What are the important principles guiding an Emergent Curriculum? #emergentcurriculum #reggioemilia

Following my posts, Following Children’s Interests and What Happens When You Follow a Child’s Interest?, I wanted to clarify the ways in which following a child’s (or group of children’s) interest differs from learning about a given ‘theme.’ I consider there are two major differences Who takes the lead, and How the content is formulated. […]

While listening to Lilian Katz - I was able to reflect and think about how we are working with and through project work in our classroom. We are really just "getting our feet wet" with regards to larger scale projects. We have done small projects, but nothing too in depth up to now. Currently we are investigating DANCE as a project in our room. Truthfully, we are not sure how or where to go sometimes, but we know that if we continue to take the children's lead and be reflective as educators…

A blog about a Full Day Kindergarten classroom that is Reggio Inspired.

I am always playing around with different ways to plan – I have developed this template as an emergent curriculum planning tool and have ...

This year we redeveloped our construction area with various goals in mind. Firstly, we wanted to remove some of the resources which we felt...