Mini-mes - Iceland style.

The mini-mes in my setting

I love it when I can see ideas being shared around the globe & seeing children in other countries or settings enjoying the same things as my class. I introduced a set of Mini-mes to my class last month after seeing a post on the idea on ABC Does. During a weekly international staff meeting (as we have termed our weekly on line chats) Lesley from Takoma Park Cooperative Nursery School & I discussed how we really wanted needed to introduce this idea to our classes. It took me longer than I planned to use mine but it was worth the wait. (I wrote a short post on them here.) The children enjoy searching for 'their' block & it is very cute to watch them playing with a particular block if a child is absent that day - it almost provides a sense of comfort to them.

I also discovered that it has been an invaluable way for some children to learn their class mates names, I have several children this year with additional needs & recognising their peers has been a real issue for them but with the mini-mes we can make a game of it & they are able to gradually learn some if not all of the names. 

Icelandic mini-mes

When Unnur a colleague in our partner school in Iceland saw my post of the mini-mes, she headed off to make her own set & then in turn shared these photos with me. Unnur also had found that some children find comfort in playing with the mini-me of a friend if they were late or absent. 

I hope the mini-mes spread around the globe in 2014 & I have also got another idea from this Swedish blog Forskolan Syrennen of making blocks of the houses the children live in as well & maybe I could create family mini-mes!