Week 12: Wednesday (31/04/'08)

Hello


Today we were in the primary school in Alken. The children could work some more about their project.
I was surprised to see how much work the children had done. Some of them had already a beautiful powerpoint presentation, other had made a collage with all kind of pictures.

Again, I was realy proud


Here you see some pictures of 'my' children:





I helped the children with their work and gave them feed-back. Also the visiting students helped the children realy well. Maria and Marian learned the group of Spain a Spanish dance. Christoph and Manu learned their group a dance from Austria. There is also one group that will cook something realy nice from Austria for the presentation of their country.

I’m realy looking forward to the presentation of the children on Monday!!! I think they will do a great job!

Good evening!!! See you next week!!

Week 12: Tuesday (30/04/'08)

Hello!

Today we went back to the primary school in Alken.
We started the afternoon with a cultural activity. Each students from the same nationality had to prepare one activity about a cultural thing out of their country. The children that picked Austria at the first day, had to go to the activity of Manu and Chritoph. The children that picked Turkey at the first day, had to go to the activity of Hacer. Ect. It were again the same four classes than the other times.

GREECE:
Eva, Arisit, Sofia and Xanthi talked about the Greek gods from Greece. It wasn’t that easy for the children.








SPAIN:
Maria and Marian made a kind of video to show some typical things from Spain. It was nice to see. The children enjoyed it!





TURKEY:
Hacer learned the children how to cook something realy typical of Turkey. I didn’t remember the name, but it was delicious! She putted carots, biscuits, sugar, coconuts and nuts in it.



CZECH PEPUBLIC:
Monika and Monika learned the children something about the money in Czech Republic. They also sang a Czech song. At the end they learned the children some easy words in Czech, like the number untill four.





AUSTRIA:
Manu and Christoph learned the children a typical dance of Austria: the Polka. I have tried it also, but it wasn’t that easy!




After the activities the children had to work further at the project about the land that they picked. I must say they did it very well. It was good to have the visiting students in the class, because the children realy needed them. They asked them question in English and showed the things they found. It was nice to see. I’m very proud at my children. They worked realy hard and tried to do their very best!




I like working with a project in the primary school. I’ve never done it before. It is nice to help the different groups of children, to support them, to keep them going, ect. They all work at a different subject and they have to work in groups. It is important that they can work together.
I think they did it very well.
BYE

Week 12: Monday (28/04/'08)

Hello,

Today the project in the primary school in Alken started.
First the children could enjoy a presentation of the country they picked out last Friday. All the children of Czech Republic from my class, the class of Hanna and the class of Sofie were sitting together in one room. The same for the other countries. The students did a great presentation about their country. I saw the group of Austria, Greece and Czech Republic. They all had a beauteful powerpoint presentation.

From the ones I have seen, Austria was the best. They did a great dance, sang a song, played a gam about Austria with the children, ect. The teacher of my class was impressed of their work.
The children also got the chance to show the materials, the books, ect, that they found about the country they picked.

After the small break, the children of my class all got back into their classroom. So I had five groups of children in my classroom. One group of Greece, one of Austria, one of Czech Republic, one of Spain and one of Turkey. I explained them how the project will develope and what they have to do. First they thought of some learningquestions about the country they picked. Then the visiting students checked the questions. I also gave them a lot of books, to search in for some more information. They did it very well. They worked very good in their group.

I’m looking forward to tomorrow! I hope it will be fun.

Bye

Week 11: Thursday (24/04/'08)

Hello,

Today we visited the primary school in Alken. I’m together in a group with Manu, Christoph and Hacer. We will work with the children of 6a.
First we observated the children in their classroom. After the little break we got a guided tour in the school of a teacher. It was very nice to see all the beauteful things they have. It was amazing!


At the first picture you see a little building. The children can come up here to have a nice time of talking about things, to learn about the nature. It is very cosy in there.

At the second picture you see all kind of bricks. The children can build things with it.





This school finds it important to learn the children how to take care of the nature. They have an own garden.


The playgroud is very beauteful. They have a lot of materials where the children can play with.






In the afternoon we had to do one big presentation together with the whole International class and the children of 5a, 5b, 6a and 6b. Every nationality presented their country in an original way. The Belgian students, including me, did the explenation and we took care of the global view of the show. We were visiters in all the different countries.



First we went to AUSTRIA!




Then to CZECH REPUBLIC!



Then to GREECE!



After that, to TURKEY!




Last but not least: SPAIN!

At the end we showed the children a big envelope. We opened it and showed them the tickets. Each child in every class had to pick out, later in the afternoon, a card out of the envelope. On each card was standing the name of one of the five countries: Spain, Czech Republic, Turkey, Austria or Greece. That was to seperate the children into different countries. They had to work around the country that they picked during the project.
After that I went back to the class of 6a to observe some more and have a little talk with the teacher. He showed me a lot of interesting things he uses in his classroom, like a ‘blackboard’ for example.

It was a very nice day and I’m looking forward to go back on Monday

See ya!!!

Week 11: Wednesday (13/04/'08)

Hello,

Today we had some more information about the project that we’re going to do in the primary school in Alken. We talked about the organisation. Rudi also gave us some more details about what project-work is about.
After that the visiting students had to think of a nice way of presentating their country. It had to be about a typical thing, a dance, a song, food, ect.
After they prepared it, we went home!

Week 11: Tuesday (22/04/'08)

Hello,

Today we did the story-telling festival in the primary school of Bilzen. We had to do our story three times. Each time for a different class. Our story was about a woman that wants to find her good luck.

I must say that I really liked it. I didn’t had problems with my English and the children understood everything very well.
We all did a great job. I had so much fun on the scene.

Eva was really great! What she did was amazing.

Of cours Hanna did it also very well! She was the story-teller, a very good one!

I had to change four times from character. I played the wolf, the tree, the man in the cave and God. I liked it a lot. I had to hurry myself to change my clothes, but it wasn’t a problem. It was nice to play the different roles. The most I liked was the way I could play with my voice. I love to do that and this was a great opportunity.

At the first picture I'm playing God, then the man, that the tree and at the last picture I'm the wolf.

After the story-tellings we had a small reflection with three groups together and the teachers that had seen the groups. Their reactions were very positive.
I’m very glad with our result. The children enjoyed every piece of it. You could read it from their faces.

Bye xxx