In our garden we made a big Christmas tree with the recycled materials.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

In Estonia celebrating Christmas is top event of kindergarten year. Because we have so much dark time in this period of a year, we really enjoy decorating and lighting with our children.
This year we used mostly recycled materials and peaces from nature around our kindergarten. Big hall is ready for 11 christmas parties with families!
Merry Christmas to everyone!

The children made 3d models of our school and our garden with Lego blocks and the natural materials.

Every child chose a tree of our garden. Now it’s not just a tree, it’s a friend. The children chose its name and made a decoration with the natural materials. During the year the tree will receive a lot of presents.

After our visit at Park we played with the leaves in our garden; the children observed the colours and forms of the leaves. Back in the classroom the teachers proposed many related activities.

On October we went to “Galleana Park”, near our school. The children 4 years old explored the Park, they observed the colours and forms of the trees and picked up leaves, branches, rinds and berries. A large heavy branch attracted the children’s attention and tested their strength with it.

On Friday 15th of December 2017 a great celebration of 30 years of European projects was organized by the Greek National Agency, the State Scholarships Foundation (IKY) in the Athens Concert Hall.

The Minister of Education (photo 1) and the Executive Committee of the State Scholarship Foundation presented the progress of European projects in Greece from 1987, when they started, till today. In this day conference there were also many different presentations of European projects from all levels of education from preprimary schools till universities. Vassiliki Anagnostou (photo 2 together with a colleague from Central Greece, Katerina Karkali) participated as a representative of preprimary education – the start of education –  with the belief that preprimary schools need to be more active in European projects, as the cultural interaction, when working together with European partners, broadens the intellectual horizons of the teachers and their students, who are the future European citizens.

Chrystalla Petridou, the representative of the European Committee in this event, pointed out the meaning of European projects for the democracy and peace in Europe.

Our project has been disseminated on our local magazine : “La Chronique de Marly le Roi”.
The article explains the meaning and the goals of the partnership, the first meeting which was organized in Tallinn and what has been done so far on the french side, from Ecole Maternelle Saint Exupéry. It is very important that there is also a link to the project’s blog, for everybody who wants to learn more about the activities of our partnership.

4 years old pupils made three models of the playground of our school. The first step was to read a map from google, then they have to organize different parts : school, playground, trees, pedagogical garden, …

Children have to use : cardboard, crepe paper, sand, wood sticks…

Last step was to check if every part of our school was there, if anything was missing…

All our students of 4 and 5 years old have made this plastic model of the garden of our school. First they have looked for leaves,branches and pine-cones in our garden. Then they have coloured,cut and glued natural and recycled elements to make the plastic model. We have worked all together!

Teachers: Tigani-Fantini-Manini-Paganini