Tag: emilia reggio
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The Marble Project
It hasn’t been a week since the school started. Actually, it only was a couple of days and some kids only saw each other once or twice. Yet, they are working together amazingly well. Yesterday they decided to play with marbles. The marble run was their favorite toy these past few days and they were […]
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Our Mud Hole
Mud. You either love it or hate it. My classroom loved it last year. They loved making mud in all the containers they could find and mixing it in the big hole. They loved experimenting with water, soil, chalk, wood chips, rocks, sand – seeing what makes the best mud. But most of all, they […]
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Curriculum – yes or no?
When I started teaching for the first time, the thought of no curriculum seemed scary, overwhelming and honestly, ridiculous. How can I teach when I have no idea what to teach? Would it be any different than just babysitting the kids? How will I explain to the parents what we do all day? It was […]
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Building a House
Yesterday the kids decided that my house burned down and I need a new one. What followed was amazing. They started talking about what my house needs and of course, since they are four boys, the main focus was bathrooms. As of now, my new house has 18 of them (one of them being inside […]
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Melting Cups
We decided to bring some color to our windows. I have always wanted to try the melting-cups-into-suncatchers idea. And yesterday we finally decided to give it a try. It was super easy and the results were amazing. We used colorful sharpies to decorate our plastic cups. I read that plastic #6 is the best one […]
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Printing Valentines with Love
Printing Valentine pictures with love (and a lots of ink) Printing is one of my favorite art techniques. And Styrofoam printing is such a great way to let even three-year-olds experience it – with wonderful results. Sometimes we use new Styrofoam plates, sometimes we use recycled ones (I feel much better about using these but […]
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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 […]
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