Pupils and teachers of the Heinrich-Böll-Schule say Good Bye for the holidays. We wish you a sunny and relaxing summer! Enjoy yourself and come back to school with new energy in September! We are looking forward to go on with the project during the next school year 🙂 .
The Rocket Class went on an excursion to a biotope and studied animals and plants which live in the element of water. Unfortunately it was the only cold day during the last six weeks and frogs, turtles and dragonflies hid themselves somewhere under water. But the pupils saw a lot of small water animals, smelled at herbs, asked questions about insects, bees and under water growing plants. Again they experienced that water, earth, air and light (from the fire of the sun) belong together and make life possible. With this…read more
The Rocket Class startet the work on each element with a short meditative situation. Stopp talking and listening to beautiful music made them able to perceive the elements without the influence of other persons. They tried to listen, to watch, to smell and to touch the elements. Afterwards they described their experience and practised the association of free ideas (without answering on a concrete question as they are used to). These situations seemed to be a little bit unfamiliar to the pupils in the beginning but they got used to…read more
All pupils of the Rocket Class were really looking forward to work on fire although they couldn’t believe that they would make a fire completely on their own. But they did! First they learned with pictures and real materials in the classroom how to make a fire and of course they learned some safety rules, too. Then they collected sticks in the garden and afterwards they started the big adventure of making fire. The fire was big and hot enough to grill delicious sausages for lunch! Inspired by the fire…read more
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
This week has been the last of our school year. During the whole week we have been doing different activities and yesterday we did the farewell until September. With all this, we have also finished the flight project and we can only say that we have had a great time and we have learnt a lot from the experiences. Now, we will enjoy the holidays and we will use them to take new ideas for the next project … the challenges! From Escola Plançó we want to wish you a…read more
