Mother's day flower magnet card

Mother’s day flower magnet card.

An activity for Mother’s Day.

This is a flower shape card.

This year I decided on

this magnet flower idea because

I wanted to create something

that mothers have a look at it every day.

And is there any better place than our fridge?

You will need scissors,

pink flower shape foam,

red paper (any colour will do),

magnetic self-adhesive tape,

double sided tape.

white paper.

First I cut out the coloured paper

in two circles

joined together.

I gave to pupils to fold the circles

at the joining point

and each child wrote

«Στην πιο καλή μαμά του κόσμου!

Τη δική μου!»

And then from inside each pupil wrote

“Σ’αγαπώ μανούλα μου γιατί …”

 following with their personal reasons

of why they love their mum.

After, they put at the back of the circle

the double-sided tape

and put the circle in the middle of the flower.

Lastly at the back of the foam flower

they put the magnetic tape.

 And some personal touching

on the flower petals,

 our cards are ready!

Learning colours making an Easter egg card.

Easter Cards.

A colourful activity for Easter.

Help pupils to learn the colours.

It is a card for Easter with an egg shape.

You will need scissors,

different coloured papers

(colours that I want my pupils to learn),

white paper and

white card paper.

First I cut out an egg shape

 from the plain white paper.

Then I cut

the different coloured papers

 in long stripes.

I asked each pupil to collect

in front of him/her

all the stripes with a specific colour.

«Μαρία βρες όλα τα κόκκινα χαρτάκια.

Κώστα βρες όλα τα πράσινα χαρτάκια.»

When they have finished,

 each pupil should asked from the other pupils

the exact coloured stripes they wanted,

 based on the pattern,

I gave in each pupil

 in the beginning of the activity.

When they were asking for the stripe

they used the following dialogue.

« -Μπορώ να έχω ένα κίτρινο, παρακαλώ;

-Ορίστε, ένα κίτρινο.

-Ευχαριστώ».

After they collected

all the colours they needed,

 I asked them

to take one yellow stripe

 to write the wish

«Καλό Πάσχα»

with a black marker.

And glued this yellow stripe

in the middle of the card.

They continued

with the rest of the stripes

 using the provided pattern.

 When all the egg shape paper

 was covered,

they turned it to the other way

 and used the scissors

 to cut the longer remaining stripes.

At the end, they folded

the white card paper in the middle

 and in front of the card

they glued the striped egg they made.

And these are some of our cards.

Greek Independence Day 1821 script

25^th March 1821

Greek Independence Day.

“Dance of Zalogo” 

script.

This is a script I used last week 

for one of my classes assembly. 

It's a short script because

 the time I had was limited.

You can use it for young classes 

especially when you have more girls than boys.

 So I gave 2 lines to each pupil to learn.

 The boys were the narrators

 and the girls were the "Souliotisses".

This story show to pupils 

how important is freedom.

These Greek women from Souli 

decided to jump down the Zalogo mountains 

from a steep cliff 

to avoid capture and enslavement, 

while signing 

and

 dancing the Greek folk song 

"Dance of Zalogo".

 After they sang all together the song,

  the girls danced the 

"Dance of Zalogo".

At the end each girl step on a chair 

and jump down it one after the other, 

after making their cross. 

It was really engaging for pupils 

to learn about this part of 

the Greek History 

and they did a lot of questions about it.

When working with the script 

I asked them 

how they feel about these women? 

 I was really impressed 

when I took the answer 

" We will probably do the same as we love to be free people!"
Download the script here

Carnival masks Αποκριάτικες μάσκες

Apokries -Αποκριές

Making masks for the Carnival.

In my class the previous week we did the following activity.

It is a mask to wear it for the Carnival fair.

What you will need:

One paper white plate, elastic ribbon, markers, scissors, 

self-adhesive gems/diamonds, feathers, tissue paper, 

stapler or clear gift wrap tape.

We used a white paper plate

and we cut it in half with a scissor.

Then I put it over the child face 

and I draw the eyes holes. 

I cut the holes for the eyes.

After this, they made one hole in each corner for the ribbon. They measured the ribbon with their head 

and they made a knot at the masks’ holes.

Lastly every child drew their mask and added their gems, feathers and tissue paper.

The result was excited pupils

and lots of laughs when they wore their own mask.

Of course, after this crafting activity,

carnival music and «γαϊτανάκι»

was essential for creating the «Αποκριές» feeling!

The Greek Letters Day

Τα Ελληνικά γράμματα

30^th January “The Greek letters” day.

An activity for the Greek Letters Day 
and the three Hierarchs

(Οι Τρεις Ιεράρχες).

In my class this week we did the following activity.

It is a church shape card.

I used this picture with the 3 Hierarchs from this link

and I gave to pupils to colour it.

Then I did this template with the cross on top 

to look like a church.

From one side, in the middle, we glued the picture.

Over the picture pupils wrote 

“Οι 3 Ιεράρχες” and “30 Ιανουαρίου”.

To the left and to the right, pupils choose sentences to copy from the whiteboard that these wise saints had said.

Most of them chose

“ Η ειρήνη είναι το πιο γλυκό πράγμα στον κόσμο”

and

“Η καλή φιλία είναι θησαυρός”

They folded and in the front of the card, where the two are join, they did one coloured cross.

To the back, they wrote their name.

The Three Hierarchs (Οι Τρεις Ιεράρχες) refers to Basil the Great (Μέγας Βασίλειος), Gregory the Theologian (Γρηγόριος ο Θεολόγος) and John Chrysostom ( Ιωάννης ο Χρυσόστομος).

How can you help your pupils spell their name correct?

Do your pupils spell

 their name

 correct in Greek?

Using this technique to my classes

always helped all my pupils

to spell their name correct!

use this money box instead of  your register to help your students to learn spelling their name.

I remembered when I had my first lesson in a year 3 class 

and I was in shock when I realised that they were pupils in my class that they didn't spell their name correct. 

But... this was my 1^st year. 

After I realised that this phenomenon is so common.

 From that moment, I understood how important it was to find a way - activity to be sure that all my pupils can spell their name.

What I did, it was to find a metallic money box that tucked away in a cupboard and use it as my register every day. 

Any box can do the job, just let a hole on top.

I put this box with some small papers and a pencil 

next to my class door

 and when a pupil get inside

 he must write down his/her name

 and put it inside the hole of the money box.

In this way, they practise writing their name 

every day 

in an exciting way. 

The results? 

After 5-7 times, all the children spelled correctly their name!

Learn colours in Greek easy!

Learn the colours 

in Greek easy!

 colours in Greek matching activity

matching activity

What do you need: plain wooden clothes pegs, one plain white paper plate, and markers in different colours (basically the colours you want to teach).

Take the plate and 

write down the names of the colours 

you want to teach.

my plate after I wrote the colours I want to teach

Then paint the pegs with the written colours.

my pegs after colouring

The colours that I chose to teach were:

Κόκκινο=red

Κίτρινο= yellow

Μπλε= blue

Άσπρο= white

Μαύρο= black

Πράσινο= green

Καφέ= brown

Ροζ= pink

Γαλάζιο=light blue

Γκρίζο= grey

Μωβ= purple

Πορτοκαλί= orange

Then you just ask the pupils 

to match the coloured pegs 

with the written words on the plate.

The result was my pupils loved this activity 

and most important they learned the colours so quickly.