Adopting a piece of countryside

  • Caring and respect
  • Defence
  • Responsibility
  • Conservation
  • Collaboration

The teacher talks to the children about the way in which they have to behave themselves when going to the countryside: they don't have to trash any piece of garbage and of course they don't have to harm any plant or animal in there; in this way, everything will be as cared as it is at that very moment when they come back any day. Then the teacher will ask the children to "adopt a piece of countryside" if they usually go there; each time they go to that place they will be the persons in charge of caring it (their parents must help them).

The teacher will write a letter to the parents:

 

Dear parents,

At school we are working with your child on the care of natural environments. So we would like both of you to collaborate with us.
If you usually go to the countryside or to the beach, please adopt a piece of it and take care of it each time you go there: clean it and observe if some changes appear. The child will bring a picture or drawing of the place he/she is helping to conserve.
As time goes by this place could be an important place for family reunions, and of course it will be a childhood memory for your son/daughter.

We hope to have your collaboration.

Yours faithfully,

The teacher

 

When the children have carried out the activity will bring a picture or a drawing of the place they have adopted and will tell the rest of the group about what they did in there. Then they will suggest a name for "their" pieces of countryside and will hang their drawings or photos on the mural of the classroom.

 

 

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