{"id":1637,"date":"2015-11-10T12:59:31","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T20:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/?p=1637"},"modified":"2015-11-10T13:05:08","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T21:05:08","slug":"invitations-to-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/2015\/11\/10\/invitations-to-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Invitations to Play&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; color: #ff00ff;\">What are Invitations to Play?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>This term is used a lot by Early Childhood Educators and is deeply rooted in the Reggio philosophy of allowing children to direct their own play by offering\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">open-ended<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">meaningful<\/span> resources to explore. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>It simply describes a little set up of play materials for your child to come and discover and play with in any way that they choose. It can be as simple as setting out the tea set and play food on a little table with napkins, bringing out the building blocks and setting them on the grass or presenting the child with an unusual object for investigation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>These \u00a0are pictures of some of the Invitations to Play that I have set up for our students\u00a0during Games &amp; Choices time. In providing these opportunities, my hope is to inspire the students\u00a0to play and create\u00a0in new and different ways with materials they have seen before.<\/p>\n<p>These invitations will occur throughout the year&#8230;here are a few examples&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some branches from the yard&#8230;and clip boards (anything with clip boards is super fun!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>An old tablecloth and napkins (with toilet rolls for napkin holders!) is the backdrop for a birthday party&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>a train set with some shiny rocks&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[metaslider id=1623]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff00ff; font-size: 18pt;\">Take a moment and try one at home&#8230;happy learning!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are Invitations to Play? This term is used a lot by Early Childhood Educators and is deeply rooted in the Reggio philosophy of allowing children to direct their own play by offering\u00a0open-ended, meaningful resources to explore. It simply describes a little set up of play materials for your child to come and discover and &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/2015\/11\/10\/invitations-to-play\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3048,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3048"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1637"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1651,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions\/1651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/fischerj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}