Monday, 10 October 2016
Sunday, 14 February 2016
An overview of activities implemented in kindergarten Djecji svijet in the second half of 2015
- Swamp insects
- Fun Olympics
- Origami
- Traditional games
- Spanish & Flamenco
- Yoga
- Chemistry
- Musical improvisation
- World snake day
- Visit to police station
- Plitvice lakes
- Potok Sumi
- Visit to 112 center
- Library
- Electronic magnifier
Monday, 25 January 2016
An overview of activities implemented in Zaleo school in 2016
- Interweaving. Weaving to transform
- Traditional games
- Recomentations for the health of children aged 0 to 2 years
- We learn to make pasta
- Artistic whorkshop
- Electric experience
- Braille workshop
Activity report
Some pictures
- Garden workshop
Some pictures
Activity report
- A dog in the park
- Creating classroom resources
Activity report
- Vallecas landscape
- Sound art at school
Saturday, 23 January 2016
Second common action
- Second common action Spain- Croatia "Maths for life" October 29 2015 (Promoted by Croatia)
Monday, 21 December 2015
Sunday, 20 December 2015
Tuesday, 30 June 2015
Visiting an interacive exhibition “Elektro Baroque”
As part of the 9th
Varazdin museum ceremony and celebration of International Museum Day, the
Herzer Palace in Varazdin showed an exhibition Electro Baroque. At the
initiative of a parent we agreed to visit the exhibition with the children. The main reason for visiting the exhibition was to meet
the expectations of children, parents and preschool professionals who wanted
the children to see a variety of objects created by innovative, creative and
new way of using used modern electronic waste to create different works of art,
at the exhibition. During the child activities with
the exhibits they kept asking about the way these devices operate, what they
are made of, whether the same could be done at home or in the kindergarten. We agreed with the parents that we should continue
working with the children on the topic. We plan to
collect available electronic waste and we will try to get the desired
composition of electronic elements and we will try to find new use for them. At
the same time the children will express their ideas by drawing, verbally as
well as actively participating in developing prototypes of new devices.Activity report
Visual documentation
Math as a game
The kindergarten
Djecji svijet held an evening of mathematics, a manifestation that is organized
by the Croatian Mathematical Society. Parents prepared the workshop together
with the preschool educators, and the children took part in it. Math was
brought closer to children as a game, a form of fun, through the prepared
materials and activities.
It is especially important for preschoolers to
learn through exploration, games and fun. By providing a variety of materials
that supports children's natural curiosity, a kindergarten as an educational
community develops a variety of learning strategies and competences to
"learning how to learn". By providing a variety of learning methods,
together with adults and other children, we encourage divergent thinking,
providing a variety of possibilities for understanding the various solutions,
nurturing and encouraging various forms of creation.
Parents and teachers prepared a series of
materials designed for children to play with. The materials are selected in
such a way to allow the identification of mathematical relationships, the
separation of geometric figures in the images that are present every day in
kindergarten and the observation of natural materials (stone - agate) in order
to notice the rhythm of repeating the same lines that form the elliptical form
that naturally occurred during the formation of stones. Additionally provided
is mastering the proper use of the compass, where parents were models and
helped children in mastering the skill of handling a compass. Curve rulers are
intended for drawing curved lines of which may become usual or unusual and
unexpected shapes. We used our construct center that is equipped with materials
of various shapes to develop potential mathematical skills in a place of
natural games that the children are used to.
At the appointed time all interested parents
and educators gathered, who were free to choose materials involved in a variety
of math activities. In doing so, a number of activities have enabled the
understanding of quantitative or spatial relationships, identifying and naming
geometric shapes and bodies. A variety of stones has prompted parents and
children to express creativity by painting. Painting different types of lines
formed right visual works of art, the joint work of children and their parents.
Some parents and children were interested in solving the mathematical problems
using a variety of educational toys.
Thursday, 4 June 2015
First common action
- Common activity (Spain and Croatia) carried out in public spaces for the “International Museum Day” May 18 2015 (Promoted by Spain)
Saturday, 23 May 2015
Relations with the environment
Umbra-L . Interactive installation by artist Arturo Moya
Umbra-L” is an interactive and audiovisual installation that involves leisure, participative and communal reflection about identity, understood as a negotiation each other. The spectators are invited to use their shadows to build up a communal and alternative portrait about a secret society; unknown bodies which are free from the slavery of their own images and also project a strong otherness inside the shadow; micro-tales that generate a desire of being the other one at the environment.
Activity report
Visual documentation
Activity report
Visual documentation
- Drifting Poetry – A collaborative literary/poetic project shared between families, nearby institutions and Zaleo
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This Project is developed in different phases:
First phase:
We provide information to families about the project in which we tend to rescue the first murmurs that our parents or grandparents whispered to us and having the opportunity to share them with the other families and neighbors.
The coordinator at Zaleo suggests building up a “poetic container” to keep all lullabies as glass bottles. “Authenticated” this process of rescuing the lullaby by taking pictures or recording the audio in which you can sing or whisper the murmur.
Online vault
Visual documentation
Thursday, 7 May 2015
The chess whorkshop
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All the activities developed must have this sequence, taking into account either the boy or girl individually or the team:
1. Legends about the backgrounds of chess
2. What is chess, what we need, how many players are, which the purpose is.
3. The board. How many squares do I have, which ones are white, which ones are black, the proper collocation of the board paying attention to the printed letters.
4. The pieces. What are their names, which are their colors, what is their collocation.
5. Pawns. How do they move, which is their collocation, how do they eat. Pawns race.
6. We insert the rest pieces on board by the same way. How do they move, how do they eat, what is their collocation: rook, bishop, qeen, kingand knight.
7. We will focus on the knight due to it is harder to move. We do some exercises on the floor, on the floor tiles, on the board…
8. We begin by choosing first only two pieces, then three, etc until we have played with all the pieces.
9. Once we know how to play we will concentrate in the strategy (controlling the middle of the board).
We also turn to other computer chess games that are so useful in case of playing in the rooms at any time.
The whole activities developed will be constantly supported by pupils´ parents who will play with their children
Activity report
Activity report
Monday, 4 May 2015
Second mountain trip - Medvenica
Our second mountain trip happened on 25th of April 2015. 38 climbers (children, parents and staff of kindergarten „Djecji svijet“) successfully reached the top of Medvenica. The trip was organized as part of the special section "Cevo", branch of kindergarten "Children's World, led by guide Milan Turkalj.
Aim of the activity: Climbing to Medvednica (1033m). During the hike children will overcome various forms of natural movement, especially movement up and down the hill, and learn about surrounding wildlife. At the same time they will adapt to and deal with a variety of unforeseen and unexpected situations. During the trip, all participants will use the time to rest and relax, socialize, to know each other and provide mutual support and help, if needed.
The content of activity: Departure from kindergarten at 9:00 am. After a short rest during the journey, we reached the mountain hut Puntijarka, where we started the climb on easy walking trail through the woods to the top. On the hiking trail, the children's parents explained hiking trails labels. Children were using the magnifying glass to investigate curiosities and secrets of nature, and lingered by unusual natural phenomena (the visible roots of inverted trees). They enjoyed the walk through the last traces of snow in the woods, they mastered in different ways avoiding natural obstacles like destroyed trees, enjoyed the beauties of nature, and rejoiced when they obtained identity cards for membership in the hiking section. The return was at 19:00.
Activity report
Visual documentation
Activity report
Visual documentation
Visit to Entomological museum
At the initiative of one of our parents, we arranged a visit to the Entomological museum. One of our current small projects in kindergarten is on the subject of swamps so mention parent suggested that children should visit the museum where he works with his expert guidance so he can show the insects that live in wetlands and in our area.Aim: To provide children with quality source of information about the subject more closely investigated by a person who is an expert in the selected area. Give children an insight into the world of insects that live in wetlands in a quality manner and placed in the context in which they are found in nature. Provide an expert who knows the names of insects and their details.
The content of activity: visit to the museum began with an overview of the overall structure of the museum, from nocturnal insects, insect of the deciduous forests, bees and insects to wetlands. The emphasis was on insects that live in wetlands because of the current interests of children. The children also used museums audio technology and asked questions about their points of interest. On the way out we bought a multimedia interactive DVD which children will use in the kindergarten. Children also made lots of drawings of insects where they explain all the specific features of certain insects.
Activity report
Visual documentation
Activity report
Visual documentation
Thursday, 30 April 2015
Reading Support
- Different activities surrounding the book “Platero and I” by J.R. Jiménez
- Whispers week
Activity report
Visual documentation
Visual documentation for whispers week
Video for whispers week
Online article
- “Forests as a meeting place” A participative art activity involving families and kids.
For the art workshop in the 4 year old group, we decided to look at some ideas for collages. We liked the result so much that we asked families to create something new with their children’s collages by writing something above the piece of art.
Activity report
Visual documentation
- Chain stories beginning with “My favourite animal is....”
For the didactic unit about animals and their characteristics, the activity My Favourite Animal gets underway.
Each child chooses the animal that they like most from the basket of animals that is played with in the symbolic games.
The families really like this activity and suggest that they participate too by making their own versions.
Communication and training meetings
- Welcome meeting for parents held in kindergarten Djecji svijet in September 2015 (Croatia)
- Welcome meeting 2015 (Spain)
The last 13rd of October 2015, the second welcome meeting for new families was organized as a part of our goals in this Project.
Apart from we have had the opportunity of knowing one each other, we explained who we were, what participation ways for families at school were or how to be involved in S.E.L.F. project, among other contents.
It was a nice and productive meeting where we felt that we were involved in a community project that could change our future model for Early Ages Education.
It was a nice and productive meeting where we felt that we were involved in a community project that could change our future model for Early Ages Education.
Visual documentation
- Welcome meeting for the new families in Zaleo (Spain).
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An encounter activity is thought to be designed for families whose children attend for the first time to our school, contributing to create a suitable atmosphere of coexistence and searching the benefit for families of knowing in advanced some aspects of the organization and participation in it. That encounter consists of several actions:
- First public appearance of all the staff that works at the school (teachers, management team, services personnel and cooking personnel).
- The management team summarizes our methodology, actions and leading workshops developed at the school and they present the SELF project, encouraging to take part in it.
- Former students’ parents speak for their experience about the education of their children at Zaleo.
- Families association introduce themselves and speak about the cooperation at the school through working commissions.
- In the room there are distributed computers which show photographs or videos of the workshops developed at Zaleo by the teachers.
- There are panels and corners of parents spread along the room with Families association working commissions.
- The dialogue is promoted among everybody, interacting with families, listening to their fears and solving doubts.
Document "Zaleo teachers":
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These encounters have supplied parents and teachers the suitable academic training according to the educational process and the personal development of boys and girls from the school.
At this respect, the activity has been assumed as:
· An encounter space to exchange experiences and reflections related to Zaleo educational community
· A way of learning along life
· Working in group or in small teams to provide the opportunity to express and communicate each other and reach the collective conclusions
· A way to mend wrong or unsuitable habits
· A tool to improve the educational quality among families and the school
- Poetic itinerary in Zaleo. “Platero’s Universe”. Saturday the 25th April.
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Music
- “The Zaleo Band” – The percussion group that accompanies us in the parties
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Video
- Live music days
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It consists of live musical performances, carried out by the families, school personnel and any others related to them.
We use an indoor or outdoor space, depending on the type of music and the weather.
Thanks to these activities, boys and girls would learn to love music, to feel it as something very closed, not only to hear it, but to see how the artists are part of their educational process. All these agents are their own relatives, families, friends; they also can play the instruments and receive information about them, etc.
Activity report
Visual documentation
Developing activities from the park workshops
- Dogs workshop
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The activity with each group is developed in the working timetable along a morning. The duration depends on the age of boys and girls and the sequence of routines.
As a result, we dedicate two different mornings: one for the 3 years old room in the timetable between 10 a.m. and 12 p.m.; the other mornings is reserved for the 5 and 6 years old pupils from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
In addition, this association makes easier having smaller groups and a suitable adaptation to the level of communication and exchange of information at those ages.
Independently of the pupil´s age, the chosen groups and the duration, all the sessions are developed in a similar sequence of activities.
The first phase: in the facilities of the school (classrooms…). Information about dogs, characteristics, behavior, way of understanding them and mixing with them.
The second phase: in the park. Recognition of dogs. Our behavior. Interview with the owner and collecting information for our classroom file: name of the animal, age, breed, tastes and entertainment.
In all the activities of this sequence, the educational proposal comes from the father who is in charge of the proper action. He selects and presents the information from the session, proposes questions, collects doubts from boys and girls, offers answers and proposes different ways to act according to the different situations we can face with dogs in the park.
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Each activity developed by each group last 40 minutes. During that time, boys and girls build a rectangular wooden frame, paste it with glue, pin it with nails, cut out the hairnet by the same size than the frame and staple it. To make easy the autonomy and the safety of the whole actions, all children will use some wooden patterns designed by Javier at this carpenter´s workshop. These patterns consist of a frame size board fasten by some strips that allow pupils to use tools without harming their fingers.
Activity report
Visual documentation
- Making recycled paper
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The activity is developed by 24 boys and girls who are 4 years old, and 16 pupils from the 5 years old group. It is realized in the working timetable. This activity is scheduled following a sequence.
First phase, preparing recycled paper (basically, newspapers): tearing, cutting up and soaking. To hold this process we try not to alter the daily timetable. The time dedicated lasts 30 minutes approximately. There is also a person in charge of the activity who is the Outdoor Classroom teacher.
Second phase, workshop activity: producing paper´s plaster and then use it to make recycled paper. The process must be easy and handy for everyone: choosing and getting ready the stretchers, selecting the color for the plaster, straining, pouring out and stretching to get dry. For these sessions in particular we dedicate 3 mornings, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Each session involved 8 boys and girls according to their classrooms: 3 groups who are 4; 2 groups who are 5. The maximum duration of every session consists of 1 hour and a half.
All the activities are thought by the father that is an expert in the matter. He chooses and explains the information to carry out the activity, suggests certain questions, tries to response all the children´s enquires and proposes different ways to act while we are doing the activity.
At last, we collect dry paper. Once again the Outdoor Classroom teacher is responsible for being controlling pupils´ tasks. As a result, this recycled paper will be used according to the teachers or the school schedule.
Whereas the activity is in progress, we encourage children to take pictures of all the process. Anyway, there is an adult who is photographing each moment as well.
Visual documentation- Building a bird feeder
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The activity is developed with the 16 pupils that belong to the 5 years old room. It is realized in the working timetable, along the morning, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The activities take place according to a sequence:
The first phase: in the facilities of the school (classrooms…). Building up feeding boxes for birds workshop. The pupils are divided in 4 groups of 4 students each one. We keep on using this division previously made for another activity always considering the 5 years old group, having a unique goal: being responsible and looking after one area of the park. Three different types of feeding boxes are proposed. Then, each group constructs one of them. While we are building up the feeding boxes, we listen to a recorded audio focused on birds ‘warble. The approximate duration of the whole activity is from 11´30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The second phase: in the park. The installation of feeding boxes in the trees from each area of the park we have been using with the groups. All together, we get around all the areas and chose the most suitable trees to place our finished feeding boxes helping us with a ladder. This process lasts from 11´30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Whereas the action is in progress, we permit children, who have interest, to take photos of the activity. In all the activities of this sequence, the educational proposal comes from the father who is in charge of the proper action. He selects and presents the information from the session, proposes questions, collects doubts from boys and girls, offers answers and proposes different ways to act according to the different situations we can face at the workshop or in the park.
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