Päiväkoti Ruusu, a Finnish experience

Kristiina Juovonen explains us the day's structure.

We visited Päiväkoti Ruusu and had an interview with Kristiina Juvonen, one of the teachers (she has graduated 30 years ago as a Montessori kindergarden teacher in Helsinki and she is working from 10 years within these premises). In Finland there are different institutions that use the Reggio Emilia approach.
Children and their family, a project done to get closer the unites: parents and children.

The space is arranged with big mirrors, windows that keep the all school to breath as an organism.

Project about identity: Moomins help to understand identity, family and nature.

The atelier: a space with materials, a space to create and assemble things together.

The teathre, a place to dance, perform arts, sing, do gymnastic, play instruments...

Documentation is a methodology largerly used to keep track of children, a tool of sharing information with parents, a dialogue starting point between teachers and parents, teachers and children, children and parents.