A Car driven by Air (Car Race in Frankfurt)

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A Car – driven by Air

The children built a car and started a car race.

What we needed was:

·         A piece of board of a rectangular shape

·         Board for the wheels

·         2 drinking straws

·         2 cocktail sticks

·         Cord

·         The cap of a detergent bottle

·         1 Balloon

Tools:

·         Scissors

·         Glue

·         Adhesive tape

·         Pencil

The drinking straws are fixed at the board with the adhesive tape. Through the straws the cocktail sticks are pushed. At the ends of the cocktail sticks the wheels with a diameter of about 5 cm are fixed. Now the balloon is pulled as far as possible over the cap of a detergent bottle. On top of one of the axis a ca. 30 cm long piece of cord is fixed with adhesive tape. This cord is needed to fix the nozzle. Now the balloon can be inflated. The air is escaping through the nozzle and the car races can start.

Water stories from Germany

The Speaking Water Drop

Once upon a time, there was a little girl that didn’t like to take a bath, even if it was so dirty.

“In you go into the bathtub”, scolded it’s Mum. You can imagine who the little girl was: it was me.

“No, no, and again no”, I shouted back and locked myself up in my room.

Being there all alone, I noticed a smell all around me, when suddenly two eyes out of a green face stared at me. It was a little dragon wrinkling its nose.

“You have to take a bath?” “Yes”, I answered, trembling. “My name is Olchi, and what is your name?”, it asked in a friendly voice. “I’m Paula.”

“Do you know what? Just go into the bathroom and start running a bath!” Paula went into the bathroom, plugged in the tub and turned on the tap.

When the first water drops came out, a speaking chorus was heard: “Don’t take a bath, don’t take a bath!”  Paula couldn’t believe her ears, first the little speaking dragon, now the water drops.

While the bath was running, again she listened to the voices: “Don’t take a bath, don’t take a bath!”, they shouted when one single drop of water just jumped powerless upon Paula’s hand.

 It cheeped quietly: “If you take a bath it needs too much water, just take a shower, o.k.? You can help protecting our planet!”

I answered: „If this is the case, I prefer to take a shower!”

When I had finished, I went into the living room, to say “Good Night” to my Mum. She was so astonished when she saw me pretty and good smelling.

 “Good girl you are, and you see, it isn’t so bad taking a bath anyway! “, she said to me.

If only she knew ……

The little Water Drop

Once upon a time, there was a tiny little drop of water, that lived at the beach and that liked the waves very much. One stormy day, when the sea was really rough, the little water drop became very scared and blacked out.

The next day, when it awoke, it found himself in the middle of the open wide sea. What should he do now?

He came to know the beautiful underwater world; he met fish in bright shining colors and shapes, so that he forgot about his home at the beach and swam with the new friends in the sea.

He felt strong and happy with all the other water drops around him in the big ocean.

Then they discovered a huge oil spill on the surface of the water…

“Danger! Danger! An oil tanker has lost a lot of oil, we must save the fish! They are all in big danger!!”

All the drops of water set up a big team and built the shape of a huge wave, so they could help the fish to drift into a cleaner territory of the sea. They were all saved at last!!

Now the water drops were really tired and they had a rest.

After they had evaporated, they all reached the sky.

There it was very cozy and as the little drop of water had been working so hard, it fell in a nice deep sleep at once.

 

The Life Cycle of a Frog

In winter the frogs sleep at the bottom of the pond.

In spring frogs lay eggs in the cold water. After ten days little tadpoles come out of the eggs.

In summer the tadpoles swim in the pond. They eat the water plants. But beetles, snakes and birds like to eat tadpoles!

In autumn the tadpoles eat leaves and swim in the water. In winter they hide in the mud. And they sleep.

When spring comes again, the tadpoles wake up. Small hind legs begin to grow.

Then the front legs begin to grow too.

In summer the tail gets smaller. The mouth and the eyes get bigger.

When the tail has gone, the tadpole is a frog.

The frog can now sit on the water lilies. It catches worms, spiders and more insects with its long sticky tongue.

From class 3, Berkersheimer Schule

Protect Plants and the Forest

People are cutting down the trees and are burning the forest. The rainforest is becoming smaller. The home of many animals of the rainforest is in danger. Dont't cut or burn the trees of the Amazonian rainforest!

Trees are very important for our health and for the health of our planet.

They are the lungs of our earth. They give us oxygene. They absorb carbondioxide.

We need to protect trees in our region, our country, our world.

From classes 4a und 4b in Berkersheimer Schule, Germany

Walk to School in Berkersheim

The children of classes 4a and 4b talked about how they go to school in their Bilingual lessons during the "Walk to School Weeks".

Start of the project was the singing of a song "The Walking Song".

While illustrating and writing about how they go to school the pupils also discovered some English adverbs as well as some characteristics of the English sentence.

Summer in Berkersheim

In Germany for the summer picture of the photo contest, students of the classes 2b and 4b used straw as a natural material. It was cut, formed and bent various ways and tied together with some wire. Decorated with further natural material, such as flowers and leaves, little straw dolls originated.

We counted vehicles in Berkersheim

From 08:15 until 09:00 p.m.

Result:

Cars	Motorcycles	Bicycles	Pedestrian
260	10	45	70

We saw that from 07:30 until 08:30 p.m. the density of traffic is very high. The people drive to the places where they work.

In the afternoon we don’t have such intense traffic because the working day ends at different times for different people.

We saw most often that there was only one person in each car. Pollution produced by automobiles could be reduced if people chose to car-pool.

Science-Week in Berkersheim

During the science week the children from the first grade went on an excursion to examine the water of a little stream close to the school.

The kids were all set, equipped with a scoop net, some magnifiers, a notepad and rubber boots.

We took a closer look at the limpidness, smell, temperature, ph-value and small animals.

We took notes about what we found out.

We compared the water from the local stream to the tap water and the Main (river running through Frankfurt).

Partner-Book

Today we received a little book with photos, names and informations about children in our partner schools in France and Poland.

There are also nice little stickers and pictures inside that give information about well-known places and typical food in our neighbour countries.

We had a lot of fun exploring the countries while rummaging around the notebooks.
At last we added photos and pictures from us.
Perhaps we will have pen friends from our partner schools one day!

Very interesting partner-information!

The pupils in Frankufurt-Berkersheim enjoyed the lesson.

Healthy Food in Class 1

The children of class 1 sowed cress on cotton wool, watered the seeds every day and finally they could harvest with the scissors and put it on a bred with butter. It tastes very fine!

Berkersheimer Schule, Frankfurt am Main

Talking about Food and Nutrition

In the Bilingual lesson of science in class four we are talking about food and nutrition. We cut out a lot of pictures of several food and we found out that there are five groups of food:

meat/protein
carbohydrates
dairy
sugar/junk
fruits/veggies


Then we sticked the  groups together and made a poster of food.

The children then made a concertina food diary.
They used their own colour code for the food:
Sugar/junk: red, fruit/veggies: green, Carbohydrates: yellow,
Protein/Meat: brown, Dairy: blue

They put a spot of colour for everything they ate during five days.

On the inside cover they put the chart longways and added up each day to find out their totals of each food group.

Berkersheimer Schule