Provocations and Invitations

Our centre has incorporated elements of the Reggio Emilia Approach. We have observed and documented the children’s interest, skill, work, ideas and understanding of learning. We provide children with materials and encourage them to come up with their own projects.

Provocation and Invitation are the elements of Reggio Emilia Philosophy. Provocations are experiences to set-up in response to children’s interests and ideas to provide hands-on exploration for children to practice, test, construct and deconstruct their ideas and theories.

Ms Karamjeet set up an Invitation 'Can you build a Lego city?' to invite the children to explore, investigate and manipulate different materials based on the children's interest in the Lego table.

During the Invitation, we observed that some children were interested in building different structures and towers so based on that observation of the children's interest and skills, Ms Karamjeet set up a provocation for the children to build some of the world's famous monuments.

First the children observed what the famous monuments were and how they looked so that they could build them.

They built the famous American landmark "The Lincoln Memorial".

 and the Roman "Triumphal Arch."

They built the famous "Lotus Temple" located in India

and the "Taj Mahal" which is also in India. 

These two built the "Eiffel Tower"

This child said "It is valentine month so I am going to build a heart tower", and he did!

Watch for further Invitations and Provocations coming soon!