Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
An eTwinning project at preschool by Nicoletta Hustiuc
Our project is about winter activities that can be shared with other respective schools as partners in our project. We make in each class very different kind of activities, cards for winter, activities with winter theme and Santa Claus, all this for a Merry Christmas.
In Romania we celebrate December as gifts month, that’ s why we like to share our activities with others. That’ s why we learn and sing a lot of songs for Christmas, called carols, we draw, we paint a lot of usual things for home and classroom decorations.
We try with our children to show to the others all the activities for winter and we choose the title“ Merry Christmas” because all winter activities are about these very special activities for winter. In January we learned about winter activities, games with snow, penguins, and the project was thought to be finished with a carnival.
As a little final product for this project we made a little“ Three languages dictionary”, with pictures and explanations.
This kind of projects are very important for each country involved because at the finish of the project the European dimension of the education in our schools has grown.
We had very good communication because we, the founders participated in an Erasmus + seminar for early childhood education and care in Poland and we kept in touch; we decided to make this project to show each other and also other partners from Poland, Italy, Turkey and Latvia our activities.
The founders of the project thought about what we wanted to do, we proposed it to other partners, and we decided together the time and the activities.
The founders reminded the partners that we would do the activities by month, so in December we had the Christmas activities, making cards and decorations, songs and poems shared by videos and pictures whit the children in the activities.
We also decided together about the pictures that we used to make the dictionary and each partner helped with the translation in each language.
We think about this“ DIcttionary ' a little bit like a future material to remind us about this project and also can be used in classroom. We made it, we registered it with the Romanian National Library, and then we sent some little books by post to Spain to our partners. The others have it on the email. So all the children who were involved in the project are able to draw and to learn all the words that we wanted to represent by our drawings and also all the languages used: English, Romanian and Spanish.
We integrated the project as interdisciplinary subject, all about Christmas and winter activities, we tried to develop the competences of drawing, communication between children and be able to explain to others what we do in our country in this period of the year.
The children searched with their parents the information, pictures, drawings, then we made the cards, we learned the poems and the carols, we played together; then shared with other children.
We have learned that not all the children celebrate Christmas as much as we do, and also others’ winter games and activities.
We shared our activities, by using pictures and videos, also a little bit of Skype meetings, because the pupils are young- from 5 to 10, and the time of class was not the same, that’ s why we used more the pictures and videos to show our partners our activities for winter and Christmas.
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