Free play in the yard for pre-K’s…
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Free play in the yard for pre-K’s…
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Sharing is a great thing
One day, Thanasis brought in toddlers’ class a book titled “This is mine!” Two friends who play together but find it too hard to share their toys…
“How easy is for us to share our toys?”, we asked children. Not so easy…
One small car in our class had the same problem. It was alone, because it could not share its toys. So, we decided to help it…
We became friends with the small car and drove it to the big “Luna Park of sharing”, the place where all children and cars share their toys.
Each one of as waited at his/ her own station, to drive the small car towards the next station and finally up to the end of the road, where the Luna park was. When the small car arrived there, it wasn’t alone anymore!
Kids played, cooperated, waited patiently for their turn, but most important helped the small car to understand that sharing is a great thing…
(by Jenny Diamantopoulou, teacher in toddlers’ class in Athens)
Getting autonomous and developing fine motor skills in babies’ class
One day in babies’ class, “Frogy” the frog paid a visit, reading us the book ‘’Frogy is getting dressed’’!
Children were very happy to see and listen to him and decided that they want to get dressed like Frogy!
We opened the box and took out all clothes we had. Hats, scarves, bags, shirts, shoes…Every kid chose what he or she liked and put it on. Some of them even posed for a picture!
We all then helped Frogy to get dressed. Kids worked so patiently and used their imagination in order to put on him as many clothes as they could!
And when finished, we hugged our friend and we went for a walk in the yard, all dressed up!
(by Maria Gryllaki, teacher in babies’ class in Athens)
Marker-cars
Babies enjoy playing with cars or with anything else bearing wheels.
One day they found in class their favorite toy cars, having markers taped on their bumper! They also found a large paper roll on the table. Kids instantly took the cars and started drawing on paper!
By doing this, babies enjoyed playing but also improved their finger skills. Now, we maintain a permanent spot for this activity in class and our marker cars are always ready to take action!
(by Anastasia Kouroubali, teacher in babies’ class in Athens)
Playing with corks and bottles
(video by Evangelia Nteka, teacher in toddlers class in Athens)
We are the robots (II)
Everything started with Christos’ idea for a “rain-robot”. But what is the robot; Our hypotheses were verified by watching videos with robots in school ‘s projector room.
We copied the moves of the robots
We made the faces of the robots from recycled material
We became the robots by wearing tin uniforms
We split into groups and played a board game, cutting parts for a robot’s body
We rolled the dice, found the corresponding member of the robot’s body and stuck it on the paper
And so we made our robots!
(by Eleni Triantafyllopoulou, teacher in post-toddlers’ class in Athens)
Dance has no rules in kindergarten
Every Thursday, kindergarten kids can’t wait for the dance lesson with Olga!
Based on improvisation, Olga gives the stimuli and children through experimentation, discover new ways of movement and expression.
Dance has no rules, there is not right and wrong. Through movement and by the only use of objects, children explore their body.
Familiarize with it, learn to control their movement.
Take initiatives, trust themselves.
Cooperate, feed their imagination.
Express ideas, experiences and feelings.
During this dance class, children activate all their senses.
(by Stavroula Gaoutsi, teacher in kindergarten class in Athens)
Chasing Teacher Chrysa
(Video by Spyridoula Patouna, teacher in pre-K class)
Hula hoops for babies
Hula hoops turn into an excellent type of sensory play in babies’ class!
(by Maria Gryllaki, teacher in babies class in Athens)
Free play with loose parts
Free play in the yard for kindergarten kids by using loose parts….
Life-derived Learning 