The Feel –Good Band 1A form

The Feel –Good Band Hello, my name is Svetlana Bolya. I am a teacher from Lithuania. I teach primary school students, aged This is my eighth class that I will teach from grades one to four. I have worked in school for twenty eight years already. My credo is a unity of patience, respect and insistence towards each student.

This year I teach first-graders. Our team is called Little Explorers and is a part of this project!

Little Explorers Our school is proud to have its own traditions. We meet our future students long before they start school. To maintain continuity and to enable a gentle transition in order to avoid emotional trauma, schoolteachers come to the preschool institutions to meet the children for the first time. The teachers attend celebrations, teacher- parent meeting and give advice to parents how to help prepare a child for school.

Little Explorers We organize open door days in schools, where children and their parents can watch an exciting show with fairytale characters which playfully tell them about school, give a tour, play games and competitions with the little ones. Further on, during the entire school year preschoolers attend specially designed, game- like lessons. Gradually, they get used to the teachers and are able to select the teacher they would like to have in school.

Little Explorers Classes are relatively short – three 30 minute lessons. In addition to that, the preschoolers will be treated to special celebratory occasions – Christmas and New Year, a Fairytale Day. Last year we organized a most captivating cognitive competition game – Tricky Questions.