Meeting with Remo Savisaar

Remo Savisaar is an Estonian photographer who has won many competitions of nature photos. This October his photo was selected out from 48 000 photos in London and was rewarded with the 2nd prize (in black and white category).

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Next Thursday our students can meet him and learn more about  his works and get good tips how to take better photos.

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

Testing mineral waters

http://autotintuc.com/

 Students' comments (Form 2-9)

Borjom (sparkling): good; salty and discusting aftertaste; strange flavour  stayed in my mouth, otherwise OK; makes me sick; OK; normal; salty - don't like; so good; taste of chlorine; a bit different but not my favourite; awful; tastes like washing powder; yuck; cook; old taste; don't like; tastes plastic; extremely bad; good.



   Värska Original (sparkling): very good; salty, but not good; terrible!; ordinary; bad; a bit salty; strange taste; normal; regular; good; awful; tasteless stuff; didn't like;

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Akvile (still): normal; good; regular taste; so-so; sour; very good; would be better if sparkling; not very good; strange taste; the most normal; decent.

http://www.globalpost.com

Vytautas: very good; I liked it; I liked its salty taste; salty!; good; very Salty; very awful; terrible!; discusting; strange, but interesting taste; tasted like a salty lemonade; awful crap; didn't enjoy it.

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Häädemeeste (still): medium; normal; good; excellent; contains too little minerals; tasteless; nothing special; regular, a bit strange taste; too tasteless; a bit dry; oh my God how awful!; unfamiliar taste; without salt;  crap; bitter

http://varska.ee/disain/

Värska (sparkling): mmmm...very good; normal, good; awful water; salty; too bubbly, too salty; not OK; fresh as sea water; terrible!; quite OK; too sparkling; bad; yuck.....salty.

Water Quiz

Environmental centre at Kohila

Water absorbing experiment

Today we visited the Environmental Centre at Kohila to take part in the program "Water around and inside us. A two-hour program started with the presentation "Extraordinary water". The second part of our program was more practical and students could experiment with water.

Dropping over 100 needles

The saltier the water is, more likely potato will float

Experiments with salt and water

What did students think?

* We had fun. It was great to study new things. Unfortunately we couldn't do all experiments. 
* I liked that we could learn new things. I didn't like that the experiment with water and needles took so much time. 
* I found out new things.
* Experiments were great. Salty water was too salty. 
* I enjoyed the experiments.
* I liked the practical work, but I didn't like our bus ride. 
* I learned many useful things about water. 
*  the bus was swaying.
* I liked the experiments, but didn't enjoy tasting salty water. 


Form 9 students Evita, Liisbet, Gladis, Kristi, Johannes, Larsen, Oskar, Hans-Martty and Urmet; form 8 students Tauri and Kaarel, Arlii from form 7 and teachers Meeli and Evelyn took part.

Environment Week - water and saving on water

19 Nov - 23 Nov: water subject is taught and discussed in Biology, Geography, Chemistry, Russian, English, Estonian language and literature
19 Nov - 23 Nov: all water related materials and facts will be presented to school on the board
19 Nov - 23 Nov: students and teachers can have water with their meal in the canteen (sofar we haven't had water on the table)
19 Nov - 23 Nov: Sten and Kaarel are going to play water-music and tell facts about water on the school radio
21 Nov: we will taste different mineral waters
21 Nov: students present their haikus (Japanese-style poems) with illustrations
22 Nov: Form 7-9 students are going to take part in a programme "Water around and in us" at Kohila Environment Education Centre
23 Nov: Water Trivia for form 5-9, prizes

Yesterday's meeting

Yesterday's meeting was attended by Kaarel and Kenet who searched the Internet to find music connected to the water theme. They shall play those songs next week on the school radio during the breaks. Gladis, Karol, Evita, Liisbet and Larsen  prepare the materials to advertise  our water week. Teachers Meeli and Evelyn took part.

Progress Check

Less than 7 months more and our project will be over. There is a lot we have learned and done all together, but there is a a lot to do more. Here you can see a list with tasks which are complete or in due.

Turkish afternoon

Today we listened to Turkish pop music, created a board with water legend stories and illustrations, made yoghurt soup (Yayla Corbasi), snacks (Meze)  on white bread and just chatted. We also made Ayran, but   we used buttermilk and it was thicker than the one we had in Turkey. As our trip to Turkey left an impression that Coca-Cola is very popular there, we also drank Coke. 

Today's meeting

Today our Comenius team discussed how to organize Environment Week in our school. We decided it will be held from 19-23 November. The importance of water in our environment, its necessity to be saved will be discussed in several lessons. Teacher Meeli will organize a visit to local water sewage company. On 22 November we have a plan to visit a school at Kohila to participate in a special water education program. Throughout the week Kaarel and Sten will use school radio for telling us interesting and useful facts about water and we also plan to play water-themed music during breaks. Facts about water will be prepared by Johannes, Larsen, Hans-Martty and Sten. Kenet and Kaarel will try to find as many music tracks about music as possible. Gladis, Evita, Liisbet and Karol will help to create a special information board. On Friday, 23th November we shall have a quiz and sum-up of the week. We hope to have water on our lunch table every day on that week. 

Marten and Sten helped to draw a poster to advertise our next week's Turkish afternoon where we plan to cook some Turkish dishes and listen to Turkish music. Kaarel and Kenet typed texts that go under printed out photos on our board.

Our meeting was attended by teachers Meeli, Lea and Evelyn, students Evita, Gladis, Liisbet, Karol, Sten, Kenet, Kaarel, Marten, Larsen, Johannes and Hans-Marrty were present.