Talking about the secrets of a healthy student with our pupils, we ended up with a poster made with their photos revealing healthy habits! Each photo has a short phrase presented as kids’ words such as: we eat healthy food, we drink water, we play, we do gymnastics, we feed birds, we are clean, we take care of our body,we relax…Can you …keep a secret?
It was very unusual to have such a thick snow in Marly le Roi and children were so happy and excited to play in the ground.
They made snowball fight, they even sleded !! They experienced that snow can be very cold and even icy !!! They discovered were the snow is coming from and why it’s falling !!
Tuesday March the 6th , our children have performed outdoor activities and completed the first page of the naturalist scientistics’ notebook. They artisically expressed through painting, the separation of the winter season and the desire to come spring, hoping it will be the last snow. They also learnt the enviromental knowledge activity about the water circuit in nature and conducted experiments on the subject.They mesured and recorded in parallel the melting time of the snow brought in the classroom.
On the 1st of March we were happy to welcome spring by singing traditional songs in the outdoors. Accompanied by a mother who studies traditional music and a musician who plays “kanonaki” (greek instrument) we enjoyed music under the sunny sky!
The Republic of Estonia celebrated its 100th anniversary of independence on February 24, 2018.
By lucky chance our kindergarten was opened exactly the same day in 1983, so we also celebrated 35 years of Aruküla kindergarten.
Various events took place all week:
On Monday we opened an exhibition of historical toys and books collected from parents and grandparents.
On Tuesday we had picnic event in our outdoor classroom, where we were singing and talking about our beloved homeland Estonia and our kindergarten. Hot sausages straight from the grill were real hit among children on a cold winter day.
On Wednesday we had a magician presenting tricks for children.Lots of surprises and real fun!
On Thursday we were drawing in groups and later these drawings were sent to presidental drawing competition “My present to Estonia”.
On Friday we watched a movie made by our enthusiastic teachers. In the movie children and kindergarten teachers were answering questions and analyzed life in Estonia and in our kindergarten.
The children played with the snow in our garden and then drew their play and expressed their joyful feelings.
The experience of visiting the virtual exhibition “Van Gogh Alive” touched our artistic feelings and moved us to our Erasmus+ Corner in the schoolyard. There, our students reproduced their favorite Van Gogh’s paintings. We were all enthousiastic to install an open-air exhibition. This unique artistic installation stayed open to the …audience ’till the end of the school day, gaining a lot of warm comments!
The poster with the theme “Secrets of a healthy student who loves outdoor learning” was made in February by six-year-old students in our kindergarten. They have expressed their artistic ideas through drawing, painting and applications that have illustrated the theme in the four seasons of the year with their favorite outdoor activities and games. At the end of their work, joy and delight were read on their faces for what they had done.
We organized maths outside our classroom with big number labels, symbols and our bodies. While one student was counting, making the correct calculations and moving his friends, the rest of the team was watching and checking from a higher level up on the bench of our yard. The students liked a lot this different maths lesson!
We are happy to have four seasons in Estonia. Every season has its own face. Our poster illustrates our healthy activities during different seasons. Every season awaited by children and brings us different knowledge about nature. We would like to introduce you to our favorite activities during different seasons – winters snow fun, springs nature blooming, summers time swimming and falls vegetable fun. All these activities are presented on our beautiful poster!