The Tuesday after the Christmas
holidays I started to conduct my own afternoon activity. With two
groups of 8 students each I meet once per week for 60 minutes to do
different ecological activities.
The topic we've dealt with during the
past weeks was „waste and waste separation“. For the first lesson
I had prepared a short power point presentation and I brought
different types of waste and three bins: a blue one for paper, a
yellow one for plastic, and a black one for the non-recycable wastes.
The students then had to decide what had to be thrown in which bin,
which wasn‘t always easy but a lot of fun for everyone, I think.
The first little project was to
create a pencil box out of empty toilet paper rolls and colored
papers. The students could punch out little flowers and stars from
paper and cut out animal patterns to decorate their boxes. We also
designed a poster about waste separation which will serve as a
reminder. Throughout the next months I would like to do more recycled
crafts with the students and also design 3 bins for every classroom
with them, so that waste separation will be possible in the school
building and dormitory. Furthermore, I plan on doing other practical
and fun activities about waste reduction, the decomposition time period of
different materials, environmental protection, etc. with the
students.
For my activity I get help by Rūta,
an educator from the dormitory, on Tuesdays and by Artūras on
Thursdays. It is useful to have a helping hand during the activities
and someone who can help with the language and I learn a lot from
them about how to work with the students. There‘ve been also
a couple of times when I was alone with the students, which worked out very well, too.
They participated well and when I was lacking words, the students who
understood what I was trying to say always helped explaining it to
the others. :-)
Before my initiative started I was
very curious about what it would be like to work with the students on
a project that I had planned myself, if the activites I prepared were
of interest for them and of a suitable degree of difficulty. But so
far everything went well and I've been enjoying my own initiative
with the students a lot. I'm looking forward to the upcoming months!
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