The rocket class has had a really exciting time by exploring how people used to send messages in the past. Travelling through time they constructed drums and tin can-telephones and used morse codes. Of course they also sent messages by these and veriefied the different communication tools. They also tried communication by letter and telephone and had a lot of fun to find out how long the messages took to arrive at the addressees.
Making music needs a good feeling for timing. The Rocket Class practised a lot of timing and the pupils composed their own rhythm-composition. The Highlight was, of course, being on stage in front of all classmates and performing the own composition. Everybody could be very proud of their performance. Applause to all talented and brave musicians! Rocket class in concert:
Our time for the Time-Theme is coming to its end and the Rocket Class got four more boxes to spend their play and rest time in a creative and varied way. The new boxes contain the possibilties to experiment with water and sand, to do some bakery and to play with plasticine. Most of the pupils love choosing a box in the beginning of their leisure time. Some of them need some help to dare the experience which makes them able to make a decision. You can find the description…read more
In their project Tiger class (4th year) learned in the subject lessons about fossils that are witnesses of our geological history. First, we worked together on the formation of the fossils and got to know different species. Then a fossil expert came to us in the class and brought many, great and interesting exhibits. The best we liked was the huge mammoth tooth, the shark tooth, which showed us that sharks used to grow up to 20m. Some of us were also very excited about the dinosaur eggshell. Finally, everyone…read more
The pupils of the Dragon Class visit school since August. They are six and seven years old and experienced with their teachers a special time of the year: autumn. We set our focus on two aspects of autum: “Apple” and “Hedgehog”. The Apple We learned about the inside of the apple. We sang the apple song together. We created apples with worms. We crafted apple lanterns. The Hedgehog We sang a song about the little hedgehog. We crafted hedgehogs with our handprints. We learned about a hedgehogs year.
In our project – first and second class – we made a journey to the dinosaurs, the biggest animals ever. Arrived in the dinosaur time, we watched a movie about the behaviour and live of these exciting animals. Afterwards we designed a dinosaur landscape in a shoebox and got to know some species better.
In our project we made a journey to the ancient Greece with its famous buildings, stories, gods and goddesses just like “Zeus” or “Athene”. Arrived in the ancient time, we created mosaics. The pupils had the possibility to choose whether they wanted to create a turtle, an owl or different kind of amphoras. Later we talked about the famous gods and goddesses of the Olympus and other characters of the Greek mythology. The pupils listened to stories about Zeus, Athene, Hades and Medusa. Then they made some own figures of…read more
In our project week on the subject of time, we worked on the subtopic “Art in different times – the 19th century”. First, we learned more about the artist’s life and the works of Keith Haring and Pablo Picasso. We also dealt with the epochs of Cubism and Popart. Then we became artists ourselves and painted pictures of Keith Haring on canvas and modeled Picasso faces.
In our project week we traveled to the time of the Middle Ages. Firstly, we located the Middle Ages on a timeline. The knights were fascinating us in particular since we learned something about their training and the everyday life of a knight. Moreover, we watched a short movie about the process of building a castle and also what living in a castle during this era meant. Afterwards we built a castle made out of cardboard. Finally, the project days ended with a tasty knight’s meal.
For most people leisure is the most joyful time of their life because they are allowed to decide on themselves how to spend this time. But for autistic children leisure seems to be a very exhausting time because it demands abilities they often didn`t develop yet. The result is that many of our pupils spend their leisure time in school with always the same activity or just doing nothing. The project work in the Rocket Class on the theme “Time” is about improving the quality of leisure time for our…read more
