...so how's photoclub doing?

It's great. Photo club was the best idea. There are not many pupils who would visit this club regularily. Rather the oposite (no wonder-we meet on Friday afternnoons). However I try to bring some usefunl techniques to my girls since they love to make pictures and for them it seems like quantity was more than quality. So I'm happy about every good composition, light and idea. Well, they have enough ideas. They are always full of hearts, jumping and having fun. I'm glad when my girls can learn a little.

We also took part in a competition for European youth in action, called German youth photo prize. We don't know the results yet. We'll see, just cross your fingers for us :)

Here are some latest pictures:

...so how's Slovak doing? ✌

I meet a small group of students once a week. We're supposed to learn Slovak language and culture. We play games, we have fun...

So far we've learnt to count to 20, some family members and a family tree, some pronouns. We can greet you and introduce our family members. As a proof, you can watch this short video about Dana's family.

:)

Slovak Easter

For those who know how Easter in Slovakia and Czech Rep. is celebrated, it will be easy to understand why an interactive presentaion about Easter was really interesting for the children. It will also be easy to understand that the boys decidet to visit our countries on Easter Monday :)

I prepared some powerpoint presentation, pictures and poems. Children also played Slovak games with our national heritage pictures. They learned about the bee Maja, Jánošík, Bathory, Maťko a Kubko and many Slovak castles. Unfortunatelly I was so into the action, that I forgot to take pictures.... So I only have some:

If everything goes well, my mum will come to visit me and bring a real korbáč with her... Well, I'm quite curious to see how the children will react :)

Fairy tell me~Reading and thinking ♘

In the last 3 months I've done some reading connected to the environment with four classes. All the books I used are available for free download at the EU Bookshop.



The first one was a story about Blossom and her friends, who live in a little town. Everything is great until Blossom comes to visit her friends and is hit by a car on a busy and dirty road. The kids manage to change the road into a beautiful clean and safe place. You can download the book here. We read this book in German.

Based on our reading, I asked the kids a few questions about the content and the environment - they had to write their opinions and find the correct answers in the text. Moreover, I gave the children a chance to draw an unhealthy street with a lot of cars and pollution (more popular part for drawing) and then a clean one, with trees and no pollution. I'll post here some pictures later.

This story inspired us to play a little theatre. We split the class in two groups and they chose parts in the story to perform. Again, a very popular activity with a great feedback from the children...



The second reading was about Mathias and Amadou. One boy from Europe and the other one from Africa. The main topic is to help those who need it and motivate children to support those in need. We read this story in English with a group of 6th graders. With a little help and seeing the illustrations, they were able to fully understand the story.



Our last reading was called Benny's a champion. A story about a boy who wanted to buy a new bicycle, supported by his father that consuming is important, and his cousin and a fox, who show him, that recycling is much more important and cheaper. At the same time the boys helped an old man to gain the meaning of life again. We read this story in German and I prepared some questions for the kids too. They as well drew some nice pictures connected to this story. I hope to post them too.

ORIGAMI

In February and March I decided to join an etwinning project about origami. The task is to make origami, make pictures of the things and post them on etwinning for other lands to guess. In the second step is showing the children origami things made by other kids in other countries and let them guess what they can see.

I did this project together with one class of 5th graders and two classes of 6th graders. We also made pictures of our origamis and I also let the photo club make some pictures. So I kind of involved more kids into this project.

Certificate of our project with the involved countries and schools.

Generally it was quite fun to see how are some kids able to work with their hands and fold paper according to the instructions, whereas some were quite lost even at the beginning - folding the paper in halves :) However they all managed to finish their origami at last.

Here are some pictures from how we were making origami animals and flowers:

So how about you, can you name our origami products? In case you are more interested and want to see more, visit our etwinning page.

Of course I let the children draw whatever they wanted on their origamis. 

When we made little frogs, the funny part was to make a competition involving the jumping frogs jump the furthest. It's so great when one can get the kids' attention :)