Magic of Christmas

I participated with my class in the project „Magic of Christmas“. The aim of the project was to get an overview of Christmas traditions in European countries, to find similiarities and differences, develop language skills and cooperate with teachers.

The project fulfilled its aim.

The process followed more or less the given plan, in November introduction of school and class and sharing it. In December we started to draw and write Christmas cards. We sent the cards to to eight schools. The kids asked their parents about Christmas food, put down the recipes and shared them. We made an ebook of the recipes and a slideshow of Christmas symbols. Family Christmas traditions were transferred into comics. We also recorded Christmas songs.

I consider the project good. All pupils were involved in the it (drew Christmas cards, a comics, sang), it means that took an active part in the project. Some kids sent different photos of Christmas, some recipes, the others tested the recipes. Form 7 students helped us with translation.

I asked my kids written feedback about the project.

What project was it?

- It is a Christmas project, we made cards, pictures and sang.

- Some European schools take part in the project

- We learn about Christmas traditions in different countries

- The project introduces our school and we lean about others

What did you learn?

- Copying and sticking the pictures.

- English

- Sending pictures to gmail.

- Saw the arrived cards

- Saw the students of other countries

- It’s nice to receive and send cards.

As a result of the project, we made a blog „Magic of Christmas“. Children drew different Christmas symbols for the background of the blog and the „winner“ was chosen among these. Kids learned to assess their work, analyse and make a decision which cards to send. Some kids learned how to send a picture by gmail. Some kids made gingerbred with mothers at home and took photos of the process.

We have watched with pupils the presentations of other schools, listened to the songs. So far 4 postcards have arrived.

In the project the following media were used – KIZOA, Movie maker, Calameo, Picturetrail, Youtube. We photographed and processed photos, used a video camera to record the songs, processed the video. The recipes and Christmas traditions were presented in PowerPoint. The slides were shared in Slideshare environment.

My contribution to Twinspace was modest. I uploaded the video, PP presentations and introduction of our school but I did not comment on my activities separately. I recorded my work and different stages of the process in a separate blog.

The work language of the project was unclear. I presumed it is English but somehow Polish was prevalent.

In spite of this the project was nice, it developed both me and my students.