Tag: arTree
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O’Keeffe and Flowers
Painting flowers with Georgia O’Keeffe is always a big hit. We bring real flowers to the classroom. Kids choose the one that they like the most and explore it with magnifying glass to see all the little details. We talk about Georgia O’Keeffe and how she wanted people to notice flowers-and that is why she […]
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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 […]
Artree: online preschool 