Dwarf workshop
Text and photos: Nicoleta Oprea
We were happy to meet again on Saturday for another workshop. Back from holiday, we came back with new strength and a lot of playfulness.
In this hour, the children entered the fascinating world of fairy tales and met two characters: Ping and Apolodorus.
Ping is the hero of ,,A Penguin Story" by Marcela Peneș. He is a small, cuddly and clean penguin, who was very keen to keep his clothes clean. Everyone around admired him for how clean and shiny his tuxedo was, and he was proud of it. Because Ping refused to play outside with other children for fear of getting his clothes dirty, he had no friends. When he started going to school, Ping didn't walk alone, lest he get dirty. His parents carried him on their feet and even carried his schoolbag. All the children laughed at him and didn't understand why he was behaving like that. Because of this, Ping began to be lonely. One day, a penguin fell into a hollow and sprained his leg. He didn't know what to do. He cried out for help. Ping was nearby. He reached him without delay. And without a second thought for his coat, he didn't let up until he helped him out of the crack between the glaciers. From that day on, Ping understood what friendship meant. His coat was just as clean, but now that wasn't the most important thing to him.
The second character the children met was also a penguin.
Eva also took her friend Apolodor to school, named after the main character in Gellu Naum's ,,The Book of Apolodor". She also brought us the book from which we read some passages. The little ones learned that Apolodorus sings in the choir and that he has good friends at his side, the lion Amedeus and the kangaroo Elijah. He missed his country very much and longed to return to Labrador. The wonderful story of Apolodorus can only be told if you join the character on his life's adventure.
On the creative side, the children made a penguin. They applied white paper to black plastic cups. The orange balls were the very outline of their hands, and the naughty penguin was ready.
From this hour, the penguin dance could not be missing. Even though we're not big dancers, we all had fun imitating the penguin's moves to the beat of the music.
The last game of the hour was "Stone Bridge". Children's hands joined with parents' hands to form a bridge that we all walked under.
Play, personal development and photography
Text and photos by Raluca Tudorache
Last lesson was again a little big adventure where we combined practical things with fun. The topic was very simple: Photo-vocabulary - improving vocabulary and capturing great photo poses out of the ordinary context.
So we set off on a little trip, and ventured out, but not too far from the school. We had as objects of interest: nature, interesting buildings around and passers-by.
So we made a set of pictures inspired by words starting with each letter of the alphabet, thus remembering many Romanian words, learning new ones or even inventing some, which made this new game very funny.
The picture alphabet has thus become a game of discovery and enrichment.
The children were surprised to discover what a wide palette they have and especially that, with one word, they can be very creative and versatile. We stopped at the letter L as the lesson was coming to an end and the light was getting dimmer and dimmer.
The kids were so excited that they forgot about the little snack they like to enjoy at recess.
And speaking of snacks, don't forget that next Saturday we will meet at another location for the cooking workshop offered by Adriana Miu.
Romanian language and culture
Text and photos: Eliza van Peppen
After a week's holiday, here we are, back in the classroom with enthusiasm and curiosity tackling a new theme: 'Us and our talents'.
Our lesson started with the reading of the story "The story of the baby hedgehog" by Lucia Muntean. We chose this story because it is a beautiful and simple story that talks about the process of self-discovery and the various questions we ask ourselves in our process of forming our own identity. Our baby hedgehog, small and seemingly fragile, setting out on his first walk in the world and getting to know the other inhabitants of the forest, notices with much amazement that he is very different from everyone he meets. Wishing he looked like a bunny, a frog or a sparrow, the baby hedgehog eventually discovers that being a hedgehog is a very interesting job and comes to appreciate those traits that make him different from others.
With the help of the baby hedgehog who didn't know the role of his spikes and who thought everyone looked like him, we discovered and named some of the talents we have (some can draw, others can sing, dance, tell stories, play football. etc). We also talked about the emotions we felt during the story, but also in other moments of our existence. Thus fear/fear, amazement, joy, courage, disappointment were presented, one after the other. Examples of the different situations when we felt joyful, amazed, brave were not long in coming either.
Along with hedgehogs we have listed other animals we know. We played a game of 'animal dominoes' and classified animals into 4 categories: wild, domestic, house and forest animals.
With the help of the characters "Bobiță and Buburuză" we learned about friendship and how to treat our friends.
We sang and bounced to the beat of the song:
Our lesson ended with the creative moment. Each child was given a template and drew/coloured their favourite animal.
We look forward to seeing you this Saturday when our school moves to Adriana's home for a cooking workshop.
