Meeting in Spain, Saturday 25th November

Today we visited the Crane Information Centre in Moheda Alta, we had two former students guiding us, Gabriel and Borja, they did a great job!.We went on a hike through the "dehesa", the typical landscape here in Extremadura, we saw lots of holm-oak trees which produce acorns, the fruit which cranes love most. We have seen lots of cranes but not from close distance because they fly away whenever they see people around and we were a big group. However we also spotted other birds such  as a hoopoe,a flamingo and a marsh harrier among othersInside the centre, we also watched a film about the trip of Göran, a young crane which travelled all the way down from Sweden to our region. We got good information about the cranes, last year the number of cranes reached 120000! Now we have new data of the number of cranes that we will use in the project for the activities of maths. As a dissemination activity, the centre will have a permanent exhibition of our project there during this season.

Meeting in Spain, Friday 24th November

Today we had a busy day at school. Three different workshops where the pupils were working together in mixed groups and they did an excellent job!

We started with two groups early in the morning from 8:25 until 10:15. The first activity was a leaflet about the western route of the common crane. Then they learnt about an application of augmented reality that the pupils will use to enrich some of the activities of the project as they are the leaflet and the graphs in maths.

After a short break of 15 minutes at school they had the second workshop from 10:30 to 12:15, they finished the dichotomous key of the common crane, another activity for the project. They not only learnt about the crane but also about other birds. Very interesting!











































Another 20 minutes break and we had a reception at the town hall with the mayor. We thank them for the attention and the present the Swedish pupils and teacher got from them.

 And to finish, the history teacher had prepared a treasure hunt in English to visit the main monuments in town. The weather was nice and the pupils had to walk a little bit so at the end of the school day they were all tired. Some of them got lost...:)...but we have a winning group who completed the following sentence: "The world is a book and those who don't travel read only one page".

This evening also some of the teachers and pupils had an interview at the local radio. It was a good opportunity to spread out the news about this second meeting and the project again.

Tomorrow more...

Meeting in Spain, 23rd Thursday

After a long trip and the whole night travelling by bus, the Swedish students and teachers arrived in Talarrubias. We were all so excited! 

We had the welcome ceremony and some ice-breaking games at the gym. In the afternoon we went to Puebla de Alcocer where we saw nice views from the castle and we visited the church and the giant museum. Here are some pictures. Long day but we all had a great time and it was great to see each other again!

Getting ready for travelling

This is a luggage check-list that may be useful before finishing packing. We are looking forward to seeing our Swedish colleagues tomorrow in Spain!!

Cranes

Every evening hundreds of cranes fly over Talarrubias, the view and the sound is just spectacular.

Getting ready for the meeting

Click on the right to do the quiz and find out how much you know about Spain. These are some general knowledge questions for the Swedish families and pupils to help them get ready for the trip.

We are also preparing a packing list and a list of common expressions in the three languages.

Getting ready for the next mobility.

All teachers in Spain and Sweden are getting ready for the next meeting in Spain from 22nd to 29th November. 

Some of the activities that we will be doing are the Dichotomous Key of the Common Crane, Augmented Reality and a Gymkhana with the main historical sites, a brochure on the Western Route of the Common Crane and different study visits.

We are looking forward to having our Swedish partners in Spain.