A few days ago we sent by post letters – cards of the phrase LEARNING OUT IN NATURE in order to participate in the exposition of art postal with the title ” Bleu comme un jardin sans frontière “, that will be organized next June in Saint Germain en Laye in France during the Training event of our project. On every letter – card are written words translated in all the languages of the project, for example on letter L … we wrote Life, ζωή, viata, elu, vie, vita … Every letter – card is travelling separately as a card postal transferring the message to all the intermediate stations on the route from 1 Nipiagogeio Voulas to France.

Life  Expanding  Adventure  Reality  Nature  Independence  New  Game

Out  Unique  Team

International  Nurture

Neighborhood  Action  Travel  Universe  Recycling  Emotions

The exposition is organized by the artist Aline Rutily from the association Paysage et Patrimoine sans frontière, who is responsible for the Training Event of all the partners.

Last week the children visited an animal farm in the vicinity of Bucharest, where the children met domestic animals and birds, but also some wild animals. They assisted in milking the cow and tossing the ponies. The children were accompanied by their parents and we all together spent a day full of informations and relaxion at the same time.

Vermeer’s  “Girl with the Pearl Earring”  had fascinated our students and so we decided to make copies of it by using a real model! A student -aged 4- stood still for over 15’ so that her classmates could paint her. When the paintings were dried we transformed them to vases simply by folding the cardboards. At the end we added  few flowers from our garden. Fresh and colorful art!

Few days ago we celebrated Mothers Day with a outdoor concert and a picnic for all the families of our kindergarten.

Weather was great and 11 groups, all together around 200 students, gave great perfomances of classical estonian children songs to their parents. The youngest students performed two baby-dances.

After that children congratulated their moms with hand-made gifts and postcards.

All parents and children could enjoy great weather and tasty snacks also made by students.

It was happy day full of music, gratitude to mothers and fine food in good company.

All the children of our school went to visit the glyptotheque in Versailles. Following this visit they created statues, decorated boxes… All the artistic produvtions were presented in an historical place near Versailles.

47 children aged 4 to 6 years old went to visit the exhibition showing around 350 art works made students from all the department! They could admire their own production among others!

On 15th of May 25 3 years old children went to an excursion to learn how to plant. They can touch soil, they learn the best way to plant seeds of coriander, sunflowers. For the students it was a great opportunity to see green houses. They went back to school with a lot of pots with seeds, flowers for the mothers and our playground.

After replanting pansy in the garden and around trees, they had to water. They like so much thisactivity that they are able to queue for a long time to wait for the watering can !!

Then one colleague had to weed the garden.

As we are admirers of art and nature, we organised an excursion to the National Glyptotheque which combines great sculptures in peaceful gardens. Accompanied by some mothers-volunteers and a guide, our pupils had the chance to discover, observe and also.. pretend to be different sculptures. A picnic and few games under the trees completed our unique day in the …Athenian Nature!

Our municipality kindly plow the earth around the trees in order to allow pupils to plant seeds of flowers.
On the 11th of May we planted different seeds to make a wild garden » with poppies…
After planting pupils had to water the earth. Of course they were very happy to water the future garden and a bit difficult for the youngest !
As we are having very hot days children watered the vegetable garden during the playtime. They are always very proud to take care of their garden and flowers !

Before our Easter holidays kids of Saint Joseph have participated in an experiential program titled “Herbs and plants” , where they were happy to discover the treasures of nature.

Firstly, we’ve learnt about planting the crops and drying the herbs. Then we cleaned the garden from the wild grass and watered it. After the hard work kids became farmers and fresh vegetables were gathered from the garden and ended in our plates ready to be eaten!! Finally, the most exciting thing was when kids fed the animals of the farm and dyed the eggs that they had previously collected from the chicken!!

Before our Easter holidays kids of Saint Joseph have participated in an experiential program titled “Herbs and plants” , where they were happy to discover the treasures of nature.

Firstly, we’ve learnt about planting the crops and drying the herbs. Then we cleaned the garden from the wild grass and watered it. After the hard work kids became farmers and fresh vegetables were gathered from the garden and ended in our plates ready to be eaten!! Finally, the most exciting thing was when kids fed the animals of the farm and dyed the eggs that they had previously collected from the chicken!!