A Classroom for Curiosity:

A Reggio Inspired Dream Space For Kinders

Isadora Lienard-Boisjoli
 A place to be an artist…

-Open ended activities

Engagement in the
-Provoking thinking and engaging creativity and imagination arts creates
-Children encouraged to explore and test materials opportunities for
-Materials from nature inquiry through
purposeful play.
-Authentic, high quality art supplies
Big Ideas will live here:
 A place to tell stories…

-Literacy rich with provocations based on books

-opportunities for story workshop
-opportunities to practice oral language
-materials that inspire cooperation and
collaboration or can be enjoyed quietly on one’s
own
Playing with
language helps us
discover how
language works.

Big Ideas will live here:

 A place to be creative…

-varying levels of stimulation

-play oriented
-hands on learning
-authentic materials beyond toys
-aesthetically pleasing/inviting Designs will grow
out of natural
curiosity.

Big Ideas will live here:

 A place of wonder, delight and magic

-Opportunities for sensory play

-spaces to down-regulate
-spaces to be a scientist or a poet or a I
dreamer am
a
creative
thinker
Core competencies will grow here:
 A place made for children…

-The room is calm but invites exploration

-Materials are easily accessible
I can
-The materials invite independence and mastery
contribute
-Work surfaces are the right height for small people to the
-home-like elements community and
Core competencies will grow here: care for my environment.
 A place made by children…

-Language and literacy rich

-Co-constructed learning resources
-Displays of children’s work
-Children’s ideas are reflected
-Displays reflect the children in the class
A place that honours First Peoples Principles
of Learning…

-Culturally relevant materials

-Place-based learning opportunities Learning recognizes
-Students can explore who they are the role of
-The classroom encourages children to Indigenous
understand they are part of a larger community knowledge.
 A place for play-based numeracy…

-Active learning opportunities

-Play based
-Lovely materials encourage exploration and thinking
-Children, in playing together, co-construct learning
 A place to grow in nature…

-Easy access to the outdoors and a natural play space

-Natural play materials encourage place-based learning
-Opportunities for risky play
-Opportunities for individual and group play
-Opportunities for large and fine motor skills
A place to be in a learning community…

-Pedagogical documentation accessible to learners

-co-constructed learning resources
-children see themselves reflected in the space
-children have a space of their own