Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Adventure 4 is taking shots of people reading and running a photo contest for the best spontaneous photo. Adventure 5 is called‘ Small, Big and Unusual Libraries Around us’ and all teams describe their visits and unique experiences in these magical places. Adventure 6 is participating in bookmaking workshops in which IT and writing inspiration fuse. Adventure 7 is the creation of attractive libraries by the students, using their resourcefulness and the means available to them to achieve it. Last but not least, there is our encounter with an author, a mysterious person we are willing to shed light upon.
As time went by, our project seemed to bloom! Not only did we all enjoy the adventurous eTwinning journey we were lucky to embark on, but we were also inspired to move even farther, to explore various, smaller paths along the main road and have more exciting reading Adventures on the way. We co-operated to create great things we are now proud of, like our collaborative Map of Children’ s Literature in Europe, we exchanged opinions on book issues, even adopted and improved fresh ideas our partners had, adding our own creative touch.
Another example of the constant interaction among READ AND SHARE teams is Reading picnics. This original idea of the Polish team from Gdynia, which allowed students to enjoy reading in the countryside, close to nature, was adopted by the Portuguese team and aptly complemented by the Spanish team who invented a special kind of portable library, a travelling basket full of books to carry along!
And not only these! We shared so many experiences and feelings! We took a fairy-tale trip to faraway China and celebrated Valentine’ s Day, Mother’ s Day and Safer Internet Day at a Library. We searched for the recipe for a good book and created our own activities on great books, like’ Le Petit Nicolas’,‘ A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’ and‘ Billy Elliot’. We explored what the great reasons to read are, made posters promoting reading and book report galleries and showed our resourcefulness creating jewellery, flowers and animals from old books.
We had fun playing the original online games we created, painting legends and fairy tales in the school yard or even, reading our Tree Tales under the leafy dome of trees in the countryside near our school.
We put on a theatrical performance which was based on a book and organized many special events, like reading flash mobs, a Bible Reading Day, a reading and cooking fest and reading sessions with adults and reading padrins at the school yard. We took part in Library Challenges, Scavenger Hunts, and historical exhibitions at the school library.
We ran various reading competitions, like The Reading Slogans Competition, The Recitation Competition or The Book Spine Poetry Contest.
Last but not least, the end of the school year was celebrated with great reflective activities, like contemplating and writing what we will miss most about our project or even, writing our message in a bottle to future eTwinners!
Another example of this interactive process is our haiku poems. At first, the Greek team studied the haiku poetic form, produced great haiku poems and used them as exquisite ornaments to decorate our POETREE, a lovely pot with sunflowers at school. The Portuguese team was inspired by the work of the Greek team on haiku poetry and they created their own lovely haiku poems, which were displayed in their POETREE, a little chestnut tree they planted in the school yard!
The evaluation of our project by students and teachers and the Padlet wall entitled‘ I wish my teacher knew …’ revealed that the initial goals we set were accomplished and that everyone involved, benefited in many ways from the READ AND SHARE valuable eTwinning experience.
The final outcome of the READ AND SHARE project is a common eBook which has the structure of a
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