Sunday, June 13, 2021
Our Project
The project 4 seasons in the eyes of the child is an innovative program that follows the principles of Celestine Frene's pedagogy. It is compatible with the Curriculum for the kindergarten, enriches it and works compensatory towards the children. During the program, activities will be implemented that will bring children closer to nature. The children will use natural materials, will experiment, will draw conclusions, will express themselves artistically, they will communicate and mainly they will work with the children of the partners schools. New technologies and especially collaborative tools will help in the distance communication of the partners but also in the production of the final cooperative products.
Celestene Freine's Pedagogic Principles
In kindergarten begins the period of play and work - game. As Frene himself points out, at school we can play, working (Maury, 1988: 119). Also, one of his students states that: “Only the game blooms and liberates us ”(Freinet, 1973: 43). So, the kindergarten will include an environment as rich and diverse as life, a natural environment with gardens, water, plants and animals, a spacious room bright, airy, bright with experimental and working material, an adjoining room or a corner of nature in the same room that will replace nature and him outdoor garden in bad weather, a garden with trees, meadows, water, crops for effective child labor and a section with pets, insects, aquarium, botanist, etc.
Palpable investigation plays important role in kindergarten, as children try to get to know it unknown, looking at the surrounding environment. Still, another process enters in kindergarten, the arrangement, that is, the child is no longer enough to he learns for he learns but he begins to organize his life and his palpitations experiences are gathered and clung to the basic normal needs and complex mysteries of life.
Around the age of 4-5, the child after he has discovered the spaces around him and organized them, he starts the conquest of the world, which takes place through work, "activity", as Frenet tells us, “with which the individual satisfies the great physical and his mental needs, in order to acquire the strength he needs for fulfillment of its purpose ”(Frene, 1977: 34 - 39).
Children are pushed into a language through the tasks assigned to them alive, in the fields, around the animals they care for, are forced to they speak, adapting as they can the words and expressions that are to them familiar, to express their complex reactions. Through all these children's discussions and conversations the teacher can write a text. This text will be written on the board, illustrated if possible with a 31 impressive design, then will be rewritten by the teacher in a life notebook of the classroom, where the best designs will also be kept and where its location will is in an honorary drawer above the shelf where the most will be exposed successful objects (Frenet, 1977: 44 - 47).
Typography already plays an important role in kindergarten. With him In this way, beauty, emotion and excitement are easily produced in children in plain writing. The idea is that the children, after coming to kindergarten they say their thoughts and feelings every day, which he records from common o - the teacher - a on the blackboard. With the help of a teacher or someone older student, the children re-create his text in their classroom table. Then, the whole text is printed by the children themselves, who, like Frene emphasizes, from the age of five or six, they do it wonderfully. Thus, the text can be enriched with children’s drawings and thus make it sort in the book of school life, or stick it on the walls of the school, or distribute it to friends, parents and the rest of the school surroundings inside and outside school through their school newspaper and take it exchange through correspondence with other children of other kindergartens in same or in different cities.
According to Frenet, the child is like that in her age can paint or try to read a text he has the teacher writes, without knowing how to write or read. But he cultivates the this desire. The child constantly compares the written with the spoken words, the words he wrote the same as those that serve as a model on the board or in printed paper, the words he recognized in the correspondents' newspapers those he found in books and other newspapers. So there is rich tangible experience and the child recognizes progressively and without special practice an increasing number of words (Frene, 1977: 47 - 51).
In addition, it adds a special touch to all Kindergarten activities are artistic expression activities, such as drawing, text illustration, painting, cardboard engraving or linoleum, song, rhythm, puppetry, theater, puppets (Αποστολοπούλου 2017).
Partner Schools
1st Kintergatren of N.Souli Serres, Greece
Kindergarten of Chriso Serres, Greece
Kindergarten of Alistrati Serres, Greece
6th Kindergarten of N.Moudania Chalkidiki, Greece
124 Kindregarten of Warsow
Beysehir Cumhuriyet Anakokulu Kindregarten
Autumn Challenge
Exploring Autumn
We go out in nature with children, we observe, we take photos and we collect autumn treasures such as dried leaves, apples, chestnuts, quinces, acorns, etc. If we can not, we ask parents for help . Returning at class we play with the autumn treasures.
Autumn Phytology
Most of our children are courious about what kind of trees, leaves, products we can find in each partner country. Can we find olives in Turkey? Can we find acorns in Poland? As a result they have an excellent idea: using all the autumn treasures we have collected, to create an Autumn Phytology.
Autumn Creative Writing
A fairy tail is always enjoyable for children. A lot of our children have expresed their longing for creating a fairytail. Let's collaborate in order to create a common fairy tail about autumn. A storyjumber ebook is waiting for us.
Artist Inspired Fall Art
The autumn works of famous painters are truly enchanting. How about we get inspired by them and create beautiful autumn works that will refer to their works?
Winter Creative Writing
Let the poetry touch our soul...
Our children are inspired by winter and create poetry...
Winter Experiments
Time for experimenting!!! Browse on web and find winter experiments. Let your children choose which one they want to carry out. Let our children be little scientists!!!
Spring Literacy
Literacy anthology
Each school suggests a poem or a short story about spring origined from it's country.The other schools study the poems/stories and illustrate. A literacy leaflet will be created.
Spring Coding
Spring coding via Pixel Art. Fill the squares according to the code in the collaborative document.
Spring Mandalas
We create spring mandalas with spring treasures. We will use our creations for our 4 seasons museum.
Spring in music
Listening to Vivaldi Spring Music.
Children in groups draw pictures and emotions that come to mind. We write comments and thoughts of children. In the end we create a video with the children's drawings and their thoughts.
Spring Activities
All of our lovely spring activities shared in a padlet. Partners lets have fun and enjoy the most beautifull season of the year!!!
Summer Music Library
Each school prepare a summer song that we will use to the final teleconferance to farewell our partners. A summer music library with songs and rythmes of our countries is creating.
Summer in Art
We create summer creations using whatever materials and technique we want (collage, inspiration from famous painters, model, sculpure etc.)
My lovely Summer
Summer is a favorite season for most people. The partner schools collaborate and create their Lovely Summer. Click the link and the fun begins ...
World Enviroment Day
The World Enviroment Day is one of the most important days aiming the protection of our planet.It is important for young children to be aware of the dangers that threaten our planet and to take action. Collaborating schools join forces, raise awareness among children and take action to protect our planet. And of course they spread their actions through a newspaper in order to raise awareness of more people.
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In kindergarten begins the period of play and work - game. As Frene himself points out, at school we can play, working (Maury, 1988: 119)....
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Time for experimenting!!! Browse on web and find winter experiments. Let your children choose which one they want to carry out. Let our c... -
Exploring Autumn We go out in nature with children, we observe, we take photos and we collect autumn treasures such as dried leaves, apple...