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Reading and language education: Inspiration day
As part of the Reading Offensive, Flanders Literature and Everyone Reads worked with ninety schools on two effective approaches to promoting reading: interactive reading aloud in nursery and primary education and author residencies in …
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New series of Book Seeker webinars
During the 2023-2024 school year, Elke Leest, the organization behind Boekenzoeker, is organizing a third series of webinars. They familiarize professionals and parents with the recent range of books for children and young people.
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Media Scanners: Workshop
Information bubbles, propaganda, censorship... These are phenomena that are as old as our (visual) language. But how do you recognize them? How do we avoid polarization? The Media Scanners workshop introduces students to sources from the Second …
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Long live bamboo sticks
Bamboo is a technique developed by artist Antoon Versteegde. Bamboo sticks are connected with elastic bands to create large works of art. We look at some of his works, and also examine bamboo sticks ourselves to discover what makes them so strong. …
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World music with song and gourd
Music with gourds (also known as water drums) and voice is a unique experience for everyone. Together in a circle of connection, the participants experience an unforgettable musical journey on the border between making music and meditating... …
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Bucket hoe, bucket drum
Do you need expensive instruments to make music? Of course not.
Armed with a set of drumsticks, we get the coolest rhythms out of something as ordinary as a set of buckets. Under the guidance of our enthusiastic music educator and …
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Become a Styrofoam architect
The students get to work like real architects: after a short introduction to force distribution and strength theory, they learn the different techniques to design and construct an apartment building with our super fun Styrofoam cutters. But their …
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Spaghetti Bridges: Building and Testing
Building spaghetti bridges is a workshop where children have to make a bridge that spans a certain width using only uncooked spaghetti and a heat glue gun. The group that builds the bridge that can support the most weight without breaking is …
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Primitive dance
During this workshop, the children explore what their body can do, as it were, and learn to move purely by feeling. Sometimes slow, then exciting again, the music takes the children on a journey through all kinds of rhythms and sounds.
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Percussion with Boomwhackers
Boomwhackers are the brightly colored sound tubes with which you can quickly create beautiful melodies in a group. It is a great way to discover your own musicality and to play together.
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Acro game: Workshop
We start with a warm-up during which we build mutual trust. Through simple assignments we enjoy jointly realizing flying postures and arrangements where contact, strength and balance are key.
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Movement expression
A workshop that is also suitable for teachers during team building or further training.
In this workshop we will work with all the big (and small) emotions. We investigate how we can use our entire body and voice to express those emotions. We try out …Translated by
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