Brainstorm – What is forest for us?

Forest

Birds

Lumbering(forest works)

Filter of dust

Place to relax

Plants and berries

Animals

Insects Source material - wood

Oxygen

We watched a video presentation about forest development

With a great interest we listened lection by Iveta Ence (environment expert) about

Valmiera forest biotopes

To learn what kind of trees we have in our forests we played lotto (join picture of tree with

its name) and we also made a sticker album about trees

Swedish oaks in our school!Process of acourn planting

We were making a herbarium with branches from different trees.

Some of us look for their Latin names

With help of magnifying glass we studyed branches of trees and bushes in our school yardWe also studyed how do buds develop and grow

to leaves

An interesting adventure was when we looked what is happening under tree barks

Observing anthill.Before going in nature we read a literature about ants and their life.

We watched a video about birds and then went outside and tried to identify them by their songs

and externals. We also drew them.

In handicraft lessons boys made bird houses for tomtits

We also read folk songs and guessed riddles about forest. Some of us had a possibility to taste

birch and maple sap

Before two weeks we had a spring running(cross-country)in the nearest forest

Every spring we are working in our school yard

In May we have creative work competition – “Save the forest”. Students are making pictures and posters, some of them are

writing tales.One class had made a collage from things

they could find in forest