USING REGGIO INSPIRED PRE-SCHOOL CURRICULUM

LOCATED IN OWINGS MILLS, and convenient to REISTERSTOWN, PIKESVILLE AND GLYNDON

Children are active and competent learners -- when given the time, the resources and the space to satisfy their natural curiosity. The Reggio Emilia approach to pre-school education does not give children the answers to their important questions, such as "why do balls bounce?" Rather, the method teaches them how to find the answers themselves. The children participate in constructing their own knowledge, in this case, about balls. This is an active approach to learning. We will take balls of all sizes and shapes and investigate what makes them bounce. Is it true, as one child suggested, that "balls bounce because they are round and full of air?" Are all balls round? Are all balls filled with air? Do all balls, in fact, bounce? How can we discover exactly what is inside a ball? The learning process starts with questions. 

We will investigate these ideas, and many more, through projects. A project can take as little as one day ("what happens to water if you add a drop of food dye?"), a week or more ("Let's welcome our new friend!"), or months and months, even years (just watch what happens when you give the children ready and easy access to paint, glue, paper, buttons, sponges, playdough, pencils, crayons, ...!) 

I have 22 years experience caring for and educating young children, infants through school age.  I am mom to six children, grandmother of two (that's my granddaughter, Monica, on the left) and  have been daycare provider to more than forty children.

References of current and past families available on request.