Senses

Activities:

Use the senses to recognize / know foods and preparations.

Aims:

- Stimulate the senses to recognize foods;
- Learn to discover hidden foods in the various dishes proposed through the senses: smell, taste and
finally the sight;
- Enhance the senses at the time of the meal and the products.

To whom it is addressed:

The activity is aimed at all children.

Where is it:

At the school (in class).

For Example: The mushrooms's week, where the kids prepare a box full of mushrooms bring it by themself from home.

The game of the food (Workshop)

Activities:

The workshop begins with the figurative representation of nature (blue mats with medallions with fish to depict the river, a yellow mat with ears to symbolize the wheat field, a green with vegetables and orchards, a brown with different animals etc).

The game consisted of collecting two medallions representing various foods to the girls and boys; later, drawing some cards with the image of a different emoticons, “I eat well”, “I eat nothing”, “I eat a little”, “I take too much”, the girls and the boys had to insert the medallions in the life bag or the waste bag respectively (depending on the card taken).

At the end it will be noticed as in the mats depicting nature, there were many foods that, unfortunately, had ended up in the waste bag.

Aims:

- Litter, Food and Climate changing
- Made clear to young people how there is an indissoluble link between nature and food.
- Learn with games

To whom it is addressed:

The activity is aimed at children of Muumid and Mesimummud.

Where is it:

At the school (in class).
November after the kids have more awareness about the concept of waste

Family at the kindergarten for lunch/breakfast

Activities:

- Eat together with children, parents and teachers a recipe already included in the menu offered to children of the nest.

- In the lunch/breakfast there will be different food from other countries and show the culture of different places

- During the lunch the teachers and children will answer the questions of the parents to understand some better topics related to the wasting of food.

Goals:

- Global citizen and Food

- Make parents aware of the importance of following a healthy diet for the health of their child;

- Make known to families the feeding offered to children in the nest;

- Provide parents with new ideas on "what to cook" for their children;

- To disseminate theoretical knowledge about the emotional value of food.

To whom it is addressed:

The initiative involves class groups (identified by the coordinator project) for the parents for one day.

The helpers, the coordinator and educator of the structure will be present.

Where is it:

Kindergarten Endla

For Example: Laste Maailma Kohvik

https://www.tallinn.ee/est/endla/Uudis-Endlas-avatud-Laste-Maailma-Kohvik

Active involvement of teachers and parents in awareness activities

This project wants to create an active participation of teachers, parents and competent people in the

realization of activities of sensitization within the kindergarten.

The first activities will be tested with the girls and boys our kindergarten to raise awareness on the issue of food and water waste and, subsequently, actively involve them in the phases of the project planned to raise awareness of the other classes of the School.

The girls and the boys will actively participate, reflecting on the themes presented and giving many ideas to be realize with the younger companions. Underlining that it is necessary to deal in more detail with the connection between nature and food that could be not very understanding for small children.

Õppeaasta lõppes Endla lasteaias lemmikloomapäevaga

Õppeaasta lõpp oli elevust täis, kuna lasteaias oli lisaks kaaslastele veel uusi ja karvaseid sõpru tulnud uudistama. Näiteks külastas lapsi liikumisõpetaja Marjet koos enda koera Sammyga, õppejuhil Liinal oli kaasas kääbusküülik Välk, õpetaja Mare tõi õues oleku ajaks enda koera, lisaks võis päeva jooksul kohata kahte kassi - Alberti kass Saskia tuli reede hommikul tervitama kõiki tulijaid ja Sipsiku rühma kaaslaseid, Berthal oli kaasas klaaskarbi sees väike kärbes, Johanni kass tuli õhtul lapsi tervitama, Mona vanaema koer ja Saskia ning Simona koer külastas sõpru õhtusel ajal ja veel teisigi. 

https://www.tallinn.ee/est/endla/Uudis-Oppeaasta-loppes-Endla-lasteaias-lemmikloomapaevaga

We have lunch together

Activities:

- Children will have lunch together with the kids of other classes.
- Childrenì will have the opportunity to do the "lunch together" every day with another class . At the beginning of the food education activities, the teachers will explain the lunch of the day, their ingredients during which the children will consume together  with new friends and their teachers.

Aims:

- Waste, Water and Food
- Begin to reflect on how important it is to socialize with new people, sharing the food so as to decrease the waste and making a varied and balanced lunch;
- In the activity we will also explain the importance of the water and teach them how to dont waste it.
- Discover new spaces.

To whom it is addressed:

The activity is aimed at children of Endla Kindergarden.

At the school (in the kitchen).

Also we will create special activity to make this activity more interesting after the passing of the years.

Changes of view

Activitiy:

The kindergarten will make the possible to create an Eco-friendly environments, changing as most as
possible the appliances and create green spaces for the kids.

The principal change made by Endla Kindergarten was to make a unique space for the food time to the kids, changing old fornurite (Fridge, dishwasher daily use and stove).

Also create a sport space where the kids will have all the free to use it and renovating also old forniture that consume more energy.

Aims:

- Health and Well being, wasted, water and litter.
- Check the green-energy costs of the place.
- A place where the kids will socialize and learn about the food wating problem

To whom it is addressed:

- President (Gryyne Ott) and Vice (Liina Sugis) of the Endla Kindergarten.

Where is it:

At the school (in the kitchen class, sport class).

We hope in the future to continue to change old forniture to create a green Environment in our school