GERMANS VISIT TO LATVIA

Germans were very lucky to visit Latvia. Here you can see some pictures of the warm welcome they had. It is a pity that not all of us could go!!

ZEBERIO´S BORDERS

On May 18th there was a mountain tour around the village of Zeberio. The aim was to skirt the village on a 37 Km walk tour that took the whole day long. It was organized by Austarri cultural association. Among the people that took part in the event - most of them villagers- there were school parents, students and teachers. There was also an exhibition about it in the old school building where there could be seen boundary stones, maps, models and photographs.

DO YOU WANT TO SEE WHAT OUR LAST WORK WILL LOOK LIKE?

HERE IS A PICTURE OF THE FINAL BOOKLETS!The flyers produced by all the schools will appear in the pages of this booklet. You can read about routs in the different partner countries

BULGARIANS´VISIT TO TURKEY

The Bulgarian group could not attend the last meeting in Turkey and they have visited Akishar during the Easter break. I am sure all of us miss the good time we spent there when having a look at these pictures

GERMAN FLYERS

All of us have been working very hard on our brochure. Here is a sample of the fantastic job done by the German school.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21661227/germany/Flyer_presentation_141211_DE.pdf
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21661227/germany/Flyer_presentation_141211_EN.pdf

POLISH FLYERS

By clicking on the links below, you can see the work done by the Polish school. Do not miss it!

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21661227/poland/przewodnik-en.pdf
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21661227/poland/przewodnik-pl.pdf

ITALIAN FLYERS

Do you want to have a look at the work done by Italians?. Don´t miss it, just click on these links:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21661227/italy/last%20brochureok%281%29.pdf
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21661227/italy/brochure%20ultimaok.pdf

BASQUE FLYERS

Here you can see the Basque work by clicking on the links below:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21661227/zeberio/ibilbidea%20ingelesez.pdf
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21661227/zeberio/ibilbidea%20euskeraz.pdf

LATVIAN FLYERS

Latvians have also been busy working on their flyers. You can have a look at them by clicking on the address below:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21661227/latvia/flyer_Latvia_E.pdf
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21661227/latvia/flyer_Latvia_L.pdf

TREE PLANTING IN ZEBERIO

On march 9th students in our school planted some trees in the school yard and also in the nearby fields. They planted different trees so they can look after them and see them grow: Cherry tree, beech, ash, alder, oak..
They also planted seeds from Latvia, Germany and Turkey. Now we can only do our best, wait and see what happens!

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY IN STRALSUND

I went with my class to the University of applied science here in Stralsund.
There we learned a lot about alternative energy.
In a workshop we tried how to programme Lego-Robots and we built Lego-Windmills.
In our region we win a lot of energy by wind power plants.

A TOUR IN SOFIA- BULGARY

Bulgarian school has also been very busy working with students on the topic. Here is an exaple of their work:

Trip to knowlwdge: Learning how to plant a future

 There is a lot to see and many things to collect and learn.We discovered the Nature sorrounding us with our volunteer fiends Malvina from Poland and Winnie from China.

Summer workshops were also related to Nature.




This is aMAP of our whereabouts

 

ENVIRONMENT TROPHY

At the end of last school year German 2nd class won an Environment trophy for our work about trees on our school ground. We learned a lot about the trees on our school ground.

We summarised all our experiences and presented them in our town.

The topic was: Children need nature-Nature needs children.

PARTNERS´S WORK

Here you can see part of the work done by the different partner countries:

TURKEY: Click  on the address below to see a presentation of the work done by the Turkish school.



https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=1JHPlb2abLPuo9B-TQKQ_4g7C5acc-GmHywgZdpnHqSCT3URNXF2JbF2yHNd1&hl=en_US




BULGARY: Bulgarian children´s work. Watch the videos and click on the photograph below .

BASQUE COUNTRY: Click on the address below to see the brochure. Many steps were followed to complete the work:
- Search for information.
- Bring parents and members of the community into school.
-Visit places and take photographs.
- Learn about map reading, coordinates, altitudes...
- Study different types of texts.
- Summarize information.
- Write and improve texts.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21661227/ibilbidea%20ingelesez.pub

A TOUR IN STRALSUND- GERMANY

On May the 7th we met at school with parents, teachers and a forester.We planted a new tree on our school ground.It is the tree of year 2011 and it is a Wild Elder.We will take care of it.Some of us also planted sunflower seeds. We hope we can have nice flowers in summer time.

 

 

Our children from class 4 worked on a topic about saving energy . This is part of the work the children have prepared.

 

At the moment our children work on a topic to create posters about our region “Mecklenburg Vorpommern” (Western Pomerania ) . They want to show , how nice our country is and what we should protect for the future.

 

A TOUR IN ZEBERIO- BASQUE COUNTRY

 We have already started to map our tour. To start with, we devided the work so that all the groups could take part: the oldest ones will trace the route on a map, learn about how to draw a profile and describe the whole valley; all the rest will investigate and write a comment on the different stops we´ll make, the interesting places we will visit and the past and present of those places of historical, social or natural interest.
One of the places included in our tour is an old house that was used as a smithy for many years and then became a water mill after a time. 1st and 2nd graders are working on that stop at the moment. This spot is a good chance to learn about former jobs. They visited the place on Wednesday. Then, on Friday, a German friend- Basque speaker- came to school and explained to the students how a mill works. They also wrote the names of different cereals in Basque, Spanish, English and German, grinded some rye, calculated how much weigh was lost and at last ate some rye bread. They also learnt that rye is not grown in the Basque Country. The cereal that was commonly used here was corn.

 

They also visited a water mill that is still used to produce flour. They listened to the explanations and had fun.

After learning about a miller´s wok, they learnt about blacksmiths. In former times there were a lot of smithies along Zeberio river, that is why there are a lot of places in the village that have names related to that. Students had the chance to examine iron as a mineral; to know where iron and wood- for the forge-were taken from in our forests and see how a smithy used to work and what kind of pruducts blacksmiths made.

 

4th class is working on another stop: the Townhall. They visited the Townhall on Monday. They learnt some interesting facts about the building itself, the work done there and also saw one of the oldest archives still kept in the Basque Country and many other European villages with documents that date back from the 16th century.

 

Class 5 is working on the Royal Way that crosses the whole village and used to be the main route to go from a village to another and for trade. They are also learning about one of the most important churches we have: Olabarrietako Santo Tomas. A parent came to school and taught the children many important and amazing things about these topics.

Ater the explanations they went on a fieldtrip to see and take pictures of all the places.

In the pictures below, you can see the oldest students. They are working with a map of the village. Their aim now is to draw the profile of our route so their first step is to learn about contour lines: what they represent and how to calculate the altitude of a place by reading those lines. Really interesting!!!

The smallest students walked along Sautuolabarri , the area where our school is located. They looked at the bulidings, the natural places, they talked to the people and they took some photographs so they can start writing their description of the place.





After their fieldtrip, these children have already started to write about the walk: the route they followed, the houses they saw,...They have also made their own map about the area. Have a look at it!

 

Some more news about our route. 3rd class visited one of the three sawmills in Zeberio. There, students learnt how a sawmill works, the kind of trees they use and why we have so many pinetree plantations in the village. They also learnt that in former times there weren´t so many pinetrees but beechwoods because beeches were used to make coal for the smithies.