Practices
Practices
Practices
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Our Feathery Friends<br />
eTwinning<br />
Institutions involved:<br />
Thematic Field: ECEC<br />
Leikskólinn Bakki, Reykjavík (Iceland), Flataskóli, Garðabær (Iceland), Ceip La<br />
Angostura school, Canary Islands (Spain), St Albans Road Infant school, Dartford<br />
(United Kingdom), Our Lady’s Catholic Primary School, Dartford (United Kingdom)<br />
Key words: Curriculum<br />
Description:<br />
Based on the assumption that young children are curious about the world surrounding<br />
them and the young age is the best to reinforce lifelong learning skills about the<br />
natural environment, this cross-curricular project helped pupils to learn about their<br />
local environment and to understand that there are no boundaries for nature. Pupils<br />
observed local birds and compared them with partner countries.<br />
In different activities they produced bird feeders, visited local nature reserves, learned<br />
songs in native and partner languages and made observational drawings of birds and<br />
exchanged them with partners. Pupils also practiced their reading skills using a<br />
special “Bird” library and taking challenges to read more books than their partners.<br />
Flashmeetings helped to compare the reading challenge results and set new<br />
challenges. Through traditional stories and singing songs pupils learned about each<br />
other's cultures.<br />
Pupils benefited from exploration during the visits to nature reserves leading to<br />
presentation of their own findings using ICT tools. The carried out activities<br />
addressed a wide range of topics and were in line with the preschool curriculum. All<br />
project partners felt a great impact on their schools.<br />
Duration:<br />
2009-2010<br />
Webpage:<br />
http://new-twinspace.etwinning.net/web/p16809/welcome<br />
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