Skyping with friends

talking with our Greek friends

My younger students enjoy online meetings with their friends from different European countries. Then, they can talk in English about the things they like.

Twinning of schools

The twinning of two schools with the same name - Sveti (Saint) Sava, but in different countries, Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, was organised between 23 and 25 May in Foča, Bosnia and Herzegovina. 

 

The visit to the Town Museum, Clock Tower and the confluence of the Ćehotina into the Drina River was a beautiful experience for all of us. 

We also celebrated the European Day of Parks with our hosts by our visit to the Sutjeska National Park.

We finished our trip with the visit to Višegrad and Andrićgrad.

Around the World

We've recently read the text about different countries and their traditional clothes. That is why I brought a map of the world and asked my students to find different countries, including ours. I shared a tip with them - find the boot- shaped country and move your finger to the right, and there it is. 

To my pleasant surprise, most of them managed to do the tasks well. By the end of the lesson they were able to name and point to all the continents in the world.

What's the weather like?

My younger students are digital natives so it is no wonder that they enjoy most when we explore different apps. This time we tried HP Reveal and Metaverse in the lesson I created with the teachers from Greece, Italy and Croatia during the Learning Event on Digital Augmented Stories.

 

As usual, the lesson with different web tools turned out to be a success.

First, we talked about the weather and revised the vocabulary with flashcards and a mind map. Then, I asked my students what kind of weather they like, and it turned out that sunny and snowy are their favourites. Of course, I also asked them the reasons why they like or don't like certain kind of weather.

Later, I distributed the weather cards among the students and asked them to raise the appropriate one when they hear the word in the song which followed. It was fun.

After that, we read the story about the Wind and the Sun together, and whenever the Wind group heard their name, they had to make a sound or movement.

Read this book made on StoryJumper

The Sun group also made a sound and movement when they heard their name, so it was an interactive reading. It was followed by an online comprehension quiz.

Then, I told them that some pages in the book hide a surprise which can only be revealed by a special app.

After experimenting with this AR app, we moved on to different QR Codes which hide interesting videos and online games, so we played them one at a time.

Finally, we revised the weather words with online flashcards and sang the new song once again.

The Ancient Statue

My Class 7 students, 5 girls, have taken part in this year's OUP International Project Explore Competition The Ancient Statue. They watched the story of the Ancient Statue, thought about the way to finish it, created a comic and got their certificates.

Getting to know each other

I've shared a new app with my older students and they seemed to have enjoyed making their own avatars. We'll probably use them in the future eTwinning projects.

I also asked them to use their avatars and write a few words about themselves on the online wall: V3,VII1, VII2, VII3, VII4 and VII5.

Famous People in Serbia

Thanks to the founders of the eTwinning project about famous people in Europe, we learned how to use some new Web tools.

We presented our famous scientists via Voki (Mileva Marić and Mihajlo Pupin). Class 7 students also created Fakebooks (Mileva Marić) and life tours (Mihajlo Pupin), while Class 5/3 students created comics (Desanka Maksimović and Jovan Jovanović Zmaj).