Project idea
The pupils make cards with Christmas wishes in English using partner's students' names.
It will be taken a photo of the cards with children and a short video saying “Merry Christmas” both in English and mother language.
Next, the cards will be sent by post to the partner's school and distributed to partner's students.
Here will also be taken a photo of received cards with children who received them and the video saying “Thank you” both in English and mother language.
We are going to create two ebook: one dictionary and the second the interpretation of our project song.
I'm sure that pupils will be delighted with seeing their names on the cards made by pupils from foreign country :) and singing Christmas song together and share their dream present with others
Aims
The general aim is to learn Christmas vocabulary and customs in different countries, prepare Christmas cards with Christmas wishes, sing “Santa Claus is coming”, create an ebook with lyrics and pictures and Christmas dictionary as well.
By taking part in the project, students will practice the foreign language (English) in real-life situations.
PROJECT STEPS AND TEMPO 1), 2) and 3) are obligatory the rest of activities according to time and interest of members
1) Presentation of project members (teachers and children) from 6th November till 1st December
2) Christmas Cards Exchange till 15th November - lists; till 4th December - shipment; hopefully till 22nd December - collection
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list of children per email in Word format with the full address (name of the school, street, postcode, city, country; the name of the teacher, class and all children)
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handmade Christmas Cards
3) Merry Christmas wishes in English and mother language and Thank you in a video form till 18th December
4) Dream presents - padlet here until 18th December
5) Santa Claus is coming
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singing with children, taking photos, recording videos you can share all on the page "International singing" here
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ebook with lyrics and drawings, photos, pictures, word clouds as a collaborative task
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live singing together
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survey about participation till 20th November
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chart with timetables till 1st December
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live events from 4th till 22nd December
6) Christmas dictionary as a collaborative task
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survey about involvement till 20th November
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gathering words and translations until 1st December here
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uploading photos, drawings, pictures, word clouds till 22nd December in Materials Folder PICTURES TO CHRISTMAS DICTIONARY here
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CHRISTMAS DICTIONARY
7) Christmas activities
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padlet quizzes, games - students prepare quizzes, games for students; lesson plans, ideas teachers for teachers on the page here
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Christmas activities in our countries and taking during the project - especially during working on prepared tasks by other students- padlet
Communication
Facebook group join: Santa Claus is coming...
join here: Santa Claus is coming...
https://www.facebook.com/groups/358410664620781/?notif_id=1509542365371034¬if_t=group_added_to_group
email/ Twinmail/ chat on Twinspace
Skype find me here
WhatsApp find me here
Forum Christmas things here
Teacher Bulletin
Project Journal
Dissemination
all operations due to make our project visible to our school, city community (FB posts, posts on school websites, blogs, articles etc.)
Evaluation 18th December until 22nd January
answergarden for children
answergarden for children
Google survey for teachers
Summary of the project until 31 January
completing Twinspace
PowerPoint presentation formed from our Google presentation and then the collaborative video
Santa Claus is coming ebook
Christmas dictionary ebook
padlets with "Christmas wishes" and "Thank you" in our mother languages and English
creating LOGO from words gathered in answergarden
voting on Tricider to chose the best idea for a logo designed from answergarden results
Any other ideas can be shared and upload on Twinspace.
- lists of students as beautiful posters - Stamatia's idea
- small gifts as a bookmark etc. - Caterina's Italy idea
- coding activities - Kasia's Poland idea
We will share the project journal of Twinspace to comment and inform about the procedure of the activities.
The project will be open until the end of January
December ’18 till 22nd January. Evaluation of the project. Google docs survey and answergarden
Here you can find a checking list, which you can adjust to your personal needs
