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Newletter from Sweden mobility 24-29 of April 2016
LANGUAGE LEARNING HAVING FUN
CULTURAL ACTIVITES
PEERLEARNING LOOK AT OUR PROGRESS
EXPLICIT SWEDEN
Final mobility at Kvarnbyskolan Mรถlndal After almost working together for 2 years it was time for the final mobility. It was time to see what our students have learnt and for the teachers to try to summarize our work.
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Monday - language learning After an evening at the hostfamilies and welcome dinner for teacher we started the week by working with classic texts we had work with most of the term, King Arthur, Moomin, Pippi Longstocking and ”The girl with the matches”
Universeummaking robots and learning
We wormed up with little litterature speed dating. We had alot of fun and could quickly see how well the students had done their home work. After a small break the students guided their guests around school. After lunch all students started to work with the main activitie - making a script for a short movie with inspiration from text written by the students. All of them worked very hard. It was amazing to see how independet they solved their task. By the end of the day every peer group had written a synopsis. After dinner at home the students had organized different games in the gym, It was a lot of laughter and music. Every body were involed and came up with ideas for activities. Time went very quick but 8 o´clock we had to stop. Going out from the gym some of the the swedish students came running and told the teacher that one of the finnish boys had hurt his vrists. He had to go to the hospital but luckily it wasn´t anything seriuos.
Universeum- Workshops and challanges In the morning the finnsh students had to take their national exam in maths but the rest of us took the tram to town in the morning. Today we visited Universem - science center. We started the mornig with a workshop where they built drawing robots. Later on they worked in there peer groups solving different challanges. After an interstings day the student wanted some free time to explore Göteborg on their own.
Wednesday - guided tour in Göteborg The swedish students had prepared a guided tour through the city center. We stared in Haga where we tried gigantic cinnamon rolls, to Järntorget where we talked about Olof Palme and the swedish politics. We visited church for fish ”Feskekörka” and churches for people ”Göteborg cathedral”. Later in the day we visited Göteborg city museum where we learnt more about the early history of Göteborg. The tour continues with Göteborgs oldest buildning and more places of intereste. After lunch we took a trip with the tour boat ”Paddan”. It had been a long and cold day. The student were very happy to go home
All the students took part in a work shop at Universeum as well as working with their peer groups having to solve different challanges around the different exibitions.
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Thuresday- filming, cooking and limbo dancing In the morning the students started to shoot their short movies. The teachers had a second meeting to finalized the evaluations. In the afternoon all the movies were done and we had a movie premier. We were very impressed with the worked the worked the students had put in. All the film were very differents. We let the students go home a bit earlier as usual as we were meeting later that day. In the afternoon we all meet in the homeeconomics classrooms. We were about to cook four different main coures and four desserts. We made beef, salmon soup, shepheards pie and sandwich cake. For desert we made scons, apple crumble, lingonberry porridge, mudcake as well as sallad. Everything looked and tasked delicious. The students licked the plates. I couldn´t belive it. After the lovely dinner we went down stairs for a ferwell party with dancing and a spontanious concert. It was a magical night which we wished never ended. But after giving speeches, handing out diplomas and Project yearbooks it was time for us to say good bye.
Friday - some of us stayed a bit longer and attended some English classes It was very emotional to finaly say goodbye to everyone. The danes left first in the morning followed by the finns that desided to do a bit of sightseeing in their own. The english students took part in some English classes, something that was highly appreciated by the Swedish students. Thank you everyone for your hard work during this mobility and during this entire project! Lots of love: Rose-Marie Conway - coordinator.
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