Project “The Essence of Sense”: education of senses in pre-schools

Since 1st of November, 2017 Gulbene 3rd Pre-school “Auseklītis” together with Gradinita nr 7 (7th Pre-school in Bucharest, Romania), "Räpina Lasteaed Vikerkaar" (Räpina kindergarten “Vikerkaar”, Estonia) and "Mar Antiguo" (organization that runs kindergarten “The forest of Darwin” in Granada, Spain) has been involved in amazing "Erasmus+" strategic partnership experience, the project called “The Essence of Sense”. Our international cooperation was aimed to explore methods and practices in pre-school education institutions based on SENSES, ENVIRONMENT AND NATURE. The main idea was to raise the knowledge of teaching stuff and use of practices that tend to exercise and activate all the senses of children, use nature and environment in active learning process, to emphasize the importance of natural environment versus “four walls” for normal development.
During 12 months 41 teacher form 4 kindergartens have participated in short-term training events, organized in each of our partner institutions. Coming back after training event teachers shared their acquired good practice for other colleagues in kindergarten. On 12th of October, 2018 in Gulbene, Latvia 10 participants from Spain, Estonia and Romania shared their knowledges of education of senses in the dissemination event for teachers in Latvia. Each partner has also created a short video story about the most interesting methods of their organization. Here they are:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbcJi7dh8O4 (Romania)
www.youtu.be/nBHQk8wIWv0 (Estonia)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuBozZOu9YI (Latvia)
www.youtu.be/xuOd-wDBmNE (Spain)

Ilze Vanaga
Project assistant
Gulbene 3rd Pre-school “Auseklītis”