Let's give Breath to Earth!

Polish National Award for the Earth project!

2010-06-13T15:26:00.001+03:00

Dear Kids and parents!
It is a long time since we had a great fun with our "Let`s give a breath to Earth" project. We believe that you still remember your Polish friends and wonderful common adventure for the protection of environment.
We would like to share a great news today!
The project is a runner-up of Polish National Awards 2010 in category of 3-6 years old!
In such a way the Polish Team adds a sign of recognition from Polish authorities towards the value of our common unforgettable work!
Many hugs to you all!

Our project on Greek tv!!

2010-04-25T18:53:00.002+03:00

Our project on TV!Enjoy!!!

Our project on TV!!!

2010-04-04T17:46:00.000+03:00

On 26/3/2010 the digital greek national television presented our project! Me and seven of the last year's children talked about our collaboration and remembered beautiful moments! It was really nice to see how we still remember all the things we did last year and our beloved friends from Poland and UK!

You can see the presentation here: http://www.ertdigital.gr/video-gr.php?channel=5&id=308

Project in a Polish competition for an eTwinning web page

2010-03-30T09:06:00.000+03:00

Here in Poland we take part in a simmilar competition as our Greek friends received a second place for a blog.
Our blog displays four of projects we were doing past 5 years of eTwinning, so then it is a great part for "Let`s give a breath to Earth" as well.

The blog, called PrzedszkoleTwinning, available in Polish language version is available on: www.przedszkoletwinning.blogspot.com .
Fingers crossed! We should add at least one great Award from Poland to the common collection:)Bye!

Another prize for our project!

2010-03-21T17:41:00.000+02:00

Although our project is officially over, we have been awarded with another prize! It's a prize which was given from the Greek Ministry of Education! They awarded the most innovative projects the last 5 years!

Congratulations to all for once again!!!

Our project in the 4rth Pan-Hellenic Symposium

2010-01-18T21:06:00.005+02:00

In 22-24 January 2010, the 4rth Pan-Hellenic Symposium of the Hellenic Society for the Protection of the Environment and the Cultural Heritage will be held on Athens, Greece, with main theme "Sustainable school of present and future". In this sumposium we are going to present our project. Here you can see our poster.We are really proud!!!!

Do not forget: VOTE EARTH!

2009-12-09T10:06:00.011+02:00

"Earth Hour has done a lot to raise awareness of climate change issues. But there’s more to it than switching off lights for one hour once a year. It’s all about giving people a voice on the future of our planet, and the chance to send a message of hope to world leaders".
All of us, kids and adults, can vote by making a paper latern with a personal message to world leaders and send it to Copenhagen for the UN Climate Conference. In this way we can tell them why we want them to do something about global warming.
As it can be difficult to send it in time, your family can also make a virtual lattern which will be treated as your voice for the planet.
It’s fun, it’s creative and it lets kids have their say on the planet they’ll inherit.
The first latern is already done! Here you can see Marta`s one:

To make your own virtual latern - visit: http://www.earthhour.org/kids/MakeALantern.aspx

Organisers remind you: "As long as there is Earth, there will be Earth Hour! It’s held each year on the last Saturday in March. Which means the next Earth Hour event will be Saturday 27 March 2010. Mark it on your calendar now!"

Do not forget: VOTE EARTH!

We are in Top50 of eLearning Awards!

2009-11-28T18:37:00.000+02:00

Dear Kids of project, Parents and Friends!
We are very happy to tell you that our "Let`s give a breath to Earth' project is shortlisted in Top 50 of this year eLearning Awards!
The eLearning Awards are organised by European Schoolnet (a network of 31 Ministries of Education) for that to acknowledge and highlight teachers and schools’ best practices in the pedagogical use of ICT.
A prize-giving ceremony for top 10 projects was held on 26-27 November 2009 in Vilnius, Lithuania. For more information, and the list of winners you can search: www.elearningawards.eun.org (pres and news)

Even we are not in Top 10, we enjoy the success!
We can call Top 50 achievement a success, my dear!

Our Project Helps England Get Another Award!

2009-10-19T15:01:00.004+03:00

Southwater Infant School has just been awarded the International School Award! This is an award presented by the British Council to schools that have shown excellent international work. One of the activities that helped us to get the award was our project, Let's Give a Breath to Earth. Thankyou to everyone for helping us! This award is for you too!!

Poland plays and learns with Elements of Nature

2009-10-18T08:48:00.000+03:00

Dear friends!
It was so sad for us to finish our eTwinning collaboration with "Let`s give a breath to Earth" that we decided to continue our exceptional work with a project for whole kindergarten kids!

We use main of the project ideas and many of its resources devided into four parts like in four elements of nature. So this year 165 children work with the project, which we called "Eko Żywioły" (what means: Eco Elements of Nature).
With a greatest pleasure we invite you to frequently visit our polish web page:
www.ekozywioly.blogspot.com

Many hugs! We wouldn`t do that without you all!

eTwinning display

2009-10-17T20:04:00.000+03:00

There is a special place in our kindergarten which we like a lot. The place reminds us about our exceptional partners, our collaborative work and a resounding success which we achieved together with "Let`s give a breath to Earth" project.
It also gives others an opportunity to know our adventure better!

We won`t forget ever!
Give breath to Earth, you can make a difference!

European Quality Labels for Polish teachers

2009-10-14T14:45:00.000+03:00

It is not needed to guess that Polish teachers also received European Quality Labels. That is wonderful confirmation of our collaborative work.

Thanks to all!

European Quality Label from England!

2009-10-13T18:35:00.003+03:00

In England we also received our European Quality Label. Well done to everyone for their hard work throughout this project!

European Quality Label from Greece!

2009-10-06T16:23:00.001+03:00

Congratulations to our wonderful team!It was a great year for all!Thank you!

Outcomes of our project...

2009-09-20T23:22:00.002+03:00

Although our project is over I would like to share with you a picture and a video that show how our environmental project affected children in a good way! Spyros, found by chance eggs of a sea turtle in Lefkada, during his summer holidays. With his father help, they moved away all the chairs and umbrellas from the beach and helped baby turtles to find their way to the sea.

PROJECT SONG

2009-06-21T14:45:00.001+03:00

Dear friends, fans and visitors! Children from Poland, Greece and England want to sing a song of "Let`s give a breath to Earth" project. Lyrics of the song are a combination of project title made in three languages. Here you can hear every group of kids singing the same song: "GIVE BREATH TO EARTH!"

Quality label from the UK

2009-06-20T12:08:00.000+03:00

Another sign of our success. The quality label from the UK. Well done to all.

Quality Labels for Polish teachers

2009-06-19T14:55:00.000+03:00

Without any hestitation but with pride we present Quality Labels for Polish teachers involved in our project:

Nothing could be possible without our project partners! Thank you!

Greek Quality Label for our project!

2009-06-19T00:39:00.000+03:00

Congratulations to all for once more!!!

2nd place for the best blog in Greece

2009-06-18T15:37:00.004+03:00

We took part in the National contest for the best blog that Greek NSS organized and we took the second prize for the greek version of our blog, that contains all our uploadings here translated in greek, in the kindergarten/primary schools category. Congratulations to all!!

During our summer presentation children received their certificates for our prize!We had the honour to have with us Mrs Aggelopoulou, the head of the 3rd Office of Primary Education in the D Region of Athens. She congratulated the children for the great work they've done and awarded the prizes to the children!Here you can see a video:

UK Etwinning Award for 3rd Place!

2009-06-16T12:47:00.004+03:00

Great news for everyone! The UK awards ceremony for etwinning was held this weekend, and our project was given 3rd place! This is a fantastic achievement and recognition of all our hard work. Well done everyone!

Goodbye and Thankyou to All

2009-06-16T12:09:00.001+03:00

Goodbye to our friends in Greece and Poland. We have had such fun this year, and we have learned a great deal from working with you. Thankyou to everyone who made our project such a success. We wish you all the best in the future.

Goodbye, our international friends! Goodbye our exceptional project!

2009-06-16T11:54:00.000+03:00

Polish presentation of a whole project work, available in Polish version:)
We would like to thank all people, in Poland and in the world, who supported us in project work. We will miss you all a lot! And we won`t forget ever...
Enjoy the summer time!

Prezentacja dzialań podjętych w czasie projektu "Let`s give breath to Earth".
Chcemy podziękować wszystkim tym, którzy wspierali nas w jego realizacji.
Dziękujemy! Będziemy za wami tęsknić! I nigdy tej wspólnej przygody nie zapomnimy!
Milych wakacji!

Goodbye to all!

2009-06-16T11:29:00.001+03:00

Our project came to an end. We presented our work to our parents and they were all impressed.Here you can see the video presentation in greek!

We will miss you!Thank you very very much for the nice moments we've spent together! We shared the same journey and this journey unfortunately comes to an end!!!Have a nice summer our friends!!!

Scenes from our environmental play!

2009-06-15T17:27:00.003+03:00

Introduction with the songs:"We are all dust in the wind..." and "I'm turning my back to the future, the future you make it as you want, as history belongs to you, destroy the future, what are you waiting for?I don't believe in promises, I have seen what you are doing, don't make me crazy. The ship of my dreams takes me to places you can't stand. I stay alone to the present to save what it can be saved..."

The Nature court has to find out what's going wrong with Planet Earth! Wind, Sea, Rain and a parrot, representative of animals talk about the problems they face due to pollution!The solution?Small children can make the difference and give a breath to earth!

"Nothing belogs to us we borrowed everything from our children" a song from all children. At the end we sing our common song with our friends from Poland and UK!

Let's Play!

2009-06-14T13:44:00.001+03:00

We have really enjoyed playing the games that we received from Greece and Poland. They are beautifully made, but also remind us about how to take care of our planet. Thankyou Poland - we have loved playing your game!

Games sharing

2009-06-14T13:43:00.000+03:00

As all teams of project we also enjoyed making and playing environmental games!
This is a game which was made by us - it`s all about saving birds who are in danger!

We received this game from Greece - it`s called "Trip to Mediterranean" - about saving sea species!

Here we play game from UK. "Journey through the forest" helps us to learn about forest species protection!

Thankyou to all for such a fun!

Playing our board games..

2009-06-14T13:42:00.000+03:00

Each school made a board game for the other two. The subject was environmental!We made a board game which is called: "Trip to the Mediterennean Sea"", and is about the protection of the sea.Here you can see the board game our friends from Poland sent to us and it's about the protection of birds:And the game our friends from U.K. sent to us. This is about forests protection:
We had a great time playing with them and we learnt or revised many interesting things about the environmental protection!

Polish kids on the Forest Educational Path

2009-06-13T10:57:00.002+03:00

On Tuesday 9th our team visited an Educational Path which is devided to the Forest live and creatures.
We enjoyed all surprises on the path like bee yards, ponds, places for feeding animals and many others. It was also the great possibility to come into the special room where we could touch the animals` figures and its fur, listen to the songs about them and meet forester...
It was a beautiful sunny day! We would like to share with you some pictures of that day...

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Land Animals in Danger

2009-06-12T15:31:00.000+03:00

The children in England would like to share some of the land animals that are in danger.

Birds in Danger

2009-06-12T15:25:00.005+03:00

We present you some of the birds that are in danger of extinction in Poland, Europe, World...

Sea Animals in Danger

2009-06-12T15:23:00.000+03:00

Coming to an end, we decided to present to you the animals that are in danger. In Greece, we are presenting you some of the sea animals that face the danger of extinction:

"Give breath to Earth" performance in Polish version

2009-06-09T13:02:00.000+03:00

With a greatest pleasure we share a Polish version of environmental video.
You can hear the message given by Polcia, Amfitryta, Nutty and Herman...

Our Play

2009-06-09T12:36:00.005+03:00

Here is the English version of the play using the common script. Here Poseidon, Pippi, Sleepy and Herman tell the story...

Once upon a time..

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..there was a dormouse:Curly, a baby sea turtle:Poseidon, a stork:Pepe and a Sturgeon:Herman...these guys visited a Greek Nursery class and learnt them intersting things. Here you can see the greek version of a common scipt,created by the three schools,about our protected animals. This is the muppet show in greek language and we wait for the english and polish version as well!

Greek Day in Polish kindergarten

2009-06-08T19:27:00.004+03:00

As Polish kids also received many gifts from Greek friends (which were brought to Poland by Mrs Irene - teacher from Greece)we decided to organize a Greek Day in our kindergarten. We played Greek music and tasted typical sweets. They were really yummy! Children were playing a sea board game as well. It was surprising to see the "Sky city " book in printed version! Many surprises in an exceptional Greek Day...
Thank you to all!

PDW Warsaw

2009-06-07T18:51:00.003+03:00

Going back to the exceptional time of Profesional Development Workshop which took place in Warsaw in May this year - we would like to share some pictures from the meeting. Some people can notice that it is the first time Mrs Anna from Poland and Irene from Greece appear on this blog. We promise we will try for that to be also the last time:)

Greetings to all participants of PDW!

Planting our Seeds

2009-06-01T13:50:00.008+03:00

We have made a special place for our international garden. We have split the garden into three - one part for English seeds, one part for Polish seeds and one part for Greek seeds. We planted and watered the seeds. Now we are excited to see what will grow!

Visit to Archelon (www.archelon.gr)

2009-05-26T16:12:00.002+03:00

Yesterday we visited Archelon, the only hospital for injured sea turtles Caretta-Caretta in Greece. The centre is close to the sea, weather was sunny and hot and we had a great time although we became sad when we learnt about the way sea turtles are injured and visit five injured sea turtles.here you can enjoy some photos of our visit!

Look how our plants have grown!

2009-05-23T11:08:00.001+03:00

Here you can take a look of how our plants grow...
We are really excited to watch them grow day by day!!!

Make a Smilebox slideshow

RESPECT GREENERY

2009-05-23T10:15:00.007+03:00

For that to help our Polish friends understand the importance of greenery, we made few Polish signs to put in our garden. Everybody should remember not to spoil trees` leaves and branches, to respect grass and flowers border. what is more, we all should know where to put rubbish...
Enjoy...

Make a Smilebox postcard

INTERNATIONAL PLANTATION

2009-05-23T10:00:00.003+03:00

As Polish kids also received seeds from their Greek and English friends, they decided to organize an international plantation of flowers... Kids filled pots with soil and put seeds into those. Everything with a great joy and passion. Now, we all eagerly wait to see how it grows...

A big "thank you" to our Polish friends

2009-05-22T22:05:00.004+03:00

Our teacher, Mrs Irene, visited Warsaw,Poland between 15-17 May in order to attend an eTwinning workshop. There, it had the chance to meet Mrs Anna, the Polish teacher.Our friends from Poland sent us nice presents for us(candies-balloons-drawings) and we would like to say a big thank you with a small video!Hope we meet each other one day, as our teachers did!

Planting polish and english seeds

2009-05-20T21:21:00.005+03:00

The three schools decided to exchange seeds of flowers that grow in our country. In that way we wanted to see if seeds can grow in another place. Some of the flowers exist in our country so we believe that they will grow well.Here you can see some photos of us planting the polish seeds:

And here you can see photos of us planting the english seeds:

How to behave in the forest.

2009-05-18T19:05:00.002+03:00

In the UK we have the Forestry Commission. They are responsible for taking care of our forests and woodlands. They have a set of rules about how to behave in a forest. We used these to make our poster.

The Story of Skycity

2009-05-13T20:29:00.005+03:00

The children in all three schools have worked together to write a story for our project. Children from Greece began the story, children from Poland wrote the middle of the story, and the children from England ended the story. The children drew the pictures to go with their part of the story. Our story is called 'The story of Skycity'. We hope you enjoy it!

Our Forest Pictures

2009-05-13T18:54:00.004+03:00

We drew pictures showing happy, healthy forests on one side, and unhappy destroyed forests on the other. Don't let this happen to our forests! Take care of them and remember how to look after them.

Our forest poster...

2009-05-11T23:13:00.003+03:00

Here you can see some information for keeping the forests green and safe!

And now, you can see a video so as to take a closer look to our instructions:

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Forests green not black....

2009-05-11T22:55:00.002+03:00

Forests are improtant for being healthy, for breathing oxygen. Last years, Greece suffered from forest fires, something that nobody wants to remember.In our drawings, you can see how nice forest is when it's green and how bad it looks when it's burnt...

Make a Smilebox slideshow

How to behave in the forest?

2009-05-11T19:57:00.003+03:00

Project teams decided to draw posters about a proper behaviour in the forest. This is a Polish poster picture: And here you can see a movie explanation for that to have it better:

SOS for forests

2009-05-11T19:41:00.003+03:00

Every of us know how important is to save forests. Trees offer us oxygen.They use water so they help stop floods. What is more, forest are shelters to many animals. It is obvious that we all should protect them.
Kids were talking about all forest`s importance and it`s future (which doesn`t look bright if humans still turn forest into fields or use trees for paper). They drew nice pictures showing jungle, cutted down areas and these which were destroyed by fire setting...

PROTECT FORESTS NOW!

2009-05-10T22:55:00.004+03:00

The three schools decided to make a kind of advertisement for the protection of forests. We decided on the text,each class made its videos and then we connected all the videos and made one in three languages, english,polish and greek. Everyone collaborated for this work and here you can see the result:

Will you help us protect forests?

Our visit in the place of segregation and recycling

2009-05-09T09:10:00.003+03:00

On Tuesday, 5th of May, our Team had an opportunity to visit a place of rubbish segregation and recycling in Zabrze. We saw some typical places in there where plastic and paper is collected and segregated, soil is made from the grass and leaves, and electronical staff or batteries are collected.
We realized how hard is the work of people working in such a place. What is more, we saw what we can really receive from rubbish instead of throwing it into municipal waste dump.
Have a look...

TOYS FROM RUBBISH - Family competition in Poland

2009-05-09T07:51:00.006+03:00

Here you can see toys made in a family competition we organized in Poland. Surprising, how much other staff it is possible to make from rubbish we usually thow out! Everyone is surprised... Congratulations to all!

Results (Adults Awards) are not announced yet - kids and their parents need to wait till 6th of June (we will have our fun fair then). In the deepest secret we can tell you that kindergarten kids also voted for their Kids Award. Winners are: Oskar (with his "Spider"), Pawel (with his "Spacecraft") and Vanessa ("Pram"). Congratulations! Now, we are eagerly waiting for the UK toys to vote for International Kids Awards!

Contest with objects by recycling materials!

2009-05-04T19:06:00.003+03:00

The three schools decided to organize a contest with crafts made by recycling materials. Here you can see the photos of the greek contest. Children, with their parents' help made magnificent crafts, don't you think so? We are waiting for your photos and we have an idea!!!Would you like to vote for the best three crafts from all three schools?

This song says that's there is still time to change the world, come with us, it's our turn now...

A small presentation of what we did so far and what we will do next..

2009-05-03T23:18:00.002+03:00

OUR RUBBISH SENTENCE!

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LETS GIVE BREATH TO EARTH:

Rubbish Sentence!!

2009-05-02T09:48:00.003+03:00

Here in Greece, we had to write the word "Breath" for our rubbish sentence. The weather was windy and our work difficult, that's why we don't have many photos of the making of!!

RUBBISH PROJECT SENTENCE MAKING

2009-05-01T12:13:00.002+03:00

As you already know, Greek, British and Polish children collaborate efectively for that to create many things connected to the project.
These days all teams were making the "Rubbish project sentence" by giving the shape of words from the rubbish they had collected before.
You will see the effect of this common work soon.
But before that - have a look at how Polish kids were doing their part: "to Earth" words...

"Clean your world" day

2009-04-29T16:46:00.003+03:00

Our Team went outside of the kindergarten with special gloves for that to gather some rubbish. Not many people care about it and take the rubbish out anywhere, like people in Sky city did one day.
We understand the need of keeping it clean.

Give breath to Earth!!!

Poland also recycles

2009-04-29T16:02:00.010+03:00

The whole Europe recycle, so as we do!
Polish kids had a special lesson reminding about the recycling matter...

All these rubbish smell disgusting!

Every kid knows that it is good to recycle rubbish. This small action gives us a great power and help to the Earth.

In the kindergarten we recycle compost, paper, plastic and glass with a help of coloured boxes. Colours are given for each kind of rubbish bins, the same in every place in Poland.
Blue bins are for paper:

Yellow ones are for plastic:

Green ones are for glass only.

Let`s all recycle!
Do not let the Earth end in the rubbish bin!!!

We are recycling too here in Greece!!!

2009-04-26T01:22:00.003+03:00

We made 4 recycling bins for plastic-glass-aluminium and paper. In our school, we already use a bin for recycling batteries!

P.S. if you press the sound icon(up left), you can hear music during the slideshow

Let's All Recycle!

2009-04-25T13:29:00.005+03:00

We have made recycling bins for our school. We can recycle lots of things here, but people do not always know where to put their rubbish. Our signs make it clear what should go in each bin. Now people are using the bins properly, and we can recycle lots more!

We can recycle glass.

We can recycle paper

We can compost our unwanted food.

We can recycle cans and tins.

We can recycle plastic.

We can recycle cardboard.

What can you recycle where you live?

"The Skycity" (a story created by the three schools)

2009-04-25T12:29:00.004+03:00

This is the story we all made about a city, a very nice city where people lived hapilly. Unfortunately everything changed one day...
Here you can see the pictures we all drew and listen to our story in Greek, Polish and English!
Hope you enjoy!

For a better quality you can visit:http://voicethread.com/#u278580.b408545.i2160977

Here, the Greek children started the story and painted their part, then they sent their part to the Polish children, who continued the story and drew their pictures.In the same way they sent the two parts to the English children who finished the story. After uploading all the drawings, each school narrated our common story to their mother language!!
So, everybody can understand it! Isn't that a nice way of collaboration?

Our Birdwatcher meeting

2009-04-18T09:34:00.005+03:00

There are our photos from the meeting we had at the beginning of April.
A lady, who is a birdwatcher, gave us many interesting details about birds lifes.

We all expect some bird species oncoming on Spring time...
If you also want to be a birdwatcher kid - visit: www.springalive.net.
It is available in your language as well!

Competition winners

2009-04-17T18:34:00.004+03:00

We would like to invite you to read our web magazine article where we intruduce the winners of rhyming competition.
As we are very proud of our kids and beautiful poems they wrote with parents, there is nothing else to do, but to thank all of them and our City Council for the help with the Competition organization!

Enjoy with us the Green Day we had!

HAPPY EASTER!

2009-04-10T16:42:00.002+03:00

We wish you all precious moments of Easter time!!!

See you soon, back at school!

HAPPY EASTER!!!

2009-04-10T09:51:00.004+03:00

We wish you a Happy Easter!Have a nice time!!!Today our holidays begin...we will be back in two weeks!!We have already prepared some of the common activities we decided and will upload them soon!!! We sent you a small video with Easter pictures from Greece!!!

We want clean Bytomka!!!

2009-04-09T09:19:00.005+03:00

That came a day when our group went for the demonstration concerning the Bytomka matter. As we had many lessons and discussions about its pollution and possible improvements, decided to take actions by demonstration in one of our city parks.

We took our banner with a sentence: "We want clean Bytomka" and shouted it during our walk through the park. Our faces were covered by protection masks so people seemed to be surprised because of our appearance.People have had a short description of our project and address of the project blog given as an invitation to common action for the environment improvement.

That day we have officially adopted the part of Bytomka river (Gosia holds the Adoption Certificate in the picture) as a part of "Adopt a river" programme.

What is more, kids and teachers were dressed in blue (to show the expected colour of the river). We were reading kids poems and singing songs about rivers and environmental issues there.

To know more about the "Adopt the river" programme - visit www.klubgaja.pl

To know more about Bytomka, its history and condition - visit www.rzeka.org blog - Polish version available only.

OUR EARTH HOUR

2009-04-08T18:53:00.005+03:00

Kids from Poland, Greece and UK want to share their happy precious moments during EARTH HOUR 2009.

If you are more interested in how kids can vote for Earth, visit the web side: www.earthhourkids.org
Vote for Earth!

We ordered wind for kites!

2009-04-08T16:28:00.006+03:00

Dear Friends!

We were waiting for the "Flying Kites Day" for a long time.

Firstly, it was freezing cold which forced us to postpone the event.

This time we finally went to the park to announced the community some environmental advice. The weather was great and sun was shining as we expected, but there was almost no wind!!! Even that we decided to make some trials...

Were doing our best to help the kite fly. Running and shouting didn`t help at all. But it was really funny even that.
Everyone wanted to run with a kite, so that we spent a lot of time in the park. Too much time, we can say, because finally we all were late for kindergarten lunch:)

Do not worry, we got our food and it was really tasty. Kites were giving some advises for humans to follow if we want to give breath to Earth. To help people understand what we are going to say, we were giving our drawings and blog address to the people in park.

We all had a great joy! Need to fly a kite again soon. This time in the kindergarten garden...

GUARDIANS OF EARTH - MOVIE

2009-04-07T18:53:00.003+03:00

No worries, we can also participate in this kind of game. With the greatest pleasure we invite you to watch the "Guardians of Earth" movie ...

Another game for you!!!

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Would you like to make your own movie?If yes, let us know!We made a try!

Let`s play this game together!

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This is our version of the game:

For that to let everybody understand...

Air Pollution-what comes in our mind?

2009-04-05T14:03:00.005+03:00

We played a game with the children, we tried to find words that come in our mind when we listen the words "air pollution". Then we create something like a poster in english and in greek with the words using the web tool: http://www.wordle.net/ . It's really funny, you can use it too if you want!!

Our kite flight!

2009-04-05T13:45:00.004+03:00

Hello from Greece!
We tried to flight our kite too. The day was sunny but not quite windy! We tried a lot but unfortunately our kite couldn't fly!We will try again and if we manage to fly it we will send you our photos!However, we sent our environmental messages to the primary school's children who read what we have written in our kite..

Let's Go Fly a Kite!

2009-03-31T19:35:00.008+03:00

We have made kites to fly. On our kites we have written messages to tell people to take care of the air and stop polluting it.

Earth Day-28/3/2009 -20.30-21.30

2009-03-25T23:56:00.003+02:00

Children vote for Earth, we all vote for Earth! Switch off your lights at Saturday 28/3, 20.30-21-30! We can all do it! We can have fun even without lights and pass our message to all. We have to give a Breath to Earth!!

OUR KITE IS READY TO FLY A SPRING SKY

2009-03-20T18:59:00.005+02:00

Hi, Friends!

We finally finished a kite building. The shape is Greek, as you can see. Drawings are made by ourselves, of course... There is a beautiful spring meadow for which we are all waiting for:Now there is nothing else to do but to wait till our common "Flying kites Day" comes. Hope to have good weather conditions then:) So with a help of a great warm wind a kite will fly to the spring clean sky...Eagerly waiting...

BUY RESPONSIBLY!

2009-03-17T09:58:00.002+02:00

To keep air possibly clean, people should remember that there are some products which pollute the atmosphere and those which do not. We can buy and use products with special symbols to reduce freons emission, prevent using animals for tests and many other matters...

These are small steps, but to help Earth to breath:)

Buy responsibly!

HERMAN THE STURGEON FINALLY IN POLAND

2009-03-17T09:15:00.006+02:00

We are extremely happy to tell you that Herman - the sturgeon - after long long looooooong journey has finally arrived in Poland.

It is unbelievable how many offices and institutions he had to visit before they let him come to our kindergarten!

What is the most important - exceptional Herman is with us now...

We would like to give thanks to our friends from New York and their teachers for such nice gifts they sent to us!

Kisses and Hugs!

We have a surprise for our Polish friends!!!

2009-03-10T23:12:00.004+02:00

We liked your song about clear water and tried to learn it too!It was a little difficult but we did our best!Please don't judge us too strictly :-)

ACID RAIN-CLEAN RAIN

2009-03-09T19:55:00.005+02:00

We have no comments too..photos show how serious things are...

ACID RAIN

2009-03-08T19:09:00.004+02:00

No comments...

Acid Rain

2009-03-08T18:10:00.004+02:00

We looked at acid rain and what it is doing to our planet. We did an experiment to find out. We bought two plants, and watered one with water and one with acid rain. Look what happened...

This is the plant we watered with ordinary water. It is still very lovely after two weeks.

But look what has happened to our acid rain plant! If this is what acid rain is doing to the plants on our planet, what a terrible thing!

Our Acid Rain Experiment

2009-03-08T17:59:00.005+02:00

Look at our videos of our experiment.

This is the plant we watered with ordinary water.

This is the plant we watered with acid rain.

Air Pollution

2009-03-08T17:44:00.011+02:00

We have spent a lot of time talking about air pollution. We thought about different ways that we can be affected by air pollution.
We looked at the people in China who have to wear special masks to cycle in some cities because the air is so bad.

We like our masks and think they look very pretty...But we still think that we look better without them! Let's keep the air clean so we don't need to wear them!

When will we fly our kites??

2009-03-07T19:47:00.007+02:00

Hello from Greece!!!Yesterday, we made our kite and draw many beautiful landscapes: forests,trees,gardens,sea,animals etc. We send you some photos to see the result!Now, we wait for you, our friends, to arrange day and time to fly our environmental kites on a clean blue sky!!!

We draw our kite altogether...

Our kite ready to fly!!!!

The clay kites we made at school as well.They can't fly but we really like them because they have happy faces!!

REDUCING FUMES

2009-03-04T20:25:00.009+02:00

This is a short picture story telling about the topic of fumes reducing. As you surely know, it is a straight connection between the mains of transport that people use and amount of fumes going to the atmosphere. We had a nice play today concerning this matter. Look and see.

"HOW TO GET TO THE KINDERGARTEN? TO WORK?"

You can use a car. It is better to share a carpool with another people, but if you don`t, you produce great amount of fumes, just by yourself ...

You can replace a car into the bus. It`s not as comfortable as with car, but your emission of fumes is lower!
That`s also good idea to attend a tram way to the kindergarten or a work place. It works on the different type of energy then on fuels, so using trams or trains reduces fumes emission as well.

Look at here! Riding bicycles needs just a body energy. No fumes. Just pleasure... Wind in hair and nice views on the way...

At the end, the most pleasurable way of getting to the place you want. WALKING. What is more, if you choose a good friend to walk with, you won`t regret... Look at Martyna, she is so happy in this picture:)

WE WANT TO BREATH CLEAN AIR!

2009-02-26T09:59:00.007+02:00

It`s time to discuss the air pollution matter!
We were talking about causes of air pollution and some results of it like smog and acid rain...

Can you imagine that we have spent an hour wearing protection masks? It was all for that to realise that it is not even a little bit comfortable... Yeah, now we know that it certainly isn`t.
What is more, we even look strange and unrecognizable wearing those masks! Look...

Today we have learnt a new song concerned with a topic of clean air and clean water. The text says that children want to breath clean air instead of smog going from factories, and that they want to have a clean water. Clean water and air gives us a health which is necessary to enjoy our lifes. This is a refrain of a song: ("Czysta woda zdrowia doda, to każde dziecko wie. Czysta woda zdrowia doda Tobie, i Tobie, i mnie..." which means: "Clean water gives a health. Every kid knows that. Clean water gives a health for you, and you , and me").

SAVE WATER RESOURCES

2009-02-18T20:00:00.012+02:00

Today we were talking about the water resources. We know how important is to save water for others. Do you realize that nowadays people on Earth use the same water which was drunk by dinosaurs millions of years ago? Next generations will use the same water which we use, so we should feel obliged not to spoil water resources.

We were discussing possible actions children can take to save water, as every drop of water is important to be saved. Look what we found out:

And this is our common poster which we made today all together:

PEOPLE ON EARTH (SO ALSO CHILDREN) SHOULD:

*Re-use the water for watering houseplants or cleaning.
*Avoid leaks. Ask parents to check faucets and toilets and fix leaks.
*Use a low-flow toilet that requires less for flushing.
*Avoid flushing unnecessarily. Don`t use the toilet as a trash can.
*Take the quick shower, or use a short amount of water in bath.
*Turn off the tap while brushing your teeth. Don`t let water run while washing your face.

Air pollution: a problem that we won't stand any more

2009-02-16T15:15:00.004+02:00

These days we are talking about air pollution. Things start to become worse as time passes. Factories,cars, motorbikes have created a unbearable environment. What can we do? Is there any solution? We decided to make special masks and see how our life will be when we will be forced to wear masks like these in our everyday life. We didn't like it at all!!!

We also found a slogan to protest against air pollution: "Θέλουμε αέρα, αέρα καθαρό, θέλουμε οξυγόνο και γαλανό ουρανό" (theloume aera, aera katharo, theloume oxigono ke galano ourano). "We want air, clean air, we want oxygen and blue sky"

Then we went and informed the primary school's children about our protest and the effects of air pollution.

GREECE-UK-POLAND vote for clean seas!!!

2009-02-13T10:58:00.003+02:00

HOW TO BEHAVE BY THE SEA?

2009-02-13T09:21:00.006+02:00

As our partners, we also made a poster which tell us how to behave by the sea. We noticed that if we behave correctly at the beach, we will save a sea as well.

So have a look at our poster.

And there is a short "explanation movie". Enjoy:)

Where would you rather live?

2009-02-09T23:08:00.009+02:00

This is a polluted sea. The rubbish here makes it a bad place for sea creatures and plants to live.

This sea is clean. Sea creatures and plants grow and live happily here. Look - Poseidon has chosen to live here!

Making our aquariums

2009-02-09T22:58:00.004+02:00

We had lots of fun making our sea aquariums.

We used shoe boxes for the aquariums.

We made sea creatures that might live there.

We made seaweed and coral too.

We added shells.

Sea Aquariums

2009-02-09T22:01:00.008+02:00

What would you find in a good sea?

Lots of fish and shells.

Seaweed and happy sea creatures.

Beautiful coral.

Sea Posters

2009-02-09T21:29:00.003+02:00

After we had looked and discussed why sea animals and plants are in danger, the children designed their own posters to tell people about how to look after our seas.

Good sea, Bad Sea!

2009-02-09T21:20:00.003+02:00

We have talked about what a good sea and a bad sea might look like. We thought about polllution of the seas and rivers and how that might happen. What would happen to the animals and plants in a polluted sea or river? The children drew their ideas, one half showing a good sea and the other half showing a bad sea.

Ideas for water economy!

2009-02-05T17:10:00.002+02:00

1. Water with a can not a hose
2. We don't leave the tap open when we don't use it
3. Wash the car or the balcony with a bucket not a hose
4. We prefer taking a shower than a bubble bath
5. We wash fruits and vegetables in a dishpan
6. We take care so as not to have water leaks
7. We use ecological household appliancesut
8.We don't pollute drinkable water springs

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