Each season we will choose one or two traditional festivities and we will do small works in English telling how they are held, which is usually done, traditional recipes of the festivity, music and dance ... Each section will be illustrated with drawings or photographs taken by students or found on the Internet. All material prepared by students will be placed in a magazine. In parallel, students will develop knowledge and they will exchange information about your school, city, daily activities ... through emails or if all participants are agree, we can create a weblog. This could be very interesting because a blog is very attractive, fast, easy and all participants can communicate simultaneously through the comments.

• Subjects: Art, Foreign Languages, History of Culture, Informatics / ICT, Language and Literature, Media Education, Music, Primary School Subjects, Technology
• Languages: EN
• Pupil's age: 5 - 12
• Tools to be used: Forum, MP3, Other software (Powerpoint, video, pictures and drawings), Project Diary, Twinspace, Web publishing
• Aims: - Improve the use of the foreign language in an interactive and playful way - Improve their ICT skills while learning more about... read more- Improve the use of the foreign language in an interactive and playful way - Improve their ICT skills while learning more about their partners. - Learn to be part of a team and how to collaborate and share with other foreign pupils. - Improve their media skills. - Work in an interactive way and learn with higher motivation. - Understand foreign cultures through the popular festivities. They come in touch with other cultural traditions. - Learn to share their interests and discuss about their hobbies and daily routines. - Participate in new situations. hide
• Work process: The project has two different (and parallel) parts: * The production of a digital magazine that collects the popular festivities... read moreThe project has two different (and parallel) parts: * The production of a digital magazine that collects the popular festivities of (the) different European regions (during the) autumn, winter and spring (in total 6 festivities per school, two per season at least). The different sections that every popular festivity must include can be the following (ones): - Name and date of the festivity. - History of the festivity. - Activities that are realized in this festivity. - Musical, dances, recipes .... if they are. The texts will be illustrated with drawings, photos, videos, Autumns festivities : delivery of the work: On December 1. Winter festivities : delivery of the work: On March 1. Spring holidays: delivery of the work: On May 1. We will elaborate a template that we will send to all the participant schools. * The maintenance of the blog for communicating and sharing during the project. Each school shall complete a minimum of a monthly post, and any comments it seems appropriate. The subject matter of the post might be the following one: • September: " Presentation of the class, pupils and teachers " • October: " This is my school " • November: " This one is my city " • December: " Happy Christmas " • January: " This way is my country " • February: " Our activities and hobbies " • March: " Traditional games " (explain and illustrate with a short video) • April: " We want to know " (a questionnaire with 10 questions that pupils still want to find out about the others; they will draw a conclusion by comparing and contrasting) • May: Evaluation of the experience, farewells... hide
• Expected results: This project will have a positive evaluation if - Proposed objectives are achieved. - The blog is edited and is maintained with post and... read moreThis project will have a positive evaluation if - Proposed objectives are achieved. - The blog is edited and is maintained with post and comments. - Digital magazine is published. hide

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