Update weekly programme is regularly sent by e-mail to the parents.
Sample weekly programme:

Christmas Bells are Ringing

The second white black week: 12-16 December 2011

 Objective:

• Learning about the existence of other cultures and countries

• Developing the ability to live with others and follow principles in society

Activities:

• Tuesday 13 December – an artistic photographer will visit to photograph the children

• Wednesday 14 December – visit to the theatre in Vysherad

• Friday 16 December – Christmas party at 16:00

Morning circle: “Christmas is here”

• Why do we celebrate Christmas? How do we celebrate Christmas in the Czech Republic? How do we celebrate Christmas in other countries?

• Engaging in popular Czech Christmas traditions – cutting apples, throwing shoes, nut ships in a basin, and pouring wax.

• What are the symbols of Christmas, what do they look like, and where are they used? Decorating trees, sweets, carp scales, presents, coloured chains, golden pigs, and cracking nuts.

Songs: “Vondráši, Matóši”, “Tichá noc”, “We wish you a Merry Christmas”

•  Practicing the programme for the Christmas party. Creating music and choreographed movement.

• Repeating songs and dances.

Games:

• Catching magic Christmas carps – developing patience and concentration

• Christmas Market – developing relationships between people following the rule of good behaviour and developing pre-mathematical quantitative reasoning

Creation: Christmas wishes, decorating the Christmas tree, Christmas carp, baking sweets

• Activities that target the development of fine motor skills (cutting, gluing, free movement of the wrist, developing hand muscles, practicing hygienic habits, working with non-traditional materials, learning new artistic techniques, creating group projects – learning to be a member of a group).

Vocabulary: Christmas tree, Christmas decorations, presents, carp, candle, sweets, jingle bells, Merry Christmas, ornaments, Christmas cake