France – Ecole maternelle Saint Exupéry – Celebrating Spring with planting seeds

To celebrate the arrival of spring children plant seeds in pots. When the little plants had grown up we replant then in our inside vegetable garden. Pupils planted : radish, cherry tomatoes, lettuce, green beans and zucchini !!
Then planted seeds in our outside vegetable garden. This summer we will have lots of flowers to attract butterflies !! and at that time there is no need to water, we have lot of rain !!

Romania-Gradinita Cu Program Prelungit Nr.21 Ploiesti – Participation in “Made for Europe” national contest in Romania!

Last Friday, on 30th April 2018, has been a special event for our kindergarten. The teachers and the children with their parents, have participated in the National Contest “Made for Europe” 2018, county level, together with all the other schools from Prahova County involved in the European projects. For our team it was an opportunity to present our Erasmus + project and the children were happy to present traditional and international dances. Greetings to all from Romania!

Greece-1o Nipiagogeio Voulas is learning outside and inside with the 4th Primary School Voulas!

On Monday the 26th of March we visited the 4th Primary School Voulas where we spent few hours with the 1st grade pupils and their teachers. First we made a sightseeing tour around the garden and the schoolyard where the director Mrs Alex. Markopoulou “introduced” us different trees and bushes. Coming inside we played a game with the names of the trees and the leaves and then Mrs Popi Papakonstantinou, Mr Antonis Skellas and Mrs Tonia Pitsarou presented a serie of impressive experiments using water, air, fire,glass and a lot of enthusiasm and joy! It was a unique day where a new friendship began!

Greece-1o Nipiagogeio Voulas-Sun and shadow at every turn in our school!

Shiny sun gave us the opportunity to play with light and shadow in every corner inside and outside our school. The movement of  arms and bodies offered every kind of size and shape and a happy decoration next to the main entrance between the bushes. Small pieces of carton became shadow puppets and the kids were happy to improvise short stories and present them to their classmates.

Romania-Gradinita Cu Program Prelungit Nr.21 Ploiesti-“Little tree, little tree I’m taking care of you”

At the beginning of the week we have been continuing the spring activities with big children – 6 years old, in the kindergarten yard. We have been cutting the barren branches, we covered the trees with chalk, to keep them safe from the insects. Also we have been putting around them down on the ground chalked stones. Everybody sang the beautiful song to the trees “Little tree, little tree I’m taking care of you”.

Italy-Direzione Didattica 8o Circolo Piacenza – Collaboration of preprimary and primary students for the model of our school!

Our class met class II B of Don Minzoni Primary school many times to find out how to realize a model. First we made inspection outside to take a look at the building and the surrounding area. Than we focused on what we needed as regards materials and technics.
We were divided into four groups, each having a task to make the garden fence, the school building, the green area and the other finishing touches.