Christmas cards to partner countries / 2017

We made some Christmas cards to our partners again... The pupils really liked this activity and were waiting to get some mail before Christmas.

Very traditional Finnish style cards...

...and even more cards to be sent...

6th project meeting in Finland, May 2018

The final project meeting was held in Finland in May 2018. There were teachers from all participating countries and pupils from Croatia, Greece and Poland doing their learning activities. There were 29 guests altogether! It was a busy week starting on Sunday 20th May with the arrival of the first countries with the children and they were also the last ones to leave on Friday 25th May.

The papers for the meeting are getting ready...

Visiting the classes and doing some crafts with the Finnish pupils.

We had a day full of sports at our school. We started at the sports hall, had some time to ride the ponies and continued with Finnish baseball.

Visiting the Moomin Museum and having an art workshop.

My food country

During the second school year nutrition was one of the important topics. We also discussed the food traditions of our own country and the other partner countries' traditions. We also made posters of them to put on the wall.

My dream school day

In the autumn of 2017 we had a huge competition with all partner countries. It was called My dream school day. The pupils of all grades took part in it and the best ones got nice prizes.

 

 The 1st-2nd graders ones only draw, the 3rd-4th graders draw with small text and the 5th and 6th graders wrote and draw about their dream school day. Here is a small selection of the artwork in our school.

Active teaching and learning activities, challenges etc.

We have tried to activate both the teachers and the pupils throughout the project. The children have carried out different tasks e.g. during the breaks by organizing different sport challenges in smaller scale and we have had some bigger competitions with the whole school, too. The teachers have also tried out new methods in teaching. Here are some examples.

The very first sport challenge and its winners.

The skipping challenge was so popular it was arranged many times.

The floorball challenge.

Sporty breaks in the lessons.

Active language lessons outdoors and indoors.

We got visitors from the sports teams.

The water bottle challenge for the teachers to drink enough water.

The biggest challenge of all, The Tessu marathon was run during a whole week, and suddenly it started to snow. The  total distance was over 400 km an it was run during the breaks.

Para School Day 17.5.2017, Tesomajärven koulu, Tampere

Voitimme "lotossa" eli onnistuimme kolmannella hakukierroksellamme saamaan hakemuksemme läpi Para School Day -päivän viettoon. Meidän kouluun tuli paralympiakomitean keväällä 2017 järjestämän kiertueen mukana myös urheilijavieras sekä vetäjiä pitämään eri pisteitä, joissa pystyi kokeilemaan mm. kävelyä toisen ohjaamana ilman näkökykyä, pyörätuolilla pallopeliä sekä sisällä pallopelejä. Olimme myös yhden luokan kanssa live-lähetyksessä pöyrätuolikelaaja Henry Mannin kanssa. Meillähän on projektin yhtenä aihepiirinä olympialaiset arvot ja erilaisuuden sietäminen ja kunnioittaminen. Päivä oli huippusuosittu ja kaikille jäi siitä hyvä mieli. Tässä vielä tunnelmapaloja päivästä.