Wednesday 13 June 2018

World Book Day

In order to  encourage children to explore the pleasures of books and improve reading skills, I decided to become a partner of a teacher from Scotland on the eTwinning project celebrating authors, illustrators, books and reading. Since 20 February, 27 other teachers from Italy, Poland, Greece, UK, Slovenia, Romania, Croatia, Slovakia, Finland, Spain and Turkey have joined us with their students and shared different interesting activities.

This is just a glimpse of what we've done at school:
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Our final activity was playing a Kahoot game:

Saturday 2 June 2018

Stories Behind Traditions

With a Romanian colleague, I started a project for 8-14-year-olds where they would share the information about their countries, hometowns, schools, culture and traditions. Since December, 13 other teachers from Italy, Greece, Poland, Turkey, Georgia and Portugal have joined the project and shared interesting videos, tasty recipes and lovely photos of their traditional costumes.
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Class VI1 even had a Skype meeting with their peers from Lubny, Ukraine. Although we had some technical problems, they enjoyed it a lot: