Guiding Principles
The many ways children learn and communicate.
What is the 100 Languages?
This is a moist, moldable material made from dirt and sand that can be used for creating 3D representations of things.
This is the parent(s) who volunteer help out with parent communication and events and other tasks.
What is a Room Parent?
A city in Northern Italy known for it's approach to educating young children
What is Reggio Emilia?
This a method of punishment that involves isolating a child for a period of time (not recommended)
What is Time Out?
*note this is never an appropriate method for our school
The child is capable, competent and active in the learning process.
What is the Image of the Child?
This is paint that does not wash out of clothes, but will last forever on a canvas.
What is Acrylic Paint?
This is when a adult comes to help out in the classroom, specifically with children's activities.
What is a Parent Volunteer?
This person is commonly referred to as the founder of the Reggio Approach.
This is a way for children to communicate to adults that they are having big emotions and have no tools to help them understand them.
What is a tantrum?
This is considered the 3rd teacher.
What is the Environment?
This is a method of intertwining fabrics or materials on a loom of some sort.
What is weaving?
This is when teachers or parents regularly relay information pertinent to children's day.
What is Daily Communication?
This is when materials are set out in an inviting, open-ended display meant to draw children in.
What is a provocation?
This is when a teacher encourages a child to participate in a different behavior instead of punishing the undesired behavior.
What is Redirecting?
This is a way to record ideas, questions, images and processes in order to reflect on them later.
What is Documentation?
A collection of materials that are placed together in a new and surprising way, encouraging children to manipulate them in new ways.
What are loose parts?
This is a weekly, monthly or project based documentation that goes directly to the parents via email.
What is a Newsletter?
These are the 3 teachers in Reggio Emilia teaching philosophy
What is the .....
1st teacher - parent
2nd teacher - classroom teachers
3rd teacher - the environment
This is who teachers should partner with to work on understanding a child's behavior.
Who is the Parent?
Building social skills, respect, relationships and community.
What is Collaboration?
These are found outside and include any item easily found; rock, sand, leaves, twigs.
This is the amount of ways teachers can get parents involved in the children's classroom/learning.
What is Limitless?
This is the year that the first "Reggio" school was opened in Italy.
When is 1963?
This is when a teacher or adults shows a child how to behave in the desired way.
What is Modeling?