Category Archives: Abigail Adams Preschool Blog

Documenting and displaying the children’s project work, which is necessary for children to express, revisit, and construct and reconstruct their feelings, ideas and understandings. Similar to the portfolio approach, documentation of children’s work in progress is viewed as an important … Continue reading →

Supporting and enriching children’s learning through in-depth, short-term (one week) and long-term (throughout the school year) project work, in which responding, recording, playing, exploring, hypothesis building and testing, and provoking occurs. Projects are child-centered, following their interest, returning again and … Continue reading →

The teacher’s role within the Reggio Emilia approach is complex. Working as co-teachers, the role of the teacher is first and foremost to be that of a learner alongside the children. The teacher is a teacher-researcher, a resource and guide … Continue reading →

In the Reggio Approach, children, teachers, parents and community are interactive and work together. This helps to build a community of inquiry between adults and children, for communication and interaction can deepen children’s inquiry and theory building about the world … Continue reading →

Are you looking for a preschool for your little one? Make sure you visit Abigail Adams Preschool. Our program is engaging, enriching and fun. We spend our days teaching kids by doing. Our open houses are designed to give parents … Continue reading →

Hailed as the best pre-schools in the world by Newsweek magazine in 1991, the Reggio Emilia approach to early childhood education has attracted the worldwide attention of educators, researchers and just about anyone interested in early childhood education best practices. … Continue reading →

This poem, by the founder of the Reggio-Emilia Approach, beautifully conveys the importance imagination and discovery play in early childhood learning. Much of the philosophy is based on protecting young children from institutionalized doctrines which often make learning a chore … Continue reading →

If your child is between the ages of 3 and 6 and attends a child care center, preschool, or kindergarten program, the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) suggests you look for these 10 signs to make … Continue reading →