My Soil, My Green

 

We said that for a cleaner world, we must first keep our environment clean. We cleaned our school, the garden of the mosque next the our school and the garbage on the roadsides.  

  Technology is now a part of life. Everywhere we look, we see technological products that can be connected to the internet. For this reason, we informed our children about safe internet use

  Environmental cleaning is of great importance to protect our living spaces. Today we collected our school, the garden of the mosque near our school and the garbage on the roadsides.

  We held our second webinar with our project partners. Thank you everyone

 Exploring the forest!

In our Turkish lesson, we read the text 'Discovery in the Forest' and did its activities.  

After our forest trip we drew pictures of what we saw, remembered, talked about the benefits of forests and the creatures living in the forest.  

After our forest trip, we filled out the nature observation forms. We remembered what we saw. We talked about our trip.  

We explored the forest. We traveled, studied, had fun and sang songs.  

  There is no need to speak it anymore

We did our forest excursion. Our forest engineers took us to where they worked. They showed us the tools they used to put out the fire practically. It was a very fun and informative trip.

  We went to see a forest. Our trees were always burned. We took seed balls with us. We left them in the ground.

  It wasn't nice that the forests were black in color. Even examining them affected us badly. We have seen other living creatures burning near the trees. Let's take care of the forests.

  We made the seed balls to replace the burning trees in our school. We went to the mountain and first saw our burning trees behind a little greenery and we were very upset. We left our seed balls to nature.

  We were very happy to see the helicopter so close. Besides, it was very nice to examine the inside. We examined one of the vehicles carrying a lot of water in fires and got information.

  Firefighters came to our school. They gave information about forest fires and other fires. Demonstrated firefighting tactics in practice

  After our forest trip, we did the activity called "What Did I See in Nature". In the Turkish lesson, we read the reading text "Exploration in the Forest" and answered the questions.

  In our visual arts class, we did an art activity by painting the cones we found during our forest trip.

  Today we went to a forest near our school and explored the forest. We examined the plants and animals in the forest. We saw a squirrel on the tree. We talked about the benefits of forests. We played games and sang songs. It was both an entertaining and informative trip.

  We talked about the importance and benefits of the forest. Then we did a drama about the importance of protecting forests.

In our school we have a compost bin.  The children saw relevant videos  and learned how we can make fertilizer for the plants.  Then, they brought fruit peels for the bin, we have in our school yard.  

  We talked about recycling,  made posters and put them in our school.  Finally, we made a recycling bin.  

After a long period of moistening and mixing it became ready. By pouring our compost at the bottom of the trees and flowers in our school garden, we made the soil fertile and enabled the plants to grow healthier.  

  https://youtu.be/kd0Bp2qhEEg We recycled the waste materials and made them usable

We started compost preparations in September by using domestic wastes such as tomatoes, cucumbers, egg shells, etc. for sustainable living and by using egg boxes for nitrogen and carbon balance.  

We organized a trip to the 'Snow Solid Waste Facility' to learn about the stages of recycling that we always talk about. With the guidance of an environmental engineer, we saw how domestic waste is sorted and stored. We took the gift boxes to our school. We both had fun and learned.   

While thinking about what we can do to sustainability, we throught of seeds. First we turned the waste paper into pulp. We put various seeds in them and threw our seeds bombs in the less green areas.  

  We made feeders for birds from recycling.

  We drew attention to the importance of electricity and water for a sustainable life. We saw the importance of using public transport. We made our own toys. We made our piggy bank, pen holder, organizer and it was a nice work.

  We said that music is the food of the soul and we made a musical instrument. We sang our song.

  After our visit to the recycling center, we made maracas from our used water bottles, contributing to recycling and making a musical instrument for ourselves. Later, we sang and danced using our new musical instrument.

  We talked about the importance of recycling for sustainable living. We visited the "Snow Recycling Center" in our region. We saw how household waste is separated and stored. We received information about recycling from the environmental engineer. Later, we learned about the installation of the packaging waste box and took the packaging waste boxes that were given to us as a gift to our school. Very educational and we had a fun day.

  The parsley we planted in the ground grew. We cut them together and shared them. We have grown the plant that we will eat ourselves. Our parsley found its place in our salad dinner and we ate it with pleasure.

  We talked about the importance of using things over and over again. We wanted to do a STEAM project from our yogurt bucket that we brought from home. We thought that we could not go out and play on rainy days, and we made a basketball hoop.

  With our shrinking old clothes, we made bags with only scissors, without using needle and thread. We made backpacks from our clothes that we cut with scissors with the knot tying technique. Our books found their place immediately.

  When we said everything about the tree, we first gathered our olives together with the officials of the Provincial Directorate of Agriculture and Forestry for the olives in our school's garden, and then we organized an olive breaking event together.

  By sprinkling our compost, which is ready after long stages, at the bottom of the trees and flowers in the garden of our school, we contributed to making the soil more productive and strengthening the immune system of the plants.

  In our "How is a sustainable life?" study, we made the steps of preparing compost by layering leaves, straw, cardboard, egg shells, leftovers, vegetable and fruit peels in a perforated crate about one and a half months ago.

After studying the ecosystem,  the children made their own ecosystems.

  We made miniature land, water and polar ecosystems with the simple materials.  

We played 'What's in the ecosystem?' game. We just threw the rope at each other by forming a ring wiht a rope and saying the living and non-living beings in the ecosystem. We have seen the complex relationship and connection between them. We talked about the consequences of the decline of a species in the ecosystem. 

  From minik-yavrutema.org site 'What is the ecosystem?' 'What's in the ecosystem?' we watched videos on the subject. We wrote what we saw on an ecosystem poster. We have established the connection between living and non-living things.

  While he was looking at our parsley and spinach in our school garden, a grasshopper came out of him. We followed the grasshopper and sang songs to him. Then we saw the anthills and we saw that it is a very hardworking animal and they are crowded.

  First of all, we talked about what an ecosystem is. We watched videos about the ecosystem. Finally, we showed the living and non-living elements of the ecosystem in our three-dimensional group work.

  We watched a cartoon about the importance of bees in the ecosystem. We talked about all beings in nature. We wanted to do something for the living on these cold days. We made bird feeders for the birds and hung them on the trees.

  "What is an Ecosystem?" We started with the question. We watched videos. We examined our environment.

  The Giving Tree is an American children's picture book,  written and illustrated by Shel Silverstein in 1964  and it has been translated into numerous languages. This book has been described as  "one of the most divisive books in children's literature":  the controversy stems from whether the relasionship between the main characters (a boy and the eponymous tree) should be interpreted as positive (i.e., the tree gives the boy selfless love) or negative (i.e., the boy and the tree have an abusive relationship). We watched the video, discussed it  and designed our own trees.

We watched videos about trees and made shapes out of leaves.

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Our school is in Yatağan District of Muğla. There are four classrooms and one kindergarten.

We learned that waste is not garbage and we made compost.

 Yatağan/Muğla

 Code Week

  We both learned and had fun while making our natural fertilizer and organic compost. We talked about soil with my students. We thought about what would harm the soil. We thought about the harms of pesticides given to plants and decided to make 

  I got to know trees closely with my students.  (Olive, kiwi, chestnut, almond, plum, peach trees)

  We learned our song from little TEMA and sang it together.

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