The weekend saw me take a quick overnight trip to Melbourne to listen to the inspirational speaker Carla Rinaldi about the Reggio Emilia Approach. Carla worked closely for many years with Loris Malaguzzi (the founder of the approach). The purpose of the conference was to provoke our thinking on how to connect children’s experiences of learning, thinking, understanding and expressing themselves.
Here we are……
After a recent trip to Reggio Emilia we have had our passion for the Reggio approach reignited and are embarking on a journey to embed the approach in so much more of what we do. We have been inspired to learn more about the Reggio approach and how we can implement it here in Perth . (more…)
We love texture play at childcare and recently we have had a big focus on different textures. We have had lots of fun discovering how different things feel on our hands and feet. (more…)
Have you tried gardening with children? We recently hosted an afternoon tea for our mum’s which focused on gardening with children………
Recently we have had time thinking about the children who have to spend much of their time in Princess Margaret Hospital. In a small effort to brighten up their day, we made the children a special book and sang some songs in a little concert for them, we had a great time at Radio Lollipop and visiting the children. We also created a multicultural cook book to sell and donated all of the funds to PMH.
The children had a ball and was a great way to highlight our focus on the community around us.
Copy of article from Western Suburbs Reporter.
Well, here at Kelmscott childcare centre we have been focusing on our engagement with the local community, it has been great fun, the children have gained a lot through the process as has the local community. You can see a few snippets of the activities we have been involved in below, its all about child care in the community.
The Music students and their Teacher from Kelmscott Senior High school were invited to the centre to sing to the children. They brought along the piano and a guitar. We had so much fun listening to the talented students singing and then they asked the children to sing their favourite songs. The teacher soon picked up the tune so we could sing with music.
We invited Tony Buti MLA to read a story to the children called Possum Magic, he captured the children who sat so quietly listening to him .
This is a presentation to Tracy from Southside Care. They are a local organisation who distribute food to the needy. The toddler children collaged a box with food pictures and used it to collect the food which had been donated by the children and families.
A little article in the community news paper talking about some of our activities from childcare week.
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