A READING COMPETION IN CORINTH, GREECE

April is an important month for our project because our  READING COMPETITION is starting now.Our competition will last for two months, till the end of May.All the members of our team participate and whoever reads the most books and provides a summary of every book he/ she reads , will be the winner.The prize will be - what else?- a beautiful book, MOMO by Michael Ende in an English translation.The PTA of our school kindly offered to cover the expenses of the book and we would like to thank them for their kind offer.Good Luck to all participants!

 

The winner of our competition is Iliana who read 5 books during these two months and wrote the summaries of them!CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Iliana received her prize, her Reading Achievement Certificate and a beautiful card with a special dedication to her at the End of the School Year Celebration!You can see images in the Dissemination page.  

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Monday, April 3, is a great day for us!  READ AND SHARE Etwinners from Corinth, Greece embarked on a magical journey in the land of poetry!After watching my powerpoint presentation on haiku poems and being given handouts with material to help them understand haiku poems better, they tried creating their own haiku poems in English!

In order to be inspired, I showed them some beautiful images of readers in nature, books and surrealistic paintings of  books while listening to great relaxing instrumental music by the famous Greek composer, Stamatis Spanoudakis!The result was impressive.We have uploaded the e-book of haiku poems to share it with you in ADVENTURE 6 - BOOKMAKING WORKSHOPS. This is the powerpoint presentation on haiku poems created by the Greek teacher with beautiful images of books!

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The Municipality of our town,Corinth has been celebrating International Children's Book Day for seven years now, with much success.

This year, the special day fell on  April, 1 and was organised by the Municipal Library of Corinth  and the Town Council with the help of the Russian Embassy in Greece .A range of activities was organised, including giving children the opportunity to explore the culture of this year's honored country, Russia, by enjoying traditional Russian songs sung by the local children's choir at the Municipal Theatre and listening to traditional Russian fairy tales in both languages.Children, also, had the chance to create crafts at the Folk Museum of our town, read the books and meet the well-known author, Mr Papatheodoulou, create  drawings inspired by their favourite books and display them in the foyer of the Municipal Theatre, and in short, embark on an exciting journey on Pegasus, the mythical winged horse which is our town's emblem, to explore the Land of Reading. 

ETwinning and our project could not be missing, so we were proud of seeing the poster of our project presenting the activities organised at our school, as well as some drawings of eTwinners inspired by our favourite books, exhibited and admired at the foyer of The Municipal Theatre of Corinth today!

Here are some photos of the foyer of the Municipal Theatre with the students' creations on display!

  

  

  

  

  

  

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COOKING BY THE BOOK IN CORINTH, GREECE

On Friday, 5 , May,  Iliana, a member of our team, brought to school the baklava she cooked at home, following the recipe from Eugene Triviza's popular children's book 'ΤΑ 33 ΡΟΖ ΡΟΥΜΠΙΝΙΑ', ΄ΤΗΕ 33 PINK RUBIES'.The sweet was really delicious and the headmistress, as well as many teachers who tasted it, agreed with us on this! Here are some images of that great day when we had so much fun at school !You can also see our slideshare presentation of it clicking on the link that exists right after the images.

 

https://www.slideshare.net/christinakas/baklavaetwinners-from-corinth-are-cooking-by-the-book

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                                                                           THE READ AND SHARE BOOK JAR

Monday, 8/5/2017 was an unforgettable day for Greek Etwinners, as we visited the Public Library of Corinth and attended a seminar called' The Byzantine Initials. After that, we took part in a creative workshop and created the name of our project with special letters inspired by Byzantine initials! We also organised activities, like our Book Jar which is a jar which contained names of books written in colourful strips of paper and each students should draw a lot in order to learn the name of the next book he/ she could borrow from the library to read!So, Galini drew 'David Copperfield' by Charles Dickens,  Elizabeth drew ' A tree grows in Brooklyn' by Betty Smith, Iliana drew ' Little Women' by Louisa May Alcott and Anna drew 'Billy Elliot' by Mervin Burgess. A wonderful idea, don't you agree?

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                  LIBRARY CHALLENGE: A POSTCARD FROM A BOOK CHARACTER...    
 

This is another Library Challenge that we assumed at the Public Library on Monday , 8/5/2017.I wrote the challenge on a piece of paper which I tried hard to make it look old and ageing( I tried the old trick of submerging the paper in two cups of tea, dried it in the sun afterwards and then, I used a candle to make it brown on some spots and blacken the edges a bit...I do hope I managed to make it look like a parchment manuscript!) The Library Chellenge was that each student should write a postcard from a book character about their adventure in the story, eg Cinderella talking about going to the ball, or Harry Potter telling the class about Hogwarts etcStudents should use their letter writing skills and draw a picture on the front!
I am looking forward to their postcards, aren't you?

     These are the postcards from book characters we wrote:

             

READ AND SHARE ARTS AND CRAFTS: OUR EXQUISITE BOOK PAGE FLOWERS

Inspired by our project, Galini, a member of our team, created these exquisite book page flowers that never wilt! We would like to share them with you with lots of love!

                                                        THE READ AND SHARE POETREE

Dear friends
We bought a sunflower plant in a flower pot ( we love sunflowers, don't you?), we water it every day and we decided to decorate it with our haiku poems! This is our POETREE!We love it and had a lot of fun while decorating it!We hope you like it!
XXX
The Greek team

 

This is our POETREE in our school yard, next to a graffiti drawing we have at school which is inspired by the Japanese culture! 

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All eTwinners read a great book,'The Cave of the mermaid'written by the famous Greek children's books author, Litsa Psarafti.They also waited for the author to visit our school but unfortunately, she could not make it due to health problems.So, they all created this great BOOK REPORT GALLERY in which they took their photo with the book and wrote their opinion of it!

       

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                                                                       LIBRARY SCAVENGER HUNT!

One of the most pleasurable actvities we organised was the Scavenger Hunt at the School Library.The students were given their tasks, which were written on a sheet made of cork,  rushed and accomplished all their tasks! So, for example, the book they found that was made into a film was Narnia, the book with a number in its title was the Twelfth Night by Shakespeare, the book with the colour in its title was Red Pyramid by Riordan and the book about an animal character was The story of the Seagull and The Cat who taught her to fly by Sepulveda! 

We had so much fun!Here are some images of the event!

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Last but not least, we organised a Book Spine Poetry Contest at the School Library. The students had to try hard and find at least three books whose titles can form a poem!Then, they should take a picture of it and show it to you!This was a bit difficult , so they formed two teams in order to be more effective and finally, created two poems.The first of our poems is this:Split heart / Near the railway / I do care. 

The second poem is this:The eternal moment/ Order/ The Letter from the past

Here are some images of this event!

 

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                                                             ROLLING A RESPONSE

Greek students rolled a dice  in order to find out the activity they will do on a book they have all read this year 'Litsa Psarafti's' The Cave of the Mermaid'.Do you like our work?

This is Iliana's letter to the author.She wrote a letter to Lisa Psarafti, a famous Greek writer, whose book 'Cave of the Mermaid' is read by all the Greek eTwinning team.

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                                                     THE FACEBOOK PAGE OF FRANCIE NOLAN!!!

Dear friends

The Greek students have created an imaginary facebook page for Francie Nolan, the unforgettable little girl in Betty's Smith' A Tree Grows in Brooklyn'.

The page is based on Chapter 27 of the book, which describes a cruel Christmas custom which existed in Brooklyn at the beginning of the 20th century. It was about a trees still unsold till Christmas Eve.
So, at midnight , on Christmas Eve, the kids gathered where there were unsold trees and the vendor threw each tree in turn, starting with the biggest.Kids volunteered to stand up against the throwing.If a boy did not fall under the impact, the tree was his.If he fell, he would lose the tree.Only the roughest boys chose to be hit by the big trees.However, Francie Nolan, a weak nine-year-old girl and her little brother, Neely who was nine, decided to go and have their first try for a tree. And they chose the biggest of all...Let's imagine that there was facebook at that time and have a look at their imaginary dialogue before making up their minds to go for the Christmas tree...

https://www.classtools.net/FB/1764-SZ97Yd

 

 

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                                 GREAT REASONS TO READ BY THE GREEK TEAM!!!

 

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On June 23 there was a big End of the School Year Celebration at the Third Junior High School of Corinth.ETwinners did their last activities for READ AND SHARE project which impressed everybody! 

                                     READ AND SHARE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR ACTIVITY No 1: 
 

'What will you miss most about our project?'This is the first activity Greek eTwinners did and the truth is they enjoyed pinning their answer paper next to colourful starfish!
  

                               

                                    READ AND SHARE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR ACTIVITY No 2:
 

 READ AND SHARE eTwinners read the instuctions and wrote the message to future eTwinners.Do you like our idea?

                                          READ AND SHARE END OF THE SCHOOL ACTIVITY No 3:
 

Last but not least, READ AND SHARE Greek eTwinners signed the wonderful photo of our team outside the public Library of Corinth, just before the creative workshop we took part on Byzantine Initials.That was one of the most cherished moments of this project.
We already feel nostalgic for our READ AND SHARE project!

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