On Tuesday 30th of January 2018 on local municipality news 3vita.gr (3V Vari Voula Vouliagmeni our municipality) an article about our project was published with title “1o Nipiagogeio Voulas – Lesson in the open sky”
CLIL ART at Primary School 2nd class: Winter time … with the famous Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo, from Cremona, not far from Piacenza. He painted the four seasons using fruits, vegetables, flowers and all typical elements. We have created our Winter through English language.
In our school we are fans of recycling and we have just added a compost convertor in our garden. We explained to our pupils what we can throw in it and then we prepared special plastic boxes to be filled with raw fruits and vegetables, coffee, teabags, dried leaves..These boxes will be available to any pupil who wants to take one home, fill it and “feed” the compost convertor at school.
On Friday 19th January around 40 children had a virtual meeting with the pupils from the pre primary school of 1° Nipiagogeio Voulas Greece.
On the french side pupils sang in french then in english. We listened to greek songs.
We could see the New Year’s card the school received, and we showed the card they send to us.
It was a very great and very strong experience for every body : children and adults to see each other, that’s creating links between us and built a young Europe !!
It was a chilly day with icy wind then we were arrenged our skype meeting with Romania. But as our projects subject is outdoor education, we were not terrified of climate conditions and with lots of energy and fun we got connection with our lovely friends Mihaela and Iuliana . Also their colleagues was introduced.
Romanian children were well prepared – they sang and draw to us. We could see all activity and felt warm atmosphere from our partners.
We said hello, we were singing and we tried to show some our winter activities.
About 30 pupil in age 3-5 was participating on that meeting.
Thank you, Romania, for that great experience!
During two days, the 17th and the 18th of January 2018, the children were very excited about these unforgettable experiences with the opportunity to see as real, friends from Estonia and Greece. We played songs in English, specially prepared for this occasion and we drew postcards to be sent to our colleagues in this European program that we enjoy being part of it!
During the 18th and the 19th of January 2018 all the partners of the Erasmus+program had virtual meetings in pairs through skype, according to our transnational meeting in Estonia last October.
It was a real fresh and innovative experience for us and our pupils to meet our friends from Romania and France via skype.We sang songs, we exchanged few words in english and french, we showed them the christmas cards we had received from them and we all shared the pleasure of european partnership!
We were so pleased to receive postcards from Piacenza and the great greetings card from Greece. Part of the 4 years old children wrote in the languages of the project Happy New Year, on a card made with photos taken in the classroom for Christmas.
Then we went to the post office to buy stamps for the European countries and send them !!!
They were very proud !!!
We share our joyful activity – visiting the Zoo
Last week we visited Tallinn Zoo with our classes. There were 33 kids age 7 – 5. Tallinn Zoo holds the best collection of mountain goats and sheep in the world. They have most fascinating zoo collection in Northern Europe. The programm was called ” Where do animals live?” It is most pleasant way to learn about animals. We saw a lot of them: gouts, sheep, elephant, crocodiles, snakes, tiger and etc. Student found out that the elephant drinks the bucket of worm tee in the evening, crocodiles eat only meat not fish. And chimpanzees gave us funny performance. It was very exciting day for children and teachers. Children enjoyd learning outside the classroom.
Our outdoor classroom has been in daily use for five years.
We got it then we celebrated our kindergarten 30`s anniversary in 2013 – parents committee was collecting money with auction of self-designed chairs, local companies made donations to build cosy and waterproof shelter for children.
Besides everyday learning process we have celebrated several festivities in this lovely wooden house – mushroom exhibition, autumn`s birthday, apple-juice day, carrot-juice day with real bunnies, christmas parties, graduating kindergarten….
Visit of European Teachers during First transnational Meeting of our project 4.-6th Oct 2017 made our outdoor classroom internationally well known and our shelter is very happy of it.
Thank you, dear colleagues, for sharing wonderful experiences of outdoor activities, for all this positive energy we are getting in Arukyla by interacting all over the Europe.