Online Professional Development
Upcoming workshops:
Why Wire, Why Not?
Feb. 2, 7-8:30 pm
Our next online materials workshop
Join us for an online workshop exploring possibilities and potential of wire as an expressive language. Inspired by projects in the preprimary schools in Reggio Emilia and the work of adult artists, we will work through a series of experiences designed to support you to incorporate wire into your preschool or elementary school class. This workshop is highly participatory and hands on!
Each of you will bring wire for this workshop so that you can experience the affordances of this material.
Supply List:
Recommended wire: Galvanized Steel Wire or Steel Wire Black 19 gauge.These wires are flexible and easily manipulated. They are inexpensive and readily available at hardware and building supply stores.
You are welcome to purchase some heavier wires and some finer wires to discover the affordances of each.
Other wires: green floral wire, coloured craft wires (dollar stores) telephone cable wires are useful for embellishments and detail.
Wire Cutters, Needle nose pliers.
Note: the set of 4 mini pliers available at dollar stores may be useful for manipulating wire but will not cut heavier wire.
Other materials: A small amount of clay, plasticine, playdough to use as base for wire sculpture
For embellishments: Small pieces of fabric, paper, tissues paper, beads, etc.
To register, please follow the eventbrite link at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/137372943171
Cost: $12.00
We are excited to share a new resource being launched this March called Play Outdoors Magazine.
To find out more about this publication and how to subscribe please visit their website at https://playoutdoorsmagazine.ca
HUGE REGGIO CHILDREN PUBLICATIONS SALE!
January 11th - January 25th
40% off all in-stock Reggio Children Publication titles!
Parentbooks in Toronto will be closing permanently at the end of January. After more than three decades of community bookselling, the are ready to retire.
Between January 11th and January 25th, we are offering all in-stock Reggio Children Publication titles at a 40% discount. Please call or email us and let us know what you're looking for. Parentbooks will be open Monday to Friday, 12:00 to 5:00 for online and phone orders until January 29th. We are happy to mail your order, or you can arrange for a curbside pickup.
"We are proud of the work we have done with the Reggio and other ECE communities in the GTA, Ontario, and across Canada. Parentbooks has had a wonderful relationship with many of you, and we are grateful. The trust you have put in us over the years has made being a community bookstore a remarkable endeavour.
After January 31st, the new Canadian distributor of Reggio Children Publications will be A Different Drummer Bookstore, in Burlington, Ontario. We are very pleased that they will be able to continue offering the Canadian Reggio community access to these beautiful publications, and we are certain you will find many more wonderful resources in their catalogue. We hope that you will reach out to them with your Reggio resource needs, and that you will continue to search out independent, local booksellers, and give them your business and loyalty."
Bringing the Reggio Fundamentals to Life Outdoors
Tuesday November 10 from 7:00-8:30PM MST via Zoom
We are excited to offer the opportunity to delve deeper into the fundamentals of the Reggio Philosophy and invite you join us in deconstructing, learning, discussing, and connecting the fundamentals to nature and the outdoors in ALL weather and seasons! When you sign up you will receive a Reggio Emilia fact sheet and be given a link to a short two question survey to help us personalize our workshop direction for the evening!
The cost is $12 and you can register at the eventbrite link below:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bringing-the-reggio-fundamentals-to-life-outdoors-tickets-126916210803
NEW!!!
E-LEARNING: A digital world for the Reggio Emilia Approach
Reggio Children is now offering live webinars
Reggio Children is offering a new series of Webinars and Web conferences this Fall. September sessions will be dedicated to principles of the Reggio Emilia Approach, October will focus on a series dedicated to “The hundred Languages of Children” and in November they will be offering webinars on “Children’s Rights”. If you would like more information and to sign up please follow this link:
https://www.reggiochildren.it/en/e-learning/webinars-and-web-conferences/
New Resources
At home with the Reggio Approach
#Istayathome has become a daily way of life for all of us, children, parents, teachers, and educators. We are living in difficult times, and precisely because of these difficulties we want to continue being a community.
Each day Reggio Children and the Preschools and Infant-toddler Centres – Istituzione of Reggio Emilia Municipality, are continuing to develop ideas and initiatives, for us to stay together, play together, and make school together.
https://www.reggiochildren.it/en/athomewiththereggioapproach/
A video message from Claudia Giudici, president of Reggio Children https://vimeo.com/397662677
Imagine a forest video created by the Reggio Emilia’s Municipal Infant-toddler Centres and Preschools, investigating “Living beings”
https://vimeo.com/395417061
Technology Rich Inquiry Based Research
Curating Resources about the Reggio Emilia Approach by Dr. Diane Kashin. You can follow her blog below:
https://tecribresearch.wordpress.com/curating-resources-about-the-reggio-emilia-approach/?fbclid=IwAR27pMumvAn9onZk7uIARQRbGM3okMKEm0TqLWxa34d2-FS9Sr4NfJW76VI
Don't forget to follow us on instagram!
@calgaryreggio
In Memory Susan Fraser
SUSAN FRASER February 11, 1934 - April 30, 2019 Susan Fraser (née Thompson) was an extraordinary, warm person. She was a wonderful wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother. She welcomed everyone into her home for a cup of tea. Sue was born in Thaba Nchu, South Africa, grew up in Johannesburg and farmed with her husband, Hugh Fraser, in Kenya. They came to Vancouver in 1964, where she set up a preschool in her basement while also getting her B.Ed and Masters degrees. She became an early childhood education professor, author, speaker and artist. Among her many accomplishments, Sue received two lifetime achievement awards for her contributions and mentorship in the field of ECE. Her loving husband of 65 years, Hugh, invites her friends for tea in her garden as a celebration of her life, on May 26th. Donations In lieu of flowers towards her scholarship fund are welcomed by emailing suefraseraward@gmail.com
Published in The Globe and Mail from May 11 to May 15, 2019
Susan Fraser and her book Authentic Childhood: Experiencing Reggio Emilia in the Classroom inspired many educators and their work with the Reggio Emilia approach within our Canadian context.
We would like to share with you a tribute to Sue Fraser by Pat Tarr and Carol Anne Wien in Journal of Childhood Studies: 44(3) 2019 in digital open access via the Journal of Childhood Studies website at:
https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/jcs/article/view/19180
To access a PDF of the article please click HERE
SUSAN FRASER February 11, 1934 - April 30, 2019 Susan Fraser (née Thompson) was an extraordinary, warm person. She was a wonderful wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother. She welcomed everyone into her home for a cup of tea. Sue was born in Thaba Nchu, South Africa, grew up in Johannesburg and farmed with her husband, Hugh Fraser, in Kenya. They came to Vancouver in 1964, where she set up a preschool in her basement while also getting her B.Ed and Masters degrees. She became an early childhood education professor, author, speaker and artist. Among her many accomplishments, Sue received two lifetime achievement awards for her contributions and mentorship in the field of ECE. Her loving husband of 65 years, Hugh, invites her friends for tea in her garden as a celebration of her life, on May 26th. Donations In lieu of flowers towards her scholarship fund are welcomed by emailing suefraseraward@gmail.com
Published in The Globe and Mail from May 11 to May 15, 2019
Susan Fraser and her book Authentic Childhood: Experiencing Reggio Emilia in the Classroom inspired many educators and their work with the Reggio Emilia approach within our Canadian context.
We would like to share with you a tribute to Sue Fraser by Pat Tarr and Carol Anne Wien in Journal of Childhood Studies: 44(3) 2019 in digital open access via the Journal of Childhood Studies website at:
https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/jcs/article/view/19180
To access a PDF of the article please click HERE
