On Tuesday 12nd of June the older students of 1 Nipiagogeio Voulas who will go to the primary school next September, visited 1rst Primary school of Voula in our neighborhood. The two classes of 1rst grade welcomed us and presented their classrooms and their yard. We offered rucksacks with the logo of our project and we discussed our cooperation. Our students felt very proud and old enough to continue to the next step of education, so our goal for easy transition from preprimary to primary school was achieved.

The visit of Monet gardens in Giverny during our first Training event in France gave to teachers material and inspiration for artistic activities with students. So, with our return back to school the students admired the photos and the books with the art of the impressionist painter Claude Monet, together with all the photos and the material brought from the training event. The students expressed themselves artistically with joy!

During the 1st training event in France, the meeting of dissemination and closure of two others Erasmus + projects coordonated by the association « Paysage et patrimoine sans frontière » took place in Saint Germain en Laye. On Friday the 8th of June a blue carpet was rolled out, artistic concept created by the artist Aline Rutily. The installation of this blue carpet was made with a lot of blue squares created by the association, the partners and friends in relation with the color blue and also partners of our project. It symbolized a blue path created by people in relation with the association.

Meanwhile an exhibition on blue mail art was inaugurated for the closure of another Erasmus + project : Blue like a garden without borders. A contest was organized with several prices.

And the winner is ?… Our partner the Italian Don Minzoni school from Piacenza !!!

Outside again we admired the blue garden created by Aline Rutily…

All the European teachers of our team in front of the beautiful blue garden!

We created with our students 12  blue squares in order to participate in the installation of blue carpet of the European project “Chemins du blue” that was presented during our training event in Saint Germain en Laye France. Our blue squares were made with painting and collage of beautiful images from different Greek islands.

On the 5th of June we celebrated the Environment Day by wearing green t-shirts and doing various activities: we gathered the garbage from the kindergarten yard, we talked about how to save the Environment , we made mock-ups with the message “Save the forest / water and the living creatures”, drawings about a healthy environment , the tree of the good advices and made toys from recyclable materials. The children were very involved.

In May we have long tradition to go for hiking. Very often hiking destinations can be homeyards of our students and we are always welcomed warmly .
This spring we decided to ask parents come with us as one big happy team. Different groups had different quantity of cooperative parents, but breavest of them were with us.
Depending on the age of the children, groups had different trails. Everybody enjoyed good combination of great weather, physical activity and fine company in European nature!

Celebrating the World Environment Day in our schoolyard was a great opportunity  for the whole school team to disseminate all our projects, thoughts and concerns about protecting nature. Having as central core “marine litter”‘ we prepared a story where all the kids needed to find a solution to save the life of sea animals against plastic bags . Fish, crabs, plastic bags, doctors, nurses, sea and scuba divers were presented in front of our hand made scenery and of course in front of an enthusiastic audience! All the pupils got a warm applause and a diploma for being a member of our Erasmus+ Team!

From the 6th to the 8th of June 2018 we had our first training event in Saint Germain en Laye France.

The partners participated to an artistic workshop proposed by the artist Aline Rutily from the Association Paysage et patrimoine sans frontière. We created poem and illustrated it on a note book with watercolorable oil pastel and pencils.

Then we went to Versailles to visit the gardens and the parc of the castle of Louis XIV.

The following morning our coordinator Vassiliki Anagnostou presented our Erasmus + project in front of 50 people coming from Portugal, Spain, Italy, Romania and France.

A cruise on the river Seine was a very good way to learn more about the time of impressionnistes painters and the way they lived.

On Friday morning all the partners went to visit the preprimary school Saint Exupéry in Marly le Roi. Children presented themselves in English, they sang songs for the partners.

Then we all had a trip to Giverny to visit the house and gardens of the impressionniste painter Claude Monet.

We ended this first training event in the Blue garden created by the artist Aline Rutily.

“The 100th anniversary of the Great Unification of Romania”

Tuesday, May 29 th 2018, all kindergarten staff- children, teachers and parents, met to celebrate the big historical event of the year 2018 – The 100th Anniversary of the Great Unification of Romania, within the action we prepare every year- “The kindergarten open gates“.
The children worked in collaboration with their parents, under the supervision of the teachers. They prepared some of handmade products about Romania as: flags, maps, mock-up with children silhouettes, souvenirs.
It was a great celebration and everybody enjoy it!