• August 27, 2025

📚✨ Just before the new school year begins, we remember...

How is a language concept “built” in our classroom?

For us, language is not just a subject. It is a way to communicate, to express ourselves, to observe the world around us. And that’s exactly how we started this time too… from life itself! 💬🌿

🎯 Our goal: to get to know verbs – the words of action – and to organize them based on their spelling endings. But not theoretically. Not dry. Experientially!

🤸‍♂️ “Today we become… spring!” we told the children. And we went outside! We observed, moved, played, and recorded everything that spring “does” around us.

🐾 The children gave spring a voice:

“I am spring and I blow, bloom, water, sprout, dance, buzz…”

And so, our classroom filled with verb lists – full of action, imagination, and meaning! 🌼✍️

🧠 Then, we studied all these verbs together:

▪️ We grouped them

▪️ We searched for patterns and rhymes

▪️ We formulated spelling rules

▪️ We became little… linguists!

📖 Each group of verbs became an object of study through:

✔️ research in authentic texts

✔️ audiovisual material

✔️ discussion

✔️ written practice

✏️ In this way, learning became play, research, and creation. Because when language “lives” within us and around us, then it can truly… #verbsinaction

An idea inspired by a similar project about the wind by educator Dionysia Mamfreda.

Big Bang Teachers: Dionysia Mamfreda, Eirini Tenta