International Earth Day

26th of April was a day of celebrating International Earth Day in our school.Students presented songs and poems and later on there was a fashion show prepared by students of all primary school . All of us had fun. We apreciate our student's imagination and creativity.


By Anna Owsieniuk and Joanna Kamińska

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

Cassini´s Grand Finale.

Time ago in class we talked about the Solar System. Nothing that I did, explained or used in class stirred the minds of my little students as intensely as this video of NASA, today, explaining the exploration mission of the space probe CASSINI. The Grand Finale of this remarkable mission will take place next September. It will be the end of a great journey that began 20 years ago ...

This is how Earth looks from Saturn (this is the image NASA used to commemorate EARTH DAY). Truly awesome.

The water cycle

First children discussed what they know about the water cycle. They also identified the key words: sun, river, sea, ocean, land, mountain, cloud, rain, wind, water. They were also introduced to the vocabulary connected with the water cycle process such as evaporation, condensation and precipitation. Then we used the Internet to find out more information about the water cycle.

At the end, children designed the water cycle stages.

Earth day in Germany

In Germany we also teach our children about the importance to save our world, our nature. We organize lessons, projects and learning possibilities outside the school- closed to the nature. They should feel, smell, taste, hear and see our nature. So they can love and save the world.
Our children love to go for some days into a youth hostel to spend the time with doing science project with experts, special and their own teachers. This very youth hostel in Gera is nearly in the middle of the wood.
From the 18th to the 22nd of April two classes stayed there for 5 days. They went for hiking, they built huts, they made things out of wood, they cut trees and they created a mask play on the nature stage in the wood.
In the afternoons the spent lots of time together: going to the cinema, going for bowling, climbing, romping around, sitting around a campfire, playing games, having the meals. They stayed over night, ofcourse. They discovered the nature and were enjoying the whole adventure.
The parents pay for this week around 75€. Some get the money back from the social security.
Grit Meßerschmidt

Different celebrations on the 22nd and 23rd April

As you know, on 22nd April Earth Day is celebrated. Year 5 pupils watched this video that is from this previous post: The giving tree and they connected the video ideas with what they understood as taking care of nature and the Earth.

Some days before, some pupils went to a square in the neighbourhood of the school and they planted some flowers. Different businesses, organisations, schools,etc. that are in the neighbourhood are creating these small gardens and pupils have to water and look after the plants.

                               

     

Then  we were talking about 'Book day' celebration on the 23rd of April. As you may know, this year it is celebrated the 400th anniversary of two very famous writers: Cervantes and Shakespeare's death. I played these videos about Cervantes and Shakespeare so that they know more about them.

These two are for kids, they are in Spanish. The second one is about a very famous chapter in Don Quixote, the most famous book by Cervantes.

We were also talking about Saint George, the patron of England which is the 23rd as well. A week before we had been visiting some monuments in Salamanca, and in some of them Saint George is represented. Here you have a proof of it.

Here you have a video about the story of Saint George and the Dragon for the kids:

Lots of important celebrations on the 22nd and the 23rd of April, and lots of cultural aspects to learn from them!