Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group Newsletter 6 2016 | Page 52

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2016 Newsletter

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------side-by-side with experienced teachers would
benefit both my students and me as a teacher. And
I was right!
What holidays do you celebrate?
¿Qué fiestas celebras? is an eTwinning project
which was carried out by Primary School ‘Sveti
Sava in ’Pozarevac, SERBIA, and
Colegio Público De Educación Especial La Quinta
from Madrid, SPAIN. There were three classes of
students involved in the project – a special needs
class from Sveti Sava, and classes EBO C and EBO
G from La Quinta. In the project, students
presented holidays which are celebrated in their
countries or worldwide. Languages used in the
project were English and Spanish, and students
were aged 9-16.

At the beginning of the project, students introduced
each other by drawing pictures of themselves, their
school, classroom or teachers. We continued
working on the project by doing various class
activities in order to commemorate different
holidays. Some of those holidays are internationally
celebrated, like Easter, International Women’s Day,
April Fools’ Day, World Book Day, Earth Day. Others
are national or local holidays, such as San Isidoro,
Flower Festival, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day. In our
lessons, we used various arts and crafts activities,
as well as ICT, including apps for tablets and IOS,
software for interactive whiteboards and websites.
Teachers involved in the project discussed the
activities which they would use with their classes,
shared resources and methodologies. For World
Book Day, class from ‘Sveti Sava’ and class EBO C
from La Quinta both agreed to do the same book:
‘A Taste of the Moon’ by Michael Grejniec. We read
and discussed the book, and then the students
coloured pictures of the animals from the book, cut
them, and recreated the story. I used this activity
in my class to teach the names of the animals,
revise colours, and we also discussed the
importance of helping each other. In addition, class
EBO G from La Quinta talked about Miguel de
Cervantes, his life and work, and they made a
poster. Then Class EBO C saw and discusse