Inquiry example

This is an example of an amazing inquiry from and early childhood learning centre operating from a Reggio inspired premise. The photos and examples are the practical manifestations highlighting what can be achieved with children 3-5years of age when intelligent and well articulated inquiry is embedded and understood by the "big people" in the learning process.

Love Your Neighbour

Provocation and teachers collective thinking...

Love Your Neighbour_1.pdf

Love Your Neighbour_2 .pdf

Love Your Neighbour_3.pdf

Some of the thinking that arises in children as a product of asking good quality questions can be both enlightening and surprising :)

Love Your Neighbour_4 .pdf

Love Your Neighbour_CharlieA4.pdf

Charlie, 4 yrs

Love is in your heart.

Love Your Neighbour_Grace.pdf

Grace, 4 yrs

Love in in your hands.

Love Your Neighbour_teacher.pdf

Janelle, Teacher

Reflective thoughts...

A Teachers reflections...

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A great quote from Jack (4 Years old) about his learning from the inquiry with the question "What is LOVE?

Jack Quote.pdf

The children also went on further with this "Love your neighbour" inquiry and started to design neighbourhoods. Below are some of the display photos from the developed designs and products that emerged from the inquiry.

Evidence

Gathering evidence of the children's learning along the way is really important. It places the teacher alongside the child and allows them to capture their thinking as they are discovering. It also provides opportunity to ask provocative questions that might prompt the child to consider new opportunities.

These are practical ways to display and capture children's work in a meaningful way and also allow to form the evidence component of learning combined with the important display part of the inquiry for whanau.

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