From Friday, October 11, 2024 1:11 PM
to Thursday, October 31, 2024 1:11 PM
to Thursday, October 31, 2024 1:11 PM
Kindergarden Arediou
Open in-person activity
English
Odos Kyriakou Matsi, 2614, Arediou, CYP
We will celebrate with our partners in the eTwinning project: Good manners detectives the CODEWEEK. So, since we deal with a different social value every month, we decided to deal with the concept of cooperation. The aim of the activities is to introduce BASIC PROGRAMMING CONCEPT, to cultivate logical and mathematical skills, but also communication and cooperation skills in the students. Let's teach the little beebot what cooperation means! We could create cards with behaviors that show cooperation and behaviors that show children not cooperating. Cards can be created by students or ready-made cards can be used. We'll teach the little beebot only the right behaviors, planning correctly and avoiding uncooperative behaviors. If some of our partners do not have robots, they can draw a track on the ground with paper tape, place the cards on the track, and the students in pairs have the role of the driver and the robot. The driver will either give verbal instructions (e.g. 1 step forward, turn right, etc.) or with specific movements (e.g. a tap on the back means a step, a touch on the left arm means a turn to the left, etc.). Also, since many have more than one robot it can become a race (where they have a different starting point) as to which team can program the robot the fastest and collect the most cards with positive behaviors. These activities will be implemented within the framework of the eTwinning: Good manners detectives and specifically for the cooperation value and there will be instructions in Greek and English for our partners on the digital board: https://digipad.app/p/916109/81a8a2e12fca2 , where the relevant activities will be posted.
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Pre-primary education
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Basic programming concepts
Robotics
Playful coding activities
Art and creativity
Nearby upcoming activities:
Let's get to know the animals of the forest!
Fri, Oct 4, 2024 1:07 PM
Preschool age children will take their first steps in algorithmic thinking and programming and at the same time get to know different forest animals. The main goal is for the children to cultivate knowledge and skills of computational thinking, programming and coding, to discover forest animals with and without the use of the robot (unplugged), to raise awareness about animals, to communicate and cooperate and have fun.
As the beginning of October is designated as code week and at the same time we celebrate animals’ day, we could prepare a piece with the animals of the forest, making each school a card with an animal.
Activity title: "Let's get to know the animals of the forest". Children will be able to either use robots or themselves to move through a grid to meet the animals of the forest. It could maybe get more complicated, say the name of each animal in English. That is, each school to draw, record the name of the animal and create a qr code. Each school will print out the images with the codes and the child will scan each time they reach an image. This will depend on the age maturity and familiarity of the young students with the codes.
The activities will be published in a collaborative video, the link of which will be shared with the group members.
Pumpkin Day
Mon, Oct 14, 2024 3:00 PM
The aim of this activity is for the children to learn how the pumpkin festival is celebrated in other countries with which we cooperate in eTwinning: Colorful Preschool Time and to implement various activities that will strengthen their visual perception and take their first steps towards cultivating their algorithmic thinking.
Activity 1st: "Let's go to the pumpkin festival!" Children are asked to follow the route to reach the pumpkin festival by following the correct arrows.
Activity 2nd: "Crack the Code" A game in which children will follow the code and place the pumpkin pictures in the correct place.
Activity 3rd: "Follow the Code" Children will read the code made up of pumpkins and lines and write the code in the blank squares.
Additional instructions will be published on the digital board: https://digipad.app/p/830542/23ab7d4a60bcf, which will also contain the corresponding material. Also, the actions of the schools will be posted.
STEAM mystery!- Find my shadow!
Mon, Oct 14, 2024 7:58 PM
Materials needed: Beebot and transparent mat, mobile cards-pictures of animals, mobile cards with their corresponding shadows, riddeles for each animal.
Place the cards of animals under the transparent rid mat
A riddle card is chosen and is read to all the children. The children solve the riddle, find the animal and programme the beebot to find the corresponding shadow.