Happy Easter from all the  happy bunnies of our school!

The experiments done with the …power of magnets were a great discovery for our pupils. They played with them, they became magnets themselves, they used them to appeal metal objects, they painted on sheets of magnet and of course they designed the experiment as real scientists!

On Monday the 26th of March we visited the 4th Primary School Voulas where we spent few hours with the 1st grade pupils and their teachers. First we made a sightseeing tour around the garden and the schoolyard where the director Mrs Alex. Markopoulou “introduced” us different trees and bushes. Coming inside we played a game with the names of the trees and the leaves and then Mrs Popi Papakonstantinou, Mr Antonis Skellas and Mrs Tonia Pitsarou presented a serie of impressive experiments using water, air, fire,glass and a lot of enthusiasm and joy! It was a unique day where a new friendship began!

The 25th of March is a significant celebration for Greece having national and religious content. At school there were decorative crafts, songs, theatrical acts and also a parade in the yard, where parents gave us a round of applause!

Shiny sun gave us the opportunity to play with light and shadow in every corner inside and outside our school. The movement of  arms and bodies offered every kind of size and shape and a happy decoration next to the main entrance between the bushes. Small pieces of carton became shadow puppets and the kids were happy to improvise short stories and present them to their classmates.

At the beginning of the week we have been continuing the spring activities with big children – 6 years old, in the kindergarten yard. We have been cutting the barren branches, we covered the trees with chalk, to keep them safe from the insects. Also we have been putting around them down on the ground chalked stones. Everybody sang the beautiful song to the trees “Little tree, little tree I’m taking care of you”.

Our class met class II B of Don Minzoni Primary school many times to find out how to realize a model. First we made inspection outside to take a look at the building and the surrounding area. Than we focused on what we needed as regards materials and technics.
We were divided into four groups, each having a task to make the garden fence, the school building, the green area and the other finishing touches.

We visited with our students a didactic farm in our area, where we watched and fed the animals, we observed the plants and the trees, we participated in many outdoor activities and in the afternoon we went on spending our day walking through the woods.

For over a week we realised different experiments with WATER. Does it flow? Does it have a colour or a smell? Is it transparent?Can we catch it? What happens when it is boiled? Which things float and which do they sink?                       Kids got answers for their questions by playing with water in the open air. They explored water by using  different objects – a pot, strainers in different sizes, funnels, pins,tissue,pen,cotton e.t.c- and of course their hands! They enjoyed a ‘running’ game by carrying a plastic glass full of water and they finally achieved to write the word “ΝΕΡΟ” (water in greek) with clothespins hung in a rope! We really like WATER!

We found a really creative way to teach colours in english through art and nature. Having observed trees in the outdoors ,our pupils came inside to let their fantasy free to create trees of colours. Aren’t they wonderful?