«True people» (Nenei nenecha) – self-name of Nenets, the indigenous people of the Yamal peninsula, and the name of the complex 2015–2016 ethnographic expedition. Project participants and the visitors of the resource will be the part of the reindeer herders's family during the whole year just to «dive» in the casual life of the modern XXI century nomads.
Our classes started on the next day after the first kaslanie (April 10). 4 groups of such a form already are working in Yamalskiy region. The are basing in brigadas and have the certain number of kids from the families of brigada. Our group – is the first experience of the organizing of the pre-school education of the free reindeer hereder's children. The number of kids will be different during the season and now I've got three pupils: Hasavako (6 years), Semyon (5 years) and Pedava (3 years) but this small group will increase soon. In nomadic kindergartens and schools teacher usually has to take multi-level class working with children of different age, preparing for different «level» different kinds of activities,educational materials and tasks.
Our kindergarten officially is functioning as the group of short-term staying, i. e. 3 hours a day and a 5 days a week. One may ask how to arrange the schedule of such kindergarten at tundra and to settle it with all the chum life cycle. Our kids wake up at 10.00 a. m. and «come» to kindergarten after dinner, so the classes start between 13.00 and 15.00. This is the schedule of last three days of snow storm but later when the weather will improve probably we'll change the order.
Our educational program bases on the Russian federal program and Yamal program and the innovations of our own. We have the special freight sledge with all the educational materials, books, games, etc. Hasavako, the eldest of the boys understands Russian and can speak it. This autumn he will go to school to the so-called zero-grade, but his parents would like him to go to the 1st grade. In this case he'll be taught like the village children, otherwise the tundra kids go to the 1st grade at the age of 8. I hope I'll prepare him for school properly according to the will of our masters. I try to speak Nenets with kids, but thanks TV and movies they have rich Russian vocabulary, but in some situations Albina or grandmother help me. After the few first days of classes I can assume that the kids are very interested – on the 3rd day they started to establish the special table for our exercises and bring pencils and albums on their own.
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