Months

My Class 3 pupils seem to enjoy this song a lot, probably because the friendly crab in the video asks them to sing it in different ways:

Collaborative Games

My Class 4 pupils have used D-ID AI presenter to read the riddle and the answer to it: Morskie and created the drawing for the word 'imagination' in Dream Studio which were used in the Escape game from the riddles on project name acrostic and the Gallery of Riddles. 

My Class 6 pupils have used the information shared by all project partners and added a question in the collaborative Millionaire and the Mystery Breakout games, and added two questions, replaced the images in Room 2 and added tooltips for each exhibited piece in the Museum Escape Room collaborative game.

They also had fun creating an interactive game about famous artists of their own choice:

Different generations of my pupils enjoyed playing collaborative games. Most found them interesting and fun, but some thought they were challenging.

TALE Fast Forward

Two groups of my Class 8 pupils have recently visited the National Museum and took part in the workshops in English.

Before the visit, we talked about museums, whether they like visiting them or not, how we should behave there, and I showed them the presentation of our museum and the video showing how not to behave at the museum. I also asked them to guess the meaning of certain words.

The museum educators organised a tour of the permanent exhibition in English and later divided the pupils into five groups: Fashion, Cool Stuff, Before Selfies, Spin & Play, Chat & Chill. The pupils were asked to read and complete worksheets, answer riddles, match, design something, and later everyone shared their creative works and opinion.

Most pupils enjoyed the activities, some even did two worksheets, while a few complained about the reading and writing part of the activities.

What's the weather like?

A lesson filled with various games always turns out to be a success.

First, with the help of flashcards, we revised weather words. I asked my pupils about the weather outside, what kind of weather they like and don't like, why, and what we usually wear then.

After that, we drew a mind map, with weather symbols and I asked the volunteers to write the words. Everyone also wrote the sentences about what kind of weather they like and don't like in their notebooks, and a few pupils read their sentences.

Later, we read the story about the Sun and Wind together and did the quiz. Finally, I asked them to make groups of four for the station rotation activity. I reminded them what it means and distributed different tasks, all related to the weather topic: dominoes, popsicle sticks with parts of sentences, crossword, online matching game on the tablet and online hangman on the laptop.

The groups were a bit noisy, some finished faster than the others, and everyone enjoyed all the activities.

Museum Day 2024

We've celebrated this year's Museum Day with our eTwinning partners by decoding words related to museums. We've added the activities to the EU Code Week website.

My Class 4 pupils tried out the Midjourney AI tool to generate the image of an exhibition, and the DreamStudio to generate the images of a sword, an exhibition and a library. 

18th of May Museums Day

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Amazing Transport

By using a mind map, we revised different means of transport. I also reminded my Class 3 pupils to illustrate each word.

Then, we read a short description of an unusual car in our books, and I asked them to imagine they've got an amazing car, plane, bus, submarine, or some other means of transport that would take them wherever they want, write about it and draw it. 

A lot of them wanted to read, but only a few accepted to be filmed:

Big, Wide World

It's a big, wide world out there,
And there's so much to see.
I'd like to fly around the world,
Why don't you come with me...?

I'd like to go to Africa,
I'd like to see a snake.
I'd like to take it to my house,
And feed it bread and cake.

It's a big, wide world...

I'd like to go to Canada,
I'd like to see a bear.
I'd like to take it to my house,
And give it boots to wear.

It's a big, wide world...

I'd like to go to Italy,
I'd like to eat ice cream.
I'd like to take some to my house,
It isn't just a dream.

It's a big, wide world...

All About Me

 I've asked my Class 8 pupils to use any of the free Canva templates to design a poster, share their favourite things and add their avatars. They've added their posters to our Wakelet collection.

My Class 4 pupils have enjoyed the same activity, too.

Inspiring Painting

 My Class 4 pupils have created story characters, male and female detectives, and a thief, in Dream Studio. My Class 3 pupils voted for the best ones in their opinion.

My Class 6 pupils first read the stories in the collaborative Inspiring Painting digital book, one pupil after another, then wrote their story in groups. They added some props, too.

What a Week!

This song is full of unusual activities, great for revising the days of the week and practising the past form of regular verbs:

Oh, what a week, oh, what a week,
Oh, what a terrible, terrible week!

On Monday, my friend Jonathan
Played football with a flea.
On Tuesday, my friend Caroline
Played the violin for me.

On Wednesday night, I watched a film,
And I was really scared.
On Thursday night, an elephant
Climbed on my father's chair!

Oh, what a week...

On Friday after school,
I rode a dinosaur back home.
On Saturday, I phoned my gran,
But her dog ate up her phone.

It's Sunday, and I'm in bed,
I want to stay here all day long,
But then I switch the radio on
And what I hear is this song.

Oh, what a week...

Listen to a mixed group of my Class 4 pupils singing about a terrible week:

HIPPO 2024 National Finals

 This year's National Finals for pupils from local schools were held at Đura Jakšić Primary School on 19 April. For some reason, the contestants did their exams online which was a bit stressful.

Both my pupils did their best on more challenging tests and made it to the orange list, which means that they will be invited to the next round if some of the RQ candidates do not confirm their participation. 

Hippo 1: Nina Stijelja, IV2 (Reading: 38/40, Writing 25.5/42 - compared to the first on the list),

Hippo 2: Nikola Tomić, VI2 (Reading: 33/34, Writing: 28.5/39 - compared to the first on the list).