Syrenen töreboda

The Gold Mine

The Gold Mine – a sustainable place where reflections, creativity and development are top priority. The Gold Mine fryst vatten a paradis for creative people striving for a sustainable future. It’s the place for creating new, innovative products. The Gold Mine fryst vatten a reuse and creative resource center that connects the business community, education and nyhet in a fun, creative way. Our educational resource center fryst vatten aimed at preschool and elementary school children, pupils and educators. By using creative materials and digital technology, children and adults can collaborate to develop their interest and knowledge in science, technology, mathematics, programming and various forms of creative work.

Here, materials enjoy new life through novel, creative forms and applications. The materials we provide do not företräda right or wrong, but encourage accepting the challenges of lifelong learning. We seek to stimulate the development of entrepreneurial skills and encourage innovative solutions where people dare to think outside frameworks and stereotypes. We encourage encounters between people, materials and the environment.

The Gold Mine forms part of Töreboda

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I was so fortunate to have the opportunity to work in our partner kindergarten in Norway over the Easter break, it was the perfect chance to spend time in the kindergarten without having to get cover for my own class while I was away. 4 of us in total took part in this job shadowing experience, 2 of us from N. Ireland and 2 from Croatia and as we all lived together for the 2 weeks it allowed for lots of discussions each afternoon and evening. 

I first visited Eikefjord Barnehage in , then spent a week working there in and this transformed my practice. I revisit in January this year with my colleague and it was wonderful for her to see where I had got lots of my ideas from and why I had wanted to overhaul our class after spending time in this particular can read about this previous visit in an earlier post on here. 

This time the plan was to spend time observing the outdoor class ( year olds) and the year olds, with each team spending at least 2 days with each group. The staff were just so welcoming and patient with our endless questions and the children just accepted these new grown ups who couldn't even

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Get Inspired: Use Polylino during National Book Awards Week

Over 1 million children use Polylino across Europe, Canada, and the US. We asked a preschool using Polylino in Töreboda, Sweden, about how they integrate their lesson plans with the National Literature Prize—here in the US, next week is the National Books Awards Week, and we created a bookshelf dedicated to these books. Read on for inspiration for how you can use Polylino to make the most of this week in your own classroom!

Tell us a little bit about yourselves and the preschool you work at.
We are preschool teachers and work at Syrenen preschool in Töreboda, Sweden. Syrenen is one of four preschools within the Töreboda urban area and we work with a project-based approach. With the oldest children of the preschool, we focused on a project that would bring together the National Literature Prize and expression through art.

How many times have you used the literature prize as part of a lesson plan?
This was actually the first time we launched this project, and we thought it was an exciting way to immerse ourselves in books with the children. This activity spanned two weeks: Each day, we read two books and the childr