French stories

     Once upon a time a little girl named Liana was taking a walk in the forest. She was an orphan and lived in the wild.

One day some polluters came littering in the water. Liane was hiding behind a leave and saw the whole scene from a distance.

A little cat said, "we have to find a solution and I have one : I have a friend who can help us."

The little girl bowed her head and said "why not? ". The cat went to get his friend the rabbit.

"Rabbit , is the cat your friend ? " Liane asked ," Yes , of course, " said the rabbit .

The rabbit said, " I have an idea. I 'm going to get my friend the horse"

- " And what will he do? " Liane said .

- " Uh ... oh yeah ! he will crush the polluters, he will go to get the police and the polluters will go to jail . "

The problem solved, friends proposed to Liane if she would like to live in the burrow.

"Yes ," said Liane . And at night, the friends had a party.

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The clean dragon

     Once upon a time there was a dragon named Clarence who was very clean and used too much water. He lived above the volcano. One day, another dragon said to him : "you use all the hot water and I have nothing left ." So Clarence decided to wash once a day. They both lived happily above the volcano.

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      Once upon a time a rabbit lived near a lake. One day, an ogre came to the lake. He had products in his hands and put them in the water. The ogre polluted the water with his products : detergent and washing powder. The rabbit cleaned water through a machine given by a magician friend, a monkey.

The monkey cursed the ogre to punish him and sent him very very far.

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Once upon a time there was a griffin who was polluting the nature. He put the garbage in the water.  All the animals were dissatisfied. One day they called their friend Kolos the giant. Kolos  came and beat the griffin who left for another country.

Kolos brought a vacuum cleaner and sucked all the garbage. Everyone congratulated him.

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Once upon a time a magical fish lived in the Pacific Ocean. He had golden scales and he loved jumping out of the water. But one day the water began to turn yellow-brown.  Quickly the fish used his magical powers to breathe at the surface.

He saw a Mermaid and her friend the Unicorn. The Mermaid,  the Unicorn and the fish  knew that only the griffin dared pollute the water. With his magic, the magical fish cleaned the water.

While the Mermaid and the Unicorn attracted the Griffin near a tree on the shore, the fish took a big stick and jumped out of the water to hit  and knock Griffin. 

Then they burnt him and they lived happily until the end of their life.

The Finnish Stories

Water story

Once upon a time there was a creature whose name was Waterdrop. It went jogging in the morning. It went to the water plant. It looked at the water and the water was dirty! Waterdrop said to the manager that the water is dirty. The manager came to see the water and it was truly dirty. The manager promised to clean the water. And Waterdrop became happy. It went home.

Aleksi, class 2

Translated by the class 6

Waterstory

One day children´s schoolday ended. Jami walked home. He walked by the lake. Jami had a wrapping of a sweet in his hand. He threw it to the lake. When Jami got home his sister was going to swim in the lake. When she came home she asked Jami: “Do you know, who has thrown rubbish on the shore?” Jami said: “I don´t know.” When the children were eating in the evening Jami said he was guilty.

Paula, class 2

Translated by the teacher

Water Stories from Finland

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.

 

Water stories from Poland

 

Water books made by Polish children

 

 

 

Drops' Adventures by Maciej

 

The rain drop with its friends was swimming in the lake.

Suddenly, the sun appeared and warmed the water. The drops started to evaporate and float higher and higer...

Till it saw a bunch of its sisters and brothers in the form of clouds.

Soon they were with tchem.

Ater some time drops were falling down...

And they fell on the ground and at the same time, they watered it up.

 

Water Drop by Iza

 

Once upon a time, the rain dropped from the sky in the afternoon. One drop dropped on a beautiful flower with the green. It met a small butterfly on the flower. They made friends and named themselves nicknames. And they lived happily ever after.

 

 



Essays frm Poland

Nature protection

Nature is needed for life and functioning of all organisms.
People eat vegetables and fruit which come from nature.
It is also necessary to produce for example paper.
Nature is also necessary for us to live every day. Plants produce oxygen which we couldn't live without.
Nature, we can't denny, is very useful and changes a lot in our world.

Marcelina, Marysia, Gabrysia, age 11

How to save energy

We use energy every day. We use different kinds of energy and we use it too often.
So we must save it!
Firstly, natural resources of energy will end up in the future. For example: gas, coal, water, wind, oil.
Secondly, using too much energy causes pollution of air, water, soil...
And thethird argument is that too much energy costs a lot!
REmember them!
Using too much energy isn't beneficial for the environment, animals and us!
Maciej, age 11

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