« A world of tales » Comenius project

French work report

March 2011

Eric WINTER

Search of informations on the countriesPresentation of the work to other pupils

Work on the countries

• Better knowledge of other countries

• Opening to other cultures

• Improving of french reading, writing, understanding skills

• Improving of computer skills and websearch

• Collaborative works between pupils

The tales we choose• The three little pigs (french)

• Little thumbs – Charles PERRAULT (french)

• Nothing forgets itself more fast than a returnedservice – Karine TOURNADE (Russian)

• The ugly duckling – Andersen (danish)

Why we have chosen these tales?• « The three little pigs »

the more you work, the more you have the results of your work

• « Little thumbs »

even you are little, you can help some of your friends

• « Nothing forgets itself more fast than a returned service »

don’t forget to remember when someone helps you

• « The ugly duckling »

even your life seems to be hard, you can be happy in the future

=> These tales correspond to behaviours and difficulties of pupils wehave in our school

How we worked on the « 3 little pigs » tales

• The 6-year-old pupils made the summary writing

• The 7-year-old pupils :– made the summary writing verifications (well

understanding, etc)– sent instructions to pupils from 3 to 5 for the drawings

• The 3-year-old pupils drew the lexicon, the keywords

• The 5-year-old pupils drew the landscapes, the decoration drawed the lexicon, the keywords

• The 4-year-old pupils made the characters

• The 8-year-old pupils made the french audio of the summary writing story

• The 9-year-old pupils made the summarywriting story translation in english

• The 10-years-old pupils made the english audio of the summary writing english story

Presentation of the work

How we worked on the other talesExample of « Nothing forgets itself more fast than a returned service

Karine TOURNADE (Russian)

• Reading, understanding and summarize the tale

• Illustrate the tales

– Drawings

How we worked on the other tales

– Election of the best character drawing for eachcharacter

How we worked on general tales

– 8-9-10 year-old pupils are going to read tales in the 5-6-7 year-old-pupil class

– Each class reads tales every week

• Pupils read tales they have prepared to read

• Teacher read

Integration to the project of pupilswith difficulties

• Some pupils with difficulties have worked in a different way on the project with the help of a specialized teacher

• Try to realise an electric game about the tales

The electric game - The ugly duckling

Objective of the gamefind the stages of the story.

If it is correct, the lamp is on

Presentation of the work to the other pupils

Preparation of the partner visit by the pupils

Difficulties we met during the project

• Managing the project by two teachers (Fabienne and me) and try to motivate the other teachers

• Sharing the same tales between 8 classes => takestimes, the more we are, the more it takes time

• The work on a tale takes many times in our class => difficultto share and integrate our « normal institutional work » and the Comenius project work

• 12 weeks to work on 4 tales is ambitious or maybe we have to be less ambitious ourselves with our work

Positive aspects of the Comenius project in our school

• « Happy new year » letters from and to partners• Reading and display of the partner letters at the school

– Writing letters to partners

Positive aspects of the Comenius project in our school

• Collaboration between the teachers on a common project

• All the class integrated in the project

• Each class gives its work for a final common support

• Pupils motivated by the project

• Cultural opening for pupils– Every partner speaks english to communicate although it’s not the

maternal language so english is universal language we must learn– Some people in the world speak other language as french and english– Comparison spanish and french culture

(education, landscape, grounds, monuments, etc) by viewing Murcia video film we took

– Better know the Europe

Conclusion