2023 New Daycare in Town! We are happy to announce that our new daycare center in Cochrane has opened. We are thrilled to offer kids in the neighbourhood a secure and nurturing environment. The highest standards of care and security are met by our brand-new daycare in Cochrane. We are dedicated to fostering an environment where children can flourish, and we have a team of knowledgeable and experienced employees. Our roomy, well-appointed space provides a variety of age-appropriate activities that foster education, creativity, and social growth. Every element of our childcare centre, from engaging educational activities to interactive play areas, has been thoughtfully planned to meet the individual needs of every child.
2023 What is emergent Curriculum Emergent curriculum is an inquiry based learning based on collaboration that involves keen observation, deep reflections, thoughtful responses and support (Stacey, 2015, p.ix) in order to co-construct the curriculum with the children. In emergent curriculum, the emphasis of the curriculum is focused on planning that needs to emerge from the daily life of children and adults, particularly from the children’s own interests (Kashin, D, 2007, p7). The term emergent curriculum is used to refer to an approach that emerges from the interests of the learner and is co-constructed with the teacher (Jones & Nimmo, 1994)” (Kashin, D, 2007, p9). The Reggio Emilia Approach is based on the theories of social construction and a philosophy that supports emergent curriculum (Kashin, D, 2007, p.11). “Reggio centers seek to foster children’s cognitive and social development through a systematic focus on symbolic representation and expression. Within mixed age groups, children are invited to choose, negotiate, and participate in long-term pedagogical projects that are often extremely challenging (Bennett, 2000). This typifies an emergent curriculum approach where the teacher starts with careful observation of children’s interests and questions and then develops them into concrete learning experiences” (Kashin, D., 2007, p.91).
2023 Hundred languages of children by Loris Malaguzzi A child has a hundred ways to express, imagine, play and learn. As shown in the video: This poem by Loris Malaguzzi, clearly explains his in-depth perception of a child psychology. Child mind is just free flowing without any boundation. A child can imagine in hundred ways and in hundred forms. A child can do everything from playing to learning, from thinking to the imagination, from listening to singing in hundred-hundred ways. A child can have a hundred languages to express himself, a hundred hands/ways to play or to create. A child is a unique and competent individual capable of doing and expressing in various different ways. Like drawing, art, play, writing, music, smiling, exploring, reading, painting, etc. Knowledge can be seen as a rhizome – “shoots in all the directions with no beginning and no end, but always within an in between, and with opening towards other directions and places”
