ADVENT WREATH

These days people in Slovakia are buying or making their own advent wreath and will light the first candle on the 28th November.

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Poprad, Slovakia

Mind Maps Finale

We have closed our online mind mapping/brain storming sessions here at Poli.

As the first steps on this current Christmas project I had my students in classes HaRibó and Deja Vu create the mind maps below. These minds maps were to get the kids thinking about the subjects at hand. They can be used as a vocabulary source when they are writing about their school, towns and of course Christmas.

Christmas terms

Poli and Budapest

I find these mind maps very interesting, in fact amazing. Concerning the Poli and Budapest one, they merely were given the two main terms, Poli and Budapest. The fact that they linked the two and were very positive is great.

We teachers involved in this project will be writing less and less and the students more and more as this is all about them.

Christmas Mind Map, a work in progress

Thought it would be fun to start brainstorming and creating a mind map about Christmas with some of my students so I just tossed this up. I will keep updating and eventually embed the mind map here.

The Idea

While at the etwining  PDW in Helsinki, Finland, Növember 12-14 Gabriela Bajtošová from Poprad, Slovakia proposed her idea of doing a short project on Christmas round Europe.

Many of us liked the idea, especially the hosts of the PDW!

This Blog is going to be the host spot of this project.

Check back regularly from the beginning of Advent on for updates and the kids' work on Christmas in their towns, the Spirit of Saint Nicholas