Walking around Europe

Most of my Class 2 students are very creative, so, when I introduced them to our new eTwinning project and asked them to design their postcards showing the symbols of our hometown to send them to their friends in different countries in Europe, they put an extra effort to make them unique.

Their next task was to explore the map of Europe and find the countries their postcards were sent.

Then, I shared with them the stickers saying 'Talk to me' in the languages spoken around Europe. Their task was to use the key to find the name of the country where the language on their sticker is spoken, write it down, find the country on the map, colour it and draw the country's flag in their notebooks. It was a bit challenging, but a lot of fun, and they were proud when they completed their tasks.

 

But, nothing compares to their excitement when they met their friends from 7 different countries, greeted them and sang the well-known song 'If you're happy' with them.

Favourite Characters

Sara M, I2

Sponge Bob, Unicorn and Frozen are just some of the cartoon characters my Class 1 pupils love.

Dunja, I2

Milijana T, I3

Finger Family

The Finger Family Song is probably the easiest way for children to learn family members.

Dunja D, I2

Sara M, I2

Đorđe C, I2

Manja B, I2

But, I also used the music of another song, added the heroes from our book (Nanny Rose, Mr Smile, Mrs Smile, Liam and Lilly) and soon we started singing it at the beginning of all our lessons. The finger puppets turned out to be a success, too.

European Day of Languages 2021

This year's 20th celebration of the European Day of Languages was filled with interesting activities as well.

My 8-year-old students enjoyed designing postcards for their friends in the Walking around Europe eTwinning project. They drew the symbols of Kikinda: a mammoth called Kika, a dry horse-powered mill called suvača, small long-eared owls called ušare and pumpkins called ludaje. 

They've also collaborated on the joint multilingual dictionary.

 

My Class 4 students had fun learning and saying Hello in different languages.

My older students enjoyed creating their digital postcards, writing greetings, and playing the Kahoot quiz. 

The activity is part of this year's Council of Europe Event Calendar.

eTwinning masks

I've recently made paper masks with the eTwinning logo for my Class 1 students. They enjoyed colouring and decorating them.

Virtual Cubbies

 One of the first activities of the If I were Tom Sawyer eTwinning project was to create a virtual cubby and help the partners get to know each other.

My older pupils used free images in Canva to share their favourite things, but joined a collaborative Google presentation as well.

Hello!

The new generation of my 7-year-olds enjoy singing a lot. So far, their favourite song's the first one we sang:

NQL 2021

 Our National eTwinning service has just awarded projects with Quality Label. Two out of six projects I collaborated on with my students are among them:

- A year with Eric Carle: The project included the development of ICT competence and enrichment of English vocabulary, involving students through joint work on the project.

- Same Planet-Same Aim: A very well-run project and even engagement of partners, in which the cooperation between schools is clearly shown.