Our 2nd project newspaper: "Er@stagram+" christmas edition

For the second issue of our project newspaper we have shared traditions, superstitions, literary pieces and food recipes with each other to get to know each other's cultures a bit more.
The Christmas edition of our project newspaper: Erastagram christmas

Merry Christmas to everybody!

Customize an ecard

Creative writing task 3

In this assignment you are about to write a recipe or Love/ happines potion . This writing should have three parts:
1.The Ingredient List:
-List all ingredients in order of use.
-Spell out everything: tablespoons, ounces, etc.
2. The Preparation Method:
- If neccessary indicate the size of bowls and cookware. For example, "In a large mixing bowl...."
- Be as short and concise as possible. Use mainly bare infinitives as imperative forms.
3. A final note:
Results of your recipe or potion and possible pieces of advice.

The works of the students who received the highest scores:

Creative writing task 2

For this assignment you are to write a letter to your future self. You might write about yourself now (what you like/dislike, what you think, what you do, people in your life etc.) and make predictions about your future (your hopes, fears, plans etc). You must also include 3 questions. The assignment must be 10, 15 lines long.

 

Creative writing competition - task 1

During the second project year we have a creative writing competition for all students. They will complete a total of 10 creative writing tasks and the submitted pieces will be assessed according to jointly created assessment grid. The best pieces are regularly published and at the end of the year there will be both national and project-level winners.

Task 1:
 First Name Poem
Write a poem about yourself. The first letters of the lines must produce your first name. You can use adjectives only and linking words like and, but, etc. or adverbs like sometimes, never, mainly etc.

We have received lots of poems and selected the top 16 poems. All the writing assignments are assessed by the partner countries using a jointly- created  assessment grid.
The best pieces of the first round:

Day 5 in Lithuania

Friday October 21th

It was the last day for all the participant countries in Litvania/Squodas. All the teams were a bit sad for leaving from this nice country and friendly people. In the last day the stundent cerated their magazines in a team workshop. The results were nice. After the brain battle about Europian languages and culture all the teams had been in lunch break and they’ve prepeared themselves for    the farewell  party.  İn the party they had a chance to taste something from Litvanian cuisine.  İn the party they’ve enjoyed  to  dance with Litvanian folk music. At the end of the party all the teams had taken their certificates  from Litvanian teachers. Everyone in the party were excited beuse of being together, they were happy for being ın Litvania in that week.  İt was farewelll but They’ve gained deep friendships at all.  İn the last day the teacher of Turkish team “Erinç Büyükaşık” had a chance to give lesson to Litvanian studens on Turkish literature and language. He was so excited to have chance like that. 

Students exchange in Lithuania . Day 4

20th October 2016

It was a great 4th day at school . In our visiting lessons we were taught how important and easy is to communicate in any language through music. We learned more about each others , and some techniques the teacher used to encourage her students to feel the music. Using  a wide variety of instruments helps to motivate the students .

Handcraft lesson , was about https://youtu.be/fVJ_hukqaks these precious strips are very often given to brides as a present on that special day. 

We learned how to make them and enjoyed ourselves. 

At school students were participating in a kahoot competition on newspapers basic sections and vocabulary. They had great time and there were  a couple of groups that really did well .

Afterwards the next activity consisted on designing  title, front and topics for our Read in Europe common newspaper. There were five groups and only one won , it was very difficult to decide the winner . 

After lunch , an exciting afternoon was waiting for us. 

We started our journey to Kretinga and there , workshops on candies and baking bread kept us enthusiastic in our aim. 

To end the day , we walked through a nice parks and went to the beach in Palanga . We could feel how low the temperature was next to the sea. Besides, the water was very calm and no waves at all. The young Baltic Sea is not very deep and tides are very small , here we can find the biggest amber store in the world. 

Great family picture with all members and teams of the exchange program : Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Spain , Turkey and specially thanks to our host country Lithuania.

Student exchange in Lithuania - Day 3

Student exchange in Lithuania - 2nd day

The second day of our visit was full of exciting and interesting activities.
Firstly, all students participated in two lessons together with their hosts. They visited lessons such as Arts,  English,  Physics, etc.
Meanwhile,  teachers also observed two lessons, one Lithuanian lesson and an Arts class.  In the Lithuanian lesson the topic students were working on was what it means to be Lithuanian. It was really interesting to see how students presented what it means to them to be Lithuanian.  They worked in groups and even took part in a creative writing task. It was a great lesson. In the Arts class students focused on
drawing faces.

 After the lessons students presented their visits to their local or regional newspapers and they also introduced a contemporary author based on an interview they had conducted using the same set of questions. All the teams were well-prepared and they used a wide range of tools for presenting their findings, such as Powerpoint, Prezi, films, etc. It was really interesting to see how different authors answered the same set of questions and also to compare the different type of newspapers students visited.

The Hungarian team

The Croatian team

The Italian team

The Spanish team

The Turkish team

The Lithuanian team

After a hard working morning we set out to explore the region of Skuodas. We visited a farmer museum where we could see many kinds of tools and equipment dating back to old times, and we could also look at the type of dwelling people had in the past.

We visited the largest rock of Lithuania which students could climb easily and even could surround it holding hands:

The final activity of the day was a pottery workshop, where students learned some information about black ceramics and also ventured to create a piece of pottery of their own:

It was a really eventful and enyojable day for everyone!