Dissemination of the activities as part of the short term exchange of students in Greece and Latvia within the Erasmus + KA229 Project “ Creative readers”
On 17th and 18th May 2022, we had a dissemination of the activities from the short term exchanges of students within the Erasmus+ KA 229 Project Creative Readers and which were hosted by the Greek partner school 4 Demotikon Pefka from Thessaloniki and Saldus novada pasvaldibas Druvas Vudusskola, from Saldus, Latvia. About 150 students from the VII grade and about 30 students from the IV grade attended the dissemination.
The students from the 7th grades who participated in the mobility conveyed the experience they had and the described the opportunities to make friends with the students from the 4 partner schools „Josip Kozarac“, Lipovljani, Croatia, Zakladniskola a Materskaskola, Opava, The Czech Republic, 4 DIMOTIKO PEFKON school, Thessaloniki, Greece and Saldus novadapasvaldibas Druvasvidusskola, Saldus, Latvia. They explained the objectives of these travels – emphasis of advantages of reading, developing critical thinking, and they also expressed the pleasure of having the opportunity to communicate with children from other countries, learn more about their cultures, listen to numerous authentic folk tales, learn more about specific authors from different countries and their books and compete in various traditional games.
They presented and shared part of the activities they took part in at the schools in Thessaloniki and Saldus explaining what was beneficial and interesting for them and pointing out what they learnt not only academically but also culturally.
They also shared the impressions they had from the landmarks they saw in Thessaloniki in Greece and from Saldus and Riga in Latvia.
The presentation for dissemination of the mobility in Greece can be seen at the following lnk:
Presentation of the mobility in Greece
The presentation for dissemination of the mobility in Greece can be seen at the following lnk:
Presentation of the mobility in Latvia
Celebrting 21st February – The international day of the mother tongue
On 21st February 2022 – the International Day of the Mother language, our school organized literary reading under the moto The Love towards our Mother Language – our debt and holy right” by our school librarian as part of our Erasmus + “Creative Readers” project.
In this event, there were several activities: the students from the IXth grades presented the historical development of the Macedonian language in the period of the beginning of the XX century till the codification of the Macedonian standard language. The students from the drama club performed the short play about the meaning and the care for the mother tongue and how this should be done by the students.
The acting principal Magdalena Petreska handed certificates to the students who won the first three places in the last year’s competition announced by the school library and after that each student read their own work.
The students who won the competition are as follows:
I category- poems
1st place: Marija Kuzmanovska VI-1 grade
2nd place: Jakov Pavlovski V-5 grade
3rd place: Lana Nastevska IV-2 grade
II category – essay (prose work)
1st place: Veronika Ilijevska-Toskovska - VII-6 grade
2nd place: Aleksandar Cvetkoski VII-1 grade
3rd place: Vanesa Dimovska VIII-5 grade
The great Krste Petkov Misirkov said: “The love for our mother tongue is our debt and our right. We are obliged to love our language, nurture it, because it is ours as it is our country. A people who lost its mother language, looks like a man who lost his wat and does not know who he is nor where he is going. Without our language we are nothing and nobody!”
It is our duty to nurture it and save it, because it is the strongest pillar of our identity and existence, it is our cultural mark and our spiritual wealth given by our great-great -randfathers.The Macedonian language is unique and it existed, exists and will exist. Happy international day of mother languages!.
Dissemnination of the virtual activities as part of the short term exchange of group of students
In the period between 8-20th December 2021 there was a dissemintion of the virtual activities for the short term exchange of students within the Erasmus+ project “Creative Readers” which was hosted by the Czech school Zakladniskola a Materskaskola from Opava, The Czech Republic. The dissemination was held in front of 450 students from the 5th, 6th and 7th grades.
The students from V, VI and VII grades who participated in the virtual mobility for students, who conveyed the experience to their fellow students and aso the activities that enabled them to communicate and enjoy with the students from the partner schools „Josip Kozarac“, Lipovljane, Croatia, 4 DIMOTIKO PEFKON, Thessaloniki, Greece, Saldusnovadapasvaldibas Druvasvidusskola, Saldus, Latvia and the hosting school Zakladniskola a Materskaskola, Opava, The Czech republic.
They explained the objective of this mobility – the benefits and importance of reading, developing critical thinking, and they also conveyed the pleasure of the possibility to communicate with the children from the partnering countries, learn about other cultures, listen to several authentic folk stories, find out more about certain authors from these countries and competing in various games with the other participants.
They also shared the impression of the virtual tour they had rounf the landmarks of the Czech Republic and its capital city Prague.
ONLINE LITERARY READING CELEBRATING 21ST MARCH – THE INTERNATIONAL POETRY DAY
On 16th April 2021 an online literary reading was held celebrating 21st March, The International Poetry Day. This literary event was organized for the students who were commended for their participation in the previously announced competition on a free theme by our school librarian as part of our Erasmus + “Creative Readers” project.
The students had the opportunity to present their literary works dedicated to the topic of happiness, wish, friendship, love, books, school etc. Through their enthusiasm for writing they promoted the value of true friendship, , the excitement of spring, first love, love for the mother, the books, the country and other inspiring topic for our young creative readers. The literary reading took place on the MS platform and was open to the public. The students could express themselves freely and expressed their huge interest for this kind of events and were motivated to participate in future events of the school library. One bug bravo for the hosts, the participants and also for the school librarian, the mentors and the parents for the overall support for this event.
ACADEMIC 2020-2021
THE CREATIVE READERS STAYED CREATIVE TO THE END OF THE ACADEMIC 2020/21
Our students stayed creative and had fun the the second term of this school year too. They re-imagined the characters from the reading list books and other interesting editions which they read and analysed. Our youngest ones who were learning the alphabet had fun with the book “Bite and thrive” by Petre M. Andreevski, “Zoki Poki” by Olivera Nikolova, “The Ungly Duckling” by Hans K. Andersen and the story “The Hunter Dime and the Fox”
Our youngest creative readers from II-1 with their teacher Biljana Kuzevska and from II-6 with their teacher Biljana Kolevska on 5th May and the 10th May discussed the importance of the fruits and the vegetables and created a class book for their favourite fruits and vegetables.
The students from grade II-2 and their terachers Mirjana Smilevska and Elena Gashevska relived the life of the main character of the fairy tale “The gly Duckling” feeling the same emotions, sadness and joy and developed their critical thinking skills, and the students from grade II-5 with their teachers Tamara Todorovska and Aleksandra Pejkovska analysed the book and created their own picture books and masks for the story characters.
The students from II-1 and their teacher Snezana Petreska on 5th April, created their own picture books.
The character “Zoki Poki” has always made children try and find similarities with him. The students from grade II – 3 and their teachers Zaneta Mitrovska and hristina Bozinovska on 5th May 2021 created their own picture book in which every student illustrated their favourite mishap of Zoki Poki.
On 5th April 2021, the students from grade III-2 and their teacher Vesna Strezoska read the book “The children from my school” written by Jadranka Klisarova. The aim was to analyze the short stories of the events at the school and the school yard related to traffic, humanity and the objective was to be able to read the book on their own, to comprehend the content, to be able to retell the events in chronological order, to describe the characters and their features, to answer correctly question related to the book content and to boost their critical thinking skills. They discussed the content, determined who the main characters were. Described their features and created their own picture-book.
On the 5th April 2021 the students from grade III-5 and their teacher Marina Naneva have also worked on the book ‘The children from my school” by Jadranka Klisarova. The students had to guess the short story from which and exerpt was read. They also had an opportunity to talk to the writer Jadranka Klisarova through an online meeting. She talked about herself and then asked the students questions to see how they liked the book and analysed several short stories together. At the end of the meeting the students asked the writer questions about whether it is difficult to be a writer, how she got inspired to write, they wanted to know which short story from the book was inspired from a real-life story etc. At the end the writer said goodbye hoping that she will have another chance to meet with her.
The text “Plastesa, Hartesa and Platnesa” was an occasion for the students from grade IV -1 and their teacher Tanja Josimovska to not only live through the events of characters, but also to enliven them through their creation of dolls for the characters. On 24th March 2021, they talked about the cleanliness in our surrounding, for the projects for collecting plastic and waster paper and they explained the meaning of the word recycling and tried to come to the correct meaning together. Then they wrote words related to ecology, clean and healthy environment. In the end the students created dolls from recyclable materials which presented the characters from the storywhich then they read aloud.
The students from grade IV-3 and their teacher Petranka Krsteva in May 2021 analused the reading list book “The Wizard of Oz” By Lyman Frank Baum. Students’ fantasy was enriched and their creativity was boosted. They illustrated the characters (integrating art and Macedonian), but thay also had to represent themselves as a character who is travelling with Dorothy. They also wrote a letter to the Wizard of Oz describing their wishes.
The character of Itar Peyo and his cunning events has made generations of students laugh and so has the students from grade III-2 and their teacher Kristina Bashovska as well as the students from grade III- 4 and their teacher Darko Dimkovski. On 24.02.2021 they abalysed the “Cunning Peyo” book by Stole Popov. The students learned a lot about the author but they also used their critical thinking skills to analyse the characters in the book, determine whoch ones are good, which ones are bad and how they transformed. In the secod part they played a Kahhot! Game answering questions related to the book content.
USE OF VARIOUS TECHNIQUES FOR OBLIGATORY READING LIST BOOKS AND TEXTS
On the 1st February 2021 the students from grades III -2 and III 3, together with their teachers Aneta Dimovska, Emilija Hristova and Sanja Stojanovska Damjanovic analysed the book the “Sugar child” and used the “Star” technique and the III-3 grade students created a picture book at the end of the lesson and illustrated the sugar boy with sweets, candies and cookies.
ONLINE LITERARY READING CELEBRATING THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE MOTHER LANGUAGE - 21ST FEBRUARY
On 26th February 2021 (Friday) , an Online literary reading was held celebrating 21st Febryary, The International Day of Mother Language. This literary event was organized for the students who were awarded for their poems and essays on the topic: The Love towards our Mother Language – our debt and holy right” by our school librarian as part of our Erasmus + “Creative Readers” project.
The students had the opportunity to present their literatry works dedicated to the most important treasure and mark of one people, the mother language. In their creative wave, they promoted the idea for nourishing and cherishing our mother language, as our debt and right. The literary reading took place on the MS platform and was open to the public. The students expressed their huge interest for this kind of events and were motivated to participate in future events of the school library.
SCHOOL LITERARY COMPETITION FOR SHORT STORIES ON THE THEME “WINTER MAGIC REIGNS EVERYWHERE”
In the period between 25th November and 4th Decmber 2020, the school library announced a school literary competition on the theme: “Winter Magic Reigns Everywhere” for the students from grades III to IX. The participants were divided into two categories: elementary pupils and middle school students.
Based on the basic criteria for short stories assessment the awarded students are as follows:
1st Category (elementary pupils):
1st place: Pavel Zafirovski, grade V-3 (mentor Gordana Jugreva)
2nd palce: Diona Borimeckovska, grade IV-3 (mentor Petranka Krsteva)
3rd place: Marko Marina, grade IV -1 (mentor Tanja Josimovska)
2nd Category
1st place: Kalina Graorkovska, grade VI-6 (mentor Kostadinka Popovska)
2nd palce: Petar Iliev, grade VI-2 (mentor Kostadinka Popovska)
3rd place: Mila Nastevska, grade VI -6 (mentor Mila Nastevska)
Blagica Angelovska M.A.
School Librarian
CREATIVE WORKSHOP "BOOKS ENLIGHTEN THE PATH I TREAD"
On 20th November 2020 , our school librarian Blagica Angelovska оrganised a creative workshop “Books enlighten the path I am treading” under the moto “When I read, I conquer the world” for the students from grades III-3 and III-5. The activities planned for this workshop, comprised retelling a book, reading an excerpt and explaining the reasons for choosing it to present as well as an illustration of the content which was created during the workshop. The objectives of this workshop were develop love for books and stimulate regular reading habits, develop their creative potential and discover their hidden talents and motivate them to write with confidence, to improve team work and students’ interaction.
The students expressed their pleasure of the creative way the books they read were connected to their illustrations as well as their increased interest in reading for pleasure. They presented their personal views for the benefits of reading books.
INTEGRATED LESSONS FOR BOOK ANALYSIS
On the 30th November 2020, the students from grade III-5 and their teacher Svetlana Josifovska analysed the book “Fables” By Oesop and integrated Art in their work. The students were answering questions about the fables and created masks on a stick which they used for dramatization of the fables
The students from grade IV-5 and their teacher Roberta Jordanovska on the 16th November 2020 had fun analyzing the book “Peter Pan” by James Mathew. They thought about the characters =, analysed their actions compared them to their own and made distinction between good and bad characteristics. They answered questions related to the content and they created a different ending to the work.
CREATIVE READERS TIRELESS EVEN IN THE PANDEMIC
Activities of the school library
KA 229 Erasmus + Project “Creative Readers” proceeded in the second term of 2019/20. Despite the difficult conditions, our students managed to create and participate in a variety of activities.
The pandemic prevented our traditional school library activity – poetry reading for the 21st of March The Internationa Poetry Day -21st March, after the announced Poetry competition on themes of free choice, but the creative enregy of out young readers took another form. A poetry reading on the topic “Spring Beauties” was held with the students from grade V-2 and their teacher Dushanka Pankova. They created wonderful poems which our hard-working librarian Blagica Angelovska turned into a wonderful e-collection of poems.
Namely, an online lesson was held on the 25th April on Microsoft Teams in order to guide the students od class V-2 to create and write poem on the topic of “Beauties of Spring”. Together woth their teacher Dushanka Pankova and our school librarian Blagica Angelovska they revised the basic elements of the poems: verse, stanza rhyme, rhythm poetic images and were prompted to think of rhyming words.
They were also shown poems about Spring written by Macedonian children’s authors and poems written by our school librarian B;agica Angelvska so that they could be guided and inspired for writing. In the process the students were getting certain feedback on their work, instructions and corrections. As a result, on the 7th May 2020 a poetry reading was organized and held, where each students read their poem. AT the end, students had the chance to give their opinion and view for the poetry workshop and for the porty reading in general. They expressed their wish to have other events of this kind, also their love for the season Spring and made comments on the poems written by the school librarian. Most importantly, they did not hide their pleasure, admiration and motivation for further creative activities within the school library.
Benefits of reading
Our librarian helped our little readers have time even in the pandemic days by designing an interesting teaser presentation to highlight the benefits of reading. It is very useful to see, even for us the grown-ups.
Our version -Creating a video animation
Students from grade III -1 and their teacher Tanja Josimovska, 01st June 2020 Учениците од III-1 found out how any illustration can be turned intoa video animation. Dear me, so young and so smart. Can you imagine? Not only did they read the story, but they also made a picture book, put it in a video software and made a amazing video animation of the Story of Noah. The the video was shown to the whole class to demonstrate that any story can be transformed into an animation. The reading process becomes much more interesting if you discover new skills. The leaders of the creation of this video were Mihaela Janevska, Mina Simonovska and Elena Mickovska. A big Bravo from us fot he Story of Noah! Take a look.
Meeting the author
Our little creators from grade II -3 together with their teacher Lidija Bozinovska had a very interesting meeting with one our famous children’s author Mrs. Jadranka Klisarova. In the 14th February (Valentine’s day), our students met the author of the popular collection of poems “ Poems for every child” who motivated them to continue reading, increased their awareness of the benefits from reading and their desire to create. She also motivated them to develop the active reading and critical thinking, to be more independent when reading the reading list books, to answer questions related to the content, to actively listen to a person’s speech and to participate in discussions on any topic. She managed to illustrate in a most direct way the work of a poet and author, where nad how they get inspired, where and how they write, the feeling they get after completing a literary work, how you can become a writer and cleared many dilemmas and questions that the students had.
Using presentations
The students from grade III-4 and their teacher Vesna Kimovska Jovik, on 3rd February analyzed the story “The Fish and the Fisherman” by A. S. Pushkin. They had the opportunity to illustrate and see part of the content on an interesting presentation.
When you have a sweet tooth
Our students with a sweet tooth from grade III-5, and their teacher Roberat Jordanovska, on the 03.02. 2020 had a treat while illustrating the “Sugar Story”. I was also present when the little candy makers made the “sugar child” and to be honest it was soooo “sweet” that I wanted to “eat” it. Warning! You may want to have some chocolate next to you when you look at their pictures and videos.
Creating power point presentations
The students from grade V-1 together with their teacher Jasmina Ristevska, worked hard in the period between 21st January and 14.02.2020 on the book “Charlotte’s web” by Elvin Brooks White. They created and presented their Power Point presentations and retold the story, showed the characters, what they learned about the author and whoch parts they liked best. You can see some of them yourselves.
Quiz time- Let's have fun!
V-4 grade students and their teacher Zaneta Mitrovska analysed the story of “Alice in Wonderland” with a quiz and showed us how much they managed to understand and analyse. They could call a friend for help or ask for a hint by the teacher.
Who doesn't like picture books?
VI grade students with their Macedonian language teacher Maja Stojanovska created picture books for the reading list book :Heidi” by Johanna Spyri. They thought about the most important events, how to illustrate them and how to write the most important content concisely.
Actor, actress, director, cameraman.... what do you want to be?
The students in the IX grades performed a play of the reading list book “Chorbadzi Teodos” and made a video recording of their play.
CELEBRATING THE INTERNATIONAL MOTHER LANGUAGE DAY
21ST February – INTERNATIONAL MOTHER LANGUAGE DAY
WITH A LITERARY COMPETITION ON THE TOPIC
“MOTHER LANGUAGE– CULTURAL TRESURE THAT HAS TO BE NURTURED AND CHERISHED”
On the 21st February, a poetry reading in celebration of the International Mother Language Day was held in the school Lazo Angelovski where students from the 3rd to the 9th grade who had won the competition read their poems on the topic “Mother language- cultural heritage which must be nurtured and cherished”.
The poetry reading started with a video recital of the anthological poem “Vezilka” by our famous linguist, writer and poet Blazhe Koneski. After the introduction emphasizing the importance of 21 February- the International Mother Language Day, placement certificates were handed to the students who won 1st, 2nd and 3rd place.
1st place: Diona Borimechkovska, class III - 3
2nd place: Mihaela Janevska, class III-1
3rd place: Angela Stamkova, class V-2
1st place: Katerina Ivanova, class VII-6
2nd place: Iva Dautovska, class IX-5
3rd place: Milijana Stojanovic, class IX-4
There were also commended students who have successfully participated in the competition, according to the previously stated criteria, and they were awarded certificates of participation:
- Elementary pupils: Filip Anastasov, Eva Brankovska, Maksim ZBilic, Ana Stancheva class III-1; Vangelija Mitanoska, Valerija Mitanoska class: III-4; Viktor Misailovski, class V-1, Teona Angelovska, Konstanti Brajanoski, Elena Brajanoska, class V-5 and Nemanja Jordanov, class V-6.
- Middle-school students:
Anastasijia Simovic, class IX-5, Hristina Mladenovska, Georgina Mitrevska, class VI-1 and Renata Sinadinovska, class VIII-5.
Link to our school's web-site report on this event: 21st February -the International Mother Language Day
School librarian
Blagica Angelovska
CREATIVE READERS IN PRIMARY SCHOOL LAZO ANGELOVSKI
Within the KA 229 Erasmus + project “Creative Readers”, our students, teachers and school librarian, in the first term of the academic year 2019/20, have had many activities which enhance the aim and the objectives of this project and those are: motivate students to read books (both on and out of the compulsory reading lists), as well as to improve the skills to analyse the content, characters and the morals that the authors convey in their work.
SCHOOL LIBRARIAN ACTIVITIES
On the 26th and 27th September, after previous arrangement between the teachers and the school librarian, the pupils from grades II-1,2,3,4,5,6 had the opportunity to visit the school library which was in accordance with the mother tongue curriculum for the second grade.
Our second graders got acquainted with the term “library”, the special space it takes in the school and the way it is organized and how works. They also met the school librarian responsible for the library activities. She asked a questions which helped pupils understand the number and the variety of books our library has, how pupils and students can borrow and use them as well as the Code of conduct of the library members. Through this direct communication, the lesson objectives were fulfilled and the pupils learnt the way they can use the library services and how to use the books, but above all got more interested in books as source of knowledge.
The pupils of grade III class 1, on the 25th October 2019, had a creative workshop on the topic “The book lights the path I tread upon”. The activities included drawing motifs from a book or illustration of part of a book content that the pupils had read. The objectives of the workshop were achieved and they comprise: motivate regular reading, enhance the creative potential, support talented pupils, peer learning and interaction, promoting the school library as a service that can be used regularly as well as improving the cooperation between the librarian and the teachers.
The pupils from IV-1 class, on the 13.12 2019 had a chance to work witin the creative workshop and illustrate their favourite character from a book of their choice and also describe the events in it.
MEETING THE AUTHOR
The pupils from class III-1 and their teacher Tanja Josimovska, on 28th October 2019, met and talked to the author of the reading list book “The children from my school” and asked questions about its content and had a discussion about the way writers create books.
INTEGRATING OTHER SUBJECTS INTO BOOK ANALYSIS
On 11th December 2019, the pupils from class III-3, integrated content from other subjects in the analysis of the reading list book “Doctor Ouchithurts” and discussed the natural habitats of the animals mentioned in the book, then made a survey and discovered and grouped: the doctor’s most and least favourite animals; animals’ features; forest, domestic and jungle animals and birds. They presented the survey data in a chart and on a diagram and read them. In the end, on PE lesson, they imitated the animals’ movements.
FUN READING
The pupils from class IV-1 had fun while analyzing the story “ Vicky and the glasses” by answering questions about the story and predicting what was going to happen next with the “Reading Spinning Wheel”
The IXth graders analysed the book “Balck sheep” by the writer Katica Khulavkova in a way they found most amusing. One of the classes created a quiz for this purpose, another one used a game similar to Luso and another class a game similar to Monopoly.
CREATIVE READING
The pupils from grade III-1, in 2nd December 2019, worked on the book “Sugary Story” by Slavko Janevski and illustrated the main character with candies, sweets, biscuits and gummy candies trying to capture all his characteristics.
Pupils from class III-3, on 11.12.2019, successfully illustrated and described the characters of the book “Doctor Ouchithurts” by Kornej Chukovski.
The pupils from classes V-3 and V-6 imagined Pinocchio’s experiences and created their own picture books and e-books and they could enjoy the story by looking at their own works. (11th November 2019).
The students from grade VI-5 on several mother tongue lessons in December 2019 (16th, 19th and 23rd) analyzed a book from the non-compulsory reading list. Each student had read and retold a book of their choice and then they discussed events actions and states from their books that excited them and wanted to experience. In addition to the discussion all the students made a poster on which they drew, wrote messages or illustrated with paper crafts motifs from the books they had read.
The VII graders, on 18th November created their own versions of the reading book “Siljan the Stork” by Marko Cepenkov and made their own comic books. They used the free web-site https://makebeliefscomix.com which can be used to create comics.
“This interesting way of book analysis compelled all the students read the book, make a plan in the comic panels and be engaged” – said the teacher.
On the other hand, the students from this generation said that the had a great time during the lessons and would like to have more lessons like this. Below are some of their versions of the book presented as comic books:
https://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/?comix_id=21111103C2801597
https://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/?comix_id=26017466C2800094
The pupils from the V grade drama club made the New year period more joyful with their New year performance.
Similar activities will take place during the second term.
See this report on our school's web-site: Report on our school's website
Prepared by
Miroslava Pavlova-Anevska
Academic 3019/20
Primary school Lazo Angelovski - Skopje
REPORT
On the organized literary meeting of the primary school students from our school with the contemporary children’s authors Ksenija Trajcheva Makazlieva, Vancho Polazarevski and Naum Popeski in the City Library “Jane Sandanski”- Skopje
On the 3rd December 2019 (Tuesday), after previous arrangements and cooperation of our school librarian Blagica Angelovska, a literary meeting was held between the primary schools students of Lazo Angelovski and the contemporary children’s authors Ksenija Trajcheva Makazlieva, Vancho Polazarevski and Naum Popeski in the local branch of the City Library “Jane Sandanski”, Aerodrom municipality, Skopje. The participating students were from grades: I, V, VI, VII, VIII and IX.
The schools librarian had prepared a plan of activities correlating with the aims and objectives of the literary meeting with the authors and to assign the tasks and responsibilities to the students in accordance with their skills, abilities and talents. The students talented for wrting were motivated to vreate their own poems or prose writings on a general topic such as for e.g. love, happiness, friendship, books, fantasy etc.
Some of students got a task to look at the contemporary children’s magazines published by Detska Radost publishing company: Rosica, Drugarche, Razvigor in order to make a short selection of the texts written by Ksenija Trajcheva Makazlieva, Vancho Polazarevski and Naum Popeski. They also had to find in the school library and read part of the texts written by the above mentioned authors in order to get acquainted with their work more closely and also adapt those texts into scripts. After a joint consultation and the guidance of the school librarian Blagica Angelovska, the students chose the texts “Space schools” written by the writer Vancho Polazarevski and the text “Marko from music school/solfège” by the writer Ksenija Trajcheva Makazlieva, The school librarian selected students and assigned roles to them for the drama performance according to the scripts which were adaptations of the above mentioned prose texts.
Another group of students got a task to learn parts of Bon Ton for good manners the writer of which is the writer Naum Popeski. Our school librarian assigned them a task to learn poems written by Naum Popeski, Vancho Polazarevski, and Vera Andon (the last author’s attendance was cancelled because of illness). The librarian worked with and prepared the students daily to make their performance successful. The members of the school library club researched the life and work of the authors and prepared presentations about the literary portraits of the writers and to think of questions for them to get a broader view on their lives..
During the literary meeting, the writers introduced themselves to the students and then the students presented their prepared activities. First, they performed their play “Marko from the music school/solfège”, explaining why they chose this text to adapt. The writer Ksenija Trajcheva Makazlieva thrilled by the performance explained to the students how the text was created and that it has several parts which have been published in the children’s magazine “Razvigor” whose editor is she. The writer Vancho Polazarevski also spoke highly of the students’ performance of the text “Space schools” which included rhymes and is with humorous style. He took this opportunity to explain to the students that the rhyme can be used everywhere even in prose texts.
The group of students who created their own poems recited them in groups made according to the motifs depicted in them. The librarian asked them questions to help them explain the creative process. After each interpretation the authors gave positive review for every students and advised them to continue writing,
The poet Vancho Polazarevski emphasized that rhymes are not obligatory in poems, but are recommendable for the musicality of the poem and for making it more memorable. He mentioned to the students that they should use rhymes that are frequently used. He made an attempt to create a stanza with the rhymes already used in the poems, but with new content. The poet Naum Popeski, recited a poem without a rhyme written by Blazhe Koneski which proved that the poem sounded equally beautiful because it has musicality, rhythm and poetic images which is equally important for poems as rhymes. He emphasized to the students the importance of reading books in order to be able to express themselves freely and transform their ideas into expressions, and suggested that they should be creators of their own prose and poetry.
The writers Vancho and Naum recited part of their poetry which students especially enjoyed and they were vey interested in listening and answering the question asked by the authors. At the same time the students gave interpretations of poems written by the authors to show them what they sound like and how they are accepted by the youngest audience.
The writer Naum Popeski read one of his poems stanza by stanza, and the students were supposed to guess the next rhyme, i.e. the last word of the stanza based on the previously read lines. Quite an interesting moment was when one student interpreted a previously learned poem written by Vancho POlazarevski, and the writers had to recognize their own poem. Then the writer Ksenija Trajcheva Makazlieva explained how to write a poem when they need to have a special topic and motif for the needs of the magazine and the writers create a couple of poems on the topic easily.
Among the last activities was the drama performance of texts that students chose randomly. This activity was planned by the writer Ksenija Trajcheva Makazlieva. She chose several students and assigned them roles and without any preparation, together they interpreted the text “The hostesses and the ship captain”. The students completed the task without any confusion and showed their acting skills which excited the authors.
At the end of the event the students asked the authors questions which enabled them to broaden their knowledge about them. The authors told them when they started to write for the first time, what motivated them to start writing, what is their most frequent inspiration, if they had writte poems about love, which is their favourite book etc.
The literary meeting was held in a positive atmosphere and lasted about two hours. The students were actively engaged and with an uninterrupted interest and curiosity followed the entire event. They expressed interest to repeat this event with the same and some other children’s authors. They also said that their expectations were met, because they had the chance to communicate with the writers personally, i.e. with the real people, people whose names and surnames they had only met on the book covers before. The students listened to the pieces of advice the writers gave them about writing prose and poetry and they concluded that they will follow them in the future by following the principles they learnt about how to write more successful prose and poetry pieces.
After the end of the event, the school librarian gave the students a task to write a report in which they can share their impressions and experience from the literary meeting with the writers. They were also urged to read more books and prepare activities for the next literary meeting.
Link to the event on our school's webpage
School librarian
Blagica Angelovska
Project coordinator for OOU Lazo Angelovski
Miroslava Pavlova-Anevska
A CREATIVE LANGUAGE WORKSHOP IN GERMAN
On the 25th NOvember 2019 within the project for Early German language learning, and in cooperation with the Goethe Institute, Skopje, a Creative language learning workshop was held for the pupils in the third grade.
The writer and illustrator Jens Rasmus from Germany held part of the workshop and the pupils had the opportunity to listen to a German native speaker, to talk to him about topics of their interest such as animals, friendship. free time activities, and most importantly to write and ullustrate a shoprt storybook in German with the help of the writer.
Find it on our web-site http://oulazoangelovski.com.mk/?p=7065
Presentation of the project before the Teachers’ Council and Parents’ Council
30.08.2019 - The Vice principle and the members of the Erasmus+ team presented the project in front of the Teachers’ Council and on 19.09.2019 a presentation was made before the Parents’ Council.
During the presentation the teachers and later the parents were informed about the aims of the project, the project partners as well as the project activities and the expected results.
Find more information on the link http://oulazoangelovski.com.mk/?p=6709
The presentation is available on the following link
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vR5frO23PCZiq009V6HGgjM9uvrOZH_lJbUeetp8o0m8fLNDJQ8PfcOiHUVivE1Pz0SjjvCh5kbCuKd/pub?start=false&loop=true&delayms=3000
DISSEMINATION OF THE 1ST MOBILITY IN PRIMARY SCHOOL JOSIP KOZARAC, lIPOVLJANI CROATIA
The participants in the first mobility of the project Creative readers Miroslava Pavlova-Anevska and Vesna Strezoska gave a short presentation to the teachers in the primary school Lazo Angelovski on the activities that they were part of during the visit of the coordinating school Josip Kozarac, Lipovljani, Croatia. They presented the planning activities, the impressions from observed lessons as well as the cultural visits and events they attended.
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