One day before the start of the winter holiday we organised an online meeting with our friends from Lithuania, Poland and Turkey. We shared our Christmas chants and poems, and sang We wish you a merry Christmas together. It was a lot of fun!
First of all, I'd like to welcome you to my blog. My intention's to make it a place for cherishing great memories of working with school children. Here you'll find some tips, projects done by my pupils, their essays and poems, video clips (I don't know if it's me, but my pupils really enjoy singing), and things that can be interesting and useful.
Friday 23 December 2022
Thursday 22 December 2022
Christmas 2022
With their chosen partners, my Class 2 pupils enjoyed creating cards for our eTwinning and Empatico friends.
They also sang a well-known Serbian song about Father Christmas which we later shared with our eTwinning friends in the STEAM with Fairy Tales project.
All my pupils had fun decorating their digital Christmas tree.
My older pupils collaborated on the New Year card with the other eTwinWorld Travel Agents.
Wednesday 21 December 2022
eTwinWorld Travel Agency
Giving our pupils a chance to act like entrepreneurs, 'create' their own travel agency and plan trips for travelers, and learn about different countries and cultures along the way were some of the reasons why I decided to join the schools from Croatia, Greece, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine in the eTwinWorld Travel Agency project.
After our introductions and some collaborative ice breaker games, the pupils created the characters and mascots, suggested and voted for the names of the agency's owners and slogans, designed and voted for the logos they liked, created and voted for the intro video they liked, brainstormed on their favourite destinations, and also checked out the creative works of the others.
Tuesday 20 December 2022
All about us
I've recently introduced my Class 3 pupils to several free avatar creator apps.
They tried them and chose the best in their opinion. Later, they also chose a lovely Canva template to introduce themselves.
Friday 25 November 2022
Hansel and Gretel
My Class 2 pupils have recently accepted the challenge of their younger friends from a Greek kindergarten and added a few details to the collaborative online drawing.
After a quick poll about their favourite number, they've chosen the next collaborator.Thursday 24 November 2022
Thanksgiving Day 2022
We started the lesson by watching the presentation our American friends had shared with us. We admired their creative works of art with colourful autumn leaves and pine cones.
Wednesday 23 November 2022
Fantastic Creatures
We've recently revised the names of different wild animals and body parts, so I asked my Class 3 pupils to use their imagination and create some fantastic creatures. Here's the result:
We've shared the video and the presentation with our friends from the Unlock the Magic! eTwinning project.
Thursday 17 November 2022
Habitats
Wednesday 16 November 2022
Places in a town
We started the lesson with a short warm-up. I asked my Class 5 pupils to name different buildings according to where they are on the poster.
Then, we talked about their favourite places around our town, why and how often they go there, and who with.
We did a few writing and speaking tasks in the books, and then the pupils decided which group they wanted to join for the station rotation activity. Each group had to finish their task before moving to the next station:
- play an online game to check the spelling of a place;
- read the description and stick different buildings where they belong;
- order the dialogue and act out the situation in the street to practise giving directions;
- play an online game to guess the correct place;
- design your ideal neighbourhood.
It was a lot of fun.