Home-school connection at la Sínia - The morning of the fruit

At this school, teachers and all the staff members are very conscious of the importance of the parents in the education of the kids, as well as the advantages that has a good relationship between teachers and parents. That's why they establish some moments to keep parents at the school, helping at the library, sewing, doing some expositions to the students, helping to create the customes on carnival, and so on. 

But today I have taken part of an original way to encourage the Home-school connection. It is called "the morning of the fruit"

During all the week, students of kindergarten are bringing some fruit: apples, bananas, strawberries, kiwis, pears... Then, on Thursday morning from 9 to 10, some parents come to the dinning room and start to peel all the fruit and to cut it in small pieces. They fill big bowls with pieces of fruit, in order to create a macedonia. This macedonia will be the breakfast of the kindergarten children.

Today, I have taken part of it. It has been amazing to see how mothers and fathers speak between them, comment some things that have happened recently at school (for example, today they have talked about carnival). They also have the opportunity to talk with some teachers that are helping to peel the fruits.

Apart from that, and focusing on the children, this activity promotes the good alimentary habits, because eating fruit is basic for their physical development and they have to get used to eat it.

This idea to promote the home-school connection was firstly used at L'escola Martinet, a public school of Ripollet which support and work with free education theories.