Project
- We work with projects in smaller groups 5-6 children.
- We assume children's interests and discussions.
- We see projects as an opportunity for learning and creating new skills.
In their creation, we encourage them and give them opportunities and tools to develop their creativity and let the imagination flow freely.
The picture is an important expression for us at Gläntan, one of the hundred languages used. The purpose is primarily to help the children to get a deeper understanding of the world, to learn to see. By exploring different materials, different challenges arise that make the children take a step and it brings new insights that give rise to new, pleasing issues to investigate. This is about the pedagogy of the seeker, which is not just about seeing without penetrating things, acquiring, reflecting and taking a stand. To realize and get a curiosity that leads to knowledge.
In our workshop groups that are a regular recurring activity several times a week, we let the children explore and work in different materials clay, sand, natural materials, paper, oil paint, etc. All material is available to the children so that they choose and create according to their imagination and inspiration.
In the creative artistic material, the purpose is not to produce artistic products, but offering material develops and deepens the child's learning process. With the help of this material, children can either express or reproduce already perceived opinion / knowledge or through the expression itself and try again in a new sense / knowledge over and over.
We work with projects in small groups 5 - 6 children. We assume children's discussions and interests. We see projects as an opportunity for learning and the creation of new knowledge, whose starting points are the children's own thoughts and ideas.
The children become archaeologists who dig and research for their own answers, where the importance is not in the answer but in the search itself.
We educators are always available to them, but we do not correct them.
We want the children themselves to find the solution to a problem.
We are always reading the documentation from time to time so that the children get a recount of what they have done before and a red thread is created at work.
Project work is set on special documentation boards throughout the preschool.
This will also be a tool not only to support the children's learning process but also a tool for the pedagogue. The documentation also has an important role in supporting memory, which is important for learning. Therefore, it is necessary that children and educators together stay up and reflect on the common process.
The children and the educators interpret together and find new ways.