The Activities

The facilities have been divided into distinct sections appropriate for different age groups.Each section of the children's homes has an internal structure made up of various areas in which mealtimes, free and structured play, artistic, musical and theatrical activities, etc., take place.Thematic corners and centers of interest are placed at several specific points in the section.

Free Game

It occupies a large part of the child's day. Free play takes place in a fairly broad context, with many possibilities for choice. In order to encourage self-management, educator intervention is kept to a minimum.
Educative worthiness:

  • Exploration
  • Familiarization and knowledge of the physical environment
  • Developing skills and relationships

Handling activity

This is an endless source of interest and of tactile, visual and auditory stimulus.

Educative worthiness:

  • refinement of the motor abilities;
  • refinement of the learning abilities;
  • development of the reflective abilities;
  • refinement of the ocular-manual coordination.

Psychomothor activity

It encourages the children to take the body – muscular and the emotional control in a more conscious way.

Educative worthiness:

  • development of the abilities to recognize and to verbalize the different parts of the bodies;
  • Acquisition of fine and gross psychomotricity and hand-eye coordination
  • coordination of the body;
  • development of the sense-perceptive abilities;

development of the laterality.

Develops children's ability to understand stories told by adults, to tell familiar stories themselves, to converse with their little friends, and to foster the development of language and symbolic representation.

Musical activities

These activities develop the child's sense of rhythm, differentiate sounds and noises, and foster social relationships.

Aquatic activity

It allows the child to discover the pleasure of laying in the water, of moving naturally in an environment shaped on his needing. It helps the knowledge of the different parts of the bodies and of the psychomotor coordination.

Euristique game

It allows the discovery and the knowledge of a variety of common objects thought to stimulate the touch, the smell, the hearing, the sight and the physical coordination.

The use of these objects is a way to encourage the child to take the decisions and to compare different things.

Symbolic game

It helps children understand the links between intelligence and emotion. In this kind of game, children create a virtual reality that is not totally modelled on the real reality they observe, but on the one they interpret. They are instruments of great symbolic value. Symbolic play enables children to recognize what is real and true, and to exorcise their fears through their imagination.

Educative worthiness:

  • Learning about reality
  • Learning and recognizing feelings
  • Development of narrative, emotional and relational skills.
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