On 27th of September 170 pupils from 7 classes took part in the event “Clean up the world” cleaning green areas and a park near Don Minzoni school together with LEGAMBIENTE, Italian environmentalist association.  This association is connected with 120 countries around the world. It was an excellent activity and a great opportunity to disseminate the aim of our project!

The action was posted on Twitter and Facebook

https://mobile.twitter.com/openroadsmb/status/1046009854584868864?s=19

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2026284011016302&id=100009041693985

Autumn dry leaves, seeds, pine needles, stones and slim branches have all become music instruments in our students hands with their fantasy! They collected them in the schoolyard, they clapped them ,they formed an unusual orchestra and they finally prepared a cover for their first cd!

On Wednesday the 26th 0f September our first parents’ meeting got place in the central hall of our school. Parents were informed about the regulation of the school and the Erasmus program. They were enthusiastic about getting involved in  different activities outside in the …European nature  and they also look forward to offering a warm welcome  to our partners on April 2019! An Erasmus pencil was offered to everyone as a european gift!

On September 20th and 21st, 40 children of 4 years and their teachers attended outside in the kindergarten courtyard and the Erasmus Corner, with attractive teaching activities, enjoying the warm days and natural resources of the kindergarten courtyard: they noticed the chestnut from courtyards, yellowed leaves, picked chestnuts into the baskets and they used for math activity: they counted and matched the corresponding figure, placed at the colored tables at the Erasmus corner. Children also showed joy and interest in the sports games they attended with their teachers.

Friday 21th of September our garden and outdoor classroom were full of music and art activities. We celebrated beginning of autumn with Erasmus+ event.
All 11groups of kindergarten got the opportunity to make some birthday music on instruments from nature. Children created music with stones, with cones, with wooden knobs, with wooden xylophones. All music was recorded and will be shared to our project partners on CD-s.
Also every group got big white bedsheet where they painted with autumn colors by spraying color.
As birthday meal we enjoyed carrot cake and ashberry tea.
It was happy day in Arukyla full of music, art and joy!

As autumn appeared in our  school we liked the idea of tasting and also painting autumn fruits. In order to get inspired we first saw few famous paintings . We afterwards brought everything in the outdoors and felt free to make our oun composition of autumn fruits. Our still-life paintings got created and we received congratulations on our pieces of art!

During the first days of the new school year we presented the compost convertor to our new students. At the same time we mixed the ready compost, that was made during the last school year and the vacations, at different corners of our garden. The children observed the dark brown color of the compost and learned that its composition rich in vitamins will help the plants grow up. Now we have to get our compost convertor full of new material!

On the 3rd of September we celebrated beginning of new school year with traditional outdoor activities.
We started with parade around territory of our kindergarten.
Next to main entrance everybody could admire an exhibition of artworks came back from France on subject “Blue like a garden without borders”. After finishing colorful, cheerful and loud walk children got bubble blowers as small presents and some fruits to snack.
We had three trampolines as well to have fun. Children really enjoyed possibility to jump until tiredness.
An art exhibition was opened also for the parents until the evening.
It was great day full of joy and outdoor activities for 174 children.

Marisa Badini from Don Mizoni school as well as her colleagues from Piacenza organize meetings and present our project to the educational teams of their schools. They also post articles on different social media, Twitter, eTwinning etc disseminating the ideas of Outdoor Learning.