Educators week

Buna!

Usually we prepare our activities with the kids week by week trying to combine creativity, movement, culture, fun and new things for them. Usually we have an idea which will be the topic of the week (music, theater, drawing, animals, dancing, sports...) and we develop specific activities and games for each day. We use our skills and tools we have of our training and work and personal experiences with kids to create our timetables. We work all together in this process which starts with a brainstorming in our living-room :).

One week our project team offered us an "educators week": a week completely planned by the educators with their own activities.

I will explain you how it was in Vila Raluca with the small kids:

In my Vila the educators are so good with crafts so we did quilling and crochet.

 

I've never done quilling before so all the kids teach me to make beautiful flowers.

We also played games, sang romanian songs and they teached me to dance romanian traditional dances like hora:

                                                 

And there was a special activity: cooking sarmale, a traditional romanian plate. 

 

Ingredients:
- Minced meat (half pork half beef)
- Cabbage
- Rice
- Onions
- Tomato sauce
- Salt, pepper, chopped dill, cimbru
- Oil   

We also cooked vegetarian sarmale, so instead of rice with meat, we use rice with potato, onion, carrot and tomato.

Sarmale is served with sour cream and mamaliga which is a porridge made out of yellow maize flour, traditional in Romania and Moldova.

Sarmale needs 3 hours to be cooked so after the waiting we ate full plates all together:

Al :)