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WORKING TOGETHER – PARENT INVOLVEMENT
Examples of activities
Example 5 - Croatia Example 6 - Croatia
LONG TERM PARTNERSHIP WITH THE WHOLE
FAMILY
ACTIVITIES:
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Adaptation period in the group
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Workshop within the Comenius project regarding the
water pollution
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Landscaping the back yard and gardening
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Visiting the grandparents farm (with 2 groups)
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Celebrations with the family at their home
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Different workshops during the years WELCOME WEEK PARTY - an annual welcome party at
the beginning of the school year
Main goals: getting to know each other, developing social
emotional connection, bonding as a group, making the
transition from home to kindergarten less stressful.
Activities: competition games, group dance, different sports,
work activities (wall painting), barbecue.
The whole family has been involved in the early age
education throughout the years which resulted in a great
cooperation between preschool and family and many
great moments together. Mother was in a group during
the adaptation period (both of her kids) which went pretty
smooth and the girl was well adapted into the group. In
the years to come she held a workshop within the
Comenius project regarding the water pollution and father
was actively engaged in landscaping of our back yard
and gardening. In that way parents actively participated in
the process and shown their children the importance of
education and partnership with school.
One of the benefit of parental involvement is
establishing a social network. Parents of other children
of similar age provide support and consolation,
sources of information and family connections that can
be lifelong. Social connections between children
provide security when transitions, such as
kindergarten, occur. A child may be more willing to join
a group or activity if his parents are involved in this
important transitional period of child s life
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