
arTree preschool takes some of its inspiration from Emilia Reggio, including the provocation station. What is provocation? It may sound unfriendly but it is quite the opposite: it provokes thoughts, discussions, questions, interests, creativity and ideas. How does it look like? In May we talk about flowers and Claude Monet. So, our provocation station may look like…
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Environment: Third Teacher
In arTree preschool the environment is the third teacher. What does that mean? Teacher and kids are the first two teacher. But we also believe that the environment is an important aspect of any early childhood program. We are designing our space so that it enables children to develop relationships with the world around them, themselves…