Irish leprechauns in our school

The children listened to the story of the leprechaun, who has hidden his pot of gold behind the rainbow. The teacher showed pictures to the children. We listened to a song about the story. Each child could make his own leprechaun and they've made a profile about him. Then they told about their leprechaun. They learned about Ireland an filled in some facts at home.
The played a story about finding the gold because Emerald had lost his pot of gold. To say Thank you to all the nice and helpful leprechauns Emerald invited them to his St. Patricks celebration party. The children made lots of decoration stuff and Emerald gave some gold out of his pot.
The children enjoyed and learned a lot about Ireland and the traditions.
I hope it's a good idea for you to celebrate St. Patricks Day on the 17th of March.
Silvia Hoffmann

Combinatorics with lego

Lisa Hessel

A talking tower

A main aim in language learning is talking about an event. The children should learn to speak in whole sentences and fluently- first in their mother tongue.
I used six bricks to help them to match and remember the sentences. In year 1 the sentences are easy. It was an event in the past. You can also use the present form.

The thunderstorm (white brick)
The clouds became black.
It started to rain cats and dogs.
The meadow became wet.
The firebrigade had to come and help.
After all the sun was shining again.

 It was a thunderstorm the weekend before. The children built the sentences out of their experiences according the colour of the brick I showed to them. After each brick we spoke the story. Then the children wrote the words, drawed the colours and pictures. The next lesson they can tell the story with the bricks in the hand to a partner, create a written story or a drawing.
Children enjoyed. They have spoken clearly and fluently.
Silvia Hoffmann

The talking tower

Colours- words- pictures

Unfortunately the colours are not visible.

"European school"

In Thuringia now there are 29 of these schools- just a few of Primary schools.
We applied for this title because of some special points of the educational concept in our school:
Children learn English from the year 1- in the age of 6 years. They start learning French in year 3-   aged 9. So they become openminded for other languages and cultures in early years.
We take part in different Erasmus+ (former Comenius) projects to share our experiences. Some of our teachers have taken part in language training abroad or jobshadowing. They improve their knowledge and skills for the job as a teacher. In the last years we have being happy about language assistants and teachers from different countries for jobshadowing. Next time we're going to apply for single mobilities, next projects and partner schools.
We are very proud about getting the title just before our schools party on the 10th of May. Guests from the ministery and politics, the mayor of our town, parents, teacher and pupils from the "European school" Ostschule Gera (a secondary comprehensive school) and much more, also teachers and children shared this very moment with us. The choir sang the European hymn.

Our head and the mayor of Gera

The choir "Kästner- Kids"

Congratulations!

An "European cake"

Ambassadors at our school

During our last transnational meeting we celebrated a huge schools party called "We travel around Europe". Lots of ambassadors of their countries stayed with us and did some activities out of their culture and living. Thanks a lot dear guests!

Italian teachers showing their material

Drawing welsh love spoons

Polish dancing

French charme

Spanish fun in chair dancing

Transnational meeting Gera (Germany)

From the 6th till the 12th of May the last transnational meeting took place in Gera in Germany. 15 guests from Wales, Poland, France, Spain and Italy visited the "Erich Kästner" primary school in Gera.

We met our guests at Leipzig.

On Monday they visited our classes and did some little activities in ther mother tongue with them.
The childrens loved it.

On Tuesday was "European day" and  we were at the State Chancellery and the European Information Centre in Erfurt. 

On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday we were back at school, visited lessons, visited a secondary school and a kindergarden and held some project meetings. The highlight was the schoolfestival at wednesday in the afternoon. Each delegation presented their country and did some little activities with our pupils.

Thank you so much for your work during this week!!! 

Model of teeth

I have used Lego Duplo to create models of teeth in a mouth. 

The studends of the 1^st grade used them in pairs to practice, how to brush the teeth correctly. In german it´s called "KAI-Methode". One brushed the duplo teeth and the other was the dentist and checked each steep on a checklist.

Kristin Zeiler

Animals and their livingplace

After the idea of this blog, we tried to build the places, where animals live. We used the "Story Starter". The children had a lot of ideas, what is necessary for the animals and what is given by the humans.
Afterwards we translated the names into Englisch and French and labeled all the necessary things. Quite a lot fun. Thanks Maide.

http://creatingtomorrowschoolstoday.blogspot.de/2017/02/animals-lego-schleich.html

livingplace for cats

for dogs

for rabbits

fish

snake

cats

handcraft and arts "spring"

Some simple but quite nice ideas for the topic "spring". Maybe you can try one.

Use a sponge for the background and a brush for the flowers.

I gave them little symbols and the children coloured them with watercolours. Afterwards we put them on a coloured paper. 

Supplement: our clowns for carnival