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Reggio Emilia i Creche and Preschool groups
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6 months-5 years old
Reg.number K2018/499247/07
Creche, 7 months - 5 years old
We are a creche and preschool with a Pedagogical Program based in the most innovative French, German, Italian and Spanish methodologies.
We had a preschool in Italy for 8 years, a playgroup in Spain 3 years, in November 2012 we opened in Sandton a little group of 5-7 kids and in May 2018 our little playgroup became a wonderful Creche and preschool with 30 kids.
Our educative program follow strongly the Reggio Emilia Childrens approach and Methode Bruno Munari, La main a la pate (adapted for the very early child age), PEKIP groups and Gensini Gavito methodology ( early childhood stimulation through the play and child games).
We adapted our experience in SA, organising a developpement project for black women, teaching them our methodology ( even traveling to Europe to our experiences in Rome and Spain), giving them the opportunity to organise a fantastic good standard of education.
Child developpement
The big development of a child is between 0-6 years old, A world full of opportunities, explorations, where children are accompanied and empowered in their proposals, is the best way for organise (in their very individual way) the little person, their little brain, their way to approach and investigate and learn about the world and the others. It's seem enormous to say, but the experience of this six years will be determinanting for the rest of their whole life.
Mathematics, physic, world exploration
The numbers for the kids are one (me), two (hands, eyes…), five (my fingers), and then three and four and then…this is the beginning. Then we cut the carrots for the snack; then we have 200 different balls for to investigate, experiment and understand the density, the weight, flotation, speed, weight…or the table full of water in different tonalities for make all the colours of the world.
-”mmm…the brown is then when we do a lot of mess?”
Creativity
Creativity is fostered, taught and learned: the world, especially that of children, is overflowing with magical situations, where a piece of wood becomes a lion or a zebra, where cardboard boxes are castles or planes or houses , where a piece of fabric makes us become a wolf, we can dress in colors or paint our clothes on it...
Bruno Munari, a great Italian designer, made wooden words, and our children with a thousand different materials make stories...
Art, theater, music
(A caterpillar purple and blu with the sun behind, Luis, 2,5 yo)
We can learn pa-pa-pa, ma-ma, and we can learn the syllables with Mozart and papageno…the questions and the answers with Rossini. The language arrives through the music and motricity and the abilities, through drama plays, the mystery and the magic. But the physic of the lights and shades and solid or transparent bodies with the shadows theater, and the self confidence with the infinite pieces we do together…
” then, us, with cardboard, can we be anything we want in the life?” ( Enrico 3,5 years old making a castle in cardboard for a fairytale).