European values...our values: Sparrowhouse Neukalen on visit in Estonia

As we promised in October we will now continue the report about our Comenius project „European values – our values“.
From 16 to 18 May 2014 three teachers of the Sparrowhouse Neukalen went to Tallinn and the nearby town Keila for the this year's project meeting.
We got a hearty welcome by the children and teachers of the Rainbow kindergarden in Keila. The children had prepared a great program with Estonian songs and dances telling about their country, their traditions and their life. In that kindergarden learn 257 children and for us it was really interesting to exchange experiences and to compare working and living conditions.
Our partners had prepared an exiting program for our stay. So we visited a very modern public school, had a meeting with the mayor of Keila who described impressingly what the town does for education, visited an open air museum, took part in a handycraft workshop, and had a great evening in the National Opera with the ballett Snowwhite and the seven dwarves. We experienced Tallinn as an old traditional but nevertheless young, dynamic and prospering city.
The main aim for the meeting was to evaluate the sofar results and plan the next steps. As we already reported pairs of dolls in national clothes from France, Hungary, Estonia and Germany are going to each other project partner's kindergarden. Up to now they have already a lot to tell. The children, together with teir teachers, spoke, read and discussed about the values trust, friendship, kindness, freedom and courage. Together they started to produce a book about each value, made a memory game and a common dictionary. All groups were very glad getting X-mas and Easter cards from the partner kindergardens/ schools.
Our puppets Paul and Lena are now in Hungary and we brought Juula and Juku from Estonia to Neukalen. Together with them we will work on the value trust.
The next project meeting will take place in Neukalen in September 2014. We are looking forward to meeting our friends from Hungary, Estonia and France at the Sparrowhouse in Neukalen.

See some impressions from our trip to estonia ...