ENHANCING BOOK READING
NEWSLETTER
ISSUE 1 DECEMBER 2018
Hello, dear friends from Italy, Poland, Spain and Turkey!
This is the very first issue of our newsletter. We are already well into the project. Every school has already started with activities in the project. Our Spanish partners are in charge of the communication and coordiantion amongst all partners, the Italian team has prepared the eTwinnig portal, our Polish partners are in charge of the Facebook profile, our Turkish partners arepraparing everything for the first international meeting. The first steps have already been taken. We have chosen our logo with the help of our Polish team, each school has prepared the Erasmus + corner. All activities strive for the same aim: We want to enjoy reading books, have fun, we want to learn and understand our world through reading, and we want to learn about literature of our patner's nations. We are looking forward to getting to know more about our partners, their litarature, the books they read and the activities they have in store! See you in Turkey! Find out more about each of the countrie's activities in the next newsletter. the Slovenian team
WHO ARE WE? ITALY
School: ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO G. VERGA Coordinator: Francesca Belluardo
the Italian student team
Erasmus + corner
POLAND
School: SZKOLA PODSTAWOWA Z ODDZIALAMI INTEGRACYJNYMI NR 5 IM. HENRYKA SIENKIEWICZA Coordinator: Justyna Paliga
the Polish team
Erasmus + corner
SLOVENIA
School: OŠ DR. JANEZA MENCINGERJA BOHINJSKA BISTRICA Coordinator: Urška Repinc
the Slovenian team
Erasmus + corner
SPAIN
School: CEIP 12 DE OCTUBRE Coordinator: Cristina GarcĂa
the Spanish coordinator Cristina
part of the Spanish team
TURKEY
School: KUTAHYA OZEL DOGA ORTAOKULU Coordinator: Elif EkmekÒ«i
the Turkish team and their logo
Erasmus + corner
LOGO COMPETITION In October there was a lot of drawing and brainstorming going on in each school. We were drawing suggestions for the logo contest. Each school chose one logo for the overall contest. The finalists:
Slovenia
Spain
Poland
Italy
Turkey
The voting contest for the logo of our Erasmus + project took place in each school on 23rd October 2018. The winning logo comes from Italy. It was designed by Matteo Barone. BITS AND BOBS Slovenian national anthem (part of poem Zdravljica/A Toast) by France Prešeren, one of the most renowned poets in Slovenian history
Let’s drink that every nation Will live to see the bright day’s birth When ‘neath the sun’s rotation Dissent is banished from the earth, All will be
Kinfolk free With neighbours none in enmity.
(translated by Tom Priestly and Henry Cooper)
SOME PHOTOS FROM THE LOGO COMPETITION
Spain
Italy
Slovenia
Turkey
Poland
BOOK PRESENTATIONS IN SLOVENIA (by Zvezda V. Košir and Tina Bučar, students)
In Slovenia, every student is compelled to read at least three books a year at home. Two are chosen by teachers, but each student may choose the first book by themselves according to their preference. The aim is to present each book to schoolmates so as to give them ideas for the future books they want to read. The first step was to visit the public library where the student chose their books with the help of the librarians. The sudents had a couple of weeks to read their books, then we wrote presentations at school. After another week of learning the presentation by heart, the students make presentations for their schholmates. Another positive side of the presentations is to give your schoolmate a feedback so they can improve their presenatation and public speaking skills in the future. Each presentation included a handcrafted item inspired by the book. Activities carried out by:
BITS AND BOBS
Celebrating 100 years from the death of Ivan Cankar Ivan Cankar (1876-1918) is one of the most prominent Slovenian writers. He is the author of, among other titles, the short story A Cup of Coffee, which describes his struggle with profound feelings of guilt over his rejection of a cup of delectable drink. From A Cup of coffee (translated by Louis Adamič): “Three or four months later a strange woman brought a cup of coffee to my room. Suddenly I felt a sting in my heart. I wanted to cry out from pain. I shivered, my whole being trembling in stark agony. For a man's heart is a just judge; a man's heart does not concern itself with paragraphs in statute books or trifles.”
PHOTO IMPRESSIONS OF DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES Italy
Poland
PHOTO IMPRESSIONS OF DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES Turkey
Slovenia
BITS AND BOBS Our project’s main objectives are: - to enhance students’ reading habits; - to improve students’ literacy and language skills; - to foster students’ self-esteem; - to help students develop multicultural understanding and tolerance as well as banning stereotypes; - to enhance intellectual recognition, social awareness, social responsibility;
- to improve our students’ entrepreneurship and volunteering skills.
READING WITH THE DISABLED (LEARNING ABOUT BRAILLE WRITING SYSTEM) In October, when the world celebrates International Language Day, our school had two special visitors. Andrej, the librarian from our public library, and Robert, who is visually impaired. They helped us understand how a visually impaired person perceives the world, how we can help such people, how we can talk to them, how we shouldn't be afraid to approach them. Robert showed us some everyday items like a mobile phone, a wristwatch and how he uses them (he uses a reading app on the phone, his wristwatch tells him the time). Both visitors showed us how the Braille writing system works, we tried reading short sentences and even tried writing them on a special typewriter. We could literally 'step in the shoes' of the blind by putting on special glasses that simulate different vision impairments. Andrej presented us with specially adapted books for the visually impaired that not only use Braille writing system, but also have illustrations – different surfaces that convey different notions (smooth, ribbed, spiky, soft surfaces). We really enjoyed the lesson and learned not only the different writing system but also testing our senses and shedding some stereotypes about the visually impaired people.
LAST BUT NOT LEAST …
Place the name of our project and the countries involved in the crossword puzzle.
References Frames: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/325455510546617488/?lp=true http://ww2.onvacations.co/reading-frames-and-borders/ https://www.pinterest.com/carterita/bordes/ https://abc.2008php.com/tu_shouji.php?id=57269&topy=2 About Ivan Cankar https://www.miszalozba.com/knjige/skodelica-kave/ Newsletter edited by Anita Zupanc