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Day 1: The Extraordinary Nature of the Ordinary
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The Language of Everyday Objects
Alice Sharp
About Alice:
Alice is an inspiring and motivational presenter for early years training and continuous professional development. As a teacher, creator, author, mum and imagineer Alice is both nationally and internationally renowned as an expert in leading learning in early childhood.
The child is at the heart of everything Alice does. She delivers high quality training that is transformational in upskilling staff in the understanding and knowledge of child development and learning. Alice’s aim is to change the lives of every child by presenting quality experiences in education that are innovative and thought provoking for any professional working with young children.
A quote from Alice. “Doctors might save lives, scientists might change the world, architects might design the space we live, and artists might make it beautiful; but it all begins with a small child being encouraged by YOU to be curious, investigate and discover the world around them. Early Years Educators change the world, one step at a time”.
Where you can find Alice:
Recycled Plastic Bottles
The Amazing Power of Paint
Meri Cherry
About Meri:
Meri Cherry (yes, that’s her real name) is the founder of Meri Cherry Art Studio in Los Angeles offering process art experiences around the world––including art classes, art kits, workshops, and collaborative art sessions. She has been an educator for over 20 years, focusing on the art of making and doing rather than the finished product. Pulling from aspects of Reggio Emilia, Montessori and play-based learning, Meri Cherry has created her own style of process art and has become a leading educator in the field.
After the smashing success of her private art playgroups and mobile classes throughout Los Angeles, she opened her own art studio, which has become the talk of L.A., providing mobile and in house art parties for top celebrities and influencers. Meri has a loyal and engaged community of over 60k Instagram followers and a popular website and blog with over 100k monthly visits. Her passions include making process art magic, photographing beautiful art supplies, and being a resource as an art entrepreneur and teacher. Meri is also the author of Play Make Create, a Process Art Handbook, with Quarto Publishing.
Where you can find Meri:
Meri Cherry Website
Collaborative Mural Workshop
Meri's Book - Play, Make, Create
Meri Cherry Shop
Playing with Paper
Roberta Pucci
About Roberta:
Roberta is an atelierista, educational consultant and art therapist from Italy, who loves dialoguing both with materials and people: fortunately, this is what her work mainly consists of.
From the early 2000s, She has held training courses for educators and teachers about the creative use of artistic, natural and recycled materials, collaborating with social cooperatives and municipalities.
Roberta has spent seven years working as an atelierista in a preschool, in addition to one year at the Loris Malaguzzi Center of Reggio Emilia.
Interweaving her design background, the Reggio approach and art therapy, she offers individual consultation and collaborate with educational institutions, for supporting each person or group to express their unique, authentic potential through the creative process with materials.
She is the author of the book “Laboratorio creativo con la carta”, co-author of “A spasso con una linea” and “Strano, stranissimo!”, translator of “The Spirit of Matter” and “The Good Enough Studio” by Nona Orbach (from English to Italian).
Where you can find Roberta:
Roberta's Website
Roberta's Facebook
How to Unleash Mark-Making
Bucket House Preschool
About Bucket House Preschool:
Amber's Biography
Amber Koh is the founder, director and head of pedagogy team of Bucket House Preschool Singapore. She was a former educator working with children from 18 months to 6 years old and have been practicing in the early childhood education industry for more than 10 years. She is inspired by the Reggio Emilia’s Image of the Child and has since established Bucket House Preschool in 2019. Amber holds a strong belief that school is a place of life and relationship; the context, environment and resources are few necessary conditions to provide these very young learners a quality early educational experience. Amber is currently practicing as a pediatric sleep consultant to offer sleep training techniques and establish healthy sleep habits with families with children 0-5 years old.
Farah's Biography
Farah is the Resident Atelierista of Bucket House Preschool and has been at the school for nearly five years. The world of art has inspired her to pursue her passion in an art college and to experiment with various artistic approaches. Before this, she had been working alongside curators and multiple art galleries and exhibitions. She is passionate about how art is a language of expression and truly believed that children are naturally born artists.
Where you can find Bucket House Preschool:
Bucket House Preschool Website
Bucket House Instagram
The Extraordinary Possibilities of Sand Play
The Curiosity Approach
About Curiosity Approach:
Founded by Lyndsey Hellyn and Stephanie Bennett in 2017, The Curiosity Approach® is a modern-day Early Childhood Education method, driven by active learning and critical thinking. Lyndsey states that, in founding The Curiosity Approach®, both women wished to “create a generation of thinkers, doers, and investigators”.
The co-founders formed their unique approach to the early years by taking inspiration from many different sources. Bennett states that The Curiosity Approach® is “a beautiful recipe book of the teachings of all the great early years pioneers, including Maria Montessori, Reggio Emilia, Rudolf Steiner, and Emmi Pikler”.
Within this completely play-based and child-led approach, children become the centre of their own development – or the pilots of their own play. Children are encouraged to explore, experiment, and create, using engaging resources modelled by passionate facilitators. Their innate curiosity is awakened and sparked.
The approach moves away from technology and focuses on the wonder found all around us, here and now. The co-founders believe that modern-day toys are geared towards entertainment, rather than natural play and imagination. Bennett argues that “the more a toy does, the less opportunity a child has to think and communicate”. Curiosity Approach settings instead favour authentic, open-ended resources, and recyclable curiosities, rather than bright, primary colours, or plastic toys.
Where you can find Curiosity Approach:
The Curiosity Approach's Website
FREE! Language of Materials Guide:SAND
The Curiosity Approach Facebook
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