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Hidden Valley Community Preschool
Reaching the Whole Child through the Reggio Approach
Learning and Growing Together...
Community Preschool is inspired by the Reggio Emilia
approach to early childhood education. We use the term
“inspired” because we see this Italian approach as a
fascinating guide rather than a curriculum blueprint. We feel
that our values of education, childhood, and community are
deeply reflected in the Reggio Emilia approach and we hope to
use that as a basis for our ever-evolving program. As staff,
we are continuously learning with the children, with parents,
and with other early childhood educators to gain a deeper
understanding of education.
We offer an emergent curriculum that allows for flexibility,
spontaneity, and in-depth exploration. It is most often
child-directed and teacher-guided. This means that teachers
offer provocations to stimulate the learning process, allowing
children to investigate their own interests and theories.
Sometimes these explorations turn into long-term projects
where children experience the research process of questioning,
hypothesizing, testing theories, learning from experts (ie:
parents, community members, books), and exploring ideas
through symbolic languages. Through these child-initiated
experiences, children learn a variety of concepts and skills
that will stay with them throughout their lives. Not only do
they develop skills in literacy, art, science, and math, but
they also develop the ability to communicate, to collaborate,
and to think critically. We believe that children have the
right to an educational program that values and nurtures these
skills.
Thank you for your interest in Community Preschool
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Our Learning Concept...
Although we base our yearly program on a Reggio-inspired
emergent curriculum, we also plan for general concepts that we
will be exploring with the children. Our flexibility allows us
go in a different direction than we had expected, or to get
deeply involved in the concepts in which the children are most
interested...
Click here to learn more.
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