Professor Balthazar travels around Europe

These days we've been talking about different jobs, we sing songs and dream about what we want to be when we grow up. 

Today, I decided to introduce my Class 3 students with Professor Balthazar by showing them the episode with flying Fabian. Very few children have heard about this inventor and they were particularly surprised by the fact that all the scenes had been drawn by hand, so they all paid great attention to the story and admired the drawings.

After we'd seen the episode, I asked them to put on a Balthazar's hat and 'invent' something useful.  

Andrija, III4

Nikolina, III4

 

David, III1

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Green Kids

Green Kids is an eTwinning project which gathered the children from England, France, Greece, Spain and Turkey around the same goals: 

- to learn about the natural environment,
- to create awareness about environmental issues,
- to investigate possible solutions to "save the World",
- to start initiatives to help "saving the World",
- to develop creative writing and storytelling.

In one of the lessons, my Class 3 students and I first talked about our endangered animals, including our local birds, and the ways we can help them. Then, I asked them to make groups according to the animal they want to 'write' about. They decided on the parts of their stories, illustrated them and later told them. Two stories (Green Kid and Asio Otus, and Green Kid and Otis Tarda) are now in the joint storybook on StoryJumper.

Read this book made on StoryJumper

Owlember 2018

November is the month when long-eared owls come to Kikinda's square to spend the winter. What's more, our town's been the world's largest winter roost site of long-eared owls for the past several years. During the Owls' Festival aka Owlember children take part in different activities. They make different things in the shape of owls, take part in a quiz, count the owls on the square etc. My older students have made presentations and games about the owls and shared them with the students from other schools who were present at the opening of the event dedicated to long-eared owls.

Famous people in Europe

Thanks to this eTwinning project, my Class 7 students and their peers from Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey and Ukraine presented and learned a lot about famous historical figures from different European countries (WordArt).

My Class 7 students have created a Timeline of famous Spanish people and a few interesting applications:

 

Tolerance Day 2018

On 16 November, the International Day for Tolerance, my Class 7 students and I prepared a programme by which we wanted to say that we should respect and accept each other regardless of the differences, not only on this day, but always.

At the beginning of the programme, we showed a video survey conducted by my young journalists who asked our youngest students what tolerance is.

Later on, 5 teams of students from different classes participated in a fun-educational quiz, they listened to poems in Serbian, German and English, traditional Serbian songs and two students played the synthesizers and guitar. Our ballerinas also had their performance. In the end, we all treated ourselves with the cakes prepared by mums and grandmas.

We are glad that the children from the migrant centre also joined our programme.

The International Day for Tolerance was established on 16 November 1995 at the General Assembly of UNESCO. According to the Declaration, tolerance is the acceptance of the fact that "human beings, naturally different in appearance, position, speech, behavior and values, have the right to live and be what they are."

I've also created an event on eTwinning, invited all teachers to always promote tolerance, respect and dignity in their schools and asked them to share their activities on an online canvas.

My Dream House

 Describe your dream house. Where is it? What is it made of? How many floors / rooms are there? What is there outside? Why do you like it? 

My dream house is in New York City.
It is a big house. It has got rooms downstairs and upstairs.
There are three bedrooms upstairs. There are two bathrooms. There is a kitchen and next to it is the living room. There is a big swimming pool too. It is great fun swimming inside my house.
Outside there is a garage and a garden.
I like my dream house.

Nikolina Krstekanić, V3

My dream house is in London. 
It is very big. There are rooms downstairs and upstairs.
There are three bedrooms and a bathroom. There is a living room, a gym, a playroom, and a kitchen next to a dining room. There is a big TV and a beautiful sofa there.
Outside is a garden, a garage, and a swimming pool. In the garden, we have got lots of animals. There are tigers, elephants and monkeys. I like playing with them.
I like my dream house.

Ivana Baltašik, V3

My dream house is pink and purple. It has wings and a horn like a unicorn.
There is a kitchen, a big bedroom, a bathroom and a living room.
The kitchen isn't very big. It has got a table, some chairs and a cooker.
The living room is big. It has got a big TV, a sofa, an armchair and colourful curtains. It's very decorated.
The bathroom has got a toilet, a shower and a sink.
My bedroom is huge. It has got a big bed with a rainbow above.
I love my dream house.

Nevena Nakrajkućin, V3

The US of A

Several of my Class 7 students put on 'teachers' hats' and prepared a lesson on The USA. They made presentations, quizzes, and one of them even brought cakes for the occasion. Unfortunately, some technical problems prevented us from enjoying the Kahoot game.

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Jobs

A police officer, a doctor, a football or basketball player, are just a few jobs my Class 3 students want to do in the future.

Nikola III2

Mihajlo III3

I also shared an online flashcard game with them to help them to learn the new words more easily.

Ideas Central

As part of its 30th birthday celebration, Express Publishing has asked the teachers from around the world to share their favourite activities, the best of which would be selected for their new book. 

I'm happy and proud to say that my activity will be featured in the resource book Ideas Central.

It should be noted that the money raised from the sale will be donated to the Make-A-Wish® Foundation.

Eco bon ton

This October my Class 3/4 students and I took up a challenge and created a poster with eco rules.

Halloween 2018

Different costumes, songs, arts and crafts and other interesting activities marked this Halloween for my Class 3 students.