Visit from Finland and happenings in Italy and Hungary

Hello, everybody!

Now most of the partner schools have either closed or are about to close for the summer season. Italy has had a nice exhibition, which Sabina writes about. Tamás from Hungary has also told me that their school had a two day fair on 10-11 June with shows and exhibits of Comenius activities from all partner schools.

I have myself finished the paper work, both the activity report and money side of it and have chosen exhibits of the work we did to our National Agency.

During the last schooldays we had two visitors from Finland: Matti Piirainen, the headmaster of Hakarinteen koulu in Tammisaari and his wife, Anneli, who is a classteacher in the same school. Anneli taught the 5th grade this schoolyear, but next year she will be with the first grade and is going to lead her new pupils to our Comenius project.

Matti and Anneli visited our classes and the students were eager to show what they knew. Class 5.Á. was with a presentation of Iceland ...in English!!! They were very proud of themselves. Thordis welcomed the visitors with the "Comenius songs" in Icelandic, Finnish and Italian...which reminds me that we have not got any good and simple song from Hungary and Portugal for our students to learn. So, please, hurry up! We want to learn them before the next meeting.

I shall put some photos of the visit here. - Hope that Tamás writes about their exhibition and how it went. Perhaps some photos, too!

Wishing you all a very nice summer and many thanks for the cooperation this school-year, both you, children, and all the staff members

Marjatta and all the Comenius people from Digranesskóli

" NOW I KNOW "

NOW I KNOW..

Questo è il titolo della rappresentazione alla quale sono stati invitati i genitori degli alunni delle classi quinte della Scuola Primaria di Cordenons, Duca D'Aosta a conclusione del primo anno di attività del progetto Comenius.Il risultato finale di questo primo anno è stato un percorso didattico interdisciplinare che ha visto gli alunni coinvolti nello studio della lingua italiana, dell' inglese, della geografia, della storia, nell'utilizzo delle nuove tecnologie per la ricerca dei dati e per la stesura del lavoro stesso, della musica e dell'educazione all'immagine.

This the title of the exhibition of our 5 th grade pupils of the primary school Duca D'Aosta, Cordenons, for their parents, within the conclusion of the first year project .The outcome of the schoolyear activities was a cross curricular research in Italian and in English of the four country involved in the project. The pupils had the opportunity to show their parents how they managed to study different subjects as History, Geography, Italian and English and Arts illustrating it through the New Technologies.They also performed the music learned and composed for the project "Bussame al me Friul", by teacher Sonia and Alessandro.

A questo lavoro di verifica finale è stato dato il titolo "NOW I KNOW.." proprio per la volontà di sottolineare il percorso di conoscenza svolto dai bambini durante tutto l'anno, e la poosibilità offerta dal progetto di avvicinare gli studenti a culture, lingue e tradizioni diverse da quelle di appartenenza, ampliando i loro orizzonti. La documentazione di questo lavoro, insieme alla Leggenda di Cordenons, sarà offerta agli altri paesi durante l'incontro di progetto a Budapest.

This conclusion represents a positive ostensive evaluation of the project for the teachers, for our students and for our community because has given a real choice approaching different cultures and traditions within Europe, widening our students' horizon and getting more aware of their own identity.The documentation of this work, together with the Cordenons Legend, presented during the evaluation meeting of May, will be ready as a DVD for the next meeting in Budapest.

published by Sabina