EARLY EDUCATION, EDUCATION FOR VALUES

Early education, Education for values

Motto: "The creative power is the spirit itself. It gives our whole thinking"

Henri Delacroix

Theme:	Communication through art (music, plastic art)
Time period:	October, 2002 - March, 2003
The initiative team:	national coordinator: Elisabeta Negreanu - scientific researcher - The Institute of the Education Science local coordinators: Adriana Manolache, Mariana Petre - teachers, specialty educational inspectors - Prahova School Inspectorate team members: Steliana Georgescu, Elena Paun - educator, I^st level external co-workers: The Art Museum Ploiesti, The State Philharmonic Ploiesti, teachers of Primary School Edinburgh
Motivation:	The child is unique, it is an unreiterable "premiere" of combined features which become a "magical synthesis". Entering in the world of arts and trying to communicate and share the real values with the other around them, the child will have the feeling of recovered freedom, of its own satisfaction, of the living pleasure to create. It is said that a child's drawing is a "screen" of his inner self. HOW and HOW MUCH can the subjective world of a small child be deciphered? WHAT hidden, unknown messages are expressed in the child's artistic creator products? The answer to this question is given by the symbolic values of drawings as "vehicles" and "activators" of psychological information, which the child is incapable of expressing verbally, but only emotional-imagistic through graphic lines, colors, shapes, positions and dimensions of the characters or subjects that are drawn. Communication through art is invested with significations, emotions, feelings and thoughts which the child lives in connection with the real world. "You have to get to sing with a pencil or with the painter's brush as well as you do it with your voice", said Henri Delacroix, "to have the abilities of a great merited master". In favorable circumstances, some of these child's qualities come to surface as a self revelation. To "sing" with the painter's brush or to imagine with your mind's eye true paintings singing. There is a close connection between the two arts. Everywhere around the child there are colors and sounds that blend together and harmonize, beginning from the interior of our planet to the unlimited space above it. "The cosmic music may be best observed in earthly or heavenly thing, in the element's and season's diversity and even if its sounds do not get to our ears, we know that there is a musical harmony in the sky" (Aurelianus de Reome, sec. IX). Human's music exists in its body and especially in the soul. That it raises the soul, preparing it to understand and accept life. The beauty in music is a way to touch good, having a moral - educational important role. All emotional movements from our veins are connected through rhythms of harmony's virtues. Thanks to interior harmony, that fits our personality, we see exterior harmony as sounds. We see music from outside because it is already inside us.
Purpose:	Enlarge the notions and representations sphere about real values in plastic arts and music Communication through art language of some emotions, feelings, attitudes, with children of similar age from Great Britain Transmitting some messages of good and beautiful through music and plastic arts Building through art some links between our children's souls and other children from another country Developing the feeling of belonging to a group who together with can realize wonderful things Developing self trust and the capacity to transmit, to evaluate the result of this own creation to its real value Cultivation of some feelings of friendship towards all world's children
Objectives:	To recognize works of art of Romanian and foreign plastic artists (exposed at The Art Museum, art album, exhibits. To reproduce freely plastic themes to specific drawing To compose in a personal and original way a part of the plastic spot available to them (the other part being completed by the British children) To see on the internet the result of their artistic creation To freely and creative interpret the plastic works created by their and their friends from Great Britain To develop musical abilities through original interpretation of songs To be able to realize a voice-instrumental music coordination so as the final result to satisfy their taste in music To be able to realize a CD, at a recording studio To take contact through the internet with children from Great Britain and to make experience exchange with them on musical themes.
Methods:	Observation Conversation Exercise Learning by discovering

CALENDARUL


Visit to The Art Museum in Ploiesti	October, 2002
Opening The Painting Group	October, 2002
Plastic-artistic activities in The Painting Group	weekly
Visit to The State Philharmonic Orchestra Ploiesti	November, 2002
Talking with Romanian singers from the "Culture Palace" Chorus	November, 2002
Opening The Music Group	November, 2002
Musical activities (learning songs, auditions) inside The Music Group	weekly
Partially creating drawings with Romanian children, so as they can be sent to children in Great Britain to finalize them	December, 2002
Recording songs at a musical studio	January, 2003
Realizing an album which contains the children's paper works (Romanian & British)	February, 2003
Sending the CD that contain the children's song in Romanian and English	February, 2003
Organizing an exhibit with the children's paper works and also a mini-concert	March, 2003

DISPLAYING ON THE KINDERGARTEN'S OFFICIAL SITE THE CHILDREN'S ARTISTICALLY CREATIONS (WITH THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF ROMANIAN AND BRITISH CHILDREN)

AN ALBUM WITH THE CHILDREN'S PAPER WORKS

AN EXHIBIT WITH CHILDREN'S PAPER WORKS ORGANIZED IN AN EQUIPPED SPACE

CD WITCH CONTAINS SONGS IN ROMANIAN AND ENGLISH

ORGANIZED SHOWS IN AND OUT KINDERGARTENS