Education plan

Week 2: Life at the pond

 Objectives:

• Getting to know the animals at the pond: Learn to identify ducks, frogs, fish and their behaviour.
• Understand food chains: Understand what the different animals eat at the pond.
• Get acquainted with aquatic plants: Know the reeds, the water lilies.
• Develop fine motor skills: Art activities, modelling.

Activities:

• Pond modelling: Using clay, plasticine and natural materials.
• Walk: A visit to a real pond in Stromovka.
• Art activity: Drawing and painting the pond scene.
• Learning numbers: Counting fish and frogs in pictures. 
• Graphomotorics: graphomotor exercises on the topic
• Animal Shadow Assignment
• Puzzle of life at the pond
• Linking a given image to its detail

Week 3: Pets

Objectives:

• Getting to know the pets: Learn to name different types of pets and their characteristics.
• Understand their needs: Learn what animals need to live (food, shelter, care).
• Develop responsibility: Awareness of the responsibilities associated with caring for an animal.
• Practice counting: Counting pets and their needs.

Activities:

• Drawing and modelling: Drawing a pet
• Reading and discussion: Stories about pets.
• Practical activities: Preparing "pet care" in the classroom.
• Shearing: Production of animal masks.
• Graphomotorics: graphomotor exercises on the topic
• Search circle: which animal in the circle is a pet and which is not?
• Getting to know your pet's fur: what kind of coat does the animal have?
• Where does the pet live and what does it eat?

Week 4: Autumn around us

Objectives:

• Recognise the signs of autumn: Learn about changing leaf color, leaf fall, changing weather.
• Understand the life cycle of trees: Understand how trees change during autumn.
• Practice fine motor skills: Work with leaves, art activities.
• Learning a poem: Dragon on a string

Activities:

• Walk and collect: Collecting leaves, pine cones and other natural materials.
• Art activity: Creating autumn decorations from leaves.
• Experimentation: Creating "prints" of sheets with colours.
• Learning numbers: Counting the collected leaves.
• Learning a poem: Colourful autumn
• The trail: end of the programme with a trail with tasks in the park
• Graphomotorics: graphomotor exercises on the topic

Week 2: Shapes

Objectives:

• Recognize basic shapes: Learn to recognize a circle, square, triangle, rectangle.
• Use shapes: Learn to put shapes into pictures.
• Develop spatial orientation: Recognize shapes in the environment.
• Develop fine motor skills: Cutting shapes, working with geometric building blocks.

Activities:

• Sorting games: Sorting objects by shape.
• Pattern construction: Building patterns from geometric shapes.
• Drawing: Drawing and colouring shapes
• Shearing: Cutting out shapes and creating collages.
• Graphomotorics: graphomotor exercises on the topic
• Matching a small shape to a large one

Week 3: Musical instruments

Objectives:

• Recognize musical instruments: Learn to recognize basic musical instruments.
• To understand sounds: Learn what sounds each instrument makes.
• Develop musical perception: Learn the basic concepts (rhythm, melody).
• Practice fine motor skills: Making instruments, playing instruments.

Activities:

• Listening to music: Listening to the sounds of different instruments.
• Production of tools: Creating simple tools from household materials.
• Musical games: Playing manufactured instruments.
• Counting: Counting beats and rhythms.
• Search circle: find a given musical instrument
• Counting: count the musical instruments and match them to the number
• Pin circle: matching the shape silhouette pin to the picture
• Sorting: sort tools by size

Week 4: Travelling the tastes of the world

Kids will go on a culinary journey around the world! Each day they will visit a different country, taste its typical dishes, learn about its traditions and try out different cooking skills.

Objectives:

• Learn about the cultures of different countries through their traditional dishes.
• Develop sensory perception - recognise the tastes, smells and textures of food.
• Practice fine motor skills when cutting, mixing and shaping food.
• Promote interest in healthy eating in a playful way.
• Develop cooperation in the preparation of simple dishes.

Activities:

• Culinary map of the world - Children will create a world map and add pictures of typical foods from different countries.
• Tasting day - Children will taste different fruits, vegetables, spices or baked goods and guess their names.
• Sensory game "Know the food blindly" - Blindfolded, children get to know different tastes and smells.
• The restaurant game - Children will play chefs, waiters and customers in a restaurant with food from all over the world.
• Art workshop "My plate of the world" - Children create a paper plate with pictures of foods they would like to taste.
• Use of eating utensils from different cultures - For example, eating with chopsticks, hands or spoons according to the traditions of different countries.

Week 5: Halloween

Objectives:

• Learning about traditions: Learn about the traditions and symbols of Halloween.
• Develop creativity: Production of Halloween decorations.
• Develop the imagination: Distinguishing between real and fantasy worlds.
• Practice fine motor skills: Production of decorations, cutting.

Activities:

• Mask production: Creating Halloween masks.
• Halloween party: Preparation and realization of Halloween celebration.
• Storytelling: Scary stories and acting scenes.
• Counting: Counting Halloween items (pumpkins, candy)
• A poem: learning pumpkin poems
• The trail: end of the programme with a trail with tasks in the park
• Graphomotorics: graphomotor exercises on the topic
• Production: Pumpkin Splinting

Week 2: Occupation

Objectives:

• Learning about the profession: To learn about different professions and what they entail.
• Understand the meaning: To learn why professions are important.
• Develop interest: To stimulate interest in different professions.
• Develop practical skills: Playing the profession, working with tools.

Activities:

• Occupational games: Role-playing in different professions.
• Art activity: Drawing people in different occupations.
• Visiting experts: Meeting with parents who will introduce their profession.
• Shearing: Production of tools and items related to the profession.

Week 3: Healthy x unhealthy foods

Objectives:

• Getting to know the food: Distinguish between healthy and unhealthy foods.
• Understand the impact on health: Understand how food affects health.
• Develop healthy habits: Learning to make healthy food choices.
• Practice fine motor skills: Working with pictures of food, cutting.

Activities:

• Sorting images: Sorting food pictures into healthy and unhealthy.
• Art activity: Creating a "healthy plate" from pictures.
• Practical activities: Preparing healthy snacks.

Week 4: Means of transport

Objectives:

• Recognize means of transport: Learn about different types of transport (cars, trains, planes).
• Understand the functions: Understand how and why the means of transport are used.
• Practice fine motor skills: Work with models of transport vehicles.

Activities:

• Drawing: Drawing and colouring different means of transport.
• Modelling: Creating models from kits.
• Reading: Travel stories.
• Counting: Counting vehicles in pictures.
• Graphomotorics: graphomotor exercises on the topic

Week 2: Animals in winter

Objectives:

• Getting to know the animals: Learn how animals survive the winter (bear, fox, deer).
• Birds: where are they going? 
• Develop care: Learn about caring for animals during the winter.
• Practice fine motor skills: Drawing, making animals.

Activities:

• Drawing and modelling: Creating models and pictures of winter animals.
• Reading stories: Stories about animals in winter.
• Walks: Observation of animals and their tracks in the snow.
• Shearing: Cutting out and creating winter decorations.
• The trail: end of the programme with a trail with tasks in the park
• Game feed the squirrel: number cards

Week 3: Christmas

Objectives:

• Learning about traditions: Learn about Christmas traditions and symbols.
• Develop creativity: Production of Christmas decorations.
• Practice sharing: Promoting sharing and giving among children.
• Practice fine motor skills: Production of decorations, paper cutting.

Activities:

• Art activities: Creating Christmas decorations and cards.
• Preparation of the celebration: Preparation and implementation of the Christmas party.
• Reading and storytelling: Stories about Christmas.
• Counting: Counting Christmas decorations and presents.
• Graphomotorics: graphomotor exercises on the topic
• Baking gingerbread cookies

Week 4: Winter

Objectives:

• Recognize the signs of winter: Learn about snow, ice, winter activities.
• Understand winter weather: Understand how weather affects nature.
• Develop aesthetic perception: Observing the beauty of the winter landscape.
• Practice fine motor skills: Painting and modelling winter scenes.

Activities:

• Painting winter: Painting and drawing winter landscapes.
• Modelling: Creating models of snowmen and winter characters.
• Games in the snow: Playing winter games in the snow (weather permitting).
• Shearing: Production of paper snowflakes.

Week 2: Holidays and traditions around the world

Children will take a journey around the world and discover different holidays and traditions from different cultures. They will learn about how people celebrate important events, their customs, what they eat, how they dress and the joys of holidays.

Objectives:

• Learn about different cultures - to see how people around the world celebrate holidays.
• Promote openness and tolerance - learning about and appreciating the differences between cultures.
• Develop creativity - make traditional decorations, masks and other handicrafts associated with various holidays.
• Practice expressive skills - tell stories and share your own holiday experiences.
  Explore the world in a fun way - discover new countries and their traditions through games and activities.

Activities:

• "Holiday Calendar of the World" - Children create a large calendar and draw different holidays from around the world, such as Chinese New Year, Indian Diwali, Mexican Día de los Muertos or American Thanksgiving.
• "World Tastings" - Each day, the children taste or make a typical dish associated with a holiday (e.g. gingerbread for Christmas, rice cakes for Chinese New Year, pancakes for Shrovetide).
• "Holiday Workshop" - Making ornaments, masks and decorations inspired by different traditions (e.g. paper lanterns for a Chinese festival, colourful masks for a carnival in Brazil).
• "Holiday Dance" - Children will learn simple dances or songs associated with traditional holidays, such as Hawaiian hula dancing, Irish step dancing or African drumming.
• "Fairy tales and legends" - Every holiday has a story! Children will listen to legends about holidays and can try to retell them themselves or perform them as a small theatrical performance.
• "The Little Traveller" - Each day we "land" in a different country and explore how it is celebrated there. Children will experience the traditional dress, decorations and customs of that culture.

Week 3: My family

Objectives:

• Learning about family relationships: Learn about roles and relationships in the family (mom, dad, siblings).
• Understand the family structure: Recognize different types of families.
• Develop respect: Learning to respect and help family members.
• Practice fine motor skills: Drawing family pictures.

Activities:

• Drawing the family: Drawing portraits of family members.
• Art activity: Creating family trees.
• Narration: A story about his family.
• Shearing: Making a "family album" out of paper.
• A poem: acquaintance with the poem Family

Week 4: Animals from Africa

Objectives:

• Learning about African animals: Learn to recognize animals like elephant, giraffe, lion.
• Understand the environment: Understand how animals live in an African environment.
• Develop interest: Promote interest in foreign countries and animals.
• Practice fine motor skills: Drawing and making animal models.

Activities:

• Drawing: Drawing African animals.
• Modelling: Creating animal models from clay or plasticine.
• Reading: Stories about African animals.
• Counting: Counting animals in pictures.

Week 5: Weather

Objectives:

• Recognize types of weather: Learning to recognize the sun, rain, snow, wind.
• Understand the impact of weather: Understand how weather affects the lives of people and animals.
• Develop observation skills: Learn to observe and record changes in the weather.
• Practice fine motor skills: Weather-related art activities.

Activities:

• Drawing: Drawing different kinds of weather.
• Observation: Keeping a "weather diary".
• Art activity: Creating pictures with different weather.
• Shearing: Production of paper clouds and suns.
• Graphomotorics: graphomotor exercises on the topic
• Weekly weather calendar: we'll be recording the weather all week

Week 2: Little Scientists' Magic Lab

Children will turn into little scientists and discover the fascinating world of science and experiments. Using simple experiments and fun activities, they will explore physical, chemical and biological phenomena and discover that science can be magical and full of surprises!

Objectives:

• Encourage curiosity and experimentation - Children will discover the principles of science through simple experiments.
• Develop logical thinking and observation skills - learning to explore the world around them and to look for connections.
• Promote collaboration and teamwork - work in groups on scientific tasks and share their discoveries.
• Deepen fine motor and practical skills - perform experiments with different materials and tools.

Activities:

• "Colour Chemistry" - Children will try simple chemical reactions, such as changing colour with lemon juice and baking soda or making rainbow milk with food colouring.
• "Invisible Air" - Experiments with air: how we can move objects through the air, how wind is created and how bubbles work
• "Magic Water" - Experiments with surface tension of water, for example, an impermeable pencil bag or floating pictures on water.
• "The power of magnets" - Children will explore what magnets attract, how they can control objects remotely and create a magnetic maze.
• "Exploding volcano" - Making your own volcano out of dough and vinegar and baking soda so the kids can see how the eruption takes place.
• "Static electricity" - Experiments with balloons and static electricity, such as lifting papers or pulling hair.
• "The world under the microscope" - Observing different materials and small objects (e.g. leaves, sand, hair) under a magnifying glass or a child's microscope.
• "Scientific Magic" - Fun illusions and optical illusions, such as magical disappearing colours or "levitating" water.

During this week, children will try their hand at being little scientists and discover that science is not only useful, but full of magic!

Week 3: Animals in the sea

Objectives:

• Recognize marine animals: Learn about fish, sharks, dolphins and other marine animals.
• Understand the environment: Understand how animals live in the sea and what their needs are.
• Develop interest: Promote interest in the marine world.
• Practice fine motor skills: Drawing and making sea animals.

Activities:

• Drawing: Drawing sea animals.
• Modelling: Creating animal models from clay or plasticine.
• Reading: Stories about sea animals.
• Shearing: Production of fish and sea creatures.
• The trail: end of the programme with a trail with tasks in the park

Week 4: Mardi Gras

Objectives:

• Learning about traditions: Learn about the traditions and symbols of Mardi Gras.
• Understand the meaning: Understand the meaning of carnival celebrations and their history.
• Develop creativity: Production of masks and costumes.
• Practice fine motor skills: Work with materials for the production of masks.

Activities:

• Role plays: Carnival processions.
• Art activity: Creating masks and costumes.
• Narration: Tales of Mardi Gras.
• Learning a poem: The Jester
• The trail: end of the programme with a trail with tasks in the park
• Pexeso: children connect the face with the costume

Week 2: Animals in the forest

Objectives:

• Recognize forest animals: Learn about animals like the deer, fox, squirrel.
• Understand the environment: Understand how animals live and adapt to the forest environment.
• Develop interest: Promote interest in nature and the forest.
• Practice fine motor skills: Drawing and making animal models.

Activities:

• Drawing: Drawing forest animals and their environment.
• Modelling: Creating animal models from clay or plasticine.
• Reading: Stories about forest animals.
• Familiarity with the poem: Ant
• Sorting by size: which animal is the biggest?
• Animal tracks: we learn to identify which track belongs to which animal.

Week 3: Spring around us

Objectives:

• Recognise changes in nature: Learn about spring changes like flowers, plant growth.
• Understand natural processes: Understand basic spring cycles (budding, growth).
• Develop observation skills: Observing changes in nature during spring.
• Practice fine motor skills: Painting and working with natural materials.

Activities:

• Drawing: Drawing spring flowers and scenery.
• Art activity: Creating pictures and models with a spring theme.
• Observation: Walking and observing the spring changes.
• Shearing: Production of paper flowers and spring decorations.
• The trail: end of the programme with a trail with tasks in the park
• Graphomotorics: graphomotor exercises on the topic

Week 4: City of the Future

Children can imagine how we will travel (flying cars?), what kind of houses we will have (skyscrapers made of plants?) and how we will live. What will the world look like in 100 years? Will we be driving flying cars, living in smart homes or have cities full of green and robotic helpers? Children will become little architects, inventors and explorers of the future! They will create their own futuristic city where they can let their imagination run wild and imagine the world they want to live in.

Objectives:

• Encourage creativity and imagination - the children themselves design what the future might look like.
• Develop technical thinking - think about buildings, transport and technology.
• Learn about green solutions - How can a city operate sustainably and in a way that is friendly to nature?
• Practice cooperation and communication - in the joint planning and construction of the city.
• Develop fine motor skills and creativity - building models, painting and coming up with designs.

Activities:

• "Building the city of the future" - Children create a model of a futuristic city from blocks, cardboard, boxes or Legos.
• "Transport of the future" - Inventing and drawing flying cars, underground railways or eco-friendly means of transport.
• "Smart House" - What gadgets will the house have in 100 years? Children can draw or model futuristic housing.
• "My helper robot" - Every child imagines what kind of robot they would like to have and what it could do. Then they can paint it or make it out of materials.
• "Green City" - Talking about how a city can be green: solar panels, rooftop gardens, clean air.
• "Inhabitants of the future" - Role-playing: How will people live, what jobs will they have, what will they wear?
• "The invention of the future" - Each child invents and draws their own invention to help people in the future.
• "How do I see the future?" - Children draw how they imagine the world in 100 years and then talk about it.

Week 2: The Universe

Kids become little astronauts and take a journey across the universe! They will discover the planets of the Solar System, learn about stars, the moon and black holes and discover what it's like to be an astronaut.

Objectives:

• Exploring the Universe - learn about planets, stars and cosmic phenomena.
• Develop imagination - inventing our own planets and alien beings.
• Practice fine motor skills in the creation of rockets and planets.
• Promote scientific thinking - experiments with gravity and light.
• Learn about the astronaut profession and what life in the universe looks like.

Activities:

• "We're launching a rocket!" - Children make their own rockets from cardboard or plastic bottles and symbolically "launch" themselves on a space mission.
• "Journey through the Solar System" - Children will create a model of the planets and learn about their properties (e.g. hot Venus, rings of Saturn).
• "Search for Aliens" - Children draw or model their own alien creature and invent its home.
• "Life in Space" - Children will experience what it would be like to live on a space station (e.g. eating, sleeping, moving around in space).
• "Space Lab" - Experiments with gravity, light and the darkness of space.
• "Night Sky" - Observing stars and constellations (using apps or thematic projectors).
• "Cosmic Music" - Listening to sounds from space and creating your own "space tunes".

Week 3: Farm animals and their abilities

Children will go on a journey of discovery to discover the fascinating abilities of animals. They will discover that some animals have almost "supernatural" skills - they change colours, see in total darkness, hear ultrasound or can regenerate parts of their bodies. They will explore how and why these animals use their abilities and put themselves in their shoes through games and creative activities.

Objectives:

• Discovering the world of animal "superheroes" - children will learn about the fascinating abilities of different species.
• Encourage scientific curiosity - we're going to explore how these animal abilities work.
• Develop creativity and imagination - Children invent their own "super animals" with unique abilities.
• Practice movement skills - animal-inspired movement activities.
• Encourage a relationship with nature - talking about how to protect animals and their environment.

Activities:

• "I'll turn into a chameleon" - Children will experience what it is like to blend in with their surroundings using colourful fabrics and lighting effects.
• "Eagle Sight" - A game of long range detail recognition like a real eagle.
• "Dolphin Speech" - A fun game with sound signals transmitted like dolphins.
• "Spider webs" - Making spider webs and testing spider agility on an obstacle course.
• "Regeneration as a mlok" - Talking about animals that can regrow body parts and making a newt model.
• "Bee Dance" - A game where children use movements to show the way to the "flower" just like bees.
• "Create your super animal" - Each child designs and draws their own animal with unique abilities.
• "Animal Olympics" - Children will try running like a cheetah, jumping like a kangaroo or climbing like a squirrel.

Week 4: Environment

Objectives:

• Learning about the environment: Learn about conservation and the environment. Learn to sort and understand the concept of sorting.
• Understand ecology: Understand the basics of ecology and the importance of conservation.
• Develop interest: Promote a responsible approach to nature.
• Practice fine motor skills: Production of decorations.

Activities:

• Drawing: Drawing nature scenery about conservation, sorting bins.
• Art activity: Creating decorations from recycled materials.
• Observation: Walks and nature observation.
• Shearing: Production of ashtrays for sorting, production of our planet.
• A poem: Getting to know the class waste poem
• The trail: end of the programme with a trail with tasks in the park
• Sorting: We learn what sorting is and sort waste together all week.

Week 5: Colors

Objectives:

• Recognize colors: Learn to name and recognize basic colors.
• Distinguish shades: Recognize different shades of primary colors.
• Develop aesthetic perception: Use colors in a variety of artistic activities.
• Practice fine motor skills: Painting, working with coloured papers.

Activities:

• Coloring games: Color recognition games.
• Painting: Painting your own picture.
• Experimentation: Mixing colours and observing changes.
• Shearing: Working with coloured papers and creating mosaics.
• Graphomotorics: graphomotor exercises on the topic

Week 2: Life Cycles

Objectives:

• Recognize life cycles: Learn about the life cycles of different organisms (plants, animals).
• Understand growth: Understand how organisms grow and change during life.
• Develop observation skills: Observing the growth of plants or animals.
• Practice fine motor skills: Work on life cycle projects.

Activities:

• Drawing: Drawing the stages of life cycles.
• Art activity: Creating life cycle models.
• Production: production of life cycle books
• The butterfly cycle: life cycle observations on caterpillars in the nursery.

Week 3: Animals in the zoo

Objectives:

• Getting to know the animals in the zoo: Learn about the animals that can be seen in zoos.
• To understand animals: Understand how animals behave and live in the zoo.
• Develop interest: Promote interest in animals and their protection.
• Practice fine motor skills: Drawing animals.

Activities:

• Drawing: Drawing animals that can be seen in the zoo.
• Art activity: Creating pictures and models of animals from paper.
• Reading: Stories about visiting the zoo.
• Shearing: Production of paper models of zoo animals.
• Search circle: find an animal from the zoo.
• Circle cards: counting animals in a circle

Week 4: Garden

Objectives:

• Recognise garden plants: Learn about flowers, vegetables and other plants in the garden.
• Understand care: Understand the basics of garden and plant care.
• Develop interest: Promote interest in gardening and nature.
• Practice fine motor skills: Work with gardening materials.

Activities:

• Drawing: Drawing flowers and gardens.
• Art activity: Drawing the garden and the plants we can grow in the garden
• Observation: Growing plants in pots or in the garden.
• Graphomotorics: graphomotor exercises on the topic
• Cultivation: children grow their own plants

Week 2: Bees

Objectives:

• Getting to know the bees: Learn about bees and their role in nature.
• Understand the life of bees: Understand how bees live and how they make honey. Tasting honey.

Activities:

• Drawing: Drawing bees, honeycombs and their hives.
• Observation: Observing bees in pictures or beekeeping videos.
• A poem: Getting to know the poem Bee.
• Graphomotorics: graphomotor exercises on the topic

Week 3: Summer

Objectives:

• Recognize the summer changes: Learn about the changes that come with summer (heat, vacation).
• Understand the activities: Understand what activities are typical for summer (swimming, picnics).
• Develop joy: Promote the joy and positive experiences of summer.
• Practice fine motor skills: Working with materials to make summer decorations.

Activities:

• Drawing: Drawing summer scenery and activities.
• Art activity: Creating summer decorations.
• Narration: Tales of summer adventures.

Week 4: Dinosaur Week

Objectives:

• Learning about dinosaurs: Learn about the different species of dinosaurs.
• Understand history: Understand when and how dinosaurs lived.
• Practice fine motor skills: Drawing and making dinosaur models.

Activities:

• Drawing: Drawing dinosaurs and their environment.
• Modelling: Creating dinosaur models from clay or plasticine.
• Reading: Stories and facts about dinosaurs.
• Shadow memory game
• Assign leather detail
• Sorting: we sort dinosaurs by size.
• Haircuts