Our appointment with our partners from Estonia, Italy and Romania was arranged and realized with enthusiasm. We had communicated via Skype sharing sweet moments full of songs and smiles!
On 1rst of February 2019 our project was presented in local site www.3vita.gr specifically an article with title “1 Nipiagogeio Voulas: Learning and art creation in the nature”
presented an artistic aspect of our outdoor activities with students.
Estonia is covered with thick snow. Children are very happy and enjoy every minute being outside. They make snowmans, snowhauses, snowballs, carrying ice plates and sledding. Teachers also use our wonderful weather conditions for teaching different subjects. We do maths: comparing and counting through the experiments and experience. Also we investigate ice, snow, water and snowflakes – connectings between different weather conditions. Winter is a great time for outdoor education!
Volcanoes are always a very appealing subject for the kids. That was the reason for us to realize a visit to “Eugenides Foundation” where an exhibition about Petrified Forest, geoparks of Greece and Cyprus with significant geological heritage under the title “Mnimes Gaias” was carried out. We had the opportunity to see and touch many different pieces of volcanic rocks and hear about their story from the guide of the exhibition. Kids liked the issue this much, that we also invited a specialist to our school. Mr. Tzitziras , grandfather of a student, Dr Mechanic Geologist accepted our invitation and brought a decent part of his private collection of solid rocks to our school team! What a pleasure! Our students were happy to learn more about them and enthusiastic to create their own ones!