additional activities 2010- 2011

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Additional classroom activities 2010-2011

Maria Markaki- MarkoulakiSchool of Foreign Languages

Pre- JuniorOral speech only,

using songs, stories, fairy tales, arts and crafts and videos.

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A’ - B’ Junior

Find out more here: A' Junior and B' Junior.

Emails to French students

Emails were exchanged between our students (attending B' Junior, A' Class and B' Class) and Aniella Lebeau's ones (read more about it). My students and I are all so grateful to have been able to engage in this type of communication! The emails sent included exchanging cultural information and sharing amusing language activities, such as tongue twisters.

Find samples of the exchange here: E-pals project

Card, puppet and other games

to activate all senses when learning

Computer gamesMostly using links or doing activities

on the school’s blogs.

Watching video, too!

Creative projectsThe students’ drawings accompanied their texts.

Projection room time!

Library time!

B’ Junior students read their first longer story: ‘Mary and her basket’. Then, they drew and described their favourite scene.

Christmas, Carnival and Easter celebrations!

Reading fairy talesThe Greek bloggers and our friends Stefania Veldemiri and Costas Stoforos sent us the fairy tales they wrote, as a gift, so as to excite our students’ imagination. Since the discussions about them were in Greek, self-expression was enabled through the students’ native language, which will form the basis of a more solid future expression in the foreign language, too.

See the video of the children talking about their favourite scenes (in Greek).

B’ Junior Podcasts

The students turn into sailors and captains to practise the Past Simple!

Little George is reading his favourite story.

Click here to find more podcasts from our classes: markaki-podcasts.tumblr.com

A’ Class

Find out more here: A' Class

Emails to French students

Emails were exchanged between our students (attending B' Junior, A' Class and B' Class) and Aniella Lebeau's ones (read more about it). My students and I are all so grateful to have been able to engage in this type of communication! The emails sent included exchanging cultural information and sharing amusing language activities, such as tongue twisters.

Find samples of the exchange here: E-pals project

Blog where all spy projects are collected

markaki-topsecret.blogspot.com

Jack and the BeanstalkThe story we read in the projection room.

Scary story competition!

Our school conducted a scary-story competition among the students of A’ class up to E’ Class to celebrate the Halloween.

The winners were awarded with a spooky certificate and a huge chocolate bar!

See the winners’ projects.

See all Halloween projects.

B’- C’ ClassClick here:

B' Class, C' Class

Emails to French students

Emails were exchanged between our students (attending B' Junior, A' Class and B' Class) and Aniella Lebeau's ones (read more about it). My students and I are all so grateful to have been able to engage in this type of communication! The emails sent included exchanging cultural information and sharing amusing language activities, such as tongue twisters.

Find samples of the exchange here: E-pals project

Blog where all spy projects are collected

markaki-topsecret.blogspot.com

Skype talk with Patricia Johnston

Online activities, like LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD: ONLINE ACTIVITY FOR B' CLASS

Scary story competition!

Our school conducted a scary-story competition among the students of A’ class up to E’ Class to celebrate the Halloween.

The winners were awarded with a spooky certificate and a huge chocolate bar!

See the winners’ projects.

See all Halloween projects.

Read-aloud activities

Our first read-aloud activity: sitting in a circle, students listened to the teacher read a Sherlock Holmes' story (as real secret agents!) and answered comprehension questions, made predictions and gave their advice to Sherlock!

The same happened with B’ Class students and a story called ‘The Picture’ which they loved.

Find some book projects here.

The Greek Carnival

D’- E’ ClassClick here:

D' Class, E' Class

Phrasebooks

Poetry Day

Read-aloud activitiesSeated in a circle we read

White Fang and Oliver Twist

Computer room time!

The E’ Class students’ blog which serves as an e-portfolio

markaki-eclass.blogspot.com

Scary glog/ movie competition

Our school conducted a scary-story competition among the students of A’ class up to E’ Class to celebrate the Halloween. Older students had the difficult task of creating a glog or a movie and embedding it on the school’s blog.

The winners were awarded with a spooky certificate and a huge chocolate bar!

See these Internet activities.

See all Halloween projects.

Find our other pages!

Links to all the school’s pages can be found on this colourful glog!

Have a nice summer, everyone!