CAN SORTS SCHOOL
Sentmenat - Catalonia (SPAIN)
4th grade pupils work with Ms. Ana M. Reyes
5th and 6th grade pupils work with Ms. Laia Piquet
June (last week of school)
Three ebooks are being implemented by our pupils with the tool bookcreator.com. Over seventy kids are invited to work online in the same ebook (one book for each grade). Everyone is working in the same library, even the partners from the other countries.
It is a very delicate job for everyone to make a design without spoiling the rest of the students' pages, everyone working from home, even the teachers.
Once every book is ready, It will be added to the collective book made by all the partners in the project.
After this final activity, the pupils and both teachers participate in the project evaluation by completing the questionnaires online:
Despite the singular situation of pandemic, and after over three months100 confined at home and having school online, almost 80 students answered the Form before closing.
Evenmore, many pupils have posted their feelings and said goodbye on the Twinboard and in their Meeting Points in the Forum.
The results were added to the common sheet to get the global numbers. The feedback sent by our students is very positive. We'll keep that in mind next school year.
June
Now we know that Can Sorts School will be closed until last day of school on 19th June. So, the pupils and the teachers must finish the project working online, from home.
The pupils keep in touch via Forum to get their "quotes" in the languages from the friends abroad.
The teachers use Google Classroom to guide and give feedback for every student to create a polyglot T-shirt design online.
May
Our school is still closed because the pandemic but our pupils and their teachers work on the final activity of the project from home.
Ana and Laia, are adding some quotes in English (from chilcren's books, songs and movies) to a collaborative presentation open to all the teachers in the project to participate.
Every pupil may choose one of the quotes to be displayed on her/his Polyglot T-shirt design. Some quotes suggested by students are added too.
Before designing their polyglot T-shirts, the pupils in 4th, 5th and 6th grades do the linguistic work by using a Form online. It allows the teachers to send feedback about the different languages they're learning at school: English, Spanish and Catalan.
April (last week)
The confinement is being quite long. We don't know if schools will open before ending the school year.
So our school is using the VLE "Google Classroom" to manage e-learning. Ana and Laia guide and help their pupils to keep on working in the project from home.
Communication is the main goal during these days. A common situation unites all the pupils in the project: everybody is confined at home because the same reason, the COVID-19 pandemic.
The "Meeting points" (Forum threads) inTwinspace become the place where the partners can meet and feel closer during these odd weeks of no school.
Using English in the Forum allows communicating with all the students, no matter what country everyone is from.
April
The schools in our countries are closed because the pandemic.
The pupils are invited to share their thoughts and feelings during the confinement.
We are collecting their posters in an ebook to share with our friends.
(photos taken by 4th, 5th and 6th graders and collected by their teachers, everyone working online from home)
March 2020
We spend nice moments watching together our friends' videos. But during two weeks we will have to enjoy them from home:
All Schools and universities in Catalonia (Spain) are CLOSED from the 13th to the 27th of March due to COVID-19. Students and teachers must stay home to help cope with the new virus.
Let's take it easy and wish everything goes well.
(photos: 4th grade C)
February 2020
The pupils keep in touch with their partners via Forum.
The pupils have worked hard to record their oral presentations in English. They are saying their bilingual messages. Even some T-shirts are trilingual and they display messages in English and the two official languages in Catalonia (Catalan and Spanish).
The students in every group explain why they like displaying the message on their T-shirt. They also talk about their designs and say you some reasons to wear their creation.
At the end, the kids feel proud of their results.
(T-shirts by 4th graders)
January 2020 (last week)
The bilingual/trilingual T-shirt designs are being ready for the oral presentation.
Every work team is writing a script before recording the video.
(photos: 4th grade A)
4th graders created nice logos for the project:
January 2020
After finding the main idea for their T-shirt, the students collaborate to work out a bilingual design, by displaying English and the language of our country.
Taking into account that students in Catalonia are bilingual (Catalan and Spanish are both official languages), they are allowed to create trilingual T-shirts (if they feel like it).
4th graders are working hard to do their best.
(photos: 4th grade B)
January 2020
We are working really hard on our polyglot t-shirts design, and we are willing to show you the result, hopefully we are going to do it next week! Meanwhile, you can have a look!;)
January 2020
Brainstorming is a nice way for the T-shirt designers teams to start their bilingual designs.
ALL the ideas are welcome!
4th graders work in small groups. They are allowed to think in their own language but many ideas come to their mind in English. These kids are becoming polyglot, aren't they?
(photos: 4th grade C)
December 2019
The pupils stop the project to celebrate Christmas at school. They are creating some Christmas cards to send to their friends abroad.
(photos: 4th grade B)
What does the T-shirt say?
After the research, the students make a presentation in front of the classrom. Moreover the messages, they talk about the designs.
(photos: 4th grade A, 4th grade B)
November
Students are participating in the Twinspace Forum and meeting their partners from other countries.
At school they are working on their T-shirts photo-collections. To figure out what the messages in English mean, they are learning to use online tools:
Even they can realize that Google Translator may missunderstand the words.
October
Our T-shirts collections are growing up. We are ready to work to understand the messages in English!
4thA Collection
4thB Collection
4thC Collection
5thA Collection
5thB Collection
5thC Collection
6thA Collection
6thB Collection
6thC Collection
This collection made by 3rd and 4th graders (2017-2019) inspired the project Polyglot T-shirts. These pupils are 5th graders now and they are participating in the project.
Thank you, kids!
October (1st week)
Autumn! Time to do the first steps in the project and introduce themselves...
- Meeting each other in the online wall "My languages, my life".
- Remembering the Safety and Netiquette rules (videos) is very important to enjoy the project.
