Practices

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