Groups of my Class 4.1 students took part in this interesting eTwinning project aimed at 7-9 year olds who, thanks to interesting activities, learned more about beavers, how to look after the environment and stay safe online.
As usual, in the first activity all the students and teachers introduced themselves.
Then, the students drew the logo of the project, containing the flag of the country, individually or in pairs.
The chosen logos were later put together to make one common logo.
Organised in teams, the students exchanged English idioms with their peers from different countries and made drawings. My students asked the other teams to illustrate these idioms: Have your head in the clouds, Hold your horses, and Have a whale of a time. They liked what they saw, and chose to illustrate: Better late than never, The teacher's pet, Have a green thumb, suggested by Italian teams, and Have eyes in the back of your head, suggested by a Spanish team.
We did research and found out that in the first half of the 19th century you could see a lot of beavers in the wetlands and along the banks of the Sava, Danube and Morava rivers in Serbia. Then, at the beginning of the 20th century there weren't any. A couple of years ago, Zasavica Special Nature Reserve received around 30 beavers as a gift from the Bavarian Science Society.
My students also enjoyed playing the games about English idioms created by teachers.
Better late than neverFinally, they collaborated on the e-book about beavers. They invented six stories, so different international teams collaborated on one.
