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Even this year we wanted to work on this item because we believe it is very important to improve self-esteem and to realize how many different point of views there are around us.

So we read various stories about this subject to introduce the matter. One was "Gisella the bat", the story of a bat. The other animals around her think she is crazy because she says "strange" things but at the end they realize she is true. The fact is that she look at the world from an unusual point of view: upsidedown!

We work on the recognition of different abilities and different characteristics of each of us and we asked the children why they can be considered "Special". We work on emotions, in particular on fear and disgusting.

We spoke on friendship and what this word mean.

We uploaded below some examples of some activities.

Then we asked their parents to write some words about why his/her child is special for them.

We painted ourselves watching at the mirror and then we cut it out and rebuild it as Cubist painters did.

Our friends

Our favourite game....

Among the different activities, we asked parents to write a comment on their child, why they feel their child is special.

A mummy wrote something really special:

Every child is special

Children are like batterflies in the wind, each one flies as high as he/she can, everyone does it at his/her best.

Kind words

Sorry, Please, Wait, Hello, I love you, Thank you-

SPAIN

This is a special school year, so different... How do children feel special in this COVID-19 period? What is special and different for us at school?

Every class prepared a small video, you can see them in the link 

I'M SPECIAL SPAIN

OUR MAGIC WORDS