Word Curlew Day was on 21st April.
It fell at the time of school spring break so the celebration was spread throughout the week proceeding it.
Our school interior and exterior were decorated with curlew`s motives.
Balloons with a curlew`s image were fixed along the school path.
Students took part in short activities around curlew theme.
Young students created curlew`s feathers with a pint foam roller.
Kids learnt about curlew`s nest hidden
in high grass and reeds. They made paper nests, painted wooden eggs
nd arranged them in the nests. Doing it, they became familiar with adjectives ,
verbs and nouns connected with the task:
mottled/ spotted /unnoticed/ hidden/ camouflage/ reeds/ and so on.
Figures of migrating curlew were laminated, glued to clothspins
and attached to willow catkins twigs.
Students competed for them in quizes about curlew birds.
Kids enjoyed them so much that they even used them as hair or clothes pins.
The wall of the classroom was covered with curlew`s
silhouettes, on which acrostic poems were written.
To help students memorize new words, we prepared
a match the sentence haves task based on poems` vocabulary.
Key:
Young learners took part in a competition to remember
as many sentences about curlews as possible.
Our school ordered Mary Colwell`s book „ Curlew Moon ”.
We found the book very interesting and it broadened our knowledge.
Teenagers read an interview with Mary Colwell and prepared
a QUESTION / ANSWER task for teenagers.
A student of a primary school prepared a speech
about Polish-French project to help migratory birds
and Mary Colwell`s walk.
There are many poems or fragments of poems in the „ Curlew Moon”.
One of teenagers read one of them to his group.
A poem by Jeremy Hooker,`The Cut of the Light`.
All In All, our students became familiar with
wading and migratory birds ` problems.
One girl shared this knowledge in the Erasmus project ,
she was preparing with her elementary school.
Our school received a few etegami cards with
migratory birds motive from the Japanese , Lithuanin
and American etegami club friends.
We love the design and the words .
I think I can mention here that enthusiasm for
migrating birds action is contagious.
Our grandchildren were eager to listen about
the curlew bird and they painted
the Bird on their t-shirts/ blouses.
Last but not least, we received words of thank you from
Polish naturalists „ Jestem na PTAK” ( Be4birds)
for all the artworks we had sent to the
Polish – French Project.
They informed us that part of them will be sent to
politicians of the European Parlament .