On Monday 28th of May, 26 years old pupils had entered a contest on mail art organized by Aline Rutily from the association « Paysage et patrimoine sans frontière »
The work shop was organized in their classroom and they have to decore envelope with flowers drawn with grassy chalk. The stamp was realized from a big mural created by children from the very famous picture of Claude Monet « Poppies field ».

On Saturday the 25th of May we had our artistic exhibition on all the work done by the pupils of the school. At the same time we disseminate our Erasmus + project and explained to the famillies what has been done in our school and in the partners’s schools.
3-4 years old children decorated the school ground by painting the trees with flags of the schools partners.
Our Erasmus corner was decorated with sounds bottle. The bottles were decorated with partners countries‘s flags and filled with semola, water, stones and suspended to our kiosk. Pupils and famillies could shake then and hear the sounds !!
During the open gates our mayor and municipal councillors went to visit us and where were impressed by all the work done and our project ! More than 200 famillies went to admire the exhibition !
For children and teachers itw as a real success !!

Artistic exhibition and dissemination of our Erasmus project.

Our school ground decorated with snails painted by 4 years old pupils !

With the great help of our parents’ association a new corner with herbs was created in our garden! Thyme, lavender, rosemary, lemongrass were added to the plants of our school yard. All the students smelled them, learned their names, discussed about their use in kitchen and every day life, felt closer to nature!

We are doing more and more outdoor activities at the Erasmus corner. Outdoor education is very important to us thanks to this European project. Thus the small group shaped dough from flour and water and
made pretzels of different shapes and sizes after which they did sport and
jumped among the circles. And the big group served the snack at the outside
Erasmus corner and enjoyed the beautiful weather.

In our garden on May 24th we had the school party. The teachers offered to children and their parents the games of the past: fishing, rings, marbles, world game, pea-shooter, draught-rope, skittles.

We looked carefully and admire the Van Gogh and Monet’s paintings; after the children painted their masterpieces: The starry night,The sower, The waterlilies

Estonia is a land of hiking and we start to train this great habit in early childhood.
In Aruküla kindergarten we have long tradition of hiking twice in a year -autumn hike and spring hike. Last year we had lovely Erasmus experience – hiking with parents, this year we found another exciting way to connect two great pedagogical approaches – outdoor education and adventure education.
Purpose of our hike on 21 May for 4-5 year old pupils was first of all to investigate life forms in water bodies and learn social skills through adventure centered experiences.
On our 3,4 km hike we had several critical moments to solve problems like what to do when your feet are wet, how to build a bridge over the stream, how to work all together as a team, how to share your last lunch sandwich with your team-mates, what was a cause for the death of a wild boar who`s skeleton we found…
As adventure education is an active process, on that great day we learned a lot about nature and life at outdoor through adventures.

We explored and discussed that the soil, trees, animals give us all we need to live and grow. We went for shopping at the supermarket of our neighborhood. Then we made the “focaccia” with daddy Fabio, he is a baker.