„Amazing children, amazing nature” , nr. 2020-1-RO01-KA227-SCH-095342, programul de finanțare Erasmus +
PROJECT IMPACT
We could say that until now our project has had and continues to have quite a big impact. After promoting our project in the online environment and highlighting the advantages of outdoor education, several units showed interest in our project. Therefore, we concluded partnerships with approximately 160 units in the country with the aim of implementing outdoor education and the innovative techniques used in the project ours (tinkering, art therapy, etc.). The teaching staff who signed agreements with us have implemented innovative techniques in preschool outdoor education at the level of the groups they work with, carrying out activities according to a calendar established by us. Therefore, we could say that the impact of the project is quite large, approximately 3000 preschoolers benefiting from the advantages of inclusive outdoor education (160 teaching staff from the country *approximately 20 children they work with = 2800 children from the whole country).
As a result of the implementation of inclusive outdoor education in our school units, we could say that children's interest in outdoor activities has visibly increased. The children gained more confidence in themselves, their self-esteem being encouraged. They learned to overcome a failure and try new possibilities, something encouraged by the tinkering activities. They learned not to exclude any child, regardless of the vulnerable group he belongs to, but to encourage the work and the team, learning in this way what the team means and how we should behave with our teammates, but also with our "rivals". Sports competitions held in the open air, as well as hunting activities encouraged all these skills.
The art therapy activities developed their emotional side by encouraging them to communicate, if not through words, through art, their lives.
The STEAM activities held outdoors taught the children to use the knowledge acquired during the activities, in nature. Thus, they experienced the power of magnets in painting, they made anemometers with which they measured the wind speed, they made simple experiments that strengthened the knowledge accumulated until now, but, we believe, the most important thing is that they learned to work in a team. If at the beginning of the project they were reluctant and worked individually, over time they began to find the benefits of a team and even look for team games to be able to socialize more and find new development opportunities.
The tinkering activities, as we expected, taught the children to use available materials and explore ways to combine them and come up with something new. Through this activity, children can materialize ideas and try, experiment, change ideas to always create something new while having fun.
The STEAM activities in nature not only got the children used to applying what they learned in the activities in nature, but they helped them develop their practical intelligence, getting used to finding practical solutions even if the planned situation appears something unexpected.
We could say that the impact of our project was quite large and that it is still growing. Why? Because the little ones love activities in nature, and if these activities are carefully planned, they only develop the child on all levels, banishing the marginalization of vulnerable children and strengthening the team spirit.
A week has begun in which green is the favorite color.
Why green?
Because green means life!
START "GREEN WEEK" at the "MUSHROOM" KINDERGARTEN!!!
The week's activities are complementary to those of our project, so we ran inclusive outdoor activities, even though the project has been completed.
It was a first day, when the children discovered the GREEN around them, appreciated the GREEN, looked at the GREEN, smelled the GREEN, painted, cut out, colored and certainly understood the benefits of everything that surrounds them and it's GREEN!
Some of today's activities
💚Visit the BOTANICAL GARDEN
💚Cleaning the playgrounds in the kindergarten yard
💚Listen to stories about protecting nature
✅Making posters with ecological themes
The children learned how important their role is in protecting the environment.
GREEN START💚💚
✅️Fluturasi group started Green Week with "Grandparents' Day"!
During this week, we carried out inclusive outdoor education activities complementary to the theme of the ACAN project
♻️Special invitations - grandparents. Discussions were held about the importance of healthy food, how to eat healthy and they got down to business...
✅️The children prepared "magical lemonade" in the laboratory in our class, full of vitamins and joy, and then, together, we went out into the yard where, together with their grandparents, they organized a picnic with funny and tasty sandwiches.
A group without walls gave free rein to children's imagination!
💚Bees AND TRANSIENT ART in the classroom in the kindergarten yard!
We thank the parents, our partners in setting up the outdoor classroom!
Happy outdoors!
🌨🌦⛅️The monotony and clouds of the Comana Natural Park were banished by the joy, laughter and play of the children from the "Ciupercuța" Kindergarten, the Ant Group and the Bunnies Group.
🤗❤️💚The children's joy was boundless. The rain didn't stop them at all, and the moments spent outside were magical, in a magnificent setting!
👋🧑🤝🧑👭We will go on trips in any season, when it snows, rains or the sun shines. We know the benefits of outdoor activities, children develop harmoniously, they will acquire and master the skills, abilities and essential qualities they will need later in life: decision making, concentration power, problem solving, etc.
👨👩👧👦👨👩👦👦Our partners, the parents, understand the importance of carrying out these activities and are always with us, a sign that we all want to prepare children for life, for the challenges ahead. Thank you, our dear parents!
How can you integrate nature into art?
"All children are artists"
Pablo Picasso
Children who paint have so many important benefits: fine motor skills, the development of imagination and creativity, but also the expression of their own feelings.
The "Bunnies" took advantage of the trip to Comana, where they collected stones of different shapes, and in the kindergarten they gave free rein to their imaginations, painting on them.
What they have achieved are even works for the exhibition!
Congratulations, Bunnies!
9 MAY EUROPE DAY
🍄 Today at the "Ciupercuța" Kindergarten, the "HAPPY DAY IN EUROPE" contest was held.
🍄 The 14th edition of this competition brought together preschoolers from 20 kindergartens.
🍄500 preschoolers experienced moments, moments, joys and smiles together 🇧🇪🇪🇺🇪🇺
🍄 Today, at Ciupercuța, time proved that happiness is always built from small, simple, unrepeatable, but memorable moments and experiences.
🍄 The ships promoted by "Amazing children, amazing nature" were highlighted through the promotion of this festival.
🍄 The yard of the kindergarten echoed with happy children's voices - hope for good and peace, singing and good cheer!
🍄 Thank you to the participants!
❤Thank you parents!
🍄 Thanks to the jury!
❤Thank you to everyone who honored our invitation!
School inspector for institutional management - Codruta Vitan
School inspector for pre-primary education - Vladu Carmen Mihaela
President of the "Mihai Eminescu-Luceafărul" Association - Maria Petrescu
President of the "An Educated World" Association - Ștefania Antonovici Stefania
President of the International Association "Dor de Infinit" - Grigore Curcanu
Writer, League of Romanian Writers - Marilena Dumitrescu - Enescu
Pygmalion Sports Dance Club Manager -
Valentine Butanche
We thank the special guests with whom we collaborated during the development of the ACAN project and who demonstrated once again that inclusive education must have priority:
❤️Special School no. 3 - Director Mihaela Serban
To the coordinator of the artistic program - Sasu Fabian
❤️Grama Adriana - former "Ciupercuța", student of the National College, "Spiru Haret" - Spanish dance moment.
🍄🍄 Thoughts of peace, hope and friendship, in joyful images, part of today's joy.
🚂🚂🚂 LET'S GET ON THE WAGONS!!!!!🚂🚂🚂
🚄🚄🚆 FROM SMALL TO BIG!!!!🚆🚅🚅
🚂 The children from "Ciupercuța" went in search of the most interesting museums, and today they discovered the CFR Museum🚂🚂
The "Crickets" Group and the "Bunny" Group discovered many of the secrets of trains, old and new.
🚂 For them, the most interesting attraction of the museum was undoubtedly the diorama. Inaugurated in 2012, the demonstrative diorama of the Romanian railway route is made at a scale of 1:87 and is the largest in South-Eastern Europe. Controlled by computer, the diorama features locomotives and carriages in motion, on standard and narrow-gauge railway tracks, over 14m long and 4m wide.
GRĂDINIȚA,,CIUPERCUȚA”-Ambasador al inovației educaționale
PROFESORII DE LA GRĂDINIȚA,,CIUPERCUȚA” laureați ai Premiului European pentru Predare Inovatoare EITA
Grădinița „Ciupercuța” a fost selectată printre laureații prestigiosului Premiu European pentru Predare Inovatoare (EITA) pentru Proiectul ERASMUS+ „ACAN” (Amazing children, amazing nature). Această realizare deosebită nu doar că evidențiază excelența în educația timpurie, ci și subliniază angajamentul grădiniței noastre față de bunăstarea copiilor și a educatorilor.
Faptul că Grădinița „Ciupercuța” a fost selectată printre câștigătorii EITA este o dovadă a valorii pe care o aduce educației românești. Proiectul ACAN, bazat pe creativitate și dezvoltare armonioasă, reflectă prioritățile educaționale europene actuale, în special accentul pus pe bunăstarea fizică și mentală a copiilor și educatorilor, temă centrală în 2024. Această recunoaștere internațională oferă un impuls pozitiv pentru comunitatea educațională locală, demonstrând că școlile și grădinițele din România pot fi la nivelul celor mai bune practici educaționale din Europa.
Premiul EITA aduce în prim-plan proiectele educaționale care contribuie semnificativ la dezvoltarea de practici inovatoare în predare. Pentru Grădinița „Ciupercuța”, această recunoaștere internațională nu este doar o confirmare a calității proiectului „ACAN”, ci și un model de inspirație pentru alte școli și grădinițe din România și Europa.
Prin acest premiu, ECHIPA CIUPERCUȚA devine ambasador al inovației educaționale și al bunelor practici în educația timpurie, contribuind la creșterea prestigiului educației românești la nivel european. De asemenea, recunoașterea proiectului la nivel european oferă școlii oportunitatea de a colabora cu alte instituții educaționale de top din Europa, facilitând schimbul de idei și bune practici.
În ediția din acest an, Premiul European pentru Predare Inovatoare, GRĂDINIȚA,,CIUPERCUȚA” a fost evidențiată intre cele 17 proiecte educaționale remarcabile din cadrul categoriei „Educație și îngrijire timpurie”. Bunăstarea în primii ani de educație este crucială, deoarece susține dezvoltarea emoțională, socială și cognitivă, formând fundația pentru învățarea pe tot parcursul vieții, reziliența și sănătatea generală. abordări contemporane de predare și învățare folosite de educatori în creșe și grădinițe.
Echipa Ciupercuța aduce Grădinița ,,Ciupercuța” printre școlile europene de prestigiu, devenind astfel un exemplu viu de excelență și inovație educațională, contribuind la conturarea viitorului educației europene.