Today class E worked in the computer lab and they created some word clouds with words and phrases in the languages spoken in our school: Greek, Albanian, English, French and German. The German and the French teacher taught them some of the words too!
By Cecilia, Elena k & Evi
By Athena, Elena & Elpida
By Apostolis & Nicolas
By Vaggelis, Vasilis & Yiorgos
We use this craft to express our feelings:
Class B continues with the recognition of feelings through a Halloween song and activity:
Most popular faces: happy, angry, scared
Today we talked about a visit to the doctor. Then the pupils put the story cards in order and wrote captions. They worked in pairs and collaborated very well!
Our ’emotions diaries’ are ready to use them!
Class A made small books with new words and read them to each other!
Talking about languages for the European Day of Languages today. We welcomed Mrs Panagiota, the German teacher in our English room and asked her to teach us some German words and phrases. Then the pupils filled in their multilingual chart:
Danke, Mrs. Panagiota!
ΓΛΩΣΣΟΔΕΤΕΣ: Multilingual tongue twisters
ENGLISH TONGUE TWISTERS:
I saw a kitten eating chicken in the kitchen
She sells seashells by the seashore
If two witches would watch two watches, which witch would watch which watch?
Info about languages
Languages quiz
The longest words
Colour idioms and phrases in languages
Where am I? Look at the photo and guess the country
Why do you learn languages? Poll
Listen and say which language it is!
List of activities
Class B have just finished their emotions diaries. Every day we are going to express our feelings and the reasons behind them!
A place for peace and quiet is ready in the English room for every pupil that might need it. An idea learned at the Barcelona Erasmus+ course.
Class C have just started the unit ‘Eυ ζην’ and the theme ‘Knowing my body’. So today we got out in our beautiful garden and the pupils engaged in experiential activities that aimed to boost communication and cooperation.
An Erasmus+ activity from the Madeira course, teaching resilience;
All of us have fears but we need to find ways to overcome them. Thus the pupils wrote down their fears about what the new school year holds and then they wrote positive thoughts that will help them overcome them. For example they are afraid that they won’t be good at history, so they decided to study harder. Not only did they have to express their fears to their group but also discuss or ask for help in order to find a positive and practical way to solve their problem. After that the two groups presented their work in class.
Classroom rules by class C:
Class E conducted a survey about how they use the internet. Then we went to the computer room and they made graphs on excel for the first time, while reading the instructions in English. Finally they discussed their findings looking at their graphs.
Starting off the year with a great bonding activity; the pupils closed their eyes and had to trust that their ‘guarding angel’ would lead them safely around the schoolyard.
A simple yet amazing activity that teaches how to trust, to believe in someone, to support and be a good friend; values that are necessary not only for the year ahead, but for a lifetime!
This is an Erasmus+ activity from the seminar held in Madeira back in August.
An Erasmus+ activity from the Barcelona seminar was introduced in class today!
The pupils were divided in teams with the mission to build a very tall tower using spaghetti, some string, plasticine and tape! Although it came out to be quite a difficult task, all the teams succeeded in engaging in fruitful dialogue, in expressing opinions, putting ideas to test, changing plans and in trying out many methods. All in a friendly and cooperative way, which was the main aim of this activity! Mission accomplished, then! Congratulations everyone!
From the desks of Barcelona, back to ours, after an amazing Erasmus+ week where we attended the ‘A European School for All children’ seminar. The seminar was about tolerance, inclusion, multiculturalism, equal opportunities and diversity. Eight teachers from four countries (Italy, Austria, the Czech Republic and Greece) took part in it.
Back from Funchal, Madeira, after a week full of new knowledge, new friends and unforgettable experiences!
Our school, the 2nd Primary School of Akrata, participated in the Erasmus+ staff mobility entitled ‘Project management for cross-cultural exchange projects in Europe’ along with other 46 teachers from 8 European countries (Greece, Lithuania, Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Slovakia, Finland, Hungary).
Today we went on a bug hunt around the school! We worked in two groups and looked for bugs with the magnifying glasses then kept notes on the worksheets! Back at school we counted and reported in class,; we saw lots of ants, some flies and butterflies, a couple of grasshoppers and spiders. We had a lovely time!
Class D enjoyed their ice cream today!
