Visibility of eTwinning Projects Groups July 2019 Newsletter Newsletter 9 | Page 63

Visibility of eTwinning Projects Group July 2019 Newsletter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "A friend is forever!” “eTwinning will be forever in our hearts!” Irena Raykova is an eTwinning ambassador and a primary and English teacher at 137th Secondary School Angel Kanchev in Sofia, Bulgaria. all, students and parents, were impressed with activities that we develop. eTwinning project “Let the peace be everywhere” started with partners from Turkey, Greece, Italy, Ukraine, Bulgaria and Romania and had as objectives the emotional and social development, the identification of emotions and their management, the increase of the inclusion and acceptance at their age. The most important activities were working on the need for peace & inclusion, peace circle activities, empathy games, solving games problem. All activities were very well planned and explained, detailed and appropriate to the age level of students. Cira Serio is an eTwinning ambassador and an ITC coordinator at Primary School San Tarcisio in Ercolano (NA), Italy. Renata Večerková is an English teacher at Elementary school Komenského náměstí 440 in Kroměříž, Czech Republic. Rangel Pantaleev is a primary school teacher at Secondary school St. Ivan Rilski in Sofia, Bulgaria. Learning about friendship in eTwinning projects by Adriana Lefter I have been a primary school teacher for over ten years, and all these years very few times I happened to enter the door of the class without having a plan of the activity, without preparing them a game, an activity to be convinced they will be pleased. I dedicate a long time to prepare lessons, to read a lot, to search for games, activities in addition, new things to please, new projects like eTwinning. We start from the preparatory class with small eTwinning projects and The activity that had a particular impact on Elena Doamna Elementary School pupils in Tecuci was the Friendship Jar, which was made during t of Personal Development class, in the chapter "About friendship". I firmly believe that all these activities that have the role of developing emotional intelligence, children's trust should find their place as often as possible in our day-to-day work, for them they need us to explain their emotions, feelings, to them alongside and encourage them every moment. After choosing the classmate for whom the jar had to be prepared, the children had the task of decorating them according to each other's preference and imagination, then putting in messages, letters, congratulations, small symbolic gifts to show appreciation and respect to their colleague. The moment of messaging was exciting, as they were looking forward to discovering what was inside, and their reactions were unexpected. Friendly smiles, emotions all made this activity an unforgettable one. Their sincere messages enjoyed me greatly, there were messages of appreciation, admiration, many compliments, along with drawings, small collages and candy. At the end they were very excited, they told me that they felt 63