Maths & Polish

Maths faculty - Students explore the secrets of the relationship between the surface and volume of similar figures on a scale of 2: 1 and 3: 1. Lego blocks allow for quick fixes and the selection of infinite examples for testing. Different systems of counting were also introduced. The blocks contributed to the rapid adoption of the rules for swapping binary and trinary numbers into decimal and vice versa.

Polish - "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" - Class IV learned about the world of Roald Dahl and created it. Students used LEGO bricks and built the factory of Mr. Wonka. They split into groups of
builders and started working. They created a factory building, Chocolate Hall, candy boats carrying hcharacters down the chocolate river, the tube that drew Augustus Gloop and many other interesting things.The students let go of the fantasy and found that such lessons with reading "this is it"!

by Ewa Zielińska
and Magdalena Gierasimiuk

The Earth Day

The 22nd of April is the day when we give tribute to our Mother Earth. We help to recycle, clean forests, save water and do other possible things. In our school we went back to the rap about the earth:

http://creatingtomorrowschoolstoday.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-international-earth-day-coming-soon.html

Then we read the raps written by our collegues:

http://creatingtomorrowschoolstoday.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-earth-day-raps.html

And finally, we asked ourselves what we treasured most about our planet.

This is what we came up with:

We also tried to find out how to help our planet:

And wrote short poems which we built with Lego:

And how was the Earth Day celebrated in your school? Please, let us know.

                                by Joanna Cudowska-Kolendo

                                and Agnieszka Zarachowicz

Lego Tubes

Recently, Lego Education tubes have become popular in our classes. At the beginning the first graders built baskets, then we organized a throwing competition. During this activity children practised visual-motor coordination as well as mathematical abilities - each group had to count its points.

 by Agnieszka Drowanowska and Marzanna Karpińska

The authentic task

The authentic task is defined as an assignment which aims at stimulating children's capability of building up their own knowledge in real contexts. 

In other words, real life situations provide them with tools they can use to solve everyday situations and future challenges.

Each authentic task is highly personalized, each child is capable of fulfilling a task based on his own background provided with hits by adults.


In this post, we are going to present an example of an authentic task, specifically tuned and realized starting from a real life situation: TAKING CARE OF SNAILS.

A girl of our kindergarten brought a couple of snails, found in her backyard, to school.
She named them: Lina Verdolina and Tina Brillantina.

She provided them with a box full of grass, salad, and flowers. Snails stayed a few days in they new home and all of a sudden one of the two escaped from the box.

 Children started looking for it and they found it under a furniture.

It was at that time, everybody realized a bigger place was needed to host both of them.

Children were asked (along with their parents) to look for some information related to snail life cycle. Pupils brought to school drawings, pictures, and some other stuff, we made a poster putting together the materials. We created a clock about the daily routine of snails similarly to children's one.

We learned snails need food, fresh water, a box to be their home, soil, twigs, flowers, leaves, daisies and grass.

In school garden, we built a heart-shaped house up for snails.

Back in our classrooms, we reproduced some more "natural" hearts. Children glued some pieces of paper by means of collage technique to obtain heart-shaped work of art!

Next step was to shape a new heart using Lego. Children were asked to work in a team to combine natural elements and Lego bricks!

We wanted to thank Tina and Verdolina so then we provided them a new house!
Verdolina and Tina have a bigger and cozier place to live in!

During weekends in a rotating way, children are going to host at their place the two snails in order to take care of them, bringing them back to school each Monday!