Welcome to our project!
November 2016
1. Creation of European Corner in our classroom and school
Where are you come from? Find my country in the map!
We can use the map of Europe, pictures and flags of the participant’s countries to create our European corner
Every participant school uploads pictures
2. Sort presentation of our school and our town or city
(Post in our project’s page)
Each partner will send also a children team picture
3. Contact with other languages
Will write the word “Good morning” in different languages
We will discuss about forest showing a picture and note what children know about forest.
Get answers to the question: What is the forest?
4. Visit the forest through a book
We will read books about the forests and trees and see the pictures.
Team work: “The forest” using useless material
5. Visit to a park, a hill or a forest
Will start our project with a visit to the nearest forest or park or hill (take pictures observation of nature, take autumn colours, collection of leaves, fruits, mushrooms and other material, sounds, trees, ground, e.t.c) and learn more about its life.
Children will make drawings and handicrafts and discuss about the forest
Each partner uploads pictures in our project page
Compare, count and categorize of leaves, fruits and nuts
Outline of trees forest animals and leaves
Simple exercises via computer
6. Forest and autumn
(Autumn’s colours activities)
How looks the forest during autumn
Children present a game or a song
Autumn forest gallery
7. Forest fruits and nuts
We will learn about the fruits of the forest and the nutritional value of fruits
Exchange drawings and handicrafts on the topic
December 2016
1. Winter and forest
How looks a forest during the winter
Winter forest landscapes
Winter drawings and handicrafts
2. Learn about flora and fauna of forest of each country
Forest as shelter of animals
Animals in hibernation
3. Exercises via computer. Children draw the forest (using the tool of painting)
Contact with foreign languages
4. Forest fun activities (puzzles or other games)
5. Forest and Christmas
We will learn for the recycle and will decorate a different tree using useless material
Will make synthesis using natural material.
We will learn a christmas song in English and upload it on twin space
We also make Christmas cards, children write their wishes and we will post the cards to our partners
Exchange customs ,songs and Christmas events.
6.Creation of a common christmas story in all partners languages
January 2017
1. We will write the word “forest” in our motherly languageand exchange it via e mail or twin space
We will write it also using latin charactersFor example : In Greeks forest = Δάσος (dasos)
Winter sports in the forest
2.Forest animals endangerous and their protection
Traces and footprints of animals
3.Forest and historical monuments
4. Forest and mytholog
Forest of source of inspiration and creation
Via internet we compare painter’s paintings on topic “Forest” and children become little painters drawing their picture!
5. Creation a story or a song or poems about forest
6.Simple experiments in our school!
Drawings and handicrafts
Forest games.
February 2017
1. Kind of forest (national park)
We learn what these are and their importance
Simple exercises via computer
2. Enemies of forest and causes of destruction
What threatens the forest
Fire in the forest and then…what?
We ask for children to complete the scenario
Exchange of paintings and handicrafts
3. Let a burnt forest to tell us its story
We call men of fire department to visit us
Learn about their job
Learn other jobs
ranger, forester, woodman and hunter, woodcutter and lumberman
4.Work sheets (we can upload some work sheets here)
5. The importance of the forest to our life
Why people built their villages near the forest
( food ,wood,helter of animals,etc.)
March 2017
1. Spring in the forest
What happened during spring in the forest?
Circle of life (animals wake up,flowers grow up etc)
(flowers nests, fruits, trees, plants, animals, birds,reptiles, nests, mushrooms, e t c)
2.Forest flowers and plants
3.Aromatic and medicinal herbs of the forest
Make a collection album
4.Paint the spring in the forest
5.Creation a common story ( about forest and its life)
6.Forest and tales
7. Forest art gallery (Forest and art)
8.Forest and environment
Event for the "International Forest Day" (21st of March)
Can you hear the sounds of the forest?
Forest and recycling
Recreation and forest
Alternative tourism
We can ask for parents help in research on the forest
Cooperation with parents, fire office and centers of environmental education
Impressions
Results
Project evaluation (questionnaires)
Dessemination
Project's closing