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When two or more people meet them each
other, the first thing to do is introduction. Because of this, we think this could be the
beginning. When someone works with you it is important to know Who it is, What it is like,
Where it lives...
- Objective: To know the communities
involved in the project.
- Contents:
- The country, village, town, city.
- Geographical situation.
- Means of communication.
- Climate.
- Population.
- Economy.
- History.
- Free-time.: Sport associations and
culture-associations.
- Interesting places.
- School: Pupils, teachers, the building, our
Educational System, etc.
- Work Calendar
- April 98.- Sending material (1).
- May 98 .- Showing of the material we have
received at the school..
(1) Each school will make material (murals, videos...)
to send to all associated schools. This material will be shown at the schools in order to
know each other.
It is very important that pupils know the
project as a reality not as an abstraction. Because of this, we must do activities with
this aim. It is sure, that pupils are going to ask a lot of questions about the partners
schools and people from there, that we must answer.
- Objective: To have direct relation to the
others classes of associated schools. To satisfy their curiosity , we must give the answer
to their questions and interrogations.
- Contents:
- The questions and their answers.
- Each group can write whenever it wants,
when it has got something to explain or to ask the others.
- The first letter must be an introduction of
the group (class). It could be a photograph of the teacher with the pupils and everybody's
name.
- Calendar: From November we will try to
write to the correspondent groups of the associated schools monthly. When the project
progress the oldest pupils could send personal letters to theirs new foreign friends. The
co-ordinating school takes charge of organising the correspondence and making a summary
table for all associated schools.
3. Curious camera.
We should motivate the pupils' curiosity,
so that they get used to making questions, staring at the images received about concrete
aspects of the daily life.
- Objective: To know different aspects of the
daily life of each associated school by photographs.
- Contents:
- DECEMBER: My house at Christmas. Christmas
Decorations.
- JANUARY: My toy.
- FEBRUARY: It's hot or cold. ( A photo of
boy or girl wearing dresses of this season).
- MARCH: I'm hungry! (A typical food).
- APRIL: How we go to the school. ( Means of
transport used to go to school)
- MAY: Holidays! (Where do pupils spend their
holidays?)
- Calendar: Each school will send photographs
about these topics to other schools monthly.
4. International Newspaper.
We make a material so that the children
realize that the schools are really together in one only project.
Objective: To know the work and the studies
that each school does.
Contents: Texts made during the daily work
of class. The texts are sent in the own language and in English.
Calendar: One publication by term. All the
schools will send the texts the last fortnight of the second month.
Italian school is going to make and
distribute the newspaper to associated schools.
Festivals and traditions are one of the
things that defines better the way a village is. That's why they are so important in our
project.
We are going to work in three different
blocks:
- The first one, in the course 96-97, we'll
prepare a festivities and traditions calendar.
- The second one, we'll work deeply,
explaining how we live these festivals without entering details, about its origin.
- The third one, Why do we celebrate this
traditions? We can elaborate this project for one course more in 99-00, this course we can
study in depth their roots ; which are very interesting and the pupils can discover the
common origin
- Objective: To know our more important
festivals and traditions (in the schools that are taking part in this project)
- Contents: The festivals' date, and a short
explanation about them. Next year we'll study it deeply.
- Calendar:
- May 98. Sending the different
festivities-calendars.
- Course 98-99, every centre will send
material, explaining how the festivities and traditions are celebrated in its country.
COURSE 98-99
We are going to study in depth, the
second, third and fourth block of the project that we developed the previous year,
(97-98). We'll continue with the fifth block and we'll start two new blocks: seventh (
What are you going to do on the...?) and eighth (Evaluation I)
Objective: To know which our festivities
and traditions are, how do we live them, in the village and specially at school.
Contents: Festivities and traditions.
Calendar: It would be very
interesting, that the centres could have the material about festivities on the dates they
are celebrated in the other countries; for instance, before Christmas, each school could
have the information about how the other schools do celebrate Christmas: holiday at
school, holiday in the country, if Father Christmas comes, or the three Magic Kings, or we
decorate the Christmas tree; "l'home dels nassos"( the 31st of December we'll
expect to see the man who has so much noses like days are in the year that is finishing),
etc., This course, we can prepare these things thinking that we are going to need them
properly, in time to send them.
Until now, we've presented and known our
town, village or city, we also are giving information, BUT, WHAT IS ONE DAY IN OUR LIFE
LIKE?
Objective: To know how is a day in
each country(2).
Content: Any day in a pupil
life.
Calendar:
- October 98. The first day of the
course.
- November 98. Tuesday, 24 of November
1998
- February 99: Saturday, 20 February
1999.
- April 99 . Sunday 11 April 1999.
The works ( murals, texts...) must be sent
before the date in order to all the schools are able to do the expositions the same
day.
( 2) Along with the material we will include the
explanation, what a boy and a girl do during a day. We will agree pupils' age.
Through the project the pupils can have
observed the similarities between the festivals in Spain and some of the associated
schools (Italy) and the big difference with another ones (Finland).
Objective: By studying the origin of our
festivals and traditions and the comparison with the others schools to discover the
reality of one Mediterranean Europe and one northern Europe. To learn value and respect
the diversity. To value the advantages of the plurality in the unity.
Calendar: During the two first terms of the
course, every school will do an investigation and a subsequent reflection about the topic
with its pupils. They will make material (texts, murals, bibliography...) with the results
obtained. At the beginning of the 3rd term these works will be sent to the school that
will take charge of publishing them .
10. Evaluation II: What do you think
about our project?
At the end of the process it is important
to do one final evaluation.
Objective: To evaluate the
objectives, we want to know as our pupils have been benefited of them.
Calendar: Each associated school will do
the project evaluation in its centre a month before the annual meeting. We will talk about
this topic in the meeting.
11. Report of the project :" How
do our neighbours live?".
Until now, pupils have done works in
class, they have studied and known other countries and other people. We must place the
project on record. We'll make a report- publication.
- Contents:
- Introduction.
- To introduce associated schools.
- Technical cards of festivals and traditions
more importance in each country:
- Festivity date.
- Contents.
- What do you do at school?
- Origin.
- Project valuation.
If we carry out this proposal we must to
seek for economic help to obtain a good publication.
Materials
- The final purpose of all these
materials would be: easy and not very big expositions, and for this, we propose:
- Work with Murals, stick on a
card, which size could be 50x60 cm, more or less.
- There would be a lot of visual
material more than writing: painting, pictures, photographs...
- When we write, the sentences must
be short and non difficult sentences,. using the languages that we approached.
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