Only two days after my arrival in Blankenburg I took part on a trip to sand caves, where kids form the 5th classes acted like prehistoric people, since this is the historic era they are dealing with this school year.
Many of them were wearing prehistoric costumes with fur and funny things.
We built around 6 groups and they then walked from place to place doing like prehistoric people did. So, real learning by doing took place in here.
On one place they painted the "caves", on the others they made their own accessories, or weapons and tools.
They also tried to build a "house" using only wood and string, we also prepared ourselves for hunting and made simple bread using our hands, water and flour. Finally all were rewarded with a bun and sausage and went home happily :)
This week I managed to work with some of the fifth graders and summarize all we did on that day together with means of pictures, writing and memories. Here you can see some of the posters they made... I say: nice!
The actually teachers played their roles really great! And since it was cold like hell, we were all delighted to stay near the fire and to warm up our frozen hands.
I really really loved those costumes the kids had!!! And no wonder they looked that good when the reward for the best ones was a 1 grade from history ;)
