1/Project schedule

  • 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