NAME OF TEACHER: Anna Maria Di Cicco

MUNICIPALITY OF: Meldola HOME PRE-SCHOOL: Scuola Materna Paritaria Mons.A. Lega HOSTING MUNICIPALITY AND PRE-SCHOOL:

Moldal , Bifrost for skola

The children while partecippating in school life are encouraged to be individually responsible, therefore making them idependent and able to menage the varius areas of the school respecting their specific proupose .

Strategies are used to favour personal expression of each single child and to facilitate direct and indirect learning.

And outdoor education consents the children to expirience the beauty nature, becoming explorers able to be amazed and feel wonder at what they observe.

A child that experiences nature becomes able to respect it and avoids behavior that leaos to waste.

Level of autonomy of the child (independence, competences) :

The children are self-sufficient at mealtimes paying particular attention to preparing the table and presenting the food.

The children are

autonomous in choising what they eat and the quantity.

The climate wohilst eating

is always serene and informal.

The teachers encourage the childrens’ capability to make sense of all the different experiences.

Mealtimes are a moment of great relational whorth compatible with outdoor life. The children have to obey different

rules from those used when eating inside.

The children behave orderly when laying the table and clearing away. Each has a role when it comes to recycling.

the teacher encurage the childrens’ capability to make sense of all the different experiencens, facilitating the child’s development regarding autonomy and independence this also consents the children to relate and control their body enabling them to do and experiment various activities without becoming discouraged.

From a very young age exploring indepently the environment gives the children the opportunity to develop their sense of orientation enabling space becoming aware of their capabilities and their limits.

They are able to understand the rules of everyday life . They have a strong tendency to ask questions and they are able to negotitate the meaning.

The teachers stimulate the children to give the reasons behind their decisionns and their behaviour enabling them to become responsible

the school’s surrounding enviroment ,is for the children a natural extension of the school

All the elements that can be found outside are subject to exploration and research.

The children partecipate, secure in what they discover and they are stimulated to follow-up on research.

. The children have a variety of instruments of a high quality level that they can use to esperiment

and explore.These instruments are always

available for the children to use when ever they feel the need.

The teacher’s rule is of utmost importance and favours the interaction between the child and the environment focusing on the child’s natural curiosity. The teacher is a guide that helps the child to ask questions and uses each child’s query to promote group discussion.

Much time is dedicated therefore permitting the children to experiment new footpaths and trynew stategies, respecting the varius research style of each child.

Exploring the enviroment permits the children to experiment the various elements that make up nature, stimulating their indipendence and creativity.

The didactic method used at the bifrost pre-school together with its education programme permits the children of all ages to perceive, hear, observe, ask questions , to outline explanations and to see things separetely and then to link them together with a logical connection.It also permits the children to perceive the human imprint in nature and discover nature’s imprint inside of them.