A group of students from the partner school realized this video with MovieMaker.
Not all of the orbs are in the video of course, but this product represent our reflection: we notice that in our future we see similar things even if we come from different countries.
These things have to do with what we found in our readings and during the steps of our project: personal fulfillment, relationships, hopes and... travels. As adults we dream of being European citizens or better, citizens of the world.
On June the 6th, the partner classes of Hungary and Italy (IC2 Arnolfo di Cambio) met to celebrate the end of the project and of the school year.
It was a fun, colorful, chatty (and pretty noisy!) meeting. We sang in a choir the national anthems of the different countries, we sang some popular songs about friendship, we danced, waved our flags (...and even discussed our readings, of course).
It was definitely one happy moment of reading & wellbeing at school.
Thank you everybody.
As well as working on the fable "Friends", together with our Twins of primary school, we also reflected, with the help of our English Teacher, on HAVE YOU FILLED A BUCKET TODAY?, another of the stories that we chose together with our partners (see here).
Here's how we worked on the story:
- we read the story (in English)
- we watched the video on youtube
- we discussed it (in English): how can you fill somebody elses's bucket?
- we exchanged ideas
- in groups of three, we chose one common idea and eventually created a poster
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| our poster |
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| online meeting Italy - Hungary |
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| Carol McCloud, Have you filled a bucket today? |
May, Monday the 20th
Class 1° B (secondary) and Class 5° B primary met in order to work together on STEP 4 of our project: we were ready to read for our future!
We started the reflection reading the poem below. Then, the students where paired (do you remember? each secondary student paired with a primary student at the beginning of the project). They draw and painted a boomerang writing on it the words or sentences they wanted to throw to their future.
We eventually shared our words and made a poster out of our boomerang.
Another beautiful eTwinning day!
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I throw in the future something new, so when the future comes, I'll find it. I throw in the future something good, something mine, so when the future comes, I'll be there.
As usual, we open a new activity with a suggested common reading.
This time, we chose "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", where the 3rd year students are introduced to the art of Divination and fortune-telling.
Activity:
1) Read with your students the paragraph where Miss Trelawney, the Seer, introduces the Orb (chapter 15).
2) The students discuss the meaning of the scene.
3) Give the students the printed crystal ball picture (above) and tell them to think of their life, 10 years in the future. They have to draw into the ball three images that represent their life in 10 years.
4) The students share their drawings and discuss them.
5) They eventually write a short paragraph about their life in the future (who they want to be, where they want to be, doing what, with whom...).
6) They discuss the topic with their partners (we will have a STEP 4 - forum section + during the live events).
7) Materials will be collected in a common product.
We talked about the dangers of the Internet and learned more by playing the wordwall quiz we had made on our own. Next week my other class ST1 is going to use our friend's quiz from Croatia.
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We will start this step with a common work on this fable about friendship: FRIENDS
Activity:
1) READ the story with your students, cutting out the last sentence and leaving the last antelope's words: "He said..."
2) ASK YOUR STUDENTS: what did the lion say?
3) The students share ideas, then EACH CLASS COMES UP WITH A SINGLE SENTENCE.
4) During the online meetings, the classes SHARE WITH THE PARTNERS THEIR SENTENCES AND DISCUSS THEM.
5) We eventually read what the original story says and we compare our sentences.
6) Each class writes their sentence on a piece of paper: A COLLABORATIVE PRODUCT WILL BE MADE OUT OF ALL THE SENTENCES.
Here is the "Who am I?" ebook with some of the logos designed by the partner students. Enjoy!
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