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WELCOME NOTE
Bambini Atelier, meaning Children’s Workshop in Italian, is a space created for children to experience learning in the backyard, where it is natural and fun. It is a safe and fun environment for children aged 0 to 6 years old to explore their senses through interactions with natural mediums, such as clay and plants, to express themselves other than words. Inspired by the Reggio Emilia and Forest School Approach, Bambini Atelier hopes to celebrate the joy and fun in childhood through sensorial exploration with the nature and themselves. As Loris Malaguzzi advocates, workshops in Bambini Atelier are plan to allow children to express themselves through a hundred different ‘languages’ such as clay work, gardening, movements and so on. |
Benefits of Gardening for Children
BENEFITS OF GARDENING FOR CHILDREN
Gardening with children can have many benefits, both now and in the future. Taking the time to get children involved in a garden will improve their lives and build a strong relationship between them and nature. Being outside, in a garden, benefits children in so many aspects of their lives. Here are just a few of the positives gardening can bring. Science of Gardening In a garden, children are surrounded by teaching moments. The life cycle of various plants, the importance of worms and certain insects, even human activities can help or harm plant growth. Without needing a textbook or a computer, children can learn many things about the world by watching and investigating. Relaxation in a Garden Children today are just as stressed as their parents. There are ever increasing school loads with fewer and fewer break times, multiple activities, and extended responsibilities. It seems counter-intuitive to add one more task to their already busy day. However, gardening with children has been shown to have a calming effect. Instead of being caught up in the rush of day to day life, slowing down to connect with nature can add a much needed space to relax. Better Health Through Gardening Too many children are becoming overweight and unhealthy. An over abundance of cheap, unhealthy food options added to increased screen time with computers and video games equals children in need of an intervention. Gardening can be just that. Spending time outside, walking, bending, and moving, is a great way to add exercise in a fun way. Parents can help their child plant a vegetable garden and watch how much easier it becomes to feed children healthier food choices. When kids spend time and energy growing the vegetables they are more eager to eat them. Appreciation of Life Watching a seed grow into a plant is one of the miracles of life. Children who garden learn to appreciate their plants and the things that went into growing that life. Water, sunlight, dirt, and care are seen as necessities both in the plant world and the human one. Weeding can lend a chance to discuss negative influences and what they can do. Gardening with children gives them a way to love the simple things that make up life. Quality Family Time in a Garden Gardening does not have to be just for children. When the entire family works in the garden together there is a chance for the family to bond and become closer. Siblings learn to work together and get along, parents can make up for lost time during the week days, and even extended family members can connect by spending time each week helping to pull weeds. Gardening is a wonderful way to enhance any child's life. The benefits of working in a garden extend over so many areas of a child's life, it seems silly not to take advantage of the opportunity gardening can bring. Read more at Suite101: The Benefits of Gardening With Children: How Growing a Garden Helps Kids | Suite101.com http://suite101.com/article/he-benefits-of-gardening-with-children-a189982#ixzz20CQ0brzb |
About Us
PHILOSOPHY We believe that children have the right to make real choices and be empowered of their own learning curve. We believe in sharing the children's journey in learning through exploration and discovery. As active agents of learning, we believe that play supports children's learning in decision making, problem solving and discovering through manipulation and experimentation. Children learn through enjoyable experiences such as messy play, water play, sensorial boxes and discovery boxes. Using facilitated play, games and hands-on activities as mediums of learning, children's developmental skills such as numeracy, language, social and motor skills can be enhanced. At Bambini Atelier, we design and especially customize our play sessions to provide this learning experience for children in a space that is fresh and warm at the same time. MISSION Based on Howard Gardner's multiple intelligence, Bambini Atelier aims to provide quality programmes that include and engaging curriculum framed for the holistic development of the child.We believe that learning in the backyard through natural mediums in a Mother Nature inspired environment helps to engage and cultivate nature appreciation and awareness in the 21st century children. Through interaction with peers and adults and the environment, we aim to instill the following positive skills in children at a young age, to allow them to further develop into confident and sociable children: • Intrinsic motivation • Sound emotional regulation • Social skills (sharing, turn-taking, friendships) • Self-awareness At Bambini Atelier, we offer hands on experiences and sensorial activities for children to explore and engage in. With the age group focused on 18 months to 3 years old, children get to learn through engaging their 5 senses and make meaning of the world on their own. With a small ratio of 1 teacher to 5 children, the teacher will be able to observe, reflect and plan individualised learning plans for each child in the group. Please refer to our Drop Off Play Sessions for more details! |
Our Inspiration
REGGIO EMILIA APPROACH (from the Reggio Children Identity website) http://www.reggiochildren.it The Reggio Emilia Approach is an educational philosophy based on the image of the child, and of human beings, as possessing strong potentials for development and as a subject of rights who learns and grows in the relationships with others. This global educational project, which is carried forth in the Municipal Infant-toddler Centers and Preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy, and has inspired other schools all over the world, is based on a number of distinctive characteristics: the participation of families, the collegial work of all the personnel, the importance of the educational environment, the presence of the atelier and the figure of the atelierista, the in-school kitchen, and the pedagogical coordinating team. Focusing on the centrality of the hundred languages belonging to every human being, in the atelier spaces young children are offered daily opportunities to encounter many types of materials, many expressive languages, many points of view, working actively with hands, minds, and emotions, in a context that values the expressiveness and creativity of each child in the group. FOREST SCHOOLS APPROACH (from the Forests Schools website) http://www.forestschools.com A Forest School is an innovative educational approach to outdoor play and learning.’ The philosophy of Forest Schools is to encourage and inspire individuals of any age through positive outdoor experiences. By participating in engaging, motivating and achievable tasks and activities in a woodland environment each participant has an opportunity to develop intrinsic motivation, sound emotional and social skills.These, through self awareness can be developed to reach personal potential. |
Drop-Off Sessions
PROGRAMME DETAILS Casual Care Programme: - 1 or 2 days a week (Mon-Fri) - 3 hour programme (9am to 12pm) - Morning snack and light lunch provided - Pick up time at 12 noon Flexi Care Programme: - 3 to 5 days a week (Mon-Fri) - 3 hour programme (9am to 12pm) - Morning snack and light lunch provided - Pick up time at 12 noon - Developmental report every three months SCHEDULE Archives
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