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.

Aruküla kindergarten courtyard has an insect-gallery since this spring, providing shelter to various insects who have found their way there. The insect hotel was built by children and their teachers. For building were used cones, hay, plants, branches, etc.
The gallery is mostly populated by ants and ladybugs. When children find an insect, they always want to move it to the hotel right away.
We use the hotel to show children how the insects live. To give a better view we use magnifying glass. Children can visit the insect-gallery all year round, to see whether the insects are sleeping or moving around. Visiting the hotel is very interesting for children and always gives them opportunity to discover something new about the insects.

Interesting moment of continuity between the 4-year section of Besurica children’s school and the 3rd grade of the D.Minzoni primary school “en plain air”, in the local park, close to the two schools, where children can exchange impressions, questions … on the outdoor learning activities, experimented in the current academic year, with the Erasmus Plus project LEARNING OUTside THE classroom in the EUROPEAN nature!

On June 2018 Don Minzoni Primary school pupils visited the Park of River Trebbia near Piacenza in order to explore the natural environment. The river Trebbia originates in the Ligurian Apennine, and after crossing the upper and middle Piacentino Apennine it reaches the first hills where the regional River Park begins. There the pupils observed the flora, the animals and the stones on the river banks. It was a great exploration!

On the 2nd of July 2018 45 children aged 3 to 5 went to the park near the school to spend a day outdoor ! They learned outside the classrroom in the nature different sport games, then we all had a pic nic where all the parents were welcomed. Some came just for one hour, some stood with us to spend a very hot day in the refresing park of Marly le Roi in the shadow of huge trees!!!
Everybody children, parents, teachers and assistants were very happy to spend a day outside having a healthy pic nic !

During the months of May and June children learnt the basic traffic rules. They learnt how to cycle on right side of the road, some of the main sign posts important for the safety, and to stop at the traffic light. We used real sign post and real traffics light.
And at the beginning of July they passed an exam to check if they remembered what they have learnt. Those who successfully passed the exam received a diploma depending of their level. They were very proud of it!

On June 15th, the official end date of the school year, the big class “Iepurasii” celebrated their festivity. The event had the following parts:
-dances, where the children wore custom t-shirts with their colleagues’ signatures;
-the fashion parade, where the children showed their beautiful outfits;
-songs and poems about “Good-bye kindergarten”;
-the moment when the children offered flowers to their teachers and to the head teacher;
-the closing ceremony, where children received toques, diplomas, promotional albums, DVDs with photos from kindergarten and books with a short teachers’ message.

On Saturday 23rd of June all the families of the school were invited to come to the open gates. They could visit the exhibition of the works realized by the pupils on the different projects: Erasmus + project, project on the emotions, and our project linked with the statues of the park of Versailles.
During the morning parents, educational adviser and representative of parish council could see the presentation of our Erasmus project on « Learning outside in the nature » and the models of our playground and the park of Marly le Roi. All the children of the school sang and realized a « Flash mob » then parents were invited to join the dance!
This festive morning was followed by a fair! Everyone was very happy to celebrate the end of the school year!

The last day of our school year a mother of one of our students, who is English teacher, together with one of her colleagues teachers visited our school for a special English lesson! They taught our students English songs and played with them games in English with subject colors, saying Hello and Goodbye…

The monkey puppet that they presented was an enthusiastic surprise for the kids!

On Wednesday, 20 June 2018, we organized the Teachers’ Council in our kindergarten with the participation of 16 teachers, where it was a dissemination activity for the Training and Teaching event held in Saint Germain en Laye, France. The two teachers who participated in the event, Mihaela and Ana-Maria, shared their wonderful experiences that lived there during 5-9 June 2018, highlighting the new pedagogical methods learned, oriented towards transdisciplinarity and which we can successfully apply in our future didactic activities.