Floepje and water - Belgium sroty

THEME: HOW PURE IS OUR WATER?

CHILDREN AGE: 6-7 years

OBJECTIVES:
- The child is able to assess the purity of water. The child knows that we have to use and maintain water sparingly.
- The child is able to discuss how we can save nature.
- Measurement of liquid with the agreed unit of measurement. The child is able to compare the quantities (the amount of dirt on the filter).

USED MATERIALS, TOOLS: bottles for collecting water and snow, transparent cups, white coffee filters, magnifying glasses, papers, pencils.

PREPARATIONS: Teacher has to prepare the trips path to the river and to the sea. And organize other needed materials.

ACTIVITY:
Teacher reads the story "Lope (Floepje in Estonia) and water" to the children. Children tell together a the story with their own words and discuss the content of the story. Have children seen trash in the nature? How did it got there? What can we do to prevent garbage from getting into nature? What can children do to save water?

The teacher is telling that today we will compare the purity of water and to collect water we will go for a little trip. The teacher is explaining the objectives of the hike and agrees on the rules how to behave in hiking.

In front of the kindergarten the children gather snow for melting. They observe and touch - which is snow? Where it comes from? What it consists?

Then they hike to the riverside, where they take a water sample with bottle. They observe and describe the river and which is the river water at the moment, why is part of the river frozen and other part not?

Then they move to the seaside and take a sample of water from the sea. They observe the sea, compare it with river. Which is sea water, how is it with ice?

Back in kindergarten the children measure equal amount melted snow water, river water, sea water and tap water into transparent cups. They observe with naked eye and with magnifying glasses the water darkness and sort the cups according to the darkness of the water

The different waters will be poured through filters and then they examine the sediment left on filters. The children compare the amount of dirt left on filters.

In a joint discussion round they talk, what they found from water? Which from the water can drink and what not?

Floepje and water - Belgium story

CHILDREN AGE: 4-5 years

OBJECTIVES:
- The child knows that everybody needs pure water for life.
- The child knows that it is important to drink water and also in kindergarten.
- The child knows that throwing garbage will pollute the nature.
- The child discovers where garbade has been thrown.
- The child knows that garbage is thrown into the trash bin.

USED MATERIALS, TOOLS: paper, gouache colors, colored paper, scissors, tack tape, from nature brought branch, trashbags, blue gloves for sorting the trash.

ACTIVITY:
1. Teacher reads the Belgium story "Lope (Floepje in Estonia) and water" in the classroom. The teacher explains how important is pure water for us and for nature to have good and happy life. The story was read to the children several times during the week so they would remember it.

2. Teacher with children discuss the importants of water to us and how much should we drink it every day. After that they make a table where they mark how much water every child drinks during the days and in the end of the week they will see who has been the best water drinker.

3. The children draw a pond according to the story where Lope lives. From forest trip they brought a branch and they glue leaves on it. They put the branch next to the pond and discovered that the leaves fall to the pond. But they will not make the bond water dirty because the leaves are part of nature and will molder.

4. The teacher goes to the riverside with the children to collect trash that people have thrown. They bring trashbags with them. The children discover that in some places there are more trash then in others. They also learn that you have to have special gloves to collect trash because the trash is dirty (it may have bad bacteria or diseases on it), you don´t know what is on it and also you can´t touch it with your own gloves. The children recognize that there are many stupid people who are throwing trash on the ground and becuse of it the animals can become sick and die. So they learned: THROW THE TRASH INTO THE TRASH BIN!

On the pictures trash they found!

Belgium storys

BELGIUM STORYS 

Ant has a problem

Floppy and the water

Children 2 - 3 years

By the end of the Belgian storys, we made a wonderful picture of the bottle caps.

In cooperation with parents, we collected bottle caps and the children glue them on a cardboard base

Of course the teacher also helped😃😊

Sort by color and size

Floepje and water - Belgium story

THEME: PURE WATER IS ESSENTIAL FOR LIFE

CHILDREN AGE: 3-4 years

OBJECTIVES: The child knows that the snow melts in warm places and turns into water. The child knows how to draw Lope (Floepje in Estonia). The child can paint with watercolors pure water pond and green around the pond. The child listens with interest the story told by teacher. The child understands that some water bodys are polluted and if you swim there the living organs will get ill. The child knows that in spring the weather gets warmer, snow melts and turns into water and that the water flows into the water body.

USED MATERIALS, TOOLS: plastic buckets to collect snow, white filter paper, funnels, can with tap water. Glove puppet Lope. Teacher painted Belgium flag, globe, watercolors, gouache colors, brushes, water cups, pencils, stickers.

PREPARATIONS: The teacher paints Belgium flag and organizes all the needed materials and put them ready for the activity.

ACTIVITY:

At first activity inside:

The teacher tells the story of Lope who lives in the big forest with beautiful pure water pond. She also shows from the globe Belgium and then the state flag. Children compare Estonian and Belgium flags. 

The children discuss why riverwater turned filthy. They promise never to through trash on ground or on snow nor riverside water.

The children paint pure water pond where Lope lives. They glue ladygugs and clover leafs on the grass and frogs in the ponds.

The children can name the characteristicks of the seasons. Like the story takes place in summer because the river water is warm for swimming.

Outdoor education: The children are playing with melting snow. Pair work: 2 childs together fill plastic bucket with snow (they also have to describe snow) and bring the snow inside the classroom. 

After the nap time everyone examine its own plastic bucket with snow. What has happened? Is the melted snow water as clean the tap water? They examine it in filtering the water.

Floppy and the water - Belgium story

After the experience we made a graphic record of the activity.

 Diana - 5 years

 Santiago - 4 years

 Miriam - 3 years

 Gonçalo - 4 Years

 Tiago - 5 Years

 Noémia - 5 years

 Mafalda - 5 years

 Giovanna - 4 years

 Afonso - 5years

 Allexa - 3 years

 Maria Inês 5 years

 Refano - 5 years

 Sarah - 4 years

Martim - 5 years

 Luan - 5 years

 Nikolas - 5 years

In our class we are very worried about the poluition on the seas and rivers, ...
So we made a curious experience in our class:

Goals: - Encourage children to be more aware in relation to your environment and make connections with the real world and enviromental issues.
- Understand how water can be contaminated, even if the pollution is not dramatically visible.

Material required:
- Large transparent containers;
- Glass;
- Red dye;
- Water

How we made:
We put clean water in a transparent bottle

We smell the water, but the water does not smell. Is Odorless!!!

Then we pollute this water by adding a little red food coloring...

 And the water turned red!

Then we added clean water, but it was difficult to make it clear

And then someone asked:  what would happen if the paint were poisonous or dangerous?

The red food coloring is stronger than water. Is the same with the poluiton...

Floppy and the water - Belgium story

With tihs story we learn that we must be very careful with the garbage that we do and how important it is to separate it.
So we did 3 garbage containers: one for the paper, one for the plastics and glass. We have tried magazine photo shoot and then we glued in the right places.