Today started out as usual with hugs and love from the children in the Gan. We spent our morning observing the teachers and students in their classrooms in addition to working one on one with the teachers. We discussed new and exciting ways to reinvent the great work they are doing. They even implemented some of it right after our meeting and received immediate positive reactions from the children.
We were all so excited about our new purchases from IKEA that we dove right into making physical changes in Dalia’s three-year-old classroom. She told her students that we were making a surprise for them in their classroom that they could see next time they arrived at school. The changes were transformative as we were able to take a very busy and cluttered room and turn it into to a calm and welcoming new environment. We are also excited to see the children’s reactions.
Later in the afternoon, we welcomed our colleagues from Bulgaria and Hungary. They toured the school and then joined the parents in the meeting room for our parent workshop introducing the merits of the Reggio Approach. We had a great parent response and some of them even stayed late to talk with us more about the possibility of changes coming to their children’s school. We concluded the day at a dinner with our European partner educators.
