Results of Comenius project 2011.

Reena UusmetsTallinn Nurmenuku Kindergarten

The skill of verbal expression has been developing faster in roles and in everyday life;

The children are developing topics themselves during dramatization;

The children have acquired new expressions; They are playing creative games by themselves; They are dramatizing independently more than last

year; Noticeable improvement in implementing creativity; Collaboration skills have improved; The children have the courage and skills to express

themselves non-verbally, but there is room for improvement.

Results of children verbal skills and creativity development.

There is a difference between ordinary groups and speech therapy group children progress.

Imagination has improved among 5-7 years old;

The development of expression and collaborative skills is noticable;

Progress in speech therapy group.

The children are bold, feel good in a role, act according to a role, are able to express themselves clearly, audibly and with different intonation. Stage movement has also improved.

Dramatizing based on viewed spectacles, developing new skills for example in the field of pantomime or storytelling with singing the story (Sleeping Beauty).

Use of different dances-children like them to watch, dance the easier ones.

Use of dramatizations and drama games.

Estonian dramatization with Austrian song about Sleeping

Beauty.

Memory Children play with interest; They have learned new words; They are interested of distances between the

countries and ways of reaching the countries. They know different flags and state names,

objectives and food of specific country; Dice-game is rather difficult for kindergarten

children, teachers help is needed.

Children knowledge improvement about partnercountries.

Knowledge has improved mostly. Teachers have gained information from

different sources. Teachers are actively involved in looking

information about partnercountries.

Teachers knowledge about partnercountries.

Participation in different courses: kindergarten inner courses and self-found courses (storytelling festival in Tallinn, Our voice-our toolinstrument for work, dramapedagogy).

Tallinn legends-teachers dramatization in 4.03.2011 Our kindergarten aim-learning throw playing-investigating

new styles, methods, looking other teachers lessons and activities.

Visiting partnercountries schools, kindergartens, communication with partners-good opportunity to get acquinted to new teaching methods and styles.

Looking with children partnercountries dramatizations from DVDs, CDs-new ideas of dramatizing.

Teachers article writing skills have improved.

Improvement of teachers storytelling skills.

Tallinn legends-Estonian teachers dramatization.

Better in using computer programs-making movies, editing filmclips, adding text to the movie, work on our Comenius blog, making storybooks with special programs.

We had a course for ITC skills improvement.

Teachers ITC skill improvement.

Raamatute pildid.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared

to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson