Linnunlaulu Päiväkoti

 

As the chronicle explains, the building where the  school was founded is more than a hundred years old, and it includes different services, which are very well indicated in a placard on the entrance.

 

As it seems to be characteristic in all the centers, the zones of the garden are very well thought of. We can see an original way to do a sandbed that, at a time, can be used as a meeting point, to explain stories, etc.

 

A brilliant idea, a small house to hide in it, to create stories... The bushes, that are just growing, will make it an authentic hiding place.

 

We observe, in the background, some trunks to keep the material. They have different measures. A more conventional furniture is being substituted by the creation of natural corners.

 

A practical and efficient thing that it is often found in the streets of the cities and in the entrance of the houses.

 

They explain us the center’s projects in detail.

 

In one of the zones of the building we find a workshop for puppet construction and a small theatre which is used by groups of professionals. In exchange for the facilities they build the puppets that are needed in the centers of the area and teach groups of children to do them.

 

A special corner. The sofas, positioned in one or another form, are a resource to create environments.

 

Large windows. They allow the entrance of light.

 

Around the windows many situations are created and proposed.

 

One of the moments of the meal.

 

One of the moments to sing.

 

A furniture with many drawers to classify all the materials that the children find in the nature.

 

One of the trays in which they keep the material to classify it or to do some exhibition.

 

The stones that they have found have served to create some mice.

 

Not all the children eat at the same time. We found tables prepared.

 

The teachers also made shifts to eat. They explained to us that, for them, this was a very important moment of encounter and communication.

 

In the same space where the teachers eat we find a corner with a table prepared for two children to eat. We often had the sensation to find ourselves in a very familiar environment.

 

A clothes’ tapestry painted with paintings was sewn by the parents with the school’s sewing machine, and subsequently hung up on the wall.

 

We find many furniture as the one we would find in a house, adapted to the school’s functionality.

 

The documentation under the light of a window, decorated with dry flowers.

Trip To Finland with the magazine Infancia from the Teachers’ Association Rosa Sensat. April/May 2002
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