Little Artists

This website is a space to support our Erasmus + partnership and to attract more partners, which will implement our proposed activities and disseminate all our activities and results with all the world.

In order to stimulate children's creativity by means of ARTS during our 2 year project, we’ll group our activities as it follows: MUSIC and DANCE, VISUAL ART ACTIVITIES, LITERATURE AND THEATRE. Thus, the children and teachers will be involved in activities such as: music activities based on Orff method, discovering other countries traditional dances,visual arts activities (drawing, painting, modelling, paper mache, quilling, origami), dance activities, literature activities, studying important literary works from other countries national thesaurus. They will be involved in art contests and exhibitions, theatre perfomances, video-conferences, creative workshops carried on in partnership with different cultural institutions, visits.

AIMS

- to develop children's creativity, aesthetic sensibility and interest in cultural activities

- to develop social and emotional skills, communication skills, problem-solving skills;

- to improve the partners’ institutional ability to involve kids in artistic activities, by jointly identifying innovative methods of teaching and practicing arts

- to get the local community and cultural organizations involved in the school activities;

- to experiment best practices from different educational systems and to introduce new approaches of organizing the educational process;

- to develop the teachers’ ability to have a more creative approach in their teaching activities by integrating art elements and digital tools;

- to disseminate the results and share the best practices experienced to the school institutions and communities;

- Create friendship between students from different countries, improve their language skills.

- Improve ICT and intercultural competencies.

Work process :

1. In the first year we are going to approach the following themes : music , dance and visuala art activities.

2. In the second year we are going to approach the following themes : literature and theatre.

ICT tools

1. Planning tools :

Tricider, Google Docs, padlet, survay , zoom

2. Classroom tools :

Youtube, twinspace, Storyjumper, Storybird,vimeo,jigsawplanet, voki, quizlet, bookcreator, Canva

Project members know each other.

Presentation of each partner- the city and the countray

Map of the world – marking partners

eSafety- parents permitions

Discussions about Project logo

Friendship dance - each partner prepares a video of the children's dance

Art activity - theme: My city, my country

Work programm for the eTwinning project

Preparating videos, presentations or Padlets that describe students names, ages and the city they live.

Each partner prepares an activity with children based on the Orff method.

EXPECTED RESULTS

the project website
"Erasmus corner" in every partner institution
the project logo
Musical and art contests
A 2023 calendar with images taken during the project implementation
Presentations of the recorded dance activities and also of the musical activities specific to each partner institution
Exhibitions organized in the partner institutions/ public institutions displaying different painting techniques
Art catalog displaying children's works of art
Theater performances
a best practice methodological guide on techniques used in visual arts activities "PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT"
DVD: “International Collection of Traditional Dance and Music”
A multilingual dictionary for children
exhibitions of drawings/paintings representing aspects from the studied stories
a short collection of stories created by the children
the project newsppaper "News from the Colorful World of Art"
Self evaluation of the project by the teachers and children involved