Little school on chessboard

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• Little school on chessboard

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What is Little school on chessboard ?

•  New original educational programme inspired by
  the game of chess. It offers an enjojyable daily
  activities in a fairy-tale environment.
• The programme has been elaborated by a special
  educationalists, psychologists and chess experts.
  The programme develops specific intellectual
  abilities and skills of children between 3 and 7
  years. Children play various games with chess
  pieces. They learn how to think, how to find the
  best solution, how to create combinations, they
  train their memory and learn how to judge
  different situations.
• It is a true learn by play.

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What it brings to children

• The programme spontaneously develops and improves
  mainly the following basic skills
• intellectual abilities and skills (reasoning,
  abstract thinking, communication skills,
  mathematical skills, memory development, space
  and right-left orientation, improving
  concentration)
• aesthetic sense (imagination, creativity,
  painting)
• ethical behaviour (game rules)
• motoric skills
• understanding of team work

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Special tools

• The special tools are an important part of the
  educational programme.
• Children do not quietly sit above the chessboard.
  Our task is to develop the kids creativity and
  playfulness.
• The main parts of the programme are
• original chess set that can be separated in parts
  and serves as a brick-box as well. It is easy to
  work with and enables to develop perception of
  shapes and colours and supports motoric skills at
  the same time.
• 200 pieces of coloured wooden parts that can be
  used with ordinary chessboard as well as with a
  magnetic wall chessboard
• magnetic wall chessboard
• large walking chessboard made of cloth
• exercise books
• guidelines for teachers (including children songs
  for each book)
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Exercise books

•   The main part of the programme are pictured
  exercise books containing hundreds of exercise
  and tasks.
• There are 6 exercise books named according to
  chess pieces (king, queen, bishop, etc.). Each
  book contains 10 series of tasks, each series
  consisting of 4 pages
• first page with motivation picture, little
  motivation poem and a task. The task is presented
  by a little fairytale story.
• second and third page provides four difficulty
  levels of exercise in four little chess boards.
  The boards are filled with different objects
  relevant to the story. Children search for the
  best solution.
• fourth page of each series serves for amusement
  and relaxation (labyrinths, colouring, etc).

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Contacts and more

• Petra Rožková Martina Korenová
• phone [phone] 731 459 463
• email petra.rozkova_at_figurka.net
  martina.korenova_at_figurka.net
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• Martina Korenová (1975) Charles University,
  Faculty od Education, teaching at elementary
  school, kids chess school in Ricany.
  International Chess Master, five times best Czech
  women player, 3rd at the Junior World
  Championship, Chess Olympiad, winner of the Women
  Grandmaster Tournament.
• Three children (2002, 2004, 2008)
• Petra Rožková (1975) University of Economics
  in Prague, awarded NATO Science Fellowship a
  year stay at the University of North Carolina,
  USA.
• Institute for Economic and Environmental
  Policy responsible for the EU funds project
  proposals and project management. Foundation for
  Organic Agriculture project GEF/UNDP. European
  Science Foundation - Exploratory Workshop focused
  at multiple sclerosis patients.
• Two children (2003, 2005)
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• The Little school on chessboard
  has been supported for pilot testing in 6 special
  elementary schools in Prague by European Social
  Fund in 2006.