Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 2017 No. 7 | Page 62

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter
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Inside the rainbow
by Irena Raykova
This is the name of the project that I have been
running the last school year with my lovely partners
and friends: Cira Serio, Francesca Borrelli, Renata
Večerková, Barbara Tatol, Danuta Bartkowiak-
Siekańska and Rangel Pantaleev. We have been
working as a team for 3 years and have run really
successful projects such as “A treasure chest of
Wisdom” and “Just like me”.
We know that the light is vital for human existence
and our wellbeing. Our physical, emotional and
mental health depends on the Light. “Inside the
rainbow” is a project that raise children’s knowledge
about the light and the rainbow through the variety
of creative activities: exploring the rainbow, kids
science experiment, colour theory, creating
mandalas and rainbow crafts. Children have also
built healthy eating habits and became aware of the
importance to have all colours of the rainbow in
their daily meal. In the project activity “Can the
rainbow speak?”, children explore the connection
between the colours of the rainbow and the musical
notes and played on the rainbow piano.
Three years ago, my partners and I set up a
reading club “The wise owl” which has been running
in our project as an activity that promote reading
and help children to develop communication skills in
their mother tongue and in English. Children were
divided into seven international teams and wrote
the collaborative poem “The voice of the colours”.
They have also experienced the power of the
thankfulness creating their own thankful coats.
Each project activity is summarized as an outcome
of the project: online book with children’s work on
the topic. Our students have been divided into
mixed international teams in almost all project
activities. Every two Wednesdays, pupils met in the
TwinSpace and had a chat. They also met in
eTwinning Live events and played Kahoot based on
the story “The thankful coat” by Karen Harvey Cox.
Children communicated, collaborated and learnt
through creative online tools such as Meetingwords,
SurveyMonkey, polls, Answergarden, Kahoot,
Quizizz, Quivervision.
We achieve our set goals through the project based
learning, STEM, flipped classroom, learning by
doing and CLIL.
As a team we realized that thanks to eTwinning our
students can learn, grow and play together. They
are not only project partners, but true friends in a
real life as we, their teachers, are too.
Irena Raykova is a primary school teacher in 137 th
Innovative Secondary School “Angel Kunchev” in
Sofia, Bulgaria and an eTwinning ambassador.
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