- 1st Kindergarten Chalastra

-3η IC L. Capuana - Avola Ιταλίας

-2ο Νηπιαγωγείο Λαγυνών Θεσσαλονίκης-Ελλάδας

-145th kindergarten of Athens Greece - Stavroula Alexiou

- 4th Kindergarten of Lavrio-Greece, Julie-Panagiota Plastira

Octodot discovering

Wonderland

e Twinning project

THE BLACK DOT STORY

INSPIRATIONAL STORY

One day a professor entered the classroom and asked his students to prepare for a surprise test. They waited at their desks for the test to begin. The professor walked around the class and handed the question papers with the text facing downwards. Once he handed them all out, he asked his students to turn the page and begin. To everyone’s surprise, there were no questions, but just a black dot in the center of the page. The professor read through everyone’s bewildered expressions and said - ‘ I want you to write what you see there.’

Preschool 

2nd OM Corbino - Augusta Italy

Gürçeşme Leman Alptekin Primary School 3/B Class/                                 Seda SARAÇLI ÇELİK

PART 1-What could be a black dot? Children imagine...

3ο ΝΗΠΙΑΓΩΓΕΙΟ ΒΡΟΝΤΑΔΟΥ ΧΙΟΥ -ΕΛΛΑΔΑ (CLASSROOM 2)

The Black Dot  The children imagine a happy, colourful world!!

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1st Kindergarten Anatoliko Greece Vasiliki Taligkari

drawings- pictures 2

The perplexed students began to do what they had been asked to. At the end the professor took all the answer papers and started reading each one of them aloud in front of the students. All of them, with no exceptions, described the black dot, trying to explain its position in the middle of the sheet.

The children represented the second part of the story with their drawings. Our final product is a collage.

After all had been read, the classroom silent, the professor began to explain:

“I am not going to grade you on this test; I just wanted to give you something to think about." No one wrote about the white part of the paper. Everyone focused on the black dot- and the same happens in our lives. This is exactly what we tend to do with  our lives. We have a white paper to hold onto and enjoy, but we are so busy contemplating about the dark spots that’s in there.

3ο νηπιαγωγείο Βροντάδου, Χίος  , Ελλάδα (τάξη 1)

Paraskevi Chalkia

1st Kindergarten Chalastra

Life is a special gift and we will always have reasons to celebrate. It is changing and renewing everyday- our friends, jobs, livelihood, love,family, the miracles we see every day. And yet we insist on focusing only on the dark spots - the health issues that are bothering us, the money that we need to have,the luxuries we don't have, complications in any relationship, problems with a family member, the disappointment with a friend and so on.You need to realize that the  spots are very small and only few. And yet we allow these to pollute our minds.

Take your eyes away  from the black spots in your life. Enjoy each one of your blessings,  each moment that life gives you. Be happy and live a life positively!

Kindergarten of Dispilio Kastorias Greece

Teacher,

 Despoina Tsakiri and

Ευσεβεία Ασβεστά-Κωνσταντινίδου

"Mihail Sadoveanu" High School Borca, Romania

Teacher, Gladiola Bondar 

 Isabella's Team - lots of joy, games, peace

4th Kindergarten of Lavrio, Greece 

Teacher, Julie-Panagiota Plastira

Key Words

 DOT

FAMILY

FRIEND

LOVE

HAPPINESS

LIFE

  2nd CHAPTER

Nature in our life

OCTODOT MEETS AUTUMN

Octodot feels a breath .... FFFFIIIIUUUUUU. Where is it from? He rolls out the back door to see. 

In the centre of the courtyard there is a large tree with many branches and few leaves. Octodot asks: Tree, was it you who blew? No - replies the tree - it is the autumn wind that blows and works so much magic. The first breath returns: FFFIIIUUUUU. Octodot is raised over a branch. But ... Octodot has turned yellow, thin, wide and flat! What was he transformed into? The magic of the autumn wind has turned it into a leaf! How beautiful it is to see the world from up there! 

Kindergarten of Dispilio Kastorias Greece

Teacher, Ευσεβεία Ασβεστά-Κωνσταντινίδου

„Mihail Sadoveanu” High School Borca, Romania

Teacher, Gladiola Bondar

4th kindergarten of Lavrio, Greece, teacher Julie-Panagiota Plastira

students write

The other leaves welcome him with joy and each one tells him something about himself. But for the yellow leaves of autumn it is time to fall and the same happens for Octodot: with a breath of wind it comes off and falls down. A little sorry: it was so nice to be on the branch! But he also enjoys letting himself fall slowly: it's a good feeling! He flies flies, turns turns, until he gently rests on the ground.

Shall we become friends? - asks him for an acorn. Of course! - Octodot replies - what a funny hat you have! The two friends start playing together, rolling around, back and forth, left and right, having lots of laughs together.

3ο νηπιαγωγείο Βροντάδου, Χίος, Ελλάδα (τάξη 1) Paraskevi Chalkia

3ο ΝΗΠΙΑΓΩΓΕΙΟ ΒΡΟΝΤΑΔΟΥ ΧΙΟΥ ΝΗΣΟΥ -ΕΛΛΑΔΑ (ΤΑΞΗ 2)

Gürçeşme Leman Alptekin Primary School 3/B Class                   Seda SARAÇLI ÇELİK

But at a certain point they have to stop: they hear someone coming! The alarmed acorn hides underground. A squirrel paws all over the place repeating: Where is it? Where? Octodot goes to meet him and asks: What's your name? What are you looking for? The squirrel starts with fear: he hadn't noticed that strange talking leaf! He scrubs his paws and replies: My name is Hop! I'm looking for an acorn to keep for my food supply! I saw one a while ago ... but now I can't find it anymore! Octodot wants to be a friend of the acorn but he is also a friend of Hop: so he asks him if he really needs another acorn, or if he can do without it. -You are right- squirrels the squirrel- I'll make the provisions that I have already saved up enough. Now I'm starting to get really sleepy! He does a few hops to say hello and leaves, all happy to have found a new friend.

Preschool children - Augusta Italy

2nd CI O.M.Corbino

Nasi Vasiliki, 10th Kindergarten of Ioannina, Greece

2 E primary school Corbino Augusta Italy

3 I.C. Capuana 

Kindergarten "Isola Verde-Largo Sicilia"

part 4

1st Kindergarten Chalastra

The acorn comes out of its hiding place and says with relief: Thanks Octodot, I almost ended up in his belly!

Here is that the autumn wind sends another breath FFFIIIUUUUUUUU. The acorn decides it's time to rest and slips under the earth. Instead Octodot doesn't want to rest at all: he still wants to explore and have fun!

1st Kindergarten Anatoliko Greece Vasiliki Taligkari

Fatih Primary School

1/A Didem KÖSE

key words.

WIND - EARTH - FUN

YELLOW LEAVES

AUTUMN

ACORN

SQUIRREL - SLEEP

FRIEND - RUN

A magical sparkling sphere to the kingdom of ice

PART 1 It was the first day of winter and it was really cold. Octodot listened to the laughter and chatter of the children inside the school. One day he heard them chatting agitatedly .... They said that there was a kingdom in the world of ice, centuries old. A legend narrated that happiness was kept in that desolate place. But no one knew exactly what it consisted of.

Their parents had all become sad. They were always stressed and they didn't play with them anymore, but they didn't know why and they had resigned themselves to that condition.

Little Emily had remembered a legend of the ice she proposed to the others to go to those distant lands to look for the happiness secret!  All the children who were able to walk by themselves left their homes and hit the road. Octodot immediately decided to help them and transformed himself into a magical sparkling sphere: from the sky he would guide them to the kingdom of ice. The children would follow the magical sphere, which shone in the blue sky.

Octodot listened to the laughter and chatter of the children inside the school

Their parents had all become sad.

Octodot immediately decided to help them and transformed himself into a magical sparkling sphere.

children decided to look for the secret of happiness

2 E primary school

Corbino Augusta

,   3o ΝΗΠΙΑΓΩΓΕΙΟ ΒΡΟΝΤΑΔΟΥ, ΧΙΟΣ, ΕΛΛΑΔΑ  , ΤΑΞΗ 1 - PARASKEVI CHALKIA

"Mr Octodot transformed into a magic sparkling sphere" - 

1st Kindergarten of Chalastra/ Greece

https://youtu.be/_f7Gq-OGL20

PART 2 In order not to go alone, however, some animals decided to accompany them. They would protect them along the way.

Falcon Viz would keep watch in the sky; the Fenya cheetah would have preceded them on land and the Pecis dolphin would have followed them in the marine world.

It was dawn when the children sneaked out of their homes. The magic sphere headed in the sky, as big as the sun. It would have been enough for them to follow her to reach the kingdom of ice.

So the journey had begun.

4th Kindergaten of Lavrio, Greece

Julie-Panagiota Plastira

1st Kindergarten Anatoliko Thessaloniki Greece

3° I.C. Capuana Kindergarten Avola Italy

Part 2

They had to cross the bridge that connects the two worlds. It was very long.

PART 3 Far from the city ahead of them was an immense expanse of grass. It seemed endless. Fenya ran and ran. Every now and then she turned to see if the children were behind her and then continued on.

After that they had to cross the bridge that connects the two worlds. It was very long. In fact, it took several days to cross it all.

The children were exhausted, but they didn't want to give up on the mission. They had to carry on if they were to save their families.

At the end of the bridge, the magic sphere led them in front of a sea of a strange color, which divided them from their destination. Pecis, taking them on his back, managed little by little to transport them all to the magical world of ice.

They had finally reached their destination!

What do we do now?” Antony asked "We don't know what to look for?"

In fact, no one knew about it. They then decided to split up and search the whole kingdom. Whatever looks strange outside could have been the antidote they sought. Who went north; who to the south; others to the west and the last ones to the east. Unfortunately, however, in the realm of ice there was nothing strange. Just ice.

“What if this was the antidote?” exclaimed Michael excitedly “Yes. I'm sure. Let's take one piece at a time and take it home." And so they did.

KEY WORDS

Kindergarten of Dispilio Kastorias/Greece

Despoina-Pepy Tsakiri and

 Ευσεβεία Ασβεστά-Κωνσταντινίδου

1st Kindergarten Chalastra

Children took pieces of ice and came back home!

preschool 2nd CI O.M.Corbino - Augusta Italy

PART 4

They made their way back even faster. They didn't want to waste time, because in the heat it would melt. Some children climbed Fenya. Others attached themselves to Viz's wings and those who remained sat on Pecis's back.

In half the time they reached the cities and their homes.

But when they arrived in front of their parents, there was no longer any trace of the ice. There was only water in their pockets. Who knows, maybe even that water was magical, because the mums and dads were still crying, but with joy. Who sang and who danced. They were all cheerful and happy. They kissed and hugged their children with transport and love. In the cities there were celebrations with fireworks. Everyone was happy and happy again.

So was it really true that the secret of happiness was kept in the kingdom of ice?

Or, much more simply, people understood that true happiness was right there, next to them, in their homes. 

It was enough just to see her!

„Mihail Sadoveanu” High School Borca, Romania

Teacher, Bondar Gladiola

Part 4 - Story about glaciers

Nasi Vasiliki, 10th Kindergarten of Ioannina, Greece

, 3ο νηπιαγωγείο Βροντάδου, νησί Χίος, Ελλάδα (τάξη 2) - Μαρκέλλα Σίρρη

KEY WORDS:

WINTER 

WORLD OF ICE

HAPPINESS

PARENTS

SPARKLING

SKY

SEA

FALCON

CHEETAH

DOLPHIN

     A HEDGEHOG AS A FRIEND

A sunny day dawned. Do-do the hedgehog woke up happy. Finally Spring. The sun  was shining, the birds were chirping sweetly and do-do went to find his friends.

He saw them all together under the big tree in the forest clearing.

Where they were playing, Do-do the hedgehog hugged the bunny and it started to cry because the hedgehog filled it with thorns and it was bleeding. The hedgehog was sad, lowered his head and said "sorry" in a low voice. The other animals were frozen by the sight and shouted to him:

We will put caps of markers on the hedgehog.

https://youtu.be/7fll2MdK8Tk

Team 1

Kindergarten of Dispilio Kastorias-Greece

Despoina-Pepy Tsakiri

Ευσεβεία Ασβεστά-Κωνσταντινίδου

https://youtu.be/1nP0h9R_ooA

D idem KÖSE Fatih Primary School