COMENIUS MULTILATERAR PARTNERSHIPLEARNING THROUGH DEVELOPING INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECTS

2012 - 2014INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECT

What, how, when, where, why do we play?

Community Autumn festival

Show -program for the parents: special invitations, games and props

Get-together event at the kindergarten:

Our parent’s childhood games

Get-together event at the kindergarten:

Let’s create new games together

Look how creative we are:The tree of our games !

Did you know that…International Play Association (IPA) which is an international, interdisciplinary, non-governmental organization founded in 1961, promotes the child’s right to play.on 1st February, 2013 United Nations adopted the General Comment on Article 31 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, including the Child’s Right to Play as a fundamental human right: “That every child has the right to rest and leisure, to engage in play and recreational activities appropriate to the age of the child and to participate freely in cultural life and the art”.games are universal.nearly all popular children’s games are children’s folk games, stretching back hundreds of years, embodying cultural knowledge. games are being passed down generation after generation and most of them have never been written down.games enhance learning process and encourage cultural awareness and exploration.games are the most efficient way of upbringing essential life skills for children and anticipating their adaptation to their adult life.many children get the most pleasure out of playing folk games even with all the new video games and other high-tech toys out there.there are special games being played only during certain calendar festivals.Lithuanian folk game “Master George” is the most popular game in Lithuania.

Visiting open-air ethnographic museum

Children got notion about Lithuanian ethnographical regions, way of life, traditions , different national costumes , national dialects and played traditional games in authentic surroundings.

Weekly integrated activities

These activities integrates arts, crafts, dance, sports, etc. and are applied for kids according to their age groups

Weekly integrated activitiesChildren create

props/tools for games….

And play with music instruments…

Weekly integrated activities

Children play out-door/in-door games and get notions about the games’ rules

Create fairy-tales based on the games

Weekly integrated activitiesExpress games through paintings

and integrate drama elements intogames

Weekly integrated activities

Integrate letters and figures into the games’ content, learn new dialect words/vocabulary

Weekly integrated activities

Morning circle: Discussing with children their feelings about national games and national culture (feedback)

Improved competences through integrated learning

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