The Old Man has come back to Italy!

The Old Man has come back to Italy in his FIAT 600 after having travelled to France, Norway, Finland and Portugal and he also took back with him a lot of souvenirs and a new friend from Finland.

Here you can see some pics of the Old Man at school in Stroncone.

He also went to visit the writer Pigi Sbaraglia in the school where he works. 

Here is also his virtual suitcase created using prezi. 

And as a last activities students and teachers from all partner schools wrote their goodbye posts in the padlet below, there is also a message written by the writer himself. 

Created with Padlet

A great workshop and interview with Pigi Sbaraglia

Last 14th May students of class II Bs of the school "B. Brin" (Stroncone - TR) had the chance to have a lecture and a workshop with Pigi Sbaraglia writer of "Le avventure del Vecchietto con la 600".

These activities were part of the etwinning project "The Old Man with his FIAT 600 in Europe" that saw the class involved all the school year together with students for Norway, France, Finland and Portugal.

First of all the writer talked about writing a comic story and explained the children all the most important aspects they should include in a tale.

Then students were split in groups and started preparing a mindmap for a story.

When they finished they interviewed the writer asking questions they thought of and also questions European students had sent.

Here are two videos with all the questions and answers.

Part 1

Part 2

After the interview the students read their stories to the writer and he chose the best two: "San Vecchietto" and "The Old Man in Space". 

At the end of the meeting we gave Pigi Sbaraglia a present: the book with all the Old Man stories and a pen to write more stories! 

The Old Man with his FIAT 600 in Europe: a wonderful ebook!

Some weeks ago students from Italy, France, Norway, Finland and Portugal finished to create their stories for the etwinning project "The Old Man with his FIAT 600 in Europe" that we collected in an ebook created using "calameo".

Students worked in groups and individually and created stories, drew pictures and also invented comprehension activities that they carried out together at school after having read the stories.




Here is the final result.

Old Man Book 1

Publish at Calameo

Skype session Norway-Italy

This morning students of class II Bs had a great Skype session with their Norwegian mates who are working at the eTwinning project "The Old Man with his FIAT 600 in Europe".

They had the chance to ask questions and answer to their peers and practice English.

Some of the questions asked were:

What's the weather like there?
Did the Old Man like Norway?
Do you like Italian food?
What's the most popular sport in Italy?
What do you think Norway is like?
What do you do after school?
How long is your school day?
What subjects do you study at school?
How long are your sumer holidays?
Are your teachers friendly?

That was a really great experience both for students and teachers: it's really nice seeing students willing to speak English, even though they are a bit ashamed!

Here is a video made with kizoa with some pics of the experience.

Skype session with Norway 6th April 2016 - Kizoa Video Editor - Movie Maker

The Old Man and European food!

The Old Man with his FIAT 600 is still travelling around Europe: he started from Italy, then went to France, visited Finland and is about to leave Norway to go to Portugal. +
During his wonderful journey he saw a lot of new things, explored cities and unknown places and also tested new food.

Thanks to the stories created by European students and to some info they gave us on a padlet in the twinspace of our etwinning project, Italian students created this presentation and had the chance to learn what their friends eat and also to use a new tool that is google apps (presentation). We shared this presentation here using another tool that is slideshare.

Our european friends typical food from Chiara Sabatini

A special guest in class II Bs for our etwinning project "The Old Man with his FIAT 600 in Europe"

January 16th we hosted a very special guest in class II Bs in Stroncone: the writer of the Old Man!

Students asked him a lot of questions they were really very curious! 

First we collected questions from all the students of the class and from students from France, Norway and Finland. Then we decided what questions to ask and in what order then he came and we asked all the questions!
The week after students of class II Bs wrote all the answers in a google doc, first in Italian then in English and here is the complete interview both in English and in Italian.

Interview with Pigi Sbaraglia

Publish at Calameo

When Pigi Sbaraglia arrived in class we first greeted him and told him the stories with the adventures of the Old Man in Italy that the students invented, then he read a story from his book, finally we asked him questions. Before leaving he also left his signature on the book! 

In the video below you can see the most relevant moments of this meeting. 

It was really interesting, involving and fun and for all these reasons we are grateful and want to say the writer Pigi Sbaraglia a big 

A school presentation by students of class II Bs

Students of class II Bs created this presentation of their schools taking pictures, writing short descriptions using PicCollage and Kizoa.

Here is the result

Our school - Kizoa Online Movie Maker

Creating the logo for "The Old Man" etwinning project.

Within the etwinning project "The Old Man with his FIAT 600 in Europe" students of class II Bs created some logos both using online apps and drawing.

Here are the results of their work and soon there will also be logos from students of our partner schools around Europe.

Created with Padlet

When all the logos are uploaded the students of all 5 countries (Italy, Finland, France, Norway and Portugal) will vote for the best one that will become the official logo of the project.

The Old Man adventures in Italy (part I)

During these months Italian students have been working on the etwinning project "The Old Man with his FIAT 600 in Europe" and wrote some stories.
Meanwhile the Old Man has been to France and is now on his way to Finland.

Packing in France

Leaving France

             


The stories have first been written using word and then transformed in books using storyjumper and storykit.

Here are some examples

Read this free book made on StoryJumper

Read this free book made on StoryJumper

http://iphone.childrenslibrary.org/cgi-bin/view.py?b=3sckxfyow266nvnc7fjv

We will soon share other stories. Meanwhile even other students in Europe are writing the adventures of the Old Man and when we have all of them we will create a wonderful ebook.

The Old Man and the Voluntary Organizations Day in Stroncone

This morning all the students of the school in Stroncone took part in some activities organized by the Voluntary Organizations of the area. They listened to explanations, played games, carried out involving activities and in this way they came to know what voluntary organizations do for all the people.

Together with the students of class II B there was a special guest, the Old Man with his FIAT 600, who, before leaving for his travel to Europe, took pics and went around the village with them.

Here is a photo album we hope you enjoy!

Photo album personalized with Smilebox

Students of class II Bs in etwinning: first activities.

Students of class II Bs have started taking part in the eTwinning project "The Old Man with his FIAT 600 in Europe" introducing themselves using voki and padlet and writing their profiles in the twinspace (the platform of their project).

Created with Padlet

Then I created a map with all the schools and they enjoyed exploring it. 

The Old Man with his FIAT 600 in Europe: II Bs etwinning project 15-16

"The Old Man with his FIAT 600 in Europe" is the title of the eTwinning project class II Bs is involved this year.

"The Old Man with his FIAT 600” is a character created by Italian teacher and writer Pigi Sbaraglia. 

The adventures this character undertakes are funny mainly because he can’t see very well and he takes the wrong way to go where he would like to so that he ends up going and doing something different what he thought. The main idea of this project is to let the Old Man travel around Europe and have several adventures so that he will come to know different cultures, people and languages. Students of the partner schools will write short stories about him in English and create an ebook from the title “The Old Man with his FIAT 600 in Europe: stories and adventures"

We are going to carry out the activities of this project with students of other 4 European countries: France, Finland, Norway and Portugal.

Here is the certificate of our project and this means that it has been approved all the national agencies of the partner schools.

The main aims of the projects are: 

- to work in teams, 

- to share ideas and methods of work both among sts and teachers,

- to use ICT, 

- to improve their technical skills to create videos and ebooks, 

- to improve their artistic skills by taking photos or drawing pictures of their country,

- to create stories in English to be collected in an ebook, 

- to improve their English (writing and speaking),

- to get to know other EU countries and cultures, 

- to broaden their horizons through realize we are part of a bigger community: the UE, 

- to make EU friends. 

So students will create stories about "The Old Man" and will also talk about music, free time, school, sports and hobbies with teenagers of other countries.