eTwinning “ S.O.S.: Save Our Sea” - Part 2

 With great warmth and enthusiasm, we continued our collaborative activities throughout December.

In the spirit of the festive season, students from all the participating schools created handmade cards and crafts, which they uploaded to a shared online board, in order to exchange holiday greetings. Along with the cards, our school also crafted and decorated the traditional Greek Christmas boat. Beyond being a Christmas custom, it was thematically connected to our project, and allowed students to send their wishes for “Merry Christmas” in their native language.

Another particularly engaging activity was the creation of Christmas posters in transnational teams with the use of a digital poster-making tool. Each final poster was a piece of true collaboration, with student contributions from all the partner countries. Five posters were created in total, each one showing:

·         on the left side, a decorated house accompanied by a festive wish,

·         on the right side, an undersea world adorned with a Christmas touch and an environmental awareness message.

The goal was to spread the idea that the Mediterranean Sea is our common home, and we must all take care of it together. The results were truly impressive!

This month we also held our first online meeting in a magical atmosphere, during which our school connected with the partner schools from Italy, Turkey and Larissa. At first, the students introduced themselves through representatives and exchanged information. Then, they collaborated in real time on Mentimeter, an interactive audience engagement platform, where:

·         they entered their first names and instantly watched a word cloud of participant names being created, and

·         they also contributed words that they typically associate with the Mediterranean Sea, which formed another collective word cloud, depicting the image of the Mediterranean as it exists in the children’s collective perception.

The meeting concluded in a joyful spirit: the learners of each school sang Christmas carols for their partners, both in English and in their mother tongue, to the accompaniment of musical instruments. The session ended with an exchange of heartfelt wishes, an atmosphere of excitement, and a strong sense of anticipation for the next interaction! 

eTwinning “ Do you need me? Because I need you” – Part 2

 

December was another month full of creativity and joyful activities!

Students who currently have—or once had—a pet uploaded a photo of their furry (or feathery!) friend to a collaborative presentation and wrote short texts to introduce them to our partners. They described their pets’ habits and preferences, as well as their own feelings toward them. For those who don’t have a pet, there was a chance to get imaginative: they drew the pet they would love to have and wrote about it in the same way.

Finally, this month we held our first online meeting between our students and those from Romania, Poland, Spain, and Turkey. Representatives were chosen to introduce their class and shared their preferences, exchanged information about pets, and—embracing the holiday spirit—sang festive songs both in English and in their mother tongues.

The meeting was a huge success, filled with laughter, enthusiasm, and the sparkle of international friendship!

 

Christmas treasure hunt in the school library

 

Creativity has a way of turning learning into an adventure.In the heart of the Christmas season, when stories seem to sparkle, our students set out on an interesting adventure: the spirit of the holidays came alive not just in decorations and songs, but in the magic of books and teamwork.

The learners were given the joyful chance to embark on a Christmas book treasure hunt. Divided into groups, the students joined forces to solve riddles inspired by the titles of Christmas books in order to search for the hidden letter in each one of them, and piece together the clues to reveal the Christmas message.

The event was designed to invite children into the world of books through play, to nurture their curiosity for reading, and to encourage a love of literature as a living dialogue between a child’s imagination and the written text.
The students responded with warmth and enthusiasm, managing to decode the riddles and convey to us the message of this great celebration:

LOVE – JOY – PEACE

We therefore wish that Love, Joy, and Peace may walk beside them all their days, keeping their hearts filled with hope and glowing with light!