Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 2017 No. 7 | Page 69

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2017 Newsletter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Manuela Baptista, “…most important of all is that we are creating connections between young people of different nations and cultures…moments of joy they will never forget”. She is the project founder and an FLE teacher in Portugal at Agrupamento de Escolas Infanta D. Mafalda, Gondomar, Rio Tinto. Credits: Anthony Browne, “Une histoire à quatre voix”, 1998, Kaléidoscope, Paris, original title “A History in the Park”, Transworld Publishers Ltd., London Various authors, “Notre histoire d’une cinquième voix”, May-June 2017, eTwinning project “Lire, comprendre, interpréter, débattre et créer pour découvrir le monde et apprendre à se connaître”, Italy – Portugal – Greece – Tunisia, only online with canva.com “Small Scientists” eTwinning project’s success story by Ionela Camelia Lazea In last year’s newsletter I wrote about the eTwinning project “Small Scientists discovering the sky” which lasted from January to June 2016. Partners in this endeavour were 11 kindergarten teachers who teach children between 3 and 7 from 8 European countries: Poland (2 partners), Romania (2 partners from Bistrita and Scornicesti), Turkey (2 partners) Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lithuania, Latvia, Portugal and Croatia. About the students mentioned in this article: Maria Teresa Nunziata, 13 years, admin student of the project, gently permitted translation of quotes from her post. Marian Mosulica, 13 years, admin student of the project, gently permitted use of the photo “Parco di Capodimonte”. More: Enjoy our Trailer on YouTube, “Notre histoire à quatre voix” Visit our Twinspace, https://twinspace.etwinning.net/24681/home ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The children from the middle group (4 to 5 year old children) at Kindergarten Nr. 3 in Bistrita, along with their European colleagues, enjoyed participating in activities which focused on enhancing and improving communication between pupils in different cultures, encouraging communication in a foreign language, using computer and ICT tools and carrying out scientific experiments that stimulate students' creative thinking. The teachers used various innovative methods and techniques, especially scientific experiments adapted to the age of children, as well as teamwork or collaborative learning. The project had a strong impact on the children and teachers of Kindergarten Nr. 3 Bistrita by presenting similarities between different European countries. The involvement of children in this international project contributed to motivating and fostering the interest of children and their parents in collaborating at European level in the field of preschool education. In this year’s edition I want to share with you the success my partners and I had with this project. After the project finished all the partners applied for the National Quality Label and, to no one’s surprise, we all received them. This also meant that all of us received the European Quality Label. But this was just the beginning and also an incentive to promote and disseminate our project further. 69