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A story-telling bag was produced for the book Habibi. This contained characters and objects some home-made that could be used to recount the story in the book and to bring it to life (a donkey, spices, dates, figs, etc.).
In the project My family and I, parents and children talked about themselves, producing paintings, short texts and a name memory game. After the book Where can my cat have got to? was discussed, stories were told, painted and written.
Parents and children working after the book The Giant Turnip.
How do you say good morning in your mother tongue? The 29 children in the preschool class speak twelve different mother tongues at home. Every child is therefore addressed differently by his or her mother, and says goodbye to her differently at the preschool gate. So that we can also talk to the children, we focus each week on a different language and say good morning in that language. Cards are made and hung on the entrance door during the week as a reminder
The Bramfelder Dorfplatz school is a through primary and secondary technical school with 835 pupils, and is therefore one of the largest of its kind in Hamburg-Bramfeld. It consists of one preschool and twelve primary school classes, an observation stage with six classes, a lower secondary school with six classes, and a secondary technical school with seen classes.
The Memory Game A memory game with photographs and names of the pupils has been produced for learning the names of the children in the large class, and to provide a focus for discussion. The name of each child is shown on the reverse of one of each pair of cards. To play the game, a card without a name is turned over first, so that the childs picture is seen, and then the player looks for the second card. Increasing numbers of children pay attention to the written names in the course of the preschool year.
Photo album project When they first go to school, every child in the class is given his or her own photograph album with pictures of life before school. The child makes a crucial input into preparing the album, choosing the pictures and sticking them in, telling the mother what to write next to the pictures, and laying out the pages.
Adolph-Diesterweg-Schule
The Adolph Diesterweg school is a primary school with a preschool department in the large new suburb of Neuallermhe West. It has about 460 pupils, many of them from countries of the former Soviet Union. The Family Literacy Project runs in three preschool classes. Since the Adolph Diesterweg school is in a new district of the city, it has set itself the task of encouraging contact between different people from widely varying backgrounds. Promotion of language and social skills plays a major part in this.
Using play as an introduction to reading encourages interest in books. The creative use of paper, pens and paints helps children to express themselves. Having books as a familiar part of life prepares the way to written language.
Adolph-Diesterweg-Schule
Discovering the world of the alphabet Children enjoyed a wide variety of alphabet games and exercises with their parents. Sixteen tables were set out with different games and tasks. The tables were managed by the parents, who helped the children. A range of learning goals were encouraged, such as:
Logical thinking Coherent speech Observation Making correct combinations correctly Finding ones bearings physically and socially Organization and development of self-reliance
Trust between parents and children was a key to success. Even smaller brothers and sisters showed interest in the learning games. The tables not only provided information about the world of the alphabet but also encouraged active observation and thinking, drawing and writing as a step on the way to reading and writing.
Schule Chemnitzstrae
The Chemnitzstrasse school in Hamburg-Altona is an integrated primary school with a preschool department and more than 400 pupils from multicultural backgrounds (predominantly Turkish, but also from Africa, South America, etc.). The school is a cultural school which works closely with artists. The Family Literacy Project runs in two preschool classes.
Parents, children and teachers visiting the library.
A booklet is put together, based on the book The Mouses Birthday by Paul Maar, containing all the animals and presents. Vocabulary is expanded, and the correct use of articles is practised. Articles are marked in colour.
Schule Chemnitzstrae
Family photographs provide plenty of opportunity to record individual situations that have a personal significance. Little stories and comments added by mothers make the background and context clear to the child, who also sees his or her parents writing. The albums produced in this way are not only given to the children when they first go to school; some of them are also read out by the mothers at school events.
GESAMTSCHULE ALLERMHE
Mohameds mother, who is generally very reticent because she cannot speak German, confidently wrote down in Arabic what he dictated to her.
GESAMTSCHULE ALLERMHE
Book with a picture story by Mateusz in Polish. A total of eight books were produced in seven different languages.
Kindertagessttte Allermhe
Kindertagessttte Allermhe
A session for parents and children based on the book The Giant Turnip by A. Tolstoy The parents and children did not know the story. They devised and put together their own story piecemeal about the people, animals and plants that occur in the story. At the end, the book The Giant Turnip was read aloud by Ms Schnke. The listeners had fun recognising their own ideas and characters. The aim of the project was to allow the children to see what can be captured in writing.