A magical moment! The Little Bunnies met Willow, their guide, and an instant connection was made! Let the adventure begin!
🍄 The Little Mushrooms have just met their guide, Willow, and it was love at first sight! 💚✨
Their journey in the INNOSTEAM eTwinning project has officially begun — and what a magical start it is! With curiosity in their eyes and smiles on their faces, our little explorers are ready to dive into a world of creativity, innovation, and discovery, guided by their new friend Willow. 🌱🚀
Stay tuned as the adventure unfolds!
#eTwinning #INNOSTEAM #WillowTheGuide #FirstImpressions #STEAMAdventure
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🌟 Skills for Life in Our Seasonal Journey
🦉 Introduction
InnoSTEAM – A Seasonal Journey with Willow is proudly aligned with the 2025–2026 eTwinning annual theme “Skills for Life.”
Through seasonal stories, STEAM activities, and international collaboration, our project supports students in developing essential competences for life.
🎯 What Are “Skills for Life”?
The annual theme encourages schools across Europe to focus on the five key competences from the EU Skills Agenda:
🌍 How Our Project Integrates Skills for Life
🍂 ❄️ 🌸 🌞 Seasonal Integration
🌟 Our Vision
By integrating Skills for Life into every season, we prepare our students not only for school but for life itself. Together, guided by Willow the Owl, they grow into creative thinkers, problem solvers, and responsible European citizens ready to embrace the challenges of tomorrow.
"InnoSTEAM – A Seasonal Journey with Willow" is an innovative eTwinning project designed for early childhood education, where children explore the four seasons through integrated STEAM activities, digital tools, and playful experiences with AI. Using storytelling, art, music,and simple coding, young learners develop creativity, critical thinking, and digital literacy. The project fosters collaboration among European kindergartens and promotes 21st-century learning through innovation.
🌱 What Makes InnoSTEAM Special?
🔸 A Season-Based Curriculum:
Children will experience autumn, winter, spring, and summer through integrated STEAM activities, storytelling, and creativity.
🔸 A Main Character – Willow:
Willow will be present in all materials and activities, acting as a constant guide and motivator, sparking curiosity and wonder in every season.
🔸 Structured and Flexible:
• Each month will include a set of proposed/required activities designed by the project team.
• In addition, partners are encouraged to contribute with their own creative ideas and extensions related to the seasonal theme.
🔸 Parent Collaboration Moments:
We will include three key activities involving families, taking place in:
• October (Autumn – Respect & Emotions)
• December (Winter Holidays Around the World)
• March (Celebrating Women Who Inspire Us)
🔸 International Collaboration:
Children will create digital books, posters, and joint products, contributing to a European tapestry of voices, experiences, and creativity.
🧠 Why STEAM + Storytelling?
Our project builds upon recent European research that emphasizes:
• The importance of STEAM integration (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math) from early childhood to foster critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving (EU STEM Coalition, 2020).
• The need to strengthen early mathematics education by embedding it in real-life, playful contexts.
• The power of storytelling as a cognitive and emotional bridge for children to internalize abstract concepts—linking literacy with science, empathy, and identity.
• The value of digital literacy from a young age—not just as technical skill, but as a form of expression and collaboration, aligned with the European Commission’s DigComp framework.
"InnoSTEAM – A Seasonal Journey with Willow" combines all these strands into an accessible, meaningful experience for both children and teachers, contributing to a Europe-wide vision of future-ready, creative learners.
Let’s inspire, imagine, and innovate—together with Willow!
SEPTEMBER
🤝 Getting to Know Each Other
OCTOBER
🍂 Activity Title: "The Talking Leaf – An Autumn Journey through AI and Science"
🍁 Activity Title with Parents:“Autumn in Family: Traditions, Flavors, and Memories”
🔣 International collaborative action for the European Code Week - October 2025
NOVEMBER
🍎 Activity Title: "The Little Apple Inventor – From Orchard to Innovation Lab"
DECEMBER
🎅 Activity Title with Parents: "Winter Holidays Around the World: A STEAM Journey with Willow"
💌 Collaborative activity Christmas and New Year's greetings."Willow’s Winter Greetings from Europe!"A collaborative postcard exchange with magic and friendship.
JANUARY
❄️ Activity Title: "Snow Science Lab – Frozen Wonders and Melting Magic"
FEBRUARY
🍊 Activity Title:"Citrus Power Lab – Discovering Energy with Oranges and Lemons"
🌐 International collaborative action for the Safe internet day 2026-Let’s make the web a wiser place with Willow!
MARCH
🌸Collaborative activity Willow and "Shining Stars – Celebrating the Women Who Inspire Us"— Honoring Inspiring Women through Art, AI & Storytelling,
✨ Activity Title with Parents:"Shining Stars – Celebrating the Women Who Inspire Us
💧 Collaborative activity Willow the water protector, World Water Day 2026" Every drop counts – let’s protect it together with Willow!"
APRIL
🌿 Little Hands, Big Planet”Collaborative activity Willow the protector of the Earth, World Earth Day 2026
MAY
🐝 Activity Title:“Bee Guardians – Buzzing into Science and Kindness”,
🎉 International collaborative action for etwinnig day & europe day 2026 Learning, Growing, Connecting!" With Willow, across borders, with joy and friendship.
JUNE
🎒 Activity Title:“My Summer Suitcase – A Treasure of Learning”,
👧👦 Evaluation of children
👨👩👧👦 Evaluation of parents,
👩🏫 Evaluation of teachers,
🤝 Final products - collaborative STEAM book in 4 seasons “InnoSTEAM – Our Seasonal Story of Curiosity and Collaboration”
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