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Sunday 6 - Monday 7
All the teachers arrive and join the group. We can meet all together
on Monday 7; as the school is closed for a public festival, we meet
at the hotel and have dinner together.
There are teachers from
- Iqbal Masih school, Rome : Simonetta Parenti, Luca Vitali, Paola Arduini
- L.P. Boon , Erembodegem, : Martine Coppens and Cindy Bram
- Zakladni Skola in Zlin : Vladimira Zakrevskà and Eva Praskovà
The coordinator school, Nasa Skola from Ruzomberok, Slovakia, is not
present at this meeting: they wrote an e-mail the day before explaining
that for health problems they are not taking part to the Project meeting.
In the afternoon guided tour to old Kaunas, monuments and to an old
mansion. The guide and the teachers explain Kaunas and Lithuania History.
Tuesday 8
We arrive at Lozaritis school and we are welcomed by the principal Klavdja
Kovalenkina. A folk group formed by teachers and students of various
ages welcomes the group with traditional songs; they wear traditional
clothes
We visit the school : classrooms, labs, features
The group sits in a classroom where is going on an English lesson with
a second form. We can see how the lesson is run and how the children
answer and interact.
Wednesday 9
The group goes by a shuttle to visit Trakaj and its castle.
Thursday 10
We meet at the school in the computer lab. Luca Vitali, Italian teacher,
shows its presentation about English resources on internet and explains
how they can be used in the English classes.
Debate among teachers about IT resources. Teacher of Lozioraities Vida
Sukaitiene says she usually uses computers in English lessons especially
with English games. We discuss and agree on:
- it's better to have computer in the classrooms as a normal tool of
working
- working with computers children are encouraged to use them at home
too and parents can help also bringing to school old computers.
We have a short brainstorming on what points should be discussed during
this meeting :
- Project organization
- Partnership and coordination
- Evaluation of the activity so far, reading the decisions taken in
Rome meeting
- Which activities were carried on in our schools
- What to do with final report that should be written by Project coordinators,
shared and sent to our National Agencies
- Next meeting and Teachers' exchange
- Evaluation of teachers' exchanges.
- Ice age activity
We pass to present and evaluate
the activities carried on so far about Ice Age and CLIL, as we planned
during last meeting.
Activities in the schools
Belgium
-After Rome, meeting with teachers to share all materials. They organize
the whole school year about Ice age.
They prepared different games :
A game Colour Lotto with flash cards with
Ice Age characters for 2,5 - 3 years old children. It's aimed to teach
colours and names
- 4 5 years old pupils made a plasticine
model of mammoth
Then the teacher presents a jig saw with characters and another board
game with numbers and characters 
5 - 6 pupils: game Looking for differences
Print the names with potatoes.
6- 7 pupils: Numbers and writing names
Story time with ace age
The children watched the movie in English
in parts, It was the first time they' ve seen it.
8-9 years old
Domino
Game : families with characters.
In L. P. Boon school teachers shared the
materials with all classes and material is now available for all the
school children.
After that, teachers prepared an
evaluation after each lesson
Then the group discuss on how we can collect
all the material we have in our schools and we can share it. Luca Vitali
suggests some ideas on publishing material on internet. Martine Coppens
will try to organize a paper publishing in Belgium.
Lithuania
All students from 4th to 6th classes watched film then they had to write
a short story.
After that we had some lessons about water cycle (using Simonetta's
material). We prepared tests about meanings
They wrote after another paragraph
Older students worked also on internet making researches about the movie.
After they made drawings.
Czech Republic
Vladimira has sent material
3rd class cooperating with class teacher
They did not watch the whole film, only 2 or 3 parts. They worked with
books
Finding names of animals (crosswords)
Pictures about Ice age is going to be sent
The pupils in 9th class are working on powerpoint presentation during
classes about English and computer.
Italy
In Iqbal Masih school were involved classes
from 3rd to 5th grade.
After the movie pupils were involved in choosing evaluation to be done.
Starting with brain storming helped to involve children's different
skill. During the activity teachers involved different subjects: music,
drawings, science. In the whole project children were actively involved
step by step.
In some classes film was watched in English
In other classes the movie in Italian to compare the results in different
situation to experiment differences.
Activities:
-describing characters
- internet researches about animals by pupils
- comparing point of view of different characters.
- The job is not finishing is going to go on next years.
Discussion about what other materials we
are going to prepare in this school year.
Luca proposes to realize quizzes about Ice age using Quiz faber programme
to publish them on web site; after that pupils of all the schools can
play and compare their results.
After the meeting the BELL group join students
and teachers of the school in the theatre, where there's a ceremony,
with a show, for the last day of school of the older students. 
Friday 10
Meeting of the group to discuss other points:
evaluation of the project and final report of the year. We discuss the
situation, as the teachers of coordinator school seem to have problem
in carrying on their work.
After lunch in the school canteen, we go
to visit Kaunas and a museum.
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