2016 September

35 students (9 years old)  started to explore the home town. First excursion in the old town of Klaipeda with the yellow/blue (eTwinning colors) crowns on the head, because we are  the kings of our city, we love the city, we try to get to know it more and to share our knowledges with project partners. We are going to prepare material about interesting places and objects in our city and insert it into the project.  #outdooractivities

 The Old Town of Klaipeda is richly decorated by small sculptures. Children searched material on internet and prepared a telling about the sculptures.

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We create a page of partners addresses and all together created multi language chat.

Children writing the letters to serbian partners and introduse themselves, country, city.

2016 October

We learned "hello" on our partners language. #outdooractivities

We have marked on Lithuanian map our trip along the river Nemunas by red points. It is useful to give a task to students and let them to investigate the trip route by themselves.

eTwinning balloons fly away from the tower of Raudone Castle. #outdooractivities

We have sent letters and souvenirs to our Serbian friends.

We have prepared a material for introducing Lithuania

We started to  present our city Klaipeda. Tried to find common things in the partners cities. Children found an information on internet - 82 European cities have Mermaid sculptures in, Klaipeda as well. So, we asked our partners -have you Mermaid sculpture in your city?
We got an answer from Warsaw.

Children were studying European map and and flags of the countries of project partners.They searched partners countries on google and on the wall map; used Google maps to connect partners cities by roads.

Children prepared a video what Lithuania name means. They tried to explain the meaning of name of our country, so, we had an umbrella and balloons/rain drops in our hands. Guess why? The answer is below.

2016 November

It's not a surprise nowadays children of Z generation do not concentrate their attention on one thing long time. It is easier to work with them when they get small tasks with the fast result. So, we created small presentations (like short film "Name of LITHUANIA", collage "Mermaid in Klaipeda"), Bigger material is going to be devided into pieces and later will put all different small tasks/materials into one piece.

Our team started to collect material about Klaipeda as a city on the Baltic sea. We watched filmed material about stormy sea, listened sounds. We investigated map and got to know our neighbours on the Baltic, also visited Klaipeda city centre, where is nice sculpture of the ship made of flowers. Even almost winter in Klaipeda, here are flowers...Children tried to create a sea wave.  #outdooractivities

Yes, sometimes we just want to check do our partners watching our material and remember things. So, why we are talking about rain?

We prepared sent wishes to polish partners for Polish Independence day.

Children tried to navigate ship...
Well, about everything in a row. 
As you know Klaipeda is a port city. 
We visited Lithuanian maritime academy today. There is a small museum, where the Klaipeda symbol is on exposition. Its a model of the ship "Meridianas". We are preparing material about this ship. So, we had to get all information about it. Because the operation of this ship started at this school as a training ship. 

Here is material about barquentine.

We prepared material about Gediminas tower, it is a symbol of Vilnius (capital city) and Lithuania.Gediminas tower is the most popular object in children's drawings, if you ask to draw Motherland... 

I prepared material about very special architectural style of old town of Klaipeda and presented it to my children. It was surprising to them, because they haven't possibility to see these buildings every day, their school and home is not in old town of the city. At least they know now how calls this architectural style, which wasn't spread in other Lithuanian cities.

We sent wishes to polish partners for Poland Independence day.

Can't be borring at museum. Children get to know history of Lithuania. #museum

We talk about the weather in different countries.

2016 December

We continue to investigate home town. There is a legend about the  Dragon and Klaipeda city birth. #outdooractivities

Team work result is PPt 'Christmas traditions in Lithuania'

2017 February

On february children worked with a material about traditional or popular Lithuanian food: collected information and prepared presentation, made 2 posters,  presented video, where we show process of making  "Lithuanian salad", likely most known salad in Lithuania. One of the posters presented  Lazy cake, very popular in Lithuania and easy prepared cake. The cake was made by partners very successfully and probably was most popular recipy between partners. Polish team decorated cake by small Lithuanian flags, what very pleased us. we watched material, inserted by our partners, tried to make greek salad.

We watched material about making Lazy cake by our partners. Lithuanian children noticed Lazy cake was popular, because it was simple to prepare and it is tasty.

Polish partners made Lazy cake and decorated it by Lithuanian flags. Katarzyna, polish teacher replyed:  "It was really delicious. My headmaster was really impressed :-) I think that way of presenting flags to the students will let them remember better how our partner countries' flags look like".  Very nice feedback.

Pupils introduced Lithuanian traditional cake ŠAKOTIS (shakotis)

Presentation of Lithuanian traditional food.

February 16, Lithuania celebrates Independence day (1918).
Children are singing Lithuanian anthem. This sensitive moment was filmed at museum, where the history of Lithuania is presented. We sent wishes to Serbian friends for Serbia Statehood day. #museum

2017 March
11 of March is very important day in Lithuanian history - it is the Day of Restoration of Independence of Lithuania. Children created models of castles, they recall the great past of our country! Made collage to present our activities.

Easter mood: created Easter cards  for Italian partners and sent by post, talked about Easter traditions in Lithuania, eggs decorating traditions, filmed Easter egg rolling game and prepared material "Easter eggs and the Easter traditions in Lithuania"watched partners material and explored Easter traditions in partners countries.