Our Reggio Inspired Program
Documentation
Documentation of the children’s work in progress is an important tool in the learning process for children, teachers, and parents. Staff takes pictures of children engaged in experiences, their words as they discuss what they are doing, feeling, and thinking, and the children’s interpretation of experience through the visual media are displayed as a wonderful presentation of the dynamics of learning.
Play -Based Learning
Play is a dynamic time of discovery, creativity, and self-awareness.
Play is the vehicle through which children not only learn best, but also develops key parts of their brains. Play is necessary for future academic and social success. Play makes children think, grow, and learn.
The Cathedral Oaks & More Mesa Children's Centers playground are designed for children to take physical and social risks.
Teachers supervising the playground are fully engaged in watching for children’s physical safety as well as their social and emotional wellbeing. Children are given the proper tools to solve conflicts and other issues that arise during outside playtime, which allows us to teach values of kindness and compassion. Outside time provides imaginative play which instills exploration and cooperation in children.
Outside play fosters friendships, exercises the body, releases energy, balances the mind, and interacts with the natural world.
Early Child Development
Social skills
Play helps children learn how to share, take turns, cooperate, and communicate. It also helps them learn how to regulate their emotions and express themselves in a safe way.
Physical abilities
Play helps children develop strength, balance, and coordination. Activities like swinging, spinning, sliding, climbing, and jumping help children learn how to move their bodies in different ways.
Cognitive development
Play helps children learn how to think, understand, communicate, remember, and imagine. It's a primary way children build cognitive skills and make sense of the world.
Emotional development
Play helps children learn how to express their feelings and emotions in a safe way. It also helps them explore different aspects of their personalities and work through difficult emotions. Play helps children develop skills like confidence, self-esteem, resilience, interaction, independence, and curiosity.
Problem solving
Play helps children learn how to problem-solve and formulate their desired outcomes. Skills for study, work, and relationships.
Executive function
Play increases academic success. These important mental capacities such as problem-solving, following directions, working memory, focus and attention are some of the main indicators of future academic success, and play naturally develops them.
Schedule:
A TYPICAL DAY AT SCHOOL
A.M. Schedule:
7:30 - 8:00 Arrival and greeting time with indoor/outdoor activities.
8:00 - 9:00 Outdoor play activities are set up on the yards.
9:00 - 10:15 Planning meeting (essential tool for learning), then time for small group work in the classroom, art studio, kitchen, garden, greenhouse, etc. and snack time.
10:15 - 10:30 Reflection Meeting (revisit our projects and work from the morning) story, music, and sharing.
10:30 - 11:45 Outdoor activities in our various yards for all children; Science, Drama, Construction play, Swings, Sandbox, Water play, Music, Slide, Tire swing, and Monkey bars.
P.M. Schedule:
12:00 - 12:30 Lunch time
12:30 Half day children are picked up.
12:30 - 1:00 Transitions, toileting, and story time.
1:00 - 2:45 Relaxation and rest time.
2:45 - 3:00 Wake up routine.
3:00 - 5:00 Outdoor Play in various yards. Small group work, snack, clean-up, transition to inside.
5:00 - 5:30 Story time and quiet inside play while parents re-connect with children.
Documentation
Documentation of the children’s work in progress is an important tool in the learning process for children, teachers, and parents. Staff takes pictures of children engaged in experiences, their words as they discuss what they are doing, feeling, and thinking, and the children’s interpretation of experience through the visual media are displayed as a wonderful presentation of the dynamics of learning.
Play -Based Learning
Play is a dynamic time of discovery, creativity, and self-awareness.
Play is the vehicle through which children not only learn best, but also develops key parts of their brains. Play is necessary for future academic and social success. Play makes children think, grow, and learn.
The Cathedral Oaks & More Mesa Children's Centers playground are designed for children to take physical and social risks.
Teachers supervising the playground are fully engaged in watching for children’s physical safety as well as their social and emotional wellbeing. Children are given the proper tools to solve conflicts and other issues that arise during outside playtime, which allows us to teach values of kindness and compassion. Outside time provides imaginative play which instills exploration and cooperation in children.
Outside play fosters friendships, exercises the body, releases energy, balances the mind, and interacts with the natural world.
Early Child Development
Social skills
Play helps children learn how to share, take turns, cooperate, and communicate. It also helps them learn how to regulate their emotions and express themselves in a safe way.
Physical abilities
Play helps children develop strength, balance, and coordination. Activities like swinging, spinning, sliding, climbing, and jumping help children learn how to move their bodies in different ways.
Cognitive development
Play helps children learn how to think, understand, communicate, remember, and imagine. It's a primary way children build cognitive skills and make sense of the world.
Emotional development
Play helps children learn how to express their feelings and emotions in a safe way. It also helps them explore different aspects of their personalities and work through difficult emotions. Play helps children develop skills like confidence, self-esteem, resilience, interaction, independence, and curiosity.
Problem solving
Play helps children learn how to problem-solve and formulate their desired outcomes. Skills for study, work, and relationships.
Executive function
Play increases academic success. These important mental capacities such as problem-solving, following directions, working memory, focus and attention are some of the main indicators of future academic success, and play naturally develops them.
Schedule:
A TYPICAL DAY AT SCHOOL
A.M. Schedule:
7:30 - 8:00 Arrival and greeting time with indoor/outdoor activities.
8:00 - 9:00 Outdoor play activities are set up on the yards.
9:00 - 10:15 Planning meeting (essential tool for learning), then time for small group work in the classroom, art studio, kitchen, garden, greenhouse, etc. and snack time.
10:15 - 10:30 Reflection Meeting (revisit our projects and work from the morning) story, music, and sharing.
10:30 - 11:45 Outdoor activities in our various yards for all children; Science, Drama, Construction play, Swings, Sandbox, Water play, Music, Slide, Tire swing, and Monkey bars.
P.M. Schedule:
12:00 - 12:30 Lunch time
12:30 Half day children are picked up.
12:30 - 1:00 Transitions, toileting, and story time.
1:00 - 2:45 Relaxation and rest time.
2:45 - 3:00 Wake up routine.
3:00 - 5:00 Outdoor Play in various yards. Small group work, snack, clean-up, transition to inside.
5:00 - 5:30 Story time and quiet inside play while parents re-connect with children.