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In May and June 2018, Czech pupils worked on the cross-curriculum projects. It started in April and ended on 9 May 2018 before Czech Mothers´ Day. Pupils from 2 to 5 grades cooperated within their classes, grades, and with older and younger peers. 

Children learnt grammar in articles about lavenders, solved crosswords, read rhymes, and wrote their rhymes in the Czech Language. They sang English song Lavender´s blue in Music lesson. They made posters, brought products, lotion, and pillow with lavender scent. They studied lavenders in Biology, brought real flowers to school, In Art lesson, pupils made cards, painted, and drew lavenders. They made paper flowers and paper lavender dolls in Craft lessons. Pupils used all their senses: they ate lavender cookies, drank lavender tea, smelt, and touched the flowers.

On 11 May we opened the display in the school hall and organized the Lavender Day, all pupils dressed in purple and violet clothes. We invited parents to our workshops. 

Involved subjects:

BIOLOGY, Czech language, Maths, English, Music, Art, Crafts. Cooking, ICT

Objectives:

BIOLOGY:

- to learn about the history of growing lavender

- to describe the body of a flower - lavender

- to study various lavender species

- to learn how we can use lavender and what products we can make

- to plant lavenders

CZECH LANGUAGE:

- writing and reading stories and poems about lavender

- to learn new grammar rules through the tasks about lavender

- reading recipes with lavender (cookies) and finding the correct order

MATHEMATICS:

- to solve Maths problems connected with this topic

ENGLISH:

- to to learn and sing an old English song Lavender´s Blue

- to learn the vocabulary needed in CLIL Biology lesson on Lavender

MUSIC:

- to sing Czech songs about lavender and gardening

ART and CRAFTS:

- to make 2D and 3D outcomes with various materials and techniques (painting, combine techniques, crocheting, quilting, beads, embroidering, etc.)

- to make a booklet with all lavender project worksheet

- to help to prepare display (bring product)

- to make tiles with lavenders

- to make lavender bathing salt

- to make lavender bathing bombs

COOKING:

- to taste various drinks and food with lavender (tea, lemonade, chocolate)

ICT:

- to motivate pupils to use IT tools to prepare their tasks for classmates

LAVENDER DAY MAY 11

All pupils were wearing clothes in lavender colours or decorations. They were tasting chocolate, lemonade, and tea with lavender scents as an award for their hard work on this project. It was the deadline for handing in worksheets and other outcomes for the display.

DIDACTICS MATERIALS 

CZECH LANGUAGE:

PUPILS created crosswords.doc

Czech language dictation.docx

Czech language grade 4 grammar iy.docx

Czech language poem.docx

Czech language - disordered recipe.docx

MATHEMATICS:

Math grade 4 Lavender tasks.docx

MUSIC:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow25lvYoKXo Lavender´s Blue Song  karaoke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7e1ACqWMFY Lavender´s Blue Song   ANIMATED

PHOTOGALLERY

More photos from the project workshops, lavender display, outcomes, and ideas are in the PowerPoint presentation below:

the story of lavender.pptx

DISSEMINATION:

1) Information about this project was published on the school website, Facebook, school and class noticeboards, display of outcomes in the school hall for pupils and parents.

2) We were invited to present our project in another Ostrava district called Poruba on Lavender Market. It was held on Sunday 23 June 2019. The organizers learnt about this project which is part of ATAU on our school websites. More photos are in the presentation.

dissemination of the LAVENDER STORY project.pptx

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