Share Christmas feeling exchanging Christmas cards

The principal aim is building up knowledge, interest, respect, value other cultures and love for each other through a common interest: Christmas. We love to share Christmas feeling so all the partners will exchange Christmas cards handmade by pupils . We will share with our partners how Christmas is celebrated in our country. We will learn about different Christmas celebrations, typical dishes and recipes, traditional Christmas carols and songs, and information about different countries and cultures around Europe.

This is a very important way to know each other and let us and the kids remember that we are all a big a family even if we live very far from each other. Europe start from the feeling of being a family! Multicultural collaboration gives a real chance to motivate ourselves and our students to learn and work with people from other cultures. A Christmas card written by a pupil from another country will be a special Christmas present for everyone.

AIMS:

-Establishing communication among different countries using the English language and the mother tongue.

-Sharing the Christmas feeling with students from other countries.

-Know each other and let all of us (teachers and kids) remember that we are a big unique family even if we live very far from each other

-Understand that Europe starts from the feeling of being a family

-Learn about different Christmas celebrations, typical dishes and recipes, traditional Christmas carols and songs, and information about different countries and cultures around world.

WORK PROCESS

15/11/2017 

-Teachers introduce to their students the details of the project.

-Students write in the Christmas card in their own language and translate it into English so all members involved in the project can understand the message.

-Pupils decorate Christmas cards using different techniques and materials

08/12/2017

-last date to send the card. All the teachers of all the school partners have to send by normal post all the cards.

November-december

all the partners share on e twinning live project page:

-pictures about the working process in class with the pupils

-National Christmas Song

-Pictures of national christmas foods and if is possible the recipes.

-The way the country celebrate the Christmas Eve and Christmas day

-All the classroom make a display of received Christmas cards and share the photos of the display (wallpaper) on etwinning

Project school partners from:

-FRANCE

-ROMANIA

-SWEDEN

-GREECE

-ITALY

-TURKEY

-ISLAND-

All the cards recived in Italy (Taggia)

Grazie!Thanks to all of you!

Italian pupils read all the cards recived!

TURKISH STUDENTS ARE VERY HAPPY , BECAUSE THEY RECEIVED THEIR CARDS... THANKS EVERYONE..WE SEND OUR LOVE..

We are a small school which is in Niezdów. There are nice teachers and pupils. Everybody knows each other and respects each other. We have got a modern equipment in classrooms, for example interactive boards, monitoring in the corridors and around the school. There are different dance bands in our school.

In the Christmas Eve, we have twelve dishes. We cannot eat meat on that day, so the most often we have red borsch with small pierogi, dried fruit compot, poppy-seed cake, herrings in cream, herrings in oil, herrings in vinegar, fritters, noodles with poppy seed, hand decorated gingerbreads. Before we begin eating, we share with wafer and we wish Merry Christmas. Children look for the first star on the sky. When they see it, they can start opening the presents, which are under the Christmas tree. We sing Christmas carols, for example ‘Silent Night’, ‘Among the night silence’. Every year, we watch ‘Kevin alone in the house’ in TV. We also like watching old Polish comedies. We visit our relatives and we spend time together.

Students in Poland making the Christmas cards

A few days before Christmas, we decorate the Christmas tree. In some houses, there are false trees, bit in some, there are real ones. Traditional Christmas plant is mistletoe, we hang it under the ceiling or above the door. By the Christmas table, there is always one seat left for an unexpected guest. Under the tablecloth, we lay some hay. This is to symbolize the birth of Jesus Christ in the stable. At twelve o’clock at night, a lot of people go to the church for the midnight mass, which is called “pasterka”.

Christmas is spent with family and friends. We sit by the Christmas table, we eat Christmas dinner, we talk, and children play with their new toys. If the weather is nice, after the dinner we go outside, we make snowman or we go for a walk.

         On the second day of Christmas, we also visit our family, we spend time together and we relax and chill out.

We are so proud of ourselves!!!

The Christmas cards are ready to send to our partner schools!!!

The final result of the project! All the Christmas cards that were sent to Poland! Thank you very much for the cooperation. All the best from Poland!

Results of the project:

-Kids haved improved their communicative skills in English

-kids haved a positive message about our different culture. 

-Kids knewmore about the different way to celebrate Christmas.

-Kids knew more the country flag of each of our partner.

-Kids understood that the knowledge of English language allows us to make friends abroad.

FRANCE - Ecole Louis Guingot - CP/CE1 -