1. COMENIUS MULTILATERAR PARTNERSHIP LEARNING THROUGH DEVELOPING INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECTS 2012 - 2014 INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECT What, how, when, where, why do we play?

2. Community Autumn festival Show -program for the parents: special invitations, games and props

3. Get-together event at the kindergarten: Our parent’s childhood games

4. Get-together event at the kindergarten: Let’s create new games together

5. Look how creative we are: The tree of our games !

6. Did you know that… International Play Association (IPA) which is an international, interdisciplinary, non- governmental organization founded in 1961, promotes the child’s right to play. on 1 st February, 2013 United Nations adopted the General Comment on Article 31 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, including the Child’s Right to Play as a fundamental human right: “That every child has the right to rest and leisure, to engage in play and recreational activities appropriate to the age of the child and to participate freely in cultural life and the art”. games are universal. nearly all popular children’s games are children’s folk games, stretching back hundreds of years, embodying cultural knowledge. games are being passed down generation after generation and most of them have never been written down. games enhance learning process and encourage cultural awareness and exploration. games are the most efficient way of upbringing essential life skills for children and anticipating their adaptation to their adult life. many children get the most pleasure out of playing folk games even with all the new video games and other high-tech toys out there. there are special games being played only during certain calendar festivals. Lithuanian folk game “Master George” is the most popular game in Lithuania.

7. Visiting open-air ethnographic museum Children got notion about Lithuanian ethnographical regions, way of life, traditions, different national costumes, national dialects and played traditional games in authentic surroundings.

8. Weekly integrated activities These activities integrates arts, crafts, dance, sports, etc. and are applied for kids according to their age groups

9. Weekly integrated activities Children create props/tools for games…. And play with music instruments…

10. Weekly integrated activities Children play out-door/in-door games and get notions about the games’ rules Create fairy-tales based on the games

11. Weekly integrated activities Express games through paintings and integrate drama elements into games

12. Weekly integrated activities Integrate letters and figures into the games’ content, learn new dialect words/vocabulary

13. Weekly integrated activities Morning circle: Discussing with children their feelings about national games and national culture (feedback)

14. Improved competences through integrated learning

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