Ecology zone
Learning through movement, contact with nature, and conscious experiencing. Environmental education in the Ninanki program stems from children's authentic needs and questions.
Children learn differently when discovering the world than when learning a language.
That's why our project is based on natural motor patterns - combining movement with learning so that a child's development is more complete and intuitive. We integrate movement, environmental education, and the conscious building of relationships with the places where children live—all to foster pro-ecological attitudes, a healthy lifestyle, and mindfulness of the world from an early age.
We draw inspiration from nature—its rhythm, diversity, and principles.
We show how stability and flexibility can coexist - just like a rooted plant with a strong stem and mobile leaves. It is a symbol of coping with challenges - through movement, balance, and connection with the environment. In Ninanki's animations and graphic materials, children encounter characters living in their natural habitats - from the llama to the tiger, from the kangaroo to the panther. Each of these places - forest, mountain, desert, ocean - shows how important the harmony between an organism and its space is. It is precisely through this world - colorful, dynamic, and real - that we teach children about ecology and self-ecology: caring for the planet as well as for each other.
In the Ninanki program, children learn through movement, play, and experience.
Because it is through action that their natural curiosity about the world develops best. Movement here is not an end in itself but a tool supporting the process of exploring nature, the environment, and animals. Through physical activity, children spontaneously and authentically engage in discovering the world around them. Observation is not just looking—it is mindful, intentional perception that arises from movement and play. To be effective, it requires space, time, and appropriate preparation. That's why the program also emphasizes education outside the walls of the school—in nature, in motion, where children can touch, see, hear, and feel the world they are learning about.
Environmental education in the Ninanki program stems from children's authentic needs and questions.
It is their curiosity and desire to understand reality that set the direction—the selection of topics, experiments, and experiences. Every activity—whether physical, sensory, or cognitive—fits into the concept of learning by doing, in harmony with the child's rhythm and the rhythm of nature.