Another week without Pan Alberto

     Our dear spanish Pan Alberto was in Torun this week for a training so only girls were in the kindergarten!! It's the best moment for the International Woman's Day :)
    We've got flowers, sweets and greetings from boys :) It was very nice and pleasent!

    In the end of the week we invited Mikolaj for a workshop with kids.
Mikolaj is a great polish boy who is providing workshop for us and helping to prepare performances with juggling, clowns and other circus staff. Kids of group 7 were crazy about discovering the circus world. They try to work with scarves and balls for juggling, they made some acrobatics and enjoyed our small performance also. It was a great experience not only for children but also for us because it inspire us to create something more.

The topic of this week was Spring and especially flowers and plants. So our super coordinator Pani Marzena had the brillant idea of planting some flowers and vegetables with our kids. 
On friday we had planted different types of seeds. Here you can see some steps of the work. We hope to get success at the end. We are gardeners!!

 Maja and Clara with group 7 and group 4 had fun today and were glad to share something together. Next week Alberto has a big challenge to do the same with group 6!!! 
We will show you the result in several weeks. 

Maja and Clara :) 

Not boring everyday life

   From the beginning you can think, that every day in kindergarten is looking like previous one. But, we will try to prove the oposite!
   Guests are always welcome in our kindergarten-family, especially when it is guests from theatre! Last week we had great performance about pirates. Together we´ve learned how to name different parts of ship and what we have to scream to the captain: " Yes, captain!"

  Spring is coming, holidays are keep going...we have great tradition to gratulate everybody who has birthday, wish all the best and sing a song "Sto lat!" Using a possibility, we want to say "Happy birthday, Basia!" one more time! By the way, sweets on birthday is also a great tradition!

  Topic of previous week were professions, future choice if work. And our teachers provided interesting workshops to show children these jobs in real life. They were coming to shop, driving a car and even trying to help with teacher´s work!

  

Volunteers started to prepare for the Easter, big Easter-eggs will be a great decoration for the homies.

A bit of creativity, time and passion will create a good mood for holidays! =)

Hoping for the sun and great spring in Poland!

Your volunteers Maja, Clara, Alberto.

Presentation time! - Better latter than never

Maybe right now, the children and even teachers and helpers know almost all about volunteers. Just to share more things with kids we did some presentations of our lives (families, cities, food and friends). And now, after productive polish lessons and our hard work on improving this language we could do this presentations in polish!

It was a really great moment because kids were very interested in our occupations. Some of them wanted to know what we liked to do when we had their age and it was funny! Kids asked such question as what we had done before kindergarten, if we liked to play or eat                                                                         ice cream.

We showed photos from our childhood. Here you can see how Maia has not change too much.

Apart from presentations, we had a common activity, it was a theatre it seemed to be very funny, they played different version of Czerwony Kapturek. The volunteers tried to understand something… Maia could!

 On the other hand, some of us had our own activities too. Clara’s group made a snowman, to remember that we are in winter, though is a soft winter…

Group 6 had a nice visit from the school, children, volunteers and teachers enjoyed the time dancing and singing. Marzena and Annia worked hard to make the event possible, in this photo you have an example, Marzena is everywhere!

See you early!

Clara, Maia, Alberto.

The blog is on fire!

During winter holdays we had the opportunity to visit the closest fire station. First the firemen showed different way to turn off the fire, with different technics.

 

But after some examples of how to turn off fire, they showed his trucks and devices as firehoses. We can see here the firemen opposite the children acting as an emergency. 

Then we went inside the building. They gave all the children a lesson about first aid, and even some of them practiced the process. 

Finally they had time to enjoy, discover and even touch many things from firemen equipment.

Everybody wanted to feel themselves in a real truck and it was funny for 3 of us too as you can see ;) 

See you soon with news adventures !!!

Maia, Alberto and Clara

Happy Friends Day!

Last week in our kindergarten took place new and very excited feast! We celebrated World Frienship Day!

Values are very important nowadays, so we decided to make this week something different, the friendship day, with the idea of pani Marzena we started doing some craft presents, and in the last week we have been working on it.

Here you can see some volunteers making their crafts with the children and helping them:

Children prepare his presents in their clases. Each group made a different present. You can see it in the photos.

Each classroom of each volunteers did one different present to give to other class. So the main purpose of the event was to show the children the value of friendship and sharing.  Teachers, some helpers, volunteers and children tried to work more or less together to reach our common goal. These gifts were made with a great pleasure and passion by kids, they have created decoration with candles, spinning tops, balls for the game and pen-holders. 

 On the photos you can see that just small present can make mood of every person much better! We will continue working in some events like that remark the importance of friendship and respect in the live.

As a conclusion of this day we can say, that the kindergarten can work as a team, with the effort of all the people, of course is more difficult to work together but we can reach better results. 

Maia, Clara, Alberto.

Winter holidays - Ferie zimowe

As everybody know schools and high schools have two weeks holidays by this time. So only volunteers are working now. Well, "working", but we have the help of some of the staff of the kindergarten, as teachers and helpers. We could say that we are taking these two weeks as a relax working.

This photo represents the few live is now the kindergarten.

But these days are a good chance to use the time to prepare next events. Volunteers are ready now for the Friendship Day! We tried to do our best with the official poster of this day, and that is the final result. Sorry, but the volunteer (Maia) is not included in the poster!

                                                                                                                                                              Anyway, we are in the kindergarten, it means we also have children, may be not too much but enough children to help the staff with some changes in the decoration. For example removing christmas decoration. 

On the other hand, the children who decided to come are not booring, of course, teachers have activities for all of them to make funnier the days.

Theatres, films, music, tales, puzzles. Although not only children are enjoying activities, and challenges. Here  you can see volunteers working hard to finish some of the puzzles, no one could say this puzzle was for the children... 

Well we took the photo when the puzzle was already finished. Two hours later of the beginning...

At the moment this is all in in Przedskole 176, next weeks we will be back with more activities, more news and we hope MORE CHILDREN.

See you. Maia, Clara, Alberto.

Great carnival after holidays!

Hello! Back to the kindergarten after holidays, we all have more events. All the volunteers were happy to be here again all together and alive, all of them had a beautiful holidays in theirs own countries.




One example of the return of the volunteers
were the theatre activities they did in some classes.

Children had amazing and very interesting carnival before winter-vocations. New costumes, a lot of sweets, Indians and Cowboys, dances and smiles - it is all about "Zabawy", which took place this week in kindergarten. =)

This week we also had special events in honor of all the lovely babcia and dziadek, We really hope they enjoyed it and they had some delicious food too. Children presented handmade gifts for grandparents, they tried to make this day special for them. Singing, dancing and declaiming poems, we can do more!!!

We will see ypu again after the winter holidays, with more photos of the grandfathers events and with more histories.