Year with animals in kindergarten Čechtice

This bachelor thesis leads to establishing of yearlong project for children from kindergarten in Čechtice, in which there are introduced selected animals species living in the neighbourhood of kindergarten in Čechtice to children. The aim of this thesis is both introduce animals to children and especially establish positive relationship to living creatures and to nature all around them. This work contains theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part is focused on problematics of including animals to kindergartens education and its appropriateness both according to various criteria regarding to needs and capabilities of preschool children and in compliance with Framewok Education Programme for preschool education. In addition it includes information about key animal species. There is described yearlong project in the practical part, which is bound with the class mascot centipede Jůlie and focused on integrated education of children. There are also characteristics of each selected animal with descriptions of activities and reflection