Reggio: Ramp Investigation

Reggio: Ramp Investigation

Guest Teacher: Kati Nash Reggio Blog Series  Hi! My  name is Kati and I am a teacher in a Reggio-inspired preschool that serves the most at-risk children in our school district. Our school is unique in that we have private, philanthropic funding but remain a public...
My Favorite Things: Playstands

My Favorite Things: Playstands

I cannot imagine my classroom without playstands.  These simple structures are truly the heart beat of my room.   I house my housekeeping center under these canopies. There is this natural impulse in children to seek hidden, tent-like places.  The playstands satisfy...
Patty’s Room: Writing Materials

Patty’s Room: Writing Materials

There is are so many meaningful opportunities for Patty's Pre-k children to write.  Here are a few: Color sorted markers and colored pencils. The writing center materials.  I love the two choices – fat pencil or golf pencil.  These are both developmentally...
A Simple Puppet Show

A Simple Puppet Show

This is such a simple process that produces the most endearing results!   I had each color family (groups of four children) write their own story. 1.  The first round I let each group write and collaborate on their own a story.   Each group picked someone to record...
The Plate Stories (It’s Math!)

The Plate Stories (It’s Math!)

My best ideas come in the face of disengaged children.  That happened a few weeks ago.  The children were restless and I knew that my math lesson was a real yawner.   On a whim, I told the children to pull out their white boards and dry erase markers. I demonstrated...