Tuesday, on May 8 th, was another great day spent with our students outside the kindergarten. We went to visit the Rescue Station in Ploiesti, where a large medical team of nurses and volunteers taught the kids some resuscitation exercises on their own dolls. Also the children were invited to climb into the Rescue car and noticed the entire equipment, but also its role. In our response to the end of the visit to the Rescue Station we gave an interview to a local television in which we presented the purpose of our partnership.

This spring from 26th March to 6th April an exhibition called “Old to new” took place in Aruküla Kindergarten.

With great creativity children made various things with their parents from different reusable materials. Something new was made from something old. They used egg chells, food packs, peaces of old furniture etc.

Children were very happy doing this with their parents and proudly introduced their masterpieces. Also in groups we made mostly easter decorations for the exhibition.
Lots of parents was visiting exhibition and taking photos during several days.
An exhibition was organized in good purposes – Less waste, more fun and  lets keep the planet  clean!

The approach of art became a  fascinating experience  for our pupils. The Museum kit “Learning to respect the environment, through Art” that we had borrowed from the “Museum of Greek Children’s Art” offered us a variery of pictures showing paintings and sculptures. We exposed most of the pictures in our Erasmus+ Corner and kids asked to be sculptors and make sculptures using their bodies! Wonderful sculptures appeared in the schoolyard…Coming inside they choose their favorite pictures and they composed a story.  They decided to present their story , so they got dressed up as real actors. Making drawings and collage could not be missing…we prepared a ‘buffet’ full of any kind of different elements and kids were happy to create crafts!

As beautiful spring has arrived to Aruküla, we decided to create some art in open air with natural materials to celebrate it.
Children collected all necessary materials, flowers, leaves, small stones, branches, into small baskets. With thick glue students created art-works as they wanted it to be.
An exhibition of done artworks was set up for parents and our young artists got many-many compliments about their creativity!
Lots of sun, happiness and positive emotions was in this beautiful spring day in Aruküla Kindergarten!

Great excursion in open air, with my children today!

Nice activities at ” Fattoria La Bosana”, on hills near Piacenza,in very outside atmosphere!!!

Horseback riding tour, pic nic on the garden and practical activities about the horses,

very nice experience also for teachers!!!

Hello, Spring! is an educational activity  connecting outdoor studies with using modern ICT applications. It has run since 1994 and  in 2018 there were about 7000 participating students from 400 educational institutions – schools and kindergartens from all over Estonia.
Students will observe changes that take place in the Nature during spring. They will study migratory bird and plant species – all together 35 common indicator species – and learn to identify them in nature – plants by appearance and flowering, birds by song and appearance etc. We  have posters in our groups with photos of these species. Finding a new sign of spring, we send good message all over Estonia – spring has arrived to Aruküla!

A seminar was organized by the Gradinita cu Program Prelungit No 21 Ploiesti for the promotion of the activities and results of the LEARNING OUTside the classroom project IN the EUROPEan Nature on 25th of April 2018.
The representative of the Romanian Government, in the person of the prefect of Prahova County, the representative of the Prahova County Council, the school inspectors from Prahova County School Inspectorate who participated in the activity congratulated the project coordinator and all the European partners for presentations and appreciated their efforts to extend relevant educational approaches – an external educational space appropriate to the age of the target group, to ensure successful opportunities for all students.
The Romanian teachers who participated in the seminar gave positive feedback after seeing the project team presentations and appreciated: the diversity of outdoor teaching activities, students’ performance reflected in the artwork, scientific experiments, positive and proactive attitudes of teachers and their students.

The April 25th event organized by Gradinita cu Program Prelungit 21 Ploiesti and the project coordinator were presented and promoted in the online PH online newspaper :

http://ph-online.ro/eveniment/item/96048-gradinita-cu-program-prelungit-nr-21-ploiesti-promoveaza-proiectul-educational-learning-outside-the-classroom-in-the-european-nature

First day, April 25th
– visiting the kindergarten;
– artistic manifestations of children in the kindergarten courtyard – dances, karate;
– didactic activities at the ERASMUS corner outdoor practice activity and environmental experimentation activity, cloud formation, conducted by children aged 4-5 and their teachers;
– a seminar to promote the project’s activities and results, presentations of the members of the countries participating in the project with the participation of the representative of the Romanian Government in the person of the Prefect of Prahova County, the representative of the Prahova County Council, the school inspectors for early education from Prahova County School Inspectorate, the kindergarten headmasters from the county, and the representative of the parents’ kindergarten association, about 50 people.
The second day, April 26th
– organizing a picnic in the Bucov Park near Ploiesti with the participation of 30 children of 5-6 years, 15 parents, professors, European participants;
– children’s artistic manifestations on the Alley writers in Bucov park area;
– visit to the Palace of Parliament building in Bucharest.
The third day, April 27th
– visit to secondary school Nicolae Balcescu – promotion of the project;
– visit to Kindergarten with Extended Program No 23 – educational outdoor musical activity, outdoor project promotion;
– visit to the Ploiesti Clock Museum;
– the festive closing of the transnational meeting in Romania.