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We want our students to participate in learning with all their senses. So we don't miss an opportunity to cook, plant, listen, see, touch, incorporating into their daily lives a multitude of experiential activities combined with the subjects they process every day. Experiential activities are an integral part of the basic program. On the occasion of the subjects processed by the group, the young students knead bread, bake grape must cookies melt chocolate, plant lentils, collect oranges and pomegranates from the garden, dress up as beekeepers, etc.
In the program of Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten, outdoor education practices are incorporated, making creative use of the area of our next grove as well as other forest areas such as The Forest of Caesarian and Parnitha. Our kindergarten teachers make good use of nature by designing experiential actions aimed at learning, cultivating skills, and contacting the child with nature. Climbing, collecting natural materials, sorting are just some of the activities.
The children's favorite family activity is integrated into our educational program allowing kindergarten teachers to informally cultivate writing, reading, mathematical concepts (fractions), concepts of natural sciences (mixtures, melting, coagulation, etc.), recycling issues as well as to cultivate skills of coordination, collaboration, etc. On every occasion, our students cook, make grape must cookies, bread, Christmas cookies, lazarakia (traditional Easter cookies), chocolates, omelets, breakfasts having multiple cognitive and developmental benefits.Soon the culinary activities will... περισσότερα
Children, initially using their senses, make assumptions and try to get to know the world. The personal observation and satisfaction of students' curiosity are achieved through experiments that help them learn, seek information, and care about the world around them.
Setting high goals, the experiential educational program includes the learning module "Getting to know Art". In its context, the students of the Kindergarten know the childhood of great painters and approach critically representative paintings, which give them the opportunity to approach a variety of topics such as spring, peace, mathematics, etc. combining teaching objects with aesthetic cultivation, knowledge through art. Then, children inspired by the paintings, transform themselves into visual artists and create original works using a variety of materials and techniques. Completing the... περισσότερα
Gardening consist a favorite activity of children as it enables them to have direct contact with the miracle of nature. Having in our new yard space for the vegetable garden we are engaged in our gardening skills by carving, planting and why not eating the fruits of our labors!
Young students realize the relationship between man and the natural environment, become aware of the problems associated with it and they are active in special programs to help address them.
We want our students to love museums and make them interested in museum objects, so we visit museum spaces under the guidance of a trained museum educator, who makes a game approach to the spaces at a limited time and in selected exhibits so that students have a positive museum experience. We also make sure that students have contact with a number of museum items that we borrow from museums and enable children to touch copies of museum objects and experiment with them (traditional headbands, masks, vases, etc.). Thus children come into contact with both ancient culture and folk. So by... περισσότερα
With legends, folk tales, folk music, traditional dances, games, visits to folklore museums, our children have the opportunity to approach the Greek tradition, to get to know the past in order to move forward with solid foundations towards the future.
The most important part of the child's development takes place during the years he is at school. At the same time the child acquires motor and eating habits, which he will maintain, to a large extent, for the rest of his life. The school, as an integrated educational unit, has the obligation to take care not only of the spiritual, emotional, mental, social development and education of the child but also of its proper physical development and health in general. In the Health Education and Nutrition program, we have the opportunity to raise awareness and teach children about their personal... περισσότερα
