Getting Creative

Our School has been taking part in Creativity contests for a while now. It's become an initial part in our lives. Not only we take part in competitions, but also we organize special events where we invite students from other schools in the area. This yoear we had a lot of fun.

By Edyta Makulska & Aleksandra Kozłowska

Working With Europass

Great command of foreing languages these days has become a necessity. That is why it is good to be aware of the level of language we have.
We decided to teach our students how to self-assess what they already know about a foreign language. They willingly read about different aspects of languages and cultures. Now they have their own Language Passports where they can write about every cultural experience they witness.

Global Education Week

It's become one of our traditions that we celebrate Global Education Week in our school. This year's main theme is 'The future belongs to us! Balanced development.'
Our students were willing to prepare many different activities such as games and emmigration related lessons as well as they participated in meetings with volunteers who conducted special classes for them.

By Anna Owsieniuk

Miss Fall's Hats

Now, that winter has come and in some of our countries it's pretty severe, it's nice to recall some Fall related memories. This season in our school a competition was organized and students aged 8 had to prepare hats so that they resembled Miss Fall's Hat. As a result we got many beautiful hats.



By Iwona Tylman, Dorota Tomczak

Fountain Experiment

In this science experiment our fifth graders made a water fountain powered by the force  of air pressure. They used two jars, a bowl, straw and plastic tube. And as you can see in the photos the fountain did work.

 by Agnieszka Drowanowska
and Anna Dołżyńska

Lego WeDo: The Goalkeeper

Today in our workshop, we used Lego WeDo to make "the goalkeeper."

Then we played penalty kicks ... and it was difficult to score a goal. 

We had a very good time.

Perimeter and Area with Legos

Students of class 5, working in small groups, have drawn and built with the use of Legos some basic shapes, as squares and rectangles, and then they have begun to combine these basic shapes together to create more complex figures.

They have started measuring the perimeter. They  have isolated before the perimeter drawing the outline of the shapes on the paper and then they have counted the units around the space of the Lego polygons built. They have also multiplied the units of one side by 4 to calculate the perimeter of lego squares and the units of the 2 different sides by 2 to find the perimeter in the rectangles.

The students have constructed different shapes within a given outline using Legos to understand that a closed figure or a space covers area and they can find it using the square units.

Student have measured the area of the Lego shapes built in different ways: counting the circles on top of the lego blocks, adding up all the square units within the space of the Lego shapes, multiplying the lenght by the width of the outlines. To measure the complex Lego shapes pupils have broken the figure up into smaller other shapes (squares and rectangles) and they have calculate the total area adding up the single areas. They were able to write multiplication sentences about the measurements found.

In this activity students could better visualize the sense of perimeter and area, share the different strategies used, reinforcing perimeter and area skills.

They have also practised perimeter and area, having a lot of fun, in the Area Dice Game taken from http://reliefteachingideas.com/area-dice-game/ .

 

 

FLL: The Robot Game

Our First Lego League and First Lego League teams are working hard to get ready for the Hydrodynamics challenge that will take place in Salamanca in February...