Reggio inspired

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Woot! Day two of my sneak peek into a local Reggio inspired preschool, Rosa Parks. The quality of classroom environment in this school is off the charts. Today I am going to share a few of their color ideas. Simple canvas boards with color collections. I love all the texture. A close up of the color collection. Almost every classroom had a version of this color application. Paint value chips were used to designate the place for each color family. Love it! Here is the same idea on a black…

“The environment should act as an aquarium which reflects the ideas, ethics, attitudes, and culture of the people who live in it. This is what we are working towards.” Loris Malaguzzi With the new school year fast approaching for many, setting up the classroom environment is one of the first steps in our preparation for the new school year. When we set the space to support and facilitate children’s interests - we set in motion the magic and wonder of the third teacher. Over the next few…

Some photos of this year’s classroom!

Our Color Mixing Project continues to excite us at Art and Soul Preschool. As it is that time of year when green becomes more than a color; it becomes an emotion, a season, a holiday, and a memory to hold onto, it was only fitting that we chose it as our color this week to focus in on. During Color Mixing Lab, the children were given blue and yellow colored water and were invited to make as many different colors of green that they felt they could. The magic of watching two colors mix into a…

Turn your Kmart train table into a beautiful small world table. Perfect for imaginative play and learning activities for the classroom or home!

Excellent ways to provide an accessible creation station for children and lots of ways to vary art inside the classroom with a variety of materials.

Salah satu keterampilan penting yang harus diajarkan oleh guru dan orang tua untuk anak-anak adalah belajar membaca dan mengenalkan huruf abjad sejak usia

Reggio Inspired documentation

We show children where to look but not what to see…This simple phrase has become part of our philosophy, which feeds into our approach and is who we are today as a setting. Our approach was originally inspired by the Reggio Approach, but we have developed and fine-tuned it over the years and we fully expect to continue enhancing and adapting, because no matter how good you think you are, you can always be better. At the end of the day we are providing care and education for children in their…