Christmas is a very special time of the year, specially if you are working with kids. Even though you think you don’t like this season of the year, being surrounded by children definitely makes you change your mind about it. In the 3rd Kindergarten of Vrontados, this month has been […]
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One of the most important days for Greece is the 28th of October, also known as Οχι day. It commemorates the day where the Greek Prime Minister Ionannis Metexas said “No” to an ultimatum made by the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini to allow Italian troops to enter Greek territory and […]
During the last week the main topic in kindergarten was the North Pole and the South Pole. The teachers started by showing the location of these areas on our planet to the children. Afterwards they watched a video about animals who only live in the Arctic or Antarctica and learned […]
During the last few weeks, the main topic in kindergarten was water. The teachers started by explaining the water circulation to the children in an easy way. To start this topic the teachers first asked everyone where the rain and the clouds come from. The children could soon agree that […]
The 28th of October also known as OXI- day is a very important celebration in Greece. On that day in 1940 the Greek dictator Ioannis Metaxa refused to surrender to the Italian forces leaded by Benito Mussolini. Even though this decision ended in war Greek people are still very proud […]
After a long break of summer holidays schools finally started again on 14th of September. In the kindergarten we already started preparing everything two weeks before the children arrived at school. Every year the kindergarten teachers select a motto for the whole kindergarten. As this year’s motto is “castle” we […]
The 3rd kindergarten of Vrontados had their final celebration on the 24th of June. This year the schools and kindergartens were open two weeks longer than usually because they had to close for many weeks due to the outbreak of Corona in 2020. We, the volunteers were very happy that […]
Carnival is a very special time in Greece. It is a three weeklong period that belongs to the Easter festival. So it is a religious event with an old tradition. The whole period is called “Apokries” which means abstention of meat because it ends with the 48 days long fasting […]
Water is the elixir of our life without it we could not exist. Because of its importance for our lives the teachers of the kindergarten took the past two weeks to explain everything about water to the children. Starting with the question “how does water smell?” the children learnt at […]
As a big highlight of the year the 3rd kindergarten of Vrontados prepared a Christmas theatre for Sunday the 15th of December which they performed in the “ΠΕΚΕΒ” club. To have the best performance as possible the teachers started to practice the play already back in November. With much passion […]
This week both groups of the 3rd kindergarten of Vrondadhos did an excursion to the “Centre of Enviromental Education Chios”. The group where Robert helps went on Wednesday 30th of October and my group did the same the day after Thursday 31st of October. In a car convoy we made […]
The 14th of June was the last school day, and so a big part of our project ended for this year. It was an honor for us volunteers to be a part of the school the whole year, learn about the way Greek primary schools and kindergartens work, become a […]