Are you a kindergarten teacher (active, student, candidate for education competitions) and do you work with preschool children? Would you like to know more about syllabuses, the interdisciplinary approach, the project method and evaluation – self-evaluation?
Would you like to get in touch with me? ideas and suggestions for the organization of the kindergarten space and the classroom in particular?
Would you be interested in having one? collection of dating games, group games, whimpers, riddles, tongue ties, prayers that you could daily include in your schedule?
Would you like to meet secrets of presenting, teaching and editing songs, myths and fairy tales as well as ideas for daily and monthly activities done together with the children?
Finally, you would like to meet step by step how to make a project and to have the contact with 20 proposed interdisciplinary units for the whole school year, written in detail, with charts, objectives, materials and activities?
If so, then you are holding in your hands a valuable book, a help in the daily planning and organization of teaching! Its ultimate purpose is to help and support those teachers who think they need to know ways to create a learning environment that gives children the opportunity to develop all-round through creative activities and to participate in active processes through which the conquest and the construction of knowledge!
If you are not a kindergarten teacher, but you have children who are in preschool age, then you are holding in your hands a valuable and valuable educational tool! Apart from the fact that you are given the opportunity to get to know from the inside how a well-organized kindergarten is, you can use in your daily contact with children, in an educational and playful way, all the ideas proposed. Think, with simple materials and activities you can teach your child to write, read, count, create, think, but above all to be happy, have fun, play, be creative!
Dimitra Bardani -
"Kindergarten for all subjects" is the name of the excellent and first book of the kindergarten teacher Valsami Efstathiou - Kolokotronis.
It is a life project that the responsible author who loves and respects the child, the teacher and the human being, offers to Education, which in turn and with the help of the teacher, will make the child love school, learn having fun, for the parent to remember his own student moments and for the child to appreciate the older way of learning and playing, not in a pushy, clumsy way, but like in the old days, when we played on the floor and turned around with eaten knees and dirty clothes, but with red cheeks, with rich vocabulary, morons from a sweet childhood fatigue!
The book helps the teacher, the parent and the student to love the childhood which is the most beautiful, the most carefree, the most innocent and which by today's standards is a nightmare and not the beauty and sweet memories of every person, like a child...
He also respects the Greek language and like a perfect weave, he talks to us simply, every day, explaining to us how useful art is in general, in shaping the child's character. Art makes people good, occupation makes people good and useful, creative, which makes good characters and correct, useful people in society and in themselves.
According to Valsami, Education must have many types of occupation so that the child is not bored, neither is the teacher, and when a person does what he loves, then he is happy and successful in his life.
A great French child psychologist used to say that "it is not important how much time one gives to the child, but what one gives in that time".
Education = education and activity. These are among the most basic elements that if we offer the child, we will have good citizens and we will avoid all the evils of the world!
The author of the book, with a lot of love and responsibility, although young, gives us an excellent behavior lesson, which normally starts from the mother's womb!
Dimitra Bardani
Professor of French Philology, translator, writer, founder and president of E.L.O.S.Y.L. (association of writers, writers of Larisa)
Larissa, September 2016