Tag: reggio
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Dress for Mess
At our school kids get messy. One of the first things we say to new parents is: dress for mess, aprons are optional, we play in mud and we get dirty. Every day. A lot. Every year we have kids that love getting muddy, wet and dirty and kids that don’t. Funny thing is though, […]
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Flying our Kites
We have two days now between the week and a who-knows-how-long of rain. I don’t mind rain. I actually like it and I know the kids love it! But there are some things that are more fun without drizzling: like flying a kite. It’s amazing how couple of plastic bags, sharpies, string, tagging tape and […]
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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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Our Summer Playdates
We just finished our last playdate for the summer. It was amazing how many families were able to join us and play with us. My own kids are anxious about things they don’t know. They tend to get overwhelmed by new and unexpected, like most people do. So when I was opening the preschool, one of […]
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Cards for Moms
Making gifts for moms has become a ‘thing’ in my classroom now. We make gifts for them almost every day. Kids want to make pictures for their moms. They want to pick flowers for them. They want to wrap pieces of papers as presents for them (the more of them there are and the more […]
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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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Mailing letters filled with paint
Painting letters V really enjoyed putting together huge letters today. It started slowly. He wanted to paint over some doodles he made on a paper. Then he wanted to paint another piece of paper… and then he experimented. What would happen if I put them on top of each other? This simple inquiry resulted in […]
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Building up Seattle
Where do we live? We are opening our doors next week for the first time! I cannot wait to start working with the kids. I have so many things ready to show them and so many ideas what to do! 🙂 The first month is going to be all about us – trying to learn more […]
Artree: online preschool 