ESC: Volunteering in Narva kindergarten "Tuluke"

Our kindergarten has a long history of preparing children fo school. It was established in 1975. We have 10 groups in our kindergarten with about 20 children in each. They are aged from 1,5 to 7.Each group includes two teachers and one assistant fo the teacher. Our working team is consists of two 2 managing people, 26 teachers, 10 assistants for teachers,kitchen stuff,gardener,repairman and laundry worker. We offer a wide range of activities for children. Throughout the day, children acquire skills and knowledgeneeded for school. we aim to provide a curriculum that will develop creative thinking, imagination and communication skills. Children have such activities as games and learning,art,music, dance classes, indoor and outdoor sport activities. Every group has 3 or 4 classes every day. Curriculum includes music lessons, mathematics,Estonian and English language, physical education, handicraft and drawing lessons. Every lessin requires a lot of preparation. Tachers write lesson plans, prepare illustrative material and games to make classes more interactive and more interesting for children. Due to the location of our city we have a mixture of two cultures in our society. In our kindergarted we celebrate both Russian traditional holydays such as "Shrovetide" or "Maslenitsa" and Estionan such as "Mardipäev". Group teachers and music teacher prepare performances and decorate classrooms for holydays. We have groups of language immersion where all the activities are held in both Estonian and Russian languages. English language lessons are also conducted in our kindergarten. We also take part in a programme "Free of bullying".