Supporting Children and Early Education
Regina’s Early Learning Centre is a child and family development centre working co-operatively with low income families to provide programs which foster healthy development of children from prenatal to five years of age.
Thanks to a generous donation from the South Saskatchewan Community Foundation, in the fall of 2012 five teaching staff and the supervisor from the Regina Early Learning Centre Preschool were able to attend the Canadian Association for Young Children Conference in Vancouver to learn about the Reggio Approach in teaching young children. The Reggio Approach – inspired from Reggio Emelia, Italy, the home of the renowned preschools is based on the belief that children are full of curiosity and creativity. We use this principle at the Centre to allow children to be the teachers and persuade them to go further and use their own ways of expression to grow into creative beings that are confident and capable. Children are at the forefront of the curriculum; are shown respect, and seen as confident and capable in everything they do. For Meredith as a new teacher at the Early Learning Centre, Karen, a teacher at the Centre notes “I have been able to transfer many things I learned from the Reggio Approach to the classroom, in activities that let the children see how important the small steps are and how these become the stepping stones for deeper thinking.”
In the park behind the school the children discovered a puddle in the grass. Along the bottom of the puddle were leaves from the fall. As the children walked in the leafy water, their feet stirred up the ladybugs that had been hibernating under the leaves. The children began gathering the ladybugs, and, with the warmth of their hands, were able to wake them from their winter slumber. The very excited children continued to collect as many lady bugs as their little fists could clutch. It was decided by the children to move the newly awoken critters to higher ground where they could be warm and dry. The children chose to place all the ladybugs under a tree on the hill where there was no water or snow.
Regina’s Early Learning Centre is a child and family development centre working co-operatively with low income families to provide programs which foster healthy development of children from prenatal to five years of age.
Thanks to a generous donation from the South Saskatchewan Community Foundation, in the fall of 2012 five teaching staff and the supervisor from the Regina Early Learning Centre Preschool were able to attend the Canadian Association for Young Children Conference in Vancouver to learn about the Reggio Approach in teaching young children. The Reggio Approach – inspired from Reggio Emelia, Italy, the home of the renowned preschools is based on the belief that children are full of curiosity and creativity. We use this principle at the Centre to allow children to be the teachers and persuade them to go further and use their own ways of expression to grow into creative beings that are confident and capable. Children are at the forefront of the curriculum; are shown respect, and seen as confident and capable in everything they do. For Meredith as a new teacher at the Early Learning Centre, Karen, a teacher at the Centre notes “I have been able to transfer many things I learned from the Reggio Approach to the classroom, in activities that let the children see how important the small steps are and how these become the stepping stones for deeper thinking.”
In the park behind the school the children discovered a puddle in the grass. Along the bottom of the puddle were leaves from the fall. As the children walked in the leafy water, their feet stirred up the ladybugs that had been hibernating under the leaves. The children began gathering the ladybugs, and, with the warmth of their hands, were able to wake them from their winter slumber. The very excited children continued to collect as many lady bugs as their little fists could clutch. It was decided by the children to move the newly awoken critters to higher ground where they could be warm and dry. The children chose to place all the ladybugs under a tree on the hill where there was no water or snow.
Regina’s Early Learning Centre is a child and family development centre working co-operatively with low income families to provide programs which foster healthy development of children from prenatal to five years of age.
Thanks to a generous donation from the South Saskatchewan Community Foundation, in the fall of 2012 five teaching staff and the supervisor from the Regina Early Learning Centre Preschool were able to attend the Canadian Association for Young Children Conference in Vancouver to learn about the Reggio Approach in teaching young children. The Reggio Approach – inspired from Reggio Emelia, Italy, the home of the renowned preschools is based on the belief that children are full of curiosity and creativity. We use this principle at the Centre to allow children to be the teachers and persuade them to go further and use their own ways of expression to grow into creative beings that are confident and capable. Children are at the forefront of the curriculum; are shown respect, and seen as confident and capable in everything they do. For Meredith as a new teacher at the Early Learning Centre, Karen, a teacher at the Centre notes “I have been able to transfer many things I learned from the Reggio Approach to the classroom, in activities that let the children see how important the small steps are and how these become the stepping stones for deeper thinking.”
In the park behind the school the children discovered a puddle in the grass. Along the bottom of the puddle were leaves from the fall. As the children walked in the leafy water, their feet stirred up the ladybugs that had been hibernating under the leaves. The children began gathering the ladybugs, and, with the warmth of their hands, were able to wake them from their winter slumber. The very excited children continued to collect as many lady bugs as their little fists could clutch. It was decided by the children to move the newly awoken critters to higher ground where they could be warm and dry. The children chose to place all the ladybugs under a tree on the hill where there was no water or snow.