The poem both confirmed and challenged the children’s ideas on languages and provided a common but open-ended starting point for our unit of inquiry. We talked about what ideas Malaguzzi might have wanted to share through his poem and about some of the languages we use to express ideas. The children’s responses to the poem provided us with an insight into what the children already know about languages of expression. His poem has influenced early childhood practitioners all over the world and has encouraged teachers of young children to listen carefully to children’s many languages. Malaguzzi was an Italian early childhood specialist from Italy and founder of the Reggio Emilia approach to early childhood education. As an initial provocation we shared a poem with the children titled The Hundred Languages of Children by Loris Malaguzzi. The central idea is People use many different languages to express ideas and feelings. We are currently working on a unit of inquiry into How we express ourselves. This article talks about unplanned events that are powerful in enabling students to make personal and emotional connections to their own first hand experiences which is a key to deeper understanding. Tasha Cowdy is the PYP coordinator at the Anglo American School of Moscow in the Russian Federation
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