our neighborhood map with Logo

museum herakleidon presented a robot in our kindergarten in Athens. A bee was moving in a panel of 15x15 cm squares, using programming language Logo, to reach a bee hive.
we used the bee to visit our favorite places in our neighbourhood. We cut squares of 15x15 cm and drew our places of interest in our neighbourhood the we placed them, eith their labels, in a panel, constructing a map of our neighbourhood.


we all programmed the bee to visit our favorite places at our neighbourhood.


Hara Rentzelou, kindergarten teacher in Greece

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At a kindergarten in a greek village, where their living is the orange orchards, we decided to promote the local fruit, in the form of juice.
We organazed a senario for it , we made our research and we made an advertisment for the the fresh orange juice, the best:





Mathematical concepts; In order for the children to conceive the length and proportion we play various games:
Handling of objects is the key to knowledge, as Piaget says. Observation and comparisons come afterwards.
I would like to share some of my projects with you, just because they helped children to understand and enjoy mathematics.



Height
We measure ourselves against the wall. We have created a measure with centimeters and we put our names in the centimeters we reach.

First we measure ourselves barefooted, and we see our height.
After some months we measure ourselves and put the new results. The difference we take home in a piece of colored tape.

This activity triggers a lot of comparisons and observations.(why younger children were taller than older, why some gained more hight than others e.tc.)






riddles with animals

Summer is coming and children need to do pleasant and creative things. You can play riddles with your kindergarten child , as I am sure you do.Here is a paper they can play with compiling riddles to show you:


Ps the illustrations are done by Mark Weinstein

describing a friend

The children decided to describe a friend, in order to paint his/her portrait. We wrote down the description and then they mixed the colours to find the appropriate shade for the face. After it dried, they added the eyes, the mouth and the eyebrows, and the result is here: