Vilkaviškis kindergarten “Buratinas” is a preschool education institution. It has 13 groups of pupils aged from 2 to 7 years old, adding up to a total of 215 children being taught and taken care of. 30 teachers are employed along with a psychologist, 2 speech therapists, a special teacher and a physical education specialist. This facility also provides care for children with special needs. The whole community is active in taking part in various social activities, local, national and international projects. The institution community ensures social and emotional education, physical health development, care for cultural values, art education, all while maintaining high quality of education and applying innovative methods. The goals of kindergarten “Buratinas” are forming a culture of unity, high moral values, unity and whole-round development; fuelling education, self-development, dialogue and agreement importance, creativity and activeness; striving for higher pupils’ accomplishments with their individual needs taken into account, all while in an appealing, dynamic and open environment; uniting for a communicative and explorative education in a natural and cultural environment. We have taken part in a Comenius Project in 2018 and have not had more Erasmus experience since. Teachers of this institution actively participate in eTwinning projects. In 2013 and 2017 teacher and expert Edita Setkauskiene and her pupils won the international award of “Best eTwinning school” contest. Two of our teachers – teacher expert Edita Setkauskiene and teacher methodist Rita Bartuskiene – are eTwinning mentors in Marijampolė municipality. Teachers are interested in new technologies and actively participate in various qualification development seminars, courses and conferentions. In 2017, Teacher expert Edita Setkauskiene took part in an annual eTwinning conference „eTwinning Annual Conference 2017 – eTwinning: Turning Inclusion Into Action“ in Malta. Where she tested her knowledge and gained new insights about inclusion in the educational process. In addition, teachers teach about safety, health, social and emotional development by the programme of life experience and skills, “Zippy‘s friends“, “Lion‘s quest“ programme, “Time spent together“. They also participate in LTOK project “Olympic generation“.
Teachers who want to participate in an Erasmus Ka2 project would like to continue their collaboration with partners with intentions to share good experience, create partnerships while maintaining a great condition of the whole education community, developing educational methods, striving for a better learning experience, learning the English language and finding out about new cultures.
Our website: https://www.vilkaviskioburatinas.lt/
Spain 2-6/12/2019 C1 activity “A painting….a story”
C2 activity. “The shop of nature”
Herbal Dictionary
C3 activities
Trechalitsa and Kolymbytsa
C4 activities
C5 activities
“The journay starts in old times to see how children used to play games”
C6 activities
“Young Guides in Diachronic Museum”
