Two weeks ago we started a new project with the school. It's via e-twinning again and becasue I don't have any permanent bigger group of pupils, I decided to do this with more classes at the same time.
We're going to work with a Slovak school. It's a secondary school in the heart of Slovakia in a beautiful nature. The mean topic of the project are fairy tales. Because Germany and Slovakia are both rich in their folk tales and we both had some famous collectors in our history, we decided to make OUR OWN BOOK.
We've already started with getting to know each other. The first part is so to present ourselves. I'm going to make a presentation about the school on Friday with Linda's 5th graders. Kathrin's 6th graders have already written a little about themselves. I'm going to post these presentations onto e-twinnnig this weekend.
Second part will be to teach our partners something what we are proud of. The Germans are going to present their famous collectors - the Grimm brothers, and Slovak group will present Dobsinsky. At least I guess so, I'll let it be a surprise.
After that, each group is going to look for fairy tales that are "the most..." We'll look for the shortest, the funniest, the scariest... and some more. And this will be the basis of our book. The Slovak group are German learners, so it's a great practise for them to translate these tales into German. As far as the Germans are concerned, I will use this to teach them some more interesting words in Slovak and some new things about my culture. We will also try to illustrate the given fairy tales. Illustrations will be used in our book too. We can make a cover too, but that will be decided rather spontaniously.
At last we're going to write one short fairy tale together. We'll take turns and let our creativity flourish...
I'm sooo looking forward to it :)
I just hope we'll manage till the end of the term. Of course we will!!!
:)
I'll post some more info as said, later. For now, traditionally, our label.
