The second day of our transnational meeting in Piacenza we enjoyed a “matinee” full of music! We visited the Besurica Pre-Primary School where we were invited to follow the program “Ritmia” in its garden. In a theatrical scenery with trees decorated with colorful ribbons, the teacher of “ritmia” lesson showed us a unique way to combine movements, voice, and rhythms. Synthia, the creator of this great program, prompted all the partners to participate, move and relax with the students of her class. It was an unforgettable experience and the best way to start our day in the Italian nature!

Another surprise was expecting us inside the school. A homemade Erasmus+ cake gave a sweet flavor to our staying in Besurica pre-primary school! 

On June 19th during the first day of our transnational meeting in Piacenza an artistic workshop was organized by Ilaria Casciaro at Carella pre primary school. Based on the book “La Fabbrica dei Colori I Laboratori di Hervé Tullet” students, teachers, Erasmus+ partners and representative from Erasmus + Italian National Agency followed the instructions accompanied by music… used the colours of European partners’ flags in order to create a unique colourful and joyful banner! An artistic creation that symbolises our friendship and cooperation!

An article dedicated to our transnational meeting in Piacenza was posted on the local newspaper’s site piacenzasera.it

The schools of Piacenza always more European, thanks to Erasmus+ projects!

www.piacenzasera.it/2019/06/scuola-piacentina-sempre-piu-europea-grazie-ai-progetti-erasmus-plus/301659/

http://www.erasmusplus.it/conferenza-di-disseminazione-del-progetto-erasmus-learning-outside-the-classroom-in-the-european-nature/

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2411391242256367&id=224536970941816

Our Erasmus+ project was presented on Erasmus+ Indire National Agency’s site and Facebook! Mrs Valentina Riboldi representative from Italian National Agency for Erasmus+ projects, who participated in our transnational meeting in Piacenza, expressed her opinion that for her it was a great pleasure experiencing LEARNING OUT IN EUROPE!

The 3rd and final Transnational meeting of our European project took place with great success from 19th till 21rst of June in Piacenza!

Many meetings in Primary and Pre primary schools, presentations of all partners participants, dissemination of our project to more than 60 teachers of the region, great participation of representative of the local municipality Mr Jonathan Papamarenghi,  the coordinator of Infoambiente Mrs Alessandra Bonomini, the representative of Erasmus+ Indire National Agency Mrs Valentina Riboldi. We had many discussions for the evaluation of our project and the cooperation regarding the Final report.

On Thursday 13th of June we had the great pleasure to welcome a small farm in our school yard !
More than 100 children sat outside in the cold and rain to see a show with the animals of the farm. Some pupils could give a bottle of milk to a baby pig. The milk came from the goat.
Children could see hen, cock, baby sheep, baby pig, goose, rabbits, canettons…
They were allowed to caress the animals and they enven milked the goat !
Its was a great oppportunity to learn outside the classroom (the name of every animal, what they eat, eggs or babies …and learnt a lot concerning the animals of the farm.
Children also learnt how to make goat cheese !!
All the pupils were very pleased and excited as itw as an unusual experience !!!

On Friday 24th of May Pre Primary and Primary classes from Ottavo Circolo took part in the celebrations for the 24th birthday of Montecucco park. A small bat house was located on the first tree of the park:( Montecucciolo tree ) by the fightfighters.
3 classes received a price for MIGLIA VERDI ( GREEN MILES) .Each Group was showing our project logo . Song, dance, Poetry, playing instruments and having a pic nic on the grass was great fun!
Houses for books were also located in the park.
You can take a book and leave another one… Culture in the green!

The great closure of our project was a beautiful journey to Greek culture, to Cycladic culture with the poetry of Odysseas Elytis. The kids presented their theatrical play with joy in front of their families and many friends of our school! The audience was informed about the aims of our European project and congratulated all the students – participants who were honoured with a special personal award! The exhibition of these artworks were presented in our Erasmus+ corner of our garden where the party was continued!

This year we decided to celebrate World Environment day on June 5th as it is.
As weather was great and there were no more snow left in our garden, some groups started day with happy breakfast at outdoor and they enjoyed it a lot with good apetite.
Later all the kindergarten came together to open new musical wall. Some musical examples from music teacher and children started to experiment with new instruments. It was a great day full of sunshine and happy experimental music as neighbors could hear it!
Thank you, Greece team, for this lovely idea!

Floor games in the schoolyard were the central subject of our Erasmus+ program for May. We used different options for everyday lessons -math, language, science, arts, physical education- and we transformed them into joyful outdoor activities. Kids created a boat by using plastic bottle caps, they did their magnet fishing, they checked all the letters of the alphabet, they run with a plastic glass full of water…They really enjoyed all of them!