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An amazing girl
LITERARY CORNER!!!
The first Learning, working together with the the official logo of the
Caption describing picture or graphic.
Teaching and Training students and teachers project!
Activity of our project from Turkey, FYROM, We were impressed by
Nourishing todays skills Romania and of course, the hospitality of the Si-
for a successful tomor- Sicily. cilians, their cheerful per-
row took place from the There we had the sonalities and the easy-
12th to the 19th of Febru- chance to present the going way of living. We
ary in Vittoria, Sicily. Five video we had made all believe that we gained
students from about Christmas in a priceless experience
our school, Vas- Greece and to watch the during this week and we
silis Giannoula- videos made by the made some very good
kos, Grigoris other students. We vis- friends, as well. We are
Triantafyllou, ited some important now looking forward to
Anna Bazina, places in the region, took welcoming them all in
Rafaela Mitro- photos and worked all Anoixi, for the 2nd Learn-
poulou and Pav- together to make a video ing, Teaching and Train-
los Mastrogian- about our week in Vit- ing Activity of the project,
nopoulos, to- toria. In addition, the logo from the 21st to the 27th
gether with our we had designed with of May!
teachers Mrs the help and guidance of
Anna Diakoumi and our Art teacher, Mr Kiri-
Grammatiki Palamouti, azis, won the competition Paul
spent a week in Vittoria, and was chosen to be Mastrogiannopoulos
Inside this issue:
CINEMA TIME! 2
GiIRAFE MANOR 3
LITERARY CORNER : 4
Mr Who
LITERARY CORNER : An 4
unexpected visitor
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SOCIAL MEDIA
short posts called community of users known
Social media is the collective tweets. Twitter mem- as Wikipedians. Anyone reg-
of online communications bers can broadcast istered on the site can create
channels dedicated to com- tweets and follow other an article for publication.
munity-based input, interac- users' tweets by using Maria Salpiggides
tion, content-sharing and multiple platforms and 2nd Grade
collaboration. devices.
Facebook: is a popular free Google+: is Google's social
social networking web- networking project, de-
site that allows regis- signed to replicate the
tered users to create way people interact
profiles, upload photos offline more closely than
and video, send mes- is the case in other so-
sages and keep in touch cial networking ser-
with friends, family and vices.
colleagues. Wikipedia: is a free, open
Twitter: is a free blog service content online encyclopedia
that allows registered created Wikipedia through
members to broadcast the collaborative effort of a
I
drive a girl named third sequel we see
n 2029 the mu- Laura to the Canadian the superheroes beset
border. At first he re- by everyday problems.
tant population has fuses, but the Profes- They are ageing, ailing
shrunk significantly sor has been waiting and struggling to sur-
and the X-Men for a long time for her vive financially. A de-
have disbanded. to appear. Laura pos- crepit Logan is forced
Logan, whose power to sesses an extraordi- to ask himself if he can
self-heal is dwindling, nary fighting power or even wants to put
has surrendered him- and is in many ways his remaining powers
self to alcohol and now like Wolverine. She is to good use. It would
earns a living as a pursued by sinister appear that in the near
chauffeur. He takes figures working for a -future, the times in
care of the ailing old powerful corporation; which they were able
Professor X whom he this is because her put the world to rights
keeps hidden away. DNA contains the se- are now over.
cret that connects her John Cassimatis
STARRING DIRECTOR PRODUCERS 1st Grade
Adora Svitak aka "Dora the whose sentences are, she tells
Explorer" me, "a little convoluted,that is
An 11-year-old American girl difficult to understand" for
is in big demand on the world her liking.
lecture and classroom circuit. Adora is quick; she types
Adora Svitak is off to pri- between 80 to 112 words per
mary school with her mother. minute, reads two to three
Today's lesson is about po- books per day, and writes
etry and she's really looking around 330,000 words per
forward to it. But 11-year-old year. She sees herself as an
Adora isn't a pupil she's the "educator, poet and humani- lesson. She's in big de-
teacher. tarian," but to the rest of the est teacher in the world. She
has travelled, all expenses mand in the corporate
Described as "a tiny literary world she is simply a child world, too, where she can
giant", there is, it seems, no with an adult brain and paid, to more than 300
schools and classrooms command up to $10,000
end to Adora's talents. She a daily schedule which often for an appearance speak-
started teaching at seven and doesn't end until 11pm. worldwide including China,
Hong Kong, Vietnam and ing to educators and
in the same year had her first Adora has never taken an IQ business people about the
book Flying Fingers (a col- test. They are "not necessar- once to a primary school in
the UK, gaining the nick- impact technology can
lection of short stories which ily the best way to determine have on the creative
contains tips and hints for one's literary intelligence," name "Dora the Explorer" for
the way she opens up the process and has recently
other aspiring writers) pub- she explains ."But I was been hired by Microsoft
lished internationally. Her thrilled to be able to read at experiences of reading and
writing to children. to do demonstrations
second, Dancing Fingers (a three. I just thought everyone about educational com-
collection of poetry written loved reading as much as I Her family has now con-
verted the basement of their puting.
with her older sister), was did."
published last year and she's On discovering otherwise, home in Redmond, Washing-
currently working on another Adora quickly set about ton DC, into a TV studio
from which Adora gives daily Evita Chatzopoulou
four. Historical fiction and spreading the joy of literature 2nd Grade
fantasy are her favourite gen- to others at her own request video conferences to chil-
res, although she prefers J K and becoming, according to dren, adults and teachers,
Rowling to Charles Dickens, her mother Joyce, the young- earning $300 per 50-minute
GIRRAFE MANORKENYA
Are you looking for a dif-
fact, the hotel protects the Penny Boukaki
ferent place to spend your
endangered Rothschild gi- 2nd Grade
summer holiday????? Then
raffes and runs a breeding
you should consider visiting
program to reintroduce them
Giraffe Manor. It is a hotel
into the wild. You can book a
in Nairobi, Kenya that hosts
safari in Kenya and a room in
people for a night and has
Giraffe Manor to enjoy the
10 rooms. Each room is
company of giraffes poking
different and has distinct
their long necks into the win- To catch the reader's attention, place an
It was a rainy day about three months ago. My parents had gone to
the cinema and I had gone to a friend of mine.
After some time I decided to go back home. I couldnt see very well
because it was raining quite hard and there was thick fog. As I was
drawing near my house, I had a strange feeling that someone was
following me. I looked carefully behind me but I couldnt see a
thing. I started walking more quickly but I still had the same feeling.
As I was putting my key in the hole, I felt something near my feet. I
looked down and what did I see? A black and white puppy. It was
soaking wet! I took it in, gave it a bath and when it was dry again, I gave it
FUNNY PUNS!!! something to eat. It was so cute! We played for quite some time and then it
fell asleep!
-What do you call an alli- I was trying to find out how I would persuade my parents to keep it. I knew
gator in a vest? my dad would have no problem but my mum wasnt very keen on animals.
An investigator. With these thoughts I fell asleep.
-My dog can do magic tricks. It's a The next morning I found out that the puppy was still in the house and to my
labracadabrador. surprise, my mum was playing with it! She asked me how the puppy had
-I knew a couple who met in a re- come to our place. I expla;ined to her and asked if we could keep it.
volving door. I think they're still I dont know how this happened but my mum agreed immediately. She said
going round together. that I would be responsible for it. I promised to look after it, I gave it a name
-I was struggling to figure out how Max and he became our pet. I must say that it was one of the happiest days
lightning works then it struck me. of my life.