Bottled water

Already a few weeks students have had a chance to drink quality bottled water (as it is not recommended to drink tab water at our school too often). The water stand was provided by school board without the initiative from Comenius team although we had planned to get it by spring. However we will continue working on  to get water onto our lunch tables. 

First fish photos

Today form 6 student Rain Laanemets sent 3 fish photos to compete with the other water-themed photos.

First snow

It snowed little bit at Kehtna this Monday around 10am. Relatively warm late autumn weather melted it  quickly.

An article in the local newspaper

You can have a look at the article about Comenius project in the local newspaper Valla Vaatleja.

Photos of clouds

The youngest in our school, form 1 students took photos of clouds. Teacher Katre gathered the photo-files together and in our Comenius meeting we gave points to each of them to select out the most favourite ones. The top three are these.

1. place: Sten-Oskar Meister

2. place: Markus Habo

3. place: Iris Kaljura

Many thanks to all the other participants as well:
Adele Zubov
Dominik Ian Morozov
Sander Lillmann
Tanel Glük
Enely Kangrumägi
Kenert Markus Linder
Karolina Schults
Rasmus Reispass
and  to their parents and teacher Katre.

Weekly meeting

At the beginning of our meeting we gave a glimpse at  the activities our partner schools have organized. We noticed that French have created nice logos, Spanish surprised us with their "Famous people" contest and we found the drawings at Turkish blog being beautiful.

Today we continued creating the water-dictionary. Teacher Meeli introduced us a method to define things by using key words. As the project activities are aimed to make us learn new things, we used world maps and Internet. Diana, Signe, Anu, Maarja-Liisi, Johannese, Gladise, Keneti, Hans-Martty and teachers Raigo and Edda managed to define quite a lot of words. 

Kaarel-Eerik, Sten and Marten were assisted by teacher Katre to study the water sample taken from the local water reservoir.

Students also gave feedback about our last trip to Tallinn. Such positive feedback makes us organize another social event in December. Teacher Raigo and Meeli will help to create another contest for all students. This time on the topic of geography and history in our partner countries. Of course questions will  be concerning  water.

Excursion to Kiek in de Kök

Kiek in de Kok - free slideshow maker

Water dictionary

 Today following students attended the meeting: Signe, Diana, Anu, Evita, Gladis, Liisbet, Johannes, Larsen, Hans-Martty, Kenet, Marten, Sten and Kaarel-Eerik, teachers Meeli, Katre, Raigo and Evelyn were supporting them.

 

First we watched three different videos. Water is very important and useful, but it can also be dangerous or frightening. We could see it from Storm video, recommended by Spanish project leader Miguel. Then we viewed a  video about Turkey's capital Istanbul, recommended by Turkey's leader Gazi and one about Spanish town Ferrol. 

Next we became the members of a jury to select the best cloud-photos taken by the youngest students in our school. More about the results in the nearest future.

Hans-Martty, Kenet and Sten rearranged our information board in the hall. We try to add more water-photo printouts  soon.

We started creating water dictionary. In several groups students had a brainstorm and suggested different words which are more or less related to water. Then they tried to define them. We shall continue next Thursday.

Tomorrow we are going on an excursion to Tallinn.

This Thursday's meeting

Four groups are creating a water-questionnaire

A bit of posing in the middle of serious discussions

The gestures tell it all! 

Our senior students working hard

Today  17 of our students and teachers Edda, Liivi, Katre, Raigo, Lea and Evelyn spent valuable 2 hours for discussing Comenius matters.

1) We talked about the planned excursion to Tallinn next Friday. Everybody leaves after 4th lesson by 12.19 train. Students will be taken to Rapla railway station by car, by teachers and parents. Our excursion starts at 3pm. We will be back by 7pm.  

2) As there are quite a many students who have joined the Comenius group, we had to discuss how to select out those who can participate in project meetings abroad. Everybody agreed that this year we need to give a priority to senior form 9 students. Students should have no major problems with grades or behaviour to be accepted on a trip. It's good to know some English, but we won't reject students with little English skills. After all such trips are meant to make us speak more and better. We try to find an agreement who is going to Spain by the end of November. Teacher Raigo and Katre will participate for sure, hopefully teacher Lea and Meeli as well. 


3) We spoke about penpals (sending paper letter by post). We can expect some letters from Spanish students and there were 15 among our students willing to start a correspondence via letters. 


4) We formed 4 groups and each group had to make questions about water consumption at homes, about families' attitudes towards water, about ways how to  consume less. Each group managed to create 8-10 questions, most of them will be used in our water-questionnaire. We shall  finish the task next Thursday. 


5) We were reminded about the photo-shooting and logo creating events at our school. The first students have already sent their water photos and some logos have been handed in too.