8th KINDERGARTEN SCHOOL OF LARISSA-Prefecture of Thessaly

8th KINDERGARTEN SCHOOL OF LARISSA-Prefecture of Thessaly

Work Plan  <Cultural Routes of Wine>

Implementation of work plan for 

  • the vine and its derivatives
  • the cultural journey of wine through time
  • introducing students to business  (production & consumption)

Contributors:

Vlachostergiou Fani (educator)

Geka Triantafyllia (educational)

Kalla Theodora (educator)

Laina Maria (educator)

Beina Eugenia (educator)

Stop Alexandra

Harmani Maria (educator)

Maria Saliabuchou (general duties)

Niki Karagianni (Business Consultant)

Parents Association & Guardians 

GENERAL GOALS

A) Knowledge 

  • Students will learn about the grape, the harvest and everything related to it. 

B) Attitudes 

  • Students will acquire behaviors (social, business),
  • The students  they will perceive the offering of the grape in people's lives. 

C) Skills

  • Students will prepare must from pressing grapes (traditional grape pressing) and 
  • The students  they will understand the difference between the traditional and the modern way of making wine

SPECIFIC GOALS

Our primary goal is to  learn  the students 

  • to act independently and cooperate with joy and  enthusiasm for the production and consumption of wine, which is a top product  for  the  Prefecture  us,
  • to expand their knowledge about the vine and its uses (plant parts, growing conditions, cooking recipes),
  • get to know and acquire the ability to care for and plant a vine,
  • to learn how must, wine, vinegar, alcohol, raisins are produced from grapes,
  • be able to recognize the basic varieties of grapes and wines,
  • to discover and realize how often  the above derivatives are used in everyday life.

TIME DURATION  

Four hourly  meetings  with  every  department in  space  eight (8) months from October to June.

STUDENTS  

Toddlers – Toddlers

PLACE OF IMPLEMENTATION

The action plan will be implemented in a specially designed area of the 8th Kindergarten and in the facilities of the Wine Cooperative.

ORGANIZATION – METHODS OF IMPLEMENTATION 

(Teamwork-Interdisciplinary approach):

a) First  approach-Derivation : 

Visit  in  Our local winery where  is prepared the  wine  – see, smell, taste - experiential  approach  via  of  senses.

b) Groups-activities : 

Follow  discussion  where we decided to split  in  groups  work.

1) Information group : 

Research  on  libraries (school, elementary, personal) , in the press , in  Internet.

2) Group  questionnaire : 

Preparation  of interviews by  the  guests  experts  visitors (private  wine  producers, Director  Wine Cooperative, Sales Manager of Wine Cooperative).

3) Group  visual : 

Pottery, grape painting  with  print, Aesop's fables, the wedding of Cana, the parable of the vine, Dionysus the god of wine

4) Group  Folklore: 

Concentration  and  record  of proverbs, customs, folk songs & cooking  recipes.

5) Group  History-Mythology : 

Study  historical  sources  related  with  the  position  of  vine  from  old  to   today, collection  photos, vases  and  utensils  experts  for  the  wine.

6) Group  dance-music :

Cooperation  with  the  fitness trainer for learning  traditional  dances (e.g. ¨I enter  among  the vine¨). 

Cooperation  with  the  music for learning  of songs (A little wine, a little sea...)

7) Group  vintner-winemaker : 

In  frames  of  theatrical  game they will stomp grapes while singing about  songs and  they will produce wine.

MATERIALS - SUPERVISORS  IN :  

Slices,  slides, photos, videotapes, mock-up - thumbnail  distillery. Especially  instruments: Mouth meter, test  tube, electronic  computers, connection  at  Internet,, craft materials.

Experiential events : 

  • Press  of grapes,
  • Participation  in  celebration  of wine,
  • Visits  at  factory  production  of wine  of  Wine Cooperative,
  • Meetings  with  experts,
  • Report  cooperative work,
  • Presentation of research to all children  of  School,
  • Theatrical  game, Pantomime: Dionysus, wine press, feast,
  • Tasting Night.  

ACTIVITIES

Experiential - Teamwork Activities

In the 1st activity the children  they will watch a video on the school's interactive whiteboard from which they will get general information about the vine and then they will watch how it is planted, when it is done and under what conditions. Next, they will go to the school yard, where they will plant their own vines in the way they saw in the video. Before this is done, the students will be divided into groups.

<Dramatization>

With a dramatization of the song 'I enter the vineyard like a housewife', the children will 'tread' grapes observing and experiencing the whole process.

2nd Activity

In the 2nd activity, the students will watch three short videos about the derivatives of the vine. Specifically, in the first video they will watch information about wine, in the second they will see  the way in which the grape turns into raisins and in the third they will learn how the homemade vinegar is made. When the screenings are finished, there will be a discussion by the plenary of the students on what they saw.

3rd Activity

<I make my own wine>

Students will be provided with all the necessary theoretical and practical  knowledge about the wonderful world of wine.

The entire winemaking process from harvest to bottling will be presented. More specifically, it will be presented: 

  • the ripening course of the grapes,
  • the harvesting process, 
  • the corrections to the grape mass,
  • the process (course) of white and red vinification,
  • the work and the care of the wines in the cellar of the winery,
  • the stabilization of the wines and their bottling. 

A tasting evening will be held

4th Activity

In the 4th activity, students will go to the kitchen area to prepare <mustokouloura> and dessert of the spoon <grape>. The children will completely take over the execution of the recipe, that is, someone will read the ingredients needed and someone else will do the execution. While the performance is being read, each child will add some material. Then, once the fermentation is done by the students, they will shape their pretzels and have them bake.

They will make dessert of the spoon < grape> with the help of two members of the Parents' Association & Guardians.

<Sense Training Game>

With eyes closed, students taste, describe and guess the product.

5th Activity

The students in the 5th activity will proceed with the distillation of alcohol. The experiment will be carried out in their classroom by the representatives of their groups; what they will need for the experiment are 2 test tubes, a candle, a metal base, a peg, red wine and a plastic tube.

Basically what the kids will do is put the wine in a tube and seal it airtight with a cork. On top of the cork will be a tube which will "connect" the two tubes together by sending to each other the water vapors that will be created by the boiling of the wine. These water vapors will be liquefied by being transferred to the second pipe resulting in the creation of alcohol, which the students will smell to determine this.

6th Activity

Transnationality

Exchange of views and discussion on the subject of grape harvest and wine production with students from other countries.

COMPLETION-ASSESSMENT:

Student reflection: 

  • Kids will show great enthusiasm as they have never had the experience of experiencing the traditional way of 'grape pressing',
  • Children will acquire a lot of knowledge about the subject, cultivate their means of expression as well as enrich their vocabulary

Teacher reflection

  • Children will show great enthusiasm and joy

AWARDS

Cultural Wine Routes President's Award and 

Award of the Director of International Relations of the Ministry of Culture.

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