The pupils of the Rocket Class worked in the garden and created a new ground for the barefoot path. They remembered the different parts of earth such as sticks, stones and sand. And they learned that moss needs to be watered for very long minutes. Finally all pupils were brave enough to walk the barefoot path without shoes and they perceived surprised the different surfaces of the new ground.
Rocket Class reached the element “Air” and had a very busy workshop about this element. The idea of this workshop was making things which deal with air in different coherences. The pupils built flutes and pipes and needed their own breathing air for making music. They painted and folded fans and found out that moving air can be cool and brisk. They enjoyed this and found this feature very useful because it is very hot in the moment in Germany (and I think in the rest of Europe, too 🙂…read more
The students of the polar bears get rid of the elements with puzzles. We are experimenting with cress: Which of the 4 elements are elementary in growth? The students fill clay pots with earth and cress seeds. Every pot lacks an important element. In a pot no water is added, in one earth missing, in the other light, in an air and in the last heat. In another pot, all elements are present, water, earth, air, light and heat. In a trial protocol, the students record the results of the…read more
The Rocket Class has worked on water in the second week. The pupils have had lots of experiences with this element before. Everybody could remember the tremendous thunderstorm we had experienced during our classtrip (You could read about that a few weeks ago). Now we took the occasion to go on a journey with Willy, the little raindrop. The pupils learned in a playful way a lot about the water circle and were impressed about the interaction of elements. They experienced that every single element is necessary to make the…read more
In the Rocket Class we take one week for every element. We always start with a meditative situation. We are listening to elements-music and stopp talking. So we can experience every single element in its different appearances by touching, listening, smelling and watching . Afterwards we collect our thoughts and ideas and write or draw them on our elements-poster. In another two or three lessons we do active things to experience the element with our whole body. The first element we were working on was earth. We created seedbombs. That…read more
The students of polar bear class drove to the volcanic Eifel on a school trip. Before, they had informed themselves about the Eifel. They researched the Eifel and found out that many volcanoes were active in the Eifel in the past and that today they were created in the craters, so-called maars. 75 of the maaren today are filled with water and become maar lakes. The students recorded their research results in a lapbook about the Vulkaneifel! During our school trip, we saw extinct volcanoes on our hikes, but they…read more
After coming back from our classtrip the rocket class startet classroom work on elements. First we spoke about the importance of all elements for our planet. The pupils have had lots of good ideas and the discussion was much longer than it was planned. The pupils saw the coherences between the elements and learned that all elements depend on each other. While trying to draw a picture on only one element we experienced that this is nearly impossible. Water, fire, air and earth belong together and we can’t seperate them.
During a three-day-classtrip Rocket-Class also explored the forest soil. By finding many different things on the floor we experienced that earth is an element with many components. You can find the searchlist we developed under the headline “Additional documents”.
The Rocket Class started work on Elements during a three-day-classtrip. The pupils experienced a lot of interesting, funny and exciting impressions around the element “Water”. They played in a ditch and did a lot of different things with water and earth. They enjoyed a boat trip on a lake and experienced the calm and smooth water of the lake. In the afternoon a big thunderstorm approached and showed us the power of water with floated streets, hail and an electricity cut in our hostel. Afterwards we astonished the changes of…read more
Our second project meeting took place in Vialonga near Lisbon. It was a meeting full of intensive work, interesting informations, engaged discussions and last but not least creative learning (in action!). The group grew together to a real community. We enjoyed staying together and being guests of our portuguese partners. Thank you very, very much to Madalena and her colleagues, who prepared the meeting and made sure that it became a wonderful experience of European friendship. Thank you :).
