Enter, Encounter, Engage
The Reggio-Inspired Network of Minnesota 8th Annual Conference
Wandering and Wondering: Connecting the Joy of Loose Parts To the Early Childhood Setting

Featuring Carla Gull, nationally renowned speaker on the whys and hows of using "Loose Parts" with children of all ages to support creativity and inquiry.

• How can we respond to children's interests and needs by offering them open-ended materials?

• How can we use "loose parts" to make our classroom environments enticing, stimulating and appropriately challenging for children?

• How can we support children's inventiveness through our intentional, thoughtful presence and planning?

8:00 AM - Registration
8:30 - Welcome and introductions
9:00 - Keynote Speaker, Carla Gull
10:45 - Break-Out Sessions: Choice of smaller group workshops, including using loose parts outdoors in nature; A Conversation on Getting Started; Rethinking Nicholson's 10 Principals
12:00 - Lunch and networking; book browsing and sale
1:00 PM - Reflection, Door Prizes and closing

Location:
Benilde-St. Margaret’s School
2501 Highway 100 S.
St. Louis Park, MN 55416

Deadline for registration is Monday September 30, 2019
Cost includes lunch and CEU’s