June the 6th, online meeting Hungary - Italy (IC2 Arnolfo di Cambio primary and secondary classes)

 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.

STEP 3 - me and others: Have you filled a bucket today?, IC2 "Arnolfo di Cambio" secondary - Italy

 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

our poster

- we discussed our ideas and reading with our partners in an online meeting with Hungary and Sant'Andrea primary school.

online meeting Italy - Hungary

Carol McCloud, Have you filled a bucket today?

STEP 3 - Meeting primary-secondary classes, IC2 Arnolfo di Cambio, Italy - eTwinning Day, May the 9th

Classes 5°B - Sant'Andrea and 1°B - Colle di Val d'Elsa decided to celebrate the eTwinning Day working together on the story FRIENDS. 

• The students of the two classes were divided into 5 groups. 

• They read the text together and discussed the possible ending.

• Each group created a final sentence.

• Eventually, the students voted their favourite sentence.

• The chosen sentences were written in the shared ppt.

• The students read the sentences written by the partner classes and compared perspectives.

We also celebrated browsing the eTwinning portal and watching the different activities realized by the European schools for the eTwinning Day. 

At the end of the meeting, we watched the video we created with our partners and ate some sweets. It was a great eTwinning Day!

PROJECT TEACHERS' MEETING - April the 16th, Italy, Hungary, Croatia, Greece and Turkey

On April the 16th we met among teachers in order to discuss the next steps in our project. We discussed these topicss: timetable of the next steps, common activities, Europe Day, dissemination activities and promotion of online safety in our project.

• We got lots of interesting ideas about common activities - ideas that we are going to put into practice in the next weeks.
• We decided to have more collaborative activities and to have our students interact more with their twins. For this reason, since we lack the forum features, we decided to use padlet as a place for interaction: we will put posts there and we will let the students write and ask/answer each other's questions so as to encourage the sharing of ideas.
• We decided to increase the number of online meetings so that our students can meet their parners in presence.
• We agreed to organize simple common activities for promoting online safety - creation of a dedicated page in the blog with questionaries, quizzes and games about this topic, created by teachers and pupils.
• We agreed on a common dissemination activity to be carried out on Europe's Day, March the 9th.

... and of course, we had fun and enjoyed each others' company! Thank you everybody. The opportunity to work together is a privilege for us!

 

8th April - Meeting with Laura Farinaccio's class from Poggibonsi, Italy and Greek Class ST1

It was a beautiful meeting between  our students eventhough our Italian friends were two years older than us. We exchanged information about our favourite subjects and school facilities but one question that drew a lot of attention was "What would you like to become  when you grow up?"

We also showed some of our drawings concerning our step 2 theme "PHOBIAS" and sadly ended our video call because we had to get ready for our school buses.  Thank you Laura for the lovely meeting!!💖

4th of March**Meeting with Italy (Laura Maffei) and Croatia (Vedrana) with Greek class St2

My students were very excited and eager for this  meeting since it was their first time meeting kids from another country! We shared information about each other's schools and cities and introduced themselves. They could realise first hand the time difference when they saw kids coming in the classroom with schoolbags when they  had already done their 1st hour!!😲

One thing that our partners found interesting was that my classroom had 25 students!!!

And this is only one of my classes! 

Anyway, all 25 of them were on their toes and wanted to say something but the time flied so quickly... I hope we meet again soon...

STEP 2 - Meeting primary-secondary classes (IC2 Arnolfo di Cambio, Italy) Thursday the 14th

 

The students worked together on their readings for the STEP 2 - Inside me, during this meeting.

Francesca Mori, pedagogist, helped us in this step.

STEP 2 - Meeting Greece - Italy - Croatia - March, Monday the 4th

The partner classes of Greece, Italy (Arnolfo di Cambio) and Croatia, met on Monday the 4th to get to know each other and share their activities during the first two steps of the project.

We had lots of fun and enthusiasm among pupils and teachers!

STEP 1: meeting Italy (IC2 Arnolfo di Cambio, primary+secondary) - Hungary

Italian and Hungarian Twins met online after the Christmas break to talk about "Who am I?", with teachers Silvana Rassu, Laura Maffei and Mokika Kiss.

The pupils had the opportunity to meet face to face the Twins they chose in the padlet (1 Italian primary student + 1 Italian secondary student + 1 Hungarian primary student).

Some of the Italian students already knew each other, while for the Hungarian pupils it was a huge surprise! As you can imagine, there was lots of chatting, sharing, making friends... and lots of laughing as well. 

We also have one Italian student, Gabriella, who speaks Hungarian, so we were able to greet our partners using their language.

Ok, look at us: we definitely had fun!