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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Water Week has finished....

...and it is time to sum up what we did.

*  Form 9 students together with teacher Meeli had an excursion to local Water and Sewage company at Kehtna.
* Form 7-9 students spent a few active and educational hours at Environmental Centre at Kohila. We learned how something as common as  water is actually something very unique.
* Form 6-9 students kept water diaries and observed their domestic consumption. Best results were present by Gladis Prits, Liisbet Karjane, Kertu Puur and Liivika Mölder.
 * Form 9 students created slide shows on water. Two  groups managed to create the most profound ones:  Larsen Mölder, Jordan Jorš and Johannes Solman with "The importance of water in a human body" and Kristi Vaikla and Katarin Leppik with  "Water pollution and its ways to avoid"  
* Teacher Eva helped form 7-9 students at writing haikus (Japanese-styled poems). Best haikus were written by Laura Gontšarenko, Gerth-Genneth Habo and Leila Johkem from form 7; Marten Merila Form 8,  Liisbet Karjane, Gladis Prits, Johannes Solman  Form 9.
* Teacher Edda guided students to illustrate their poems.
* Studnes of Form 5-9 had teamwork in a water quiz. The best were: 1. place Evita Lohu, Liisbet, Karol; 2. place Johannes, Gladis, Kristina and 3. place  Sten, Sabri, Egert, Ailen, Tauri
Teacher Liivi solved tasks about precipitation and ice in her maths lessons
* Teacher Veera  with Form 6-9 students created posters in Russian and watched films.
* Teacher Lea with her students listened to water music.
* Teacher Evelyn  had prepared a task in English for every lesson. Students listened and watched videos about water cycle and studies water vocabulary, in addition a video about global problems, a short film "The First Well". At the end of the week students listened to Winnie the Pooh stories where the Piglet and the Pooh were surrounded by water.

Tomorrow, on Thursday, the most active students will get rewarded with a ticket to the pool/spa. Who can't come on 4th December, can use the ticket individually till 31 December.

Free entrance will be given to:

1. Kertu Puur
2. Liivika Mölder
3. Laura Gontšarenko
4. Gerth-Genneth Habo
5. Leila Johkem
6. Marten Merila
7.Tauri Lusti
8. Egert Tutt
9. Ailen Kallaste
10. Sten Leinasaar
11. Sabri Asuküla
12. Liisbet Karjane
13. Gladis Prits
14. Evita Lohu
15. Karol Tammaru
16. Kristina Gotsi
17. Johannes Solman
18. Jordan Jorš
19. Kristi Vaikla
20. Katarin Leppik

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