My Pet

Have you got a pet? What is it? What's its name? How old is he/she?
What does he/she look like?
What can he/she do? What does he/she like?

I have got a pet. It is a dog. His name is Don. He is seven years old. He is big and black. He can jump, play with a ball and sit. He likes food and children.

Teodora Čudan, V1

I have got a pet. It is a dog. Her name is Luna. She is one year old. She is small and brown. She can run really fast. She likes going out with me for a walk.

Nikola Andrić, V1

I had two cats, but someone stole them. They were my best friends. They were both called Lucky. One of them had blue eyes. They were six and seven months old when they were stolen. They loved when I cuddled them.

Luka Stajić, V1

I've got a pet. It's a dog. His name is Meda (Bear). I'm not sure about his age. He is yellow and white. He can sit and gives his paw. He doesn't eat when I tell him. I can dance with him (he is really smart). He loves to eat and play with a ball.

Marko Vidović, V2

I have a pet, a cat. His name is Sivko and he is 3 and a half years old. He is gray and has green eyes. He likes to eat and sleep, and sometimes I play with him. He loves to cuddle.

Ana Vojvodić, V2

I've got a pet. It's a dog. My dog's name is Donna. She is eight years old. My dog is yellow. She likes playing with a ball. She is happy when she sees me. She likes when we pet her.

Nikola Borić, V2

I have two cats. Their names are Minja and Bodo. Minja is two years old. Bodo is only eight weeks old.
Minja is grey. His eyes are yellow. He likes it when I pet him. He also likes to sleep.
Bodo is grey-brown. His eyes are green and yellow. He loves to run and jump. His favourite toy is a small, white ball. He gets really tired after playing, so he sleeps on the grass. When he wakes up he starts to run again.

Jovana Karić, V2

I have got a pet. It's a parrot. Her name is Mica. She is four years old. She has got yellow feathers and a long tail. Sometimes she is dangerous. If you put your finger near her, she starts hissing. I wish to have a dog and I hope to get one.

Lara Avramov, V2

My pet is a goldfish. His name is Goldy. He's 1 year old. He's small. Of course he is gold. Goldy is smart. He likes to eat and swim. Sometimes I put a mirror next to Goldy's bowl. He looks at the mirror for hours. Goldy thinks that it is his brother.

Ognjen Orašanin, V2

I have a pet that I love a lot. It's a dog named Buddy. Buddy is three years old. He is a black puli and very shaggy. He is so shaggy that his eyes are invisible. He knows how to guard the house, he knows he can't go up to the terrace and he can't wear slippers in the yard. He likes to cuddle and play with children and the ball.

Dušan Grbić, V2

I have one dog and one cat.
My dog's name is Chubby (Bucko). Chubby likes when I pay attention to him and give him treats. He has brown eyes. He knows how to sit and stay.
My cat's name is Cicmac. His eyes are green. He loves to play with his toys and with me.

Luka Đuran, V2

I have got a pet dog. Her name is Dolly and she is young. She is one year old. She is black and yellow. She has a very cute muzzle. She loves food so much. She is a little dumb, but she knows very well that we love her. 🤗

Milana Rajkov, V2

I have got a pet. My pet is а dog. Her name is Betty. Betty is four years old. Betty is a tall white dog. A little chubby but very cute. She lies down most days, but loves playing. Most of all, she likes eating and cuddling.  

Sara Lejić, V2

I have a pet cat. His name is Morris. He is two years old. He is black, white and brown. Morris loves to sleep. He loves when we cuddle him.

Petar Savić, V2

My pet is a dog. Her name is Molly. Molly has got black hair and brown eyes. Her tail is long. She has got a small head and a big body. She likes to eat and to play with me. Her favourite toy is a teddy. I love her.

Teodora Nikolin, V2

I have got a pet dog. Her name is Ribica (Fishie). She is six years old. She has got short fur and she is black and orange. My pet has got a long body with short legs and a long tail. She is friendly and playful. Every day I feed my dog and we play together. My sister and I run with our pet and have a great time. Ribica can run fast and jump. She can smell and she is a good hunter. She is very smart. My pet dog makes me happy. She loves me and I love her.

Miladin Božin, V3

I have a pet. It is a cat. His name is Snowflake. He is very fluffy and is white like snow.
He is 3 years old. He likes playing and when we pet him.

Vanja Konstantinović, V3

I've got a lovely rabbit. His name is Munja (Lightning). He's eight months old. He's got long ears and he is black. He has a  soft muzzle. He loves to eat carrots. He likes to play with me. He's so sweet and clever. I love him so much.

Mila Kubet, V3

My pet is a dog. His name is Marley. He is one year old. My dog is big and his colour is white. My dog can jump, sit down and bring the ball. He likes to sleep, eat and play with me. I love my dog.

Sara Banjac, V3

European Day of Languages 2020

This year's EDL is a bit different since we must keep distance. However, my younger students and I managed to record video messages for our eTwinning friends.

And my Class 5 students joined the survey on their favourite English words.

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

Teddy Bear Day

 To mark Teddy Bear Day, I've asked my Class 5 pupils to find an old photo or take a new one with their teddy, and share it with their friends on Edmodo.

Teddy Bear Day by Teacher Dragana

NQL 2020

Our National eTwinning Support Service awarded 303 projects with Quality Label at the end of August / the beginning of September. Nine projects I started and collaborated on with my students are among them:

- English is a Piece of Cake: The project is dynamic, well-designed and managed, the activities follow each other in a logical sequence. The project is well integrated into the curriculum. The activities enable both the acquisition and development of students' skills in several areas.

-  Inside Out: Project activities include active participation of children, using a large number of ICT tools. As a product of cooperation, a common product was created, and the activities were integrated into the curriculum.

- Follow the Little Prince: It is commendable that the teacher took part in a project of this scope and enriched the experiences of her students.

- World Book Day 2020 - 3rd Edition: The teacher carried out certain project activities with the students, encouraged them to use ICT tools and to improve communication in English.

- Eager Beavers: The project is creative and age-appropriate and deviates from established pedagogical approaches. Students used the acquired knowledge from several subjects in the implementation of project activities and were actively involved in the project. 

- Water: a priceless gift!: The strengths of the project and the teacher's contribution are the use of ICT, student involvement and diversity of content.

- Easter class challenge: The project is age-appropriate, i.e. students in the lower grades of primary school. The good thing is that students are given a new way of learning content.

- Alphabet of the living world: Throughout this project pupils have expressed themselves on the subject of the living world, developing creative, artistic and literary skills.

- Language Mission: Possible!: The good side is the planning and communication between teachers, as well as the dissemination, which was done in great detail and through various channels.

HIPPO 2020 Semi-finals

Due to COVID-19 outbreak and following the WHO recommendations, this year's HIPPO semi-finals were held online, for the competitors from Kikinda on 25 May. As usual, the categories remained the same, but the level of difficulty was higher. The tests consisted of a test of reading and a test of writing.

 

My students had positive comments after the competition, but, unfortunately, they didn't make it to the finals which is going to be held online in September.

Jovana Karić IV2 (R 29/30 + W 30/45), 

Nemanja Vujin VIII4 (R 32/34 + W 27/42), and 

Anastasija Bugarski VIII4 (R 22/34 + W 27,5/42).

Magic is in the Hands of a Teacher

My Class 4 students and I did a lot of activities online during the lockdown period, so I decided to share some of them with other teachers by applying to the national contest Best Examples of Long-distance Lessons.

Classroom On Click shows one of our first lessons on Edmodo, while Europe on Click presents some of our project activities on Edmodo and eTwinning.

I'm happy to say that our project activities were recognised as good examples of long-distance lessons among more than 700 others.

A Letter from Myself in 2030

My Class 8 student took part in the Goi Peace Foundation international essay contest this summer. She wrote a letter from herself in 2030 hoping that it'll be shared with the children and youth from other countries.

Time Machine to the Scene

Dear me,
I hope you're doing well. You should be finishing eighth grade and preparing for finals. Don’t worry! You're a successful artist and a writer today! That is, we are!
I'm you, writing from the future. It's the very 2030 right now, 15th of July, and you're doing great.
My friend's made a time-machine!
He's explained the way it works. However, you won’t major in engineering to understand it completely. I've got the point, though. It has something to do with atoms.
He's even paid a whole team to work on it. They've spent more than three years on that project! They're in the process of getting a patent on it, and will get a load of money if they succeed.
He's chosen me to be the first person to test it, outside the team that worked on it.
I've been told that I could send anything into the past or future, but that it would be smarter to choose the first option. They've also warned me there's a possibility I’d get stuck in an infinite loop, so I couldn’t risk it.
Why have I chosen to send you this letter right now? I think you know very well. We like decade numbers, and I haven’t lived to be over 100 years old yet.
The 20s were very interesting, to say the least.
In case you're wondering, the pandemic of the virus COVID-19 didn’t end in 2020. It came back in 2021, when it was finally stopped. Unfortunately, a lot of people passed away due to that virus, as you've probably guessed, but the medics, nurses and doctors, worked on the vaccine, so the situation decreased.
You wouldn’t believe it, but Corona helped us, too. An amazing medical discovery was made – medicine for viruses! It's a pill that kills them almost immediately as it enters the blood vessels. The pill was invented in 2023 by a woman named Eveline Midway. Its ’nickname’ is A-Vis, short for Anti-Viruses. I also made my contribution when I designed the box for one brand of those pills in 2025.
I started doing commissions and was a free-lance artist then. It's the same year I finished high school and passed the entrance exams for the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad.
When I finished studies last year, I got a job as an animator in a company that makes and designs video games.
I've also dedicated myself to writing. I've published only one book so far called ’The Underworld’. It was the idea you started writing down on paper a few months ago, right? The book isn’t popular right now, but it's started attracting an audience as I translated it from Serbian to English.
I have to warn you, the future will be one big rollercoaster for you. The things won’t be too bad for you in particular, but to the whole society and the world state.
There are still protests going on all over the world, about taking down capitalism, because it harms poor people and only benefits the rich. I've participated in the protests myself, just twice though. Some of them get rough, and I prefer avoiding violence at all costs. However, I support the movement.
This might sound a bit cheesy, but I want to deliver a message to you, too. Of course I wouldn’t be writing all this just for the sake of it, but to tell you – keep doing what you’re doing. Be productive, and it will get rewarded! You might feel that something you're doing won’t get you anywhere, but you're wrong. Nothing is worthless and someone will always notice your traits. Always highlight them, and don’t be ashamed of your flaws.
If life isn’t all well now, it will be. When you shoot an arrow, you always pull it backward first before it goes flying forward. Life is full of surprises!
Take care,
Aleksandra, your future self