As part of our project activities, Class 2 pupils explored SDG 14: Life Below Water.
We began by watching a short video and discussing what we saw, especially how the sea animals felt when surrounded by things that do not belong in the ocean.
To make learning fun, we sang songs and played games to revise and learn the names of underwater animals.
Next, we joined forces with our international partners to create a collaborative story about animals, pollution, and hope for a cleaner ocean. Each school chose a situation, added a drawing to illustrate it, expressed an animal’s feelings, or suggested a solution.
I invited my pupils to create a poster together. Each child drew a sea or ocean animal and labelled it, so the poster became a colourful collection of marine life.
Finally, we agreed on our own rules for protecting the ocean and added them to a digital poster.
This way, the pupils not only learned about underwater animals but also shared their ideas for keeping the underwater clean and safe.
Two weeks before winter holiday have been pretty busy.
Class 1 and Class 4 pupils enjoyed making their cards for our friends from Lithuania, Romania, Spain, Taiwan, Türkiye and the USA.
Together with their friends from Croatia, Greece, Romania and Türkiye, Class 7 pupils created a digital card. They added some lights and the gingerbread man to the Christmas tree and put the image of the elf's legs in the snow. They also added some spring images to April in the collaborative calendar.
They also joined the GSA contest and designed their baubles as a group. Everyone put their unique touch on them.
We organised online meetings with our friends from Mallorca and the Canaries on 10 December and New York on 17 December, shared how we celebrate Christmas and New Year, and sang We Wish You a Merry Christmas song.
As part of the Festive Coding activity, Class 4 pupils had fun coding in Scratch and drawing using Pixel Art while as part of the Eco-Coding Wonderland activity, Class 7 pupils enjoyed collaborating on the design of a virtual sustainable city with a Christmas theme. With their project partners, they also created and played a digital escape room game and decorated a virtual Christmas tree with eco-friendly ornaments.
As usual, the lesson about Hallowe'en was a lot of fun for my pupils.
First, I introduced my youngest pupils to the holiday. Then, I asked them to imagine we celebrated Hallowe'en and to think about what kind of costume they would wear.
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Finally, we learned the Knock, Knock song and used their drawings to record our own version.
In teams, my Class 4 pupils wrote short poems on the topic. First, each of them wrote down 4 things that came to their mind when they heard the word Hallowe'en. Later, in their chosen teams, they compared the words and used the most common ones to write 3-line poems. Each group read their poems aloud and received feedback from their peers.
On this day come scary ghosts,
Jack-o’-lanterns made from pumpkin,
Mummies are giving sweets.
Beetlejuice is in front of the doors,
Zombie wants some candycorns,
Wednesday goes trick-or-treating.
We love watching horror movies,
Pumpkins are all around the house,
We dress as ghosts and go trick-or-treating.
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.
What animals do you like? What do they look like? Is your favourite animal big or small? What colour is it? Where does it live? What does it eat? What can it do? What are some fun facts that you would like to share with us?
With a colleague of mine, I've recently carried out some of the activities I created with colleagues from Poland and Portugal in the Edu-Hackathon with Google training course in Brussels, Belgium, in December 2022.
We started the first in the series of lessons with the warm-up and brainstorming activities. The pupils were introduced to the topic, discussed climate issues and completed the online survey. Then, five teams were formed according to the main issues they had suggested: air pollution, water pollution, deforestation, endangered animals, and acid rain.
The teams were ready for their next stage - active involvement. They decided on the name of their team and on the roles of each member. I presented them with a selection of resources and digital tools they could use to create their final products. I also showed them my pupils' examples of various forms on environmental issues, such as infographics, e-books, presentations and games which helped the teams decide on the form of their final product, too.
All the teams agreed on creating presentations in Canva.
After two weeks, during which they shared their presentations with their teacher and me so that I could create an escape room game with their quiz questions, we organised the showcase stage. Several teachers came as well.
I set the timer, and the representatives of each team presented their work. After the last presentation, in their teams, the pupils played the escape room game and checked how much they had learned.
In the wrap-up stage, I asked the pupils to complete the first survey once again and evaluate all the activities too, but I also asked the present teachers to do another survey, with rubrics, and help us choose the best presentation which would be our representative in the international competition and public online show and tell.
Various digital games and creative activities have marked this year's Hallowe'en.
Class 3 pupils liked learning a new song with bingo and making strange creatures with their cut-outs.
Class 4 pupils had fun playing quizzes and writing haiku poems in teams, using the matching words from their bingo grids.
We celebrated this year's World Book Day on 24 April. It was an excellent opportunity for the representatives of Class 6, 7 and 8 to share their book reviews, to play games and to encourage everyone to read more books.
My Class 5 and Class 7 pupils, divided in different international teams, have been very busy doing research as part of the eTwin World Travel Agency project.
First, they suggested a few landmarks in Serbia to be searched by their friends from other partner countries.
Then, they searched for and calculated the cost, transportation, accommodation in the chosen countries, and suggested what to see, eat and buy there.
As usual, my pupils especially enjoyed adding the clues for the collaborative online Guess the country game:
All the works were collected in an online suitcase of souvenirs, a brochure and a travel magazine started by one of the founders:
Later, I taught them a chant about Easter bunny, and gave them cut-outs, so they enjoyed colouring a paper Easter basket and eggs.
After a similar warm-up and the talk about Easter games in English-speaking countries and our country, my Class 3 pupils learned a modified version of the well-known Easter song about hot cross buns:
Hot cross buns, hot cross buns,
One a penny, two a penny,
Hot cross buns!
If you have no daughters,
Give them to your sons.
One a penny, two a penny,
Hot cross buns!
If you have no sons,
Give them all to me.
One a penny, two a penny,
Hot cross buns!
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Describe your favourite superhero/superheroine or create your own. Use about 50-60 words. Organise your writing into 5 paragraphs.
Paragraph 1: What's your superhero's/superheroine's name? How old is he/she?
Paragraph 2: What does he/she look like? What does his/her outfit look like?
Paragraph 3: What can he/she do? What are his/her superpowers? How did he/she get them? From radioactivity like Spiderman or another planet like Superman?
Paragraph 4: What does he/she do when they're not superheroes? Who are their family?
Paragraph 5: Why is this superhero/superheroine so interesting?
My superheroine is Star.
Star is 19 years old. She can fly high and shine like a star.
She has got an older sister. Her name is Milana. Milana is 21 years old. She has got a husband Nicky. Milana's superpower is to be a monster.
Star's outfit is a skirt and a T-shirt. Her skirt and T-shirt are purple. Milana's outfit is a dress. The dress is silver.
Star and Milana have got a dog, Coco. Coco has got a superpower, too. He can talk and he is super strong. Star and Coco are always together in special missions.
Star is my favourite superhero because she is clever and a good person.
Petra Gačka, V2
My favurite superhero is Dragon.
Dragon is a superhero from New York, the USA. His real name is Ben Davies.
Ben has got a wife, Ann, a child Mary, and parents, Manda and Sam.
Dragon's outfit is red, green and yellow. His superpower is flying and flame throwing. He is very brave, strong and clever.
I think that Dragon is a very good superhero.
Teodora Tomić, V2
My favourite superhero is Superman. His real name is Clark Kent.
He comes from a different planet with his dog Krypto.
He is in the DC Universe. His only weakness is green Kryptonite.
He has a cousin. It is Supergirl. They are the ultimate crime fighting team.
Superman can even stop falling planes! Sometimes, he fixes a train track with his own body.
Nikola Tomić, V2
My favourite superheroine is Timebreaker.
She can freeze time and run really fast.
Her outfit is black, green and red. She can jump really high and she is very athletic and can do front and back flips.
She is my favourite heroine because of her accent.
Ivana Popov, V1
My superhero is a girl. Her name is Nora.
She has got blue hair, blue eyes, small lips and white teeth. She is so tall and slim. She can fly.
Her outfit is very beautiful. Her T-shirt is black, her jeans are pink, her shoes are red, and herhat is green.
She has got a dog. His name is Fluffy.
Nora is twenty years old and Fluffy is two years old.
Nora's mother's name is Chloe, father's Peter, brother's Bobby, and sister's Anna.
Nora has two best friends, Laura and Marko.
Nora lives in Berlin, the capital city of Germany.
Her favourite colour is pink. She likes food.
I want to be a superhero one day, but I don't want to fly.
Tea Grujić, V1
I've recently organised a reading session with my Class 4 pupils. Two pupils read a well-known tale by Beatrix Potter to their friends and later we played a board game in teams.
It was a lot of fun, although a bit too loud because of all the cheering.
Different shades of green, smiles, songs, some interesting facts about the Irish tradition and quizzes marked this year's Saint Patrick's Day.
