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Activities in Pre-School Activities in Pre-School EducationEducation

Activities in Pre-School Activities in Pre-School EducationEducation

Education and Culture DG

Lifelong Learning Programme

Little Europeans Know Each Other EU LLP COMENIUS

Multilateral School Partnership Project

FRANCE

Bourbon L’Archambault

For the 5 year-old Children For the 5 year-old Children « Grande Section »« Grande Section »

During the Taste Week, ( 17 to 23 October 2011 ), children from Kindergarten have tasted flavors from eastern Europe. Turkish delight and various pastries were offered to them. Children, after a moment of hesitation, willingly tasted. Many have appreciated.

Loukoums

Baklavas

Children studied the breakfast of partner countries.

Try it !I asked Kindergarten pupils to choose from these breakfasts and create their ideal breakfast.A dozen children kindly explained what they would eat in the morning...

FRANCE : Bon appétit !

The traditional French breakfast ( Le petit-déjeuner ) consists of croissants or slices of bread (the famous ‘baguette’) with butter or jam. Generally, the French drink coffee, tea or milk chocolate. French children prefer chocolate cereal.

ITALIE : Buon appetito !

In Italy, breakfast (The colazione) is pretty sweet. The Italians eat cookies (small croissants called "cornetti") or brioche ("ciambella") and drink coffee, hot chocolate or cappuccino (coffee with whipped cream and cocoa powder).

cappuccino

ciambella cornet

ti

POLOGNE : Smacznego !

Polish breakfast (S'niadanie) is rich and varied. It usually consists:• a glass of fruit juice, a cup of weak coffee or tea or coffee with milk• of various meats (ham, sausage, pâté)• thin slices of cheese• a boiled egg• tomato slices• radishes, tomatoes, cucumbers• honey or jam• rye bread or wheat flour bread.• from "zupa mleczna": milk soup with cereals.

PORTUGAL : Bom apetite !

The Portuguese take their breakfast (Pequeno almoço) quite late (around 9:30 or 10am). It consists of bread, toasted or not. Most often, this is rustic bread, spread with jam, quince jelly (marmelada) or topped with cheese, ham, cherries or tomatoes. The drink is usually a bowl of milk, coffee, tea or chocolate.

ROYAUME-UNI : Enjoy your meal !

UK breakfast is famous ! ( The full english breakfast). It usually consists of a boiled egg, scrambled egg or fried egg served with a slice of bacon, fried sausages, grilled kidneys, kippers or haddock, 'baked beans' (beans in tomato sauce) and toast with orange or lemon marmalade. Porridge (oats boiled in milk) is also served.For the drink : a cup of tea with milk or coffee.Prepare such a breakfast is time consuming. It is for this reason that most English are satisfied with a cup of coffee or tea with toast and jam on weekdays.

TURQUIE : Afiyet Oksun !

The Turkish breakfast (Turk Kahvaltisi - kahvalti means "under the coffee" : you drink tea for breakfast and you end up with a cup of coffee) is quite different from the traditional French breakfast.The base of the breakfast is quite traditional: black or green olives, jam, honey, butter, cheese (feta), tomatoes, cucumbers and of course tea to drink preferably in a glass that is a must in Turkey !But from there anything goes. There are also often fried potatoes, boiled eggs, scrambled eggs or omelette, salami, cheese pide or pide with meat, poğaça (brioche rolls nature or stuffed with cheese or meat ) ...

Pide with meat

poğaça

Children have learned to recognize the flags of our Comenius partners. They can locate each country on the map of Europe. They can also mention the names of capitals. They will perform a song about it during the festival's Saturday, June 2, 2012.

Illustration of the song ‘Travel', taken from a pupil workbook

This workshop, for children aged 5 years, is part of the Comenius project. Indeed, children from kindergarten learn about their European neighbors, and therefore, have to work especially on the respective flags of our partners. These achievements have been possible with the help of our intervening in Visual Arts, Gael Bernon, Fridays, by rotation in small groups; other children stay in the classroom with the teacher. These flags are made of pieces of tile and hung on the walls of the kindergarten, next to other mosaics made in previous years. The project logo is being created ... The mosaic will be unveiled in the presence of our project partners, early June.

And here’s the result !

Nice !

Children made masks 'flags' with crepe paper for

Carnival of the school.

Friday, April 6, 2012

Pupils made a mobile 'Flags of Europe' and one for each partner country: they painted the 'roof' of the mobile in the colors of the flag. We looked for pictures on the internet (map of the country, name of the capital, famous monuments, typical culinary dishes, etc ...), we observed them and then they were hung on the mobile. Than Poland, Portugal and Turkey are in progress.

European flags mobile

UK mobile

Italy mobile

France mobile

Children aged 5-6 years have gone on a school trip to Paris. They took the train from Moulins to Paris. A bus transported us to the capital. We did a boat trip on the Seine. We took the subway. There was a lot of people but it was great ! Monuments (Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre, City Hall, Opera House, Moulin Rouge, Sacre Coeur, ...) are magnificent. What memories !

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Children made various paintings in Visual Arts.

The Eiffel Tower 3D

puzzle

Painting, writing letters, drawing, cutting, pasting

Ink painting, cutting, pasting

Tower bridge, puzzle in 3D

Coloring with markers, collage of different pasta, rotate photo 'Colosseum' for the

letter 'o'

Various graphics decoration, coloring with

markers and colored pencils

Illustration of the song 'Petrushka':

nesting dolls, representing the

Polish peasant girls in traditional dresses

The paintings for Portugal and Turkey are in progress ... The partners will see them at the meeting in France in late May.

Children are using the computer to make a booklet about the ID forms of partner countries. (Country name, flag, location on the map of Europe, the name of capital, the official currency, the official language, the typical culinary dish, the words 'hello' and 'goodbye' in the local language)