What holidays do you celebrate?

Qu fiestas celebras?

Colegio Pblico De Educacin Especial La Quinta, Madrid, SPAIN

Primary school 'Sveti Sava' from Poarevac, SERBIA

About the project

What holidays do you celebrate? Qu fiestas celebras? Is an educational Project which was carried
out on eTwinning.com platform. The participants in the project are Colegio Pblico De Educacin
Especial La Quinta from Madrid, SPAIN and Primary School 'Sveti Sava' from Poarevac,
SERBIA. In the project, pupils introduced holidays which are celebrated in their countries or
worldwide. Languages used in the project are English andSpanish. Age of the pupils is 8-17.

Aims
In the project, students introduced places where they live and their local cultures, and they also
learned about new places and new cultures. They were encouraged to learn how to use new
technologies, arts and crafts, and to achieve learning goals from different subjects connected with the
project in a fun and enjoyable way.

Work process
In the beginning of the project, students got to know each other by exchanging information about
their schools and countries. Next, students presented holidays which are celebrate in their countries
Book Day, Easter, Mothers Day, Fathers Day etc. In the end, students watched the videos and
presentations from partner school, created a project board, and evaluated the project. Project website
was also created. During the project, teachers shared with each other technologies and resources they
used with SEN students to support teaching-learning process.

Project results
The project encouraged students to improve their computer and communicative skills. It also made
them realize that no matter which country we come from, they share a common European history
and culture. In addition, teachers discovered new methodologies and technologies they could use
with SEN students, such as educative software for PCs, APPs for tablets and activities for Smart
Board.

Our schools
LA QUINTA
This is how students from La Quinta presented themselves. The children drew themselves, their
school and theirteachers. Here are some of the pictures from the videos they made:

This is class EBO C

This is class EBOG

This is how children from Sveti Sava school see themselves, their classroom, and their teacher.

International Women's Day

We started our project with International Women Day. This holiday is celebrated worldwide,
including both Spain and Serbia, on 8th March. In Spain children talked about gender equality, and
occupations. In Serbia, children made ecards.
Womens day in "La Quinta"
1. Kids chose the professions they liked

2. We talked about them

3. We painted them

5. We pasted them

4. We cut them

6. We created a poster

7. And this is the result

Another activity in "La Quinta"

It is important for our students to understand the meaning of "The woman's day" and its
consequences, so we decided to talk about the role of women in our society.

The whole concept of gender equality is was a bit

difficult for students to understand. However, we
discussed jobs and things women and men can do.

After that, we looked at a picture of a family. A man and a

woman with their child are doing some domestic activities.
Some of our students assumed that men can't do some things
at home and they said that the image was wrong.

Finally we watched a video about a classical story called

"Cinderello". The principal character was not a girl but a
man. At first it was strange for them because it was not the
story they knew but at the end they enjoyed it.

It is important to talk about these ideas not just in this international day but always.
International Womens day in "Sveti Sava"
Students from Sveti Sava made ecards on this day. We used a website
called http://www.123greetings.com/ for this activity. The postcards were already prepared, but we
customized them, and the kids sent them to their female teachers. They were very happy they did this
activity. They choose the cards themselves, and they typed the messages, which was was a big step
for them, as the Serbian alphabeth is different from the English, and we only learn oral English. We
also learnt new words- flowers, teddy bears, hugs.

We also sent a postcard to teachers from La Quinta. They were kind enough to show the cards to
their students, and together, they sent us a Thank you card. The kids were very happy to see it.

Father's Day
Father's Day is celebrated in many countries on different dates. In Spain the chosen day is on March
19, in the honor of San Jose.In Serbia, this holiday is not celebrated.

This year, in La Quinta we made a bookmark. We have used this template

And this is how we made bookmarks.

And this is the result:

Easter
In Spain, Easter was celebrated on 27th March. In Serbia, Easter was celebrated on 1st of May.
Easter in "La Quinta"
We did a very funy ctivity we played a game where you have to look for Easter eggs.Its called
Peek-a-boo.

Easter in Sveti Sava

First we talked about the Easter and learnt words

connected with Easter

Then we did some colouring.

Then we did some more colouring, this time using the app called Colouring Book, we downloaded from
Google Play Store.

In the end, we made colourful Easter eggs.

April Fools Day

This is a holiday which is celebrated all over the world. It is a celebration of laughter, jokes and funny things.
In Spain this holiday is celebrated on December 28, and in Serbia, on April 1. This was a great

opportunity to talk about how this holiday is celebrated differently in our countries.
April Fools Day in Sveti Sava
We decided to talk about Aprli Fools Day and its meaning. First we drew a clown on the board and
learnt parts of his face. Then we use dan app called 'Colouring Book', to color clowns and jesters.
The app was downloaded for free from Google Play Store.

Then we used the app called 'Funny Clown Photo Editor', that was downloaded from Google Play
Store. The children took photos of themselves, and added stickers to make themselves look like
clowns. Their task after that was to say what stickers they added - pink nose, red mouth, etc. That
way we practiced saying constructions - adjective + noun. Afterwards we talked about internet
safety, and how they shouldn't use apps like this to mock their friends, or post their friends' photos
online.

Our final task was creating bookmarks that looked like clowns. We used the similar template to the
one that our Spanish friends used for Fathers' Day.

April Fools Day in La Quinta

We looked at what students from Serbia did for April Fools Day. We talked about how they
celebrate it, and we told jokes. .

We liked their clown activities, so we decided to colour pictures of clowns too.

We also made paper dolls, because we wanted to show to our partners how we celebrate April
FoolsDay in Spain when a person is not watching, we try to stick paper dolls on his back!And
wesay: "Inocente, inocente!"

Cultural week in la Quinta

Last week we celebrated the cultural week at our school, "La Quinta". We had umerous workshops.
All related to food, as the motto of our school this year is "We are what we eat".
In this workshop kids paint with food: Condensed milk with food coloring, chocolate and ketchup.
The students really enjoyed it.

Next workshop we had was to learn how to make hedgehogs with macaroni. In these pictures you
can see the process. We hope you enjoy it.

We held another workshop, and that was making

flower pots with macaroni. As Mothers Day was
getting close, we decided to make these pots as a gift to
congratulate the mothers on their day.

nother workshop we have done was making broaches. We gave them away to entire school
community. Strawberries and watermelon broaches were the prettiest.

Some of activities carried out by students EBO G:

Mother's Day
In Spain Mother's Day is celebrated on the first Sunday of May. Children often make handmade
presents at school and give them to their mothers to congratulate them this special day.
This was our gift:

This is how we made them:

World Book Day

April 23 was: the day of the book. We have decided to celebrate this important day by reading a
strorystory "A Taste of the moon" bz Michael Grejniec together.
In La Quinta
After reading the book, we colored the tales characters, cut them and plasticized them.

Finally, we performed the tale with the characters in our classroom.

In Sveti Sava'
We read the story, then we cut and coloured the characters from the story.

Then we recreated a story and made a poster.

World book day in La Quinta

Another activity during the World Book Day was making broches and giving them away to the
whole educational community. Look how cool they were:

EBO G students have made a tribute to

Miguel de Cervantes, and they decided
tolearn more about his life and create a
poster. This is what they did:

They also read a story "El Quijote" and talked about the characters:

Students EBOC saw the work about Cervantes that students from EBO G made:

When we finished watching the videos, we read the story: "El Quijote"

As we liked the story, we draw their main characters:

GREYHOUND -.faithful dog of "Don Quixote". He was

accompanied on his hunts. He is fast and skinny.

CASTILLA LA MANCHA- in the great work of Miguel de

Cervantes, Castilla is a character.

DULCINEA DEL TOBOSO- the most beautiful

maiden on the face of the Earth.

SANCHO PANZA a person of a big heart. He is

Don Quixote faithful companion, Escudero
accompanying him wherever he goes.

DON QUIXOTE - the main character of the work of

Cervantes.Noble and honorable, he worries more of
others than himself

We all coloured the characters, and this is the result:

Earth Day in Sveti Sava

On April 22 we decided to talk about Earth Day, which is celebrated around the world. Our school is
part of an international project called Eco schools, so we talked about the project as well, and why
ecology is important for us. We also decided to show to our friends from La Quinta, how ecofriendly our school is.

This is our eco-school tree board, and these are the

recycling bins in the school yard.

These are the trees and bushes that students have

planted themselves in the school yard.

Then we got back to our classroom. Today

we decided to talk about animals. First we
talked about our favourite animals ad why
they are important for us. Then we played
Animal Jigsaw Puzzle Toddlers

Next, we looked at the video from youtube.com

called Animals Chant 1 and we repeated the
names of the animals and the colours.
We used the app called Kids coloring book. The
kids coloured the animals, and in the end they had
to say what animals they coloured, and what
colours they used.

In the end, we used the app called Animals, created on learningapp.org website. Students' task was to
connect the descriptions of the animals with the pictures.

Celebrate Diversity
The etwinning platform has invited the whole community to celebrate diversity on 9 May. And we
have added our videos on Celebrate Diversity page!

San Isidro

The May 15 is a holiday in Madrid. It is a celebration of its patron saint,

San Isidro Labrador.

At school we do our own embroidered Manila shawls.

We carried out numerous activities at school to celebrate San Isidro, our patron.

After so much work, it is time for "The festival of San Isidr!" The whole school is celebrating: We
danced with "La Tuna" chocolate con churros breakfast, we take snack, donuts San Isidro with
lemonade and enjoyed many of the games. It was a fantastic day which the entire school community
really enjoyed.

Flower festival
On the 7th and 8th of May, there was a Festival of flowers in Pozarevac. The main square of our
little town was covered in flowers. There were exibitions, competitions and various performances.
Therefore, we decided to have a lesson about flowers in our class too.
First we visited the flower garden of our school. We talked about beautiful colours on the flowers.

Then we decided to make flower pots, just like our Spanish friends made for Mothers Day.

European Day of Parks

On May 24th, we decided to celebrate European Day of Parks. It was part of the Eco school project.
Sveti Sava also took part in this, by creating a poster about parks.

Evaluation of the project

Sadly, all good things come to an end. This is the end of our project. :-( Our wonderful students did
an evaluation of the project. Both schools used the same evaluation form.

Filing the evaluation form in La Quinta

Filing the evaluation form in Sveti Sava

Students at both schools looked at the videos and pictures from the eTwinning website, and talked
about our project and all the activities they did. Then students coloured flags from partner countries,
and created project boards.

At Sveti Sava school

At La Quinta school

In the end, the students were awarded certificates for participating in the project.