Link to our plan:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W19esMlEww6y_D0qjGztZNxlap0hDFbolTJxKp92Ihs/edit?usp=sharing
SEPTEMBER
1. Introduce your school - add to page PARTNERS under the map.
2. Students introduction - can be a short video or a different form.
3. Garden Diary - introduce your garden. Garden Diary will be done every month so we can see and compare the changes in our gardens.
4. Garden Games and Activities for Autumn. All the partners add their ideas of different games and activities that can be done in the classroom or in the garden during the autumn months. Ideas are shared in Tricider where we can comment on them and vote for the best ones. At the end of the project a common collaborative booklet with Garden Games and Activities will be created and published. All the partners can also try some of these activities and games out at their school and share their photos or videos in Twinspace.
OCTOBER
1. Garden Songs. Each partner finds 1-2 simple songs (preferably in English) about garden, flowers etc. We add them to common padlet, then I will create a voting sheet in Google Forms. We listen to the songs with our students and choose the best one. We learn the winning song, sing it and record a video with it. In the end I will put all the videos together into one collaborative project song.
2. Autumn Crafts - we collect differents objects from our gardens or nearby park (stones, leaves, flowers, acorns, chestnuts, etc) and prepare different craft activities. Upload the photos or videos to twinspace page ARTS AND CRAFTS - autumn.
3. Making compost heap (container) and gathering vegetable / fruit scraps. The compost can be used in spring to fertilize the garden soil.
3. Garden Diary for October
4. Garden Games and Activities (for Autumn)
NOVEMBER
1. Autumn Crafts - we collect differents objects from our gardens or nearby park (stones, leaves, flowers, acorns, chestnuts, etc) and prepare different craft activities. Upload the photos or videos to twinspace page ARTS AND CRAFTS - autumn.
2. Autumn Crafts Exhibition. Creating collaborative art gallery in twinspace, choosing the best pieces - voting online.
3. Garden Diary for November
4. Garden Games and Activities (for Autumn)
5. Gardens Dictionary
DECEMBER
1. Jigsaw puzzles for kids presenting the most popular plants from each country or pictures of plants we are planning to exchange with our partners (seeds). We can use web tool to create puzzle on Jigsaw Planet.
2. Winter Crafts - different options to choose: making bird houses and feeding the birds during the winter / painting flower pots / making garden gnomes and other fairytales creatures from clay or other materials and placing them in the garden.
3. Garden Diary for December
4. Garden Games and Activities (for Winter)
5. Gardens Dictionary
JANUARY
1. Exchanging seeds with project partners
2. Winter Crafts - different options to choose: making bird houses and feeding the birds during the winter / painting flower pots / making garden gnomes and other fairytales creatures from clay or other materials and placing them in the garden.
3. Winter Crafts Exhibition. Creating collaborative art gallery in twinspace, choosing the best pieces - online voting.
4. Garden Diary for January
5. Garden Games and Activities (for Winter)
6. Gardens Dictionary
FEBRUARY
1. Recycling - making flower pots or small glass houses from recycled materials (like plastic bottles)
2. Planting some of the seeds in the classroom / glass-house.
3. Learning about different European countries. As the seeds from project partners keep coming, we can introduce the countries participating in the project to our students. We can set a board with a map of Europe and mark which seeds came from which country. We can also teach the children what are the flags of these countries - simple colouring and matching activities.
4. Garden Diary for February
5. Garden Games and Activities (for Winter)
6. Gardens Dictionary
MARCH
1. Garden Stories - written collaboratively with all partners. The story can be dramatized / acted out by the students and the videos share on twinspace. Optional: creating a reading corner in the garden where we could read our and other stories to the children.
2. Planting seeds and bulbs from different countries. Creating European Gardens (different options: vegetable patch, sensory garden, dinosaur garden, butterfly garden, herbs garden, etc)
3. Learning about different European countries.
4. Garden Diary for March
5. Garden Games and Activities (for Spring)
6. Gardens Dictionary
APRIL
1. Planting seeds and seedlings from different countries. Creating European Gardens different options: vegetable patch, sensory garden, dinosaur garden, butterfly garden, herbs garden, etc)
2. Celebrating Earth Day
3. Garden Diary for April
4. Garden Games and Activities (for Spring)
5. Gardens Dictionary
MAY
1. Exchanging food recipes.
2. Making dishes (like salads) using the plants from the garden. Optional: involving local restaurants to make fruit sculptures and compositins of vegetables.
3. Picnic in the garden with our students and their parents. Tasting the dishes made using the recipes from other partners.
3. Garden Diary for May. Preparing the calendar illustrating all the months in the garden.
4. Garden Games and Activities - preparing collaborative booklet.
JUNE
1. Evaluation