SO, HOW DOES A DAY GO BY AT FOCUS ON KIDS?

The fact that our school is located in a 3000 square meter garden area covered with forests on all sides has brought us the need to carry nature to our school. We gave the responsibility of our chicken, goat and rabbit coops, which immediately took their place in our garden, to Mustafa, who took good care of them with all his love for both their hygiene and proper nutrition. We start the day with the wheat we sift in the flour mill located in our garden, the bread we bake in our stone oven, the drinking water we draw from our water well, the sowing areas where we sow seasonal vegetables, by going to the coops with our children and feeding our animals first. In the morning we collect the eggs of our chickens and turkeys and then we give the juice of our vegetables. Since our rabbits love green vegetables, we give them vegetable leaves and go to the flour mill. We sift our flour in the flour mill and then move to our well. After pulling up our water with great effort, we enter the school with excitement. After giving the eggs of our chickens and turkeys to Aunt Ayten, we drink water first on an empty stomach and then start sports time. We wear our sports clothes by our own labor, taking care not to get help, with a beautiful musical breeze from Beethoven in the back... The yoga and gymnastics hour is full of curiosity and excitement, wondering what the next bodily movement will be.... Our dance teacher Bushra teacher admires us with her artist personality. We'll do some yoga, dance a little. He makes us imitate butterflies, frogs, lions, cats with English instructions. In fact, its goal is to accustom us to dancing and sports with aesthetic movements in our huge garden in nature. When classical music from behind is added to this, we suddenly feel like palace children. The smell of art, nature and dance takes us to the dream world. The end of the lesson is approaching and our stomachs start ringing. It's 09:30 and Aunt Ayten invites us to breakfast.

From fragrant menemen Samsun made with butter, minus the Maya stone our oven-baked bread in the summer we do with our own hands, sour cherry, strawberry, apricot, peach jam, and white drapes with olives stylish breakfast together on our own again we sit to our table that we prepared. We don't drink black tea for breakfast. Because we know that black tea has no benefit or harm to human health. Instead, we drink linden with honey, milk or cinnamon clove tea made from our cranberries from Murat mountain. We set up our own table, we lift it ourselves ... We buy as much food as we will eat on our plate, we thank our teacher, we say ‘health to your hands’ to Aunt Ayten. Our table design, which we made with the flowers we plucked from the garden, becomes more elegant with snow-white covers, white porcelain and cutlery. There is a little aristocracy, a little village life, a little pleasure, a little labor in our tableware establishment…

Breakfast ends and the activities continue with excitement…

Our music teacher comes first. Since we are an international school, he teaches the music lesson in English. A little math, a little poetry while dancing to the beats…. We continue to work…

When we say music lesson... Since we are an international school, our teacher tells the music lesson in English. While dancing between the rhythms, there is a little mathematics, a little poetry. Dec. The portraits of Beethoven and Mozart on the walls were made by a professional mural artist. We love watching them. While our music teacher enthusiastically explains the rhythms sometimes with guitar, sometimes piano, sometimes snare drum, we learn a lot of musical terms in English. The most beautiful part of the lessons is that our goats and chickens listen and watch us after the windows open to the garden.... while they are watching us with curiosity, we understand that every living being feels happy with art... Like us, our goats are like our chickens, like plants... Towards the end of our lesson, we leave the musical instruments we play with our tiny fingers in place and listen to our teacher's own compositions accompanied by guitar and piano. He is both a good composer and a sensitive teacher who knows children's communication very well. We say goodbye to him and take a short fruit break. Our class teacher organizes a study for the development of our own manual skills. Sometimes we process ethamine, sometimes we create works of art on paper with lentils and chickpeas. Sometimes we organize our scattered class, sometimes we help Aunt Ayten knead dough. When English teacher and I learn the English of our activities with English speaking teacher, we will cook them in our stone oven. The lunch hour comes. Again, our aunt Ayten laid out the white immaculate tablecloths. There are colorful flowers on it that we collected from the garden with our own hands. We take care to use cutlery in our food. Our drinks are buttermilk made by ourselves in our glass glasses made according to our tiny hands, or sweet cherry sweets that we keep from summer, or fragrant sweets made from seasonal fruits. We don't squeeze the juice out of the fruits to keep the vitamins in them ... because we know that all the vitamins of a fruit are in the peel and pulp. We do not drink tea except linden, sage tea and cranberry tea. The meat offered in our lunches is lamb. Our meat, which is cut and sent as a carcass from Murat mountain, is selected and brought by paying attention not to be too fatty. We make minced meat from our meat in the meat grinder at our school. We don't do anything with sunflower oil. We don't eat fries. Our special olive oil from Gemlik and butter from Samsun Bafra are cooked with pepper and tomato paste made by our aunt Tulay in the summer, and great flavors are created. We love pickled cucumbers.

We Focus on Kids love to eat chicken but unfortunately we can only eat it once a month. Saying that they do not trust the nutritional value of supermarket chickens, Aunt Ayten and teacher Begüm have the village chicken brought from Akçakoca at most once a month. We wait with excitement and are surprised when we see the difference of the uncooked chicken from other chickens for hours…

Tarhana soup was made in Gediz. Aunt Ayşe makes tarhana in the most oxygen-rich areas of the village. We love its smell and taste, especially if there is sugar, dried beans or chickpeas in it, do not eat it next to the yacht.

After we eat our lunch with the dishes and cutlery that we put on the plates with our own hands, we take our plates to Aunt Ayten and clear our table. We wash our hands and brush our teeth. The time was 12:45. Our teacher takes us to another class and the English drama lesson begins. Our teacher Celine has made a special program for us again. Every week, a philosopher, a painter, a dancer or an actor who made his mark in history is treated. We play games in English. In the future, our crazy English teacher;

'Come on !!! put on your coats, we are going out to the garden.' He is used to the cold because he comes from cold places… he always says to us; 'The tighter you hold on, the faster you'll get sick.' We put on the coats and run out into the garden. We run a lot, play long games in English. Laughter can be heard from everywhere, while a Beethoven composition is playing in the garden again...

And then there is the painting lesson.

Our art teacher Büşra says;

‘Boys! Painting is not good drawing. Painting is reflecting your inner world on your fingers. Do not try to draw the most beautiful shapes for me during lessons. Make me touches that make me feel what you are experiencing in your inner world…'

We understood with our teacher Büşra that every part of life is art. It is an inevitable fact how much he fascinated us with his graceful fingers and smiling face.

Now it's time for breakfast… the cookies are taken out of the oven. Our cinnamon clove cranberry compote is prepared… and we help our aunt Ayten again… we set up stylish tables excitedly and have a nice afternoon break. some cookies, some fruit…

As the clock approaches 16:00, our numbers begin to decrease… One by one, mothers, fathers or older sisters come to pick up our friends… Our eyes shine brightly when we see our mothers. Even though the whole day is very good, there is always a longing for our mother and father… we prepare surprise gifts for them. Making them happy makes us more happy.

My mommy, my daddy;

We have a great love and education that we embrace with confidence. We have a great time with our friends. We complete our duties together, thinking about the team…. Our course teachers are too constructive to look for those about him. We are a giant family here, including you…

We love you and our school very much… I'm glad you're with me