31.5.13

May summary



During May we ended writing our book - blog called "Night in the library". Next chapters appeared: Frightened Kate and Julie, Kate began to read ..., Pigs Budkáčik and Dubkáčik, Helping the ants and The Ending. We developed the e-book in programmes: Glossi, Issuu and PowerPoint. They can be read and downloaded. 

In our schools we organized contests for the most interesting bookmark. We celebrated The Day of Libraries and Librarians. As a part of book of the month we were promoting Adventure books

We already know Why is it worth to read. We write and present out thoughts and values, which we gained during working with the project. Slowly we are summing up our project. We created beautiful posters for our project.

Children from Czech Republic and Slovakia took part in The competition by Skype and they wrote letters. We had a videocall with our friends from Czech Republic. We competed between our classes, trying to find out who is better in memorizing words from our spoken dictionary

25.5.13

Award ceremony

On Thursday we awarded winners of the contest for the best bookmark. See the best works and us in action.

1st place


2nd place


3rd place




21.5.13

The Czech Republic: Letters with jokes from Slovakia

 A little of fun for all of us ...




We are reading letters with jokes from our friends:


20.5.13

The common book is finished

We have ended writing our common interactive book. Let's get into magical world of book heroes.
We invite you to read it.


Slovakia: Letters for our friends

 



We agreed with our friends from the Czech Republic in the last interview by Skype that we’ll write letters. We agreed that every student from Slovakia will write a letter and a joke for pupil from the Czech Republic and then they'll write to us.
Pupils drawn in the letter myself and their friend from 2.A class of Rosice of the Czech Republic. Then each of them wrote a joke. The letters we are packed and sent in a parcel by post. Now we are waiting for letters from the Czech Republic.

19.5.13

Our speaking foreign languages










“A Night in the library” among the best eTwinning projects in Poland!

“A Night in the library” among the best eTwinning projects in Poland!
We are excited to announce that “A Night in the library” project is a finalist of Polish eTwinning Awards 2013!

Our common work is going to be awarded on 6 June, during an award ceremony in Warsaw. Keep your fingers crossed!

List of projects awarded in this national competition 2013.

17.5.13

The school contest ended

On Thursday we ended the school contest for the best bookmark. We received 85 applications and the jury had really difficult task to choose the best one among them. All of the bookmarks are beautiful, students put a lot of effort in making them. Although the jury had to make a decision and reward some of them. Debates were stormy, but finally we managed to select winners. We will tell about them on Monday. As for now it's a surprise.


Later we scanned all of the bookmarks so you can admire them.  HERE


Polish bookmarks




15.5.13

Czech bookmarks

Slovakia: Our bookmarks


These bookmarks are the result of the work of pupils 1.B and their parents. Parents and their children "changed" words from our common dictionary to bookmarks. Each pupil chose one word, wrote it on a bookmark and artistically formed with his parents. Thank you all parents for they help!



14.5.13

Meeting with the writer

In May students from 3rd grade took part in the meeting with the writer, musician and educator, Mrs Anna Czerwińska - Rydel. The host of the meeting was Public Library in Bolesławiec. Children actively participated showing their knowledge in terms of musical instruments, their creativity during solving charades and quizzes, as well as knowledge concerning compositions, authors of poems and stories for children. The meeting was very succesful.


13.5.13

The Ending

Girls, so busy with books, didn't notice that outside there was getting brighter. Exciting reading was interrupted by the book gnome, who said:
- Soon there will be morning, so I have to say goodbye to you two. In the library there will be readers, who will take place of gnomes and ghosts. I'm curious if you liked meetings with book characters and our journeys through their worlds?

Girls shouted together:
- It was fantastic! We will never forget those adventures.
- And you, Kate, what do you think about reading now?
- I didn't know that reading is fun, and books hide such great adventures. (See why)

As soon as the librarian comes, I will take "Anne of Green Gables", "Satan from the 7th grade", "Maťko and Kubko" and "Danka and Janka".


- And I'm taking - added Julie - "Series of Unfortunate Events", "The Legend of Spud Murphy", "I had a dog and a cat", "Budkáčik and Dubkáčik" and "Ferda Mravenec".


- So, you won't be bored in next few days I suppose. I will dissapear in a moment, but firstly I will tell you one more secret. I will leave you with a magical bookmark. If you ever had a wish to get back to the world of books, take it in your hands and think about me. Do you want to know, what will happen next?
- Yes, sure! - answered Kate.
- Let's try, then.

As they all touched the magical bookmark, they moved to a strange hut full of books. Some of them were really old and covered with dust, some were brand new with shiny covers.

- That is the magic house on a tree. Sometimes children like you come by - they are siblings: Jack and Annie. When they discovered this place they loved the story of dinosaurs. On one of the pictures Jack saw a pteranodon during a flight. He touched the picture with his finger and said "I wish I could see him flying". As he did that, the house trembled, spinned, and the children moved to the era of dinosaurs. If you want to know the rest of their adventures, read the series of books called Magic Tree House - Mary Pope Osborne.

-Great, I wish I could do the same.
- You will be able to travel, but under one condition: you have to do it together and only once. Later the bookmark will become just a piece of paper.

Girls rushed to check all the books and didn't even notice as the gnome snapped his fingers quietly and dissapeared. On the place where he was standing on, little flickering stars appeared. There were more and more of them. Shortly the whole house was shining with colourful lights. Stunned with the beauty and very exhausted, girls sat on a couch and fell asleep. In the morning they woke up in their beds and, amazed, on their night tables found lists of books to take from the library.


Before lessons they visited the library to take the books and as soon as they got there, the librarian gave Kate the bookmark saying, that she had found it in a book which yesterday the girl came to the library with.

What do you think, what will the girls do?


12.5.13

Helping the ants


The book gnome came to Kate and Julie and said:
Dear girls, one of my good friends asked me to help him. It is a good ant Ferda who lives in the anthill and takes care of everything there. Nowadays they have big problems there – they have many new babies nad too few nannies to look after them. Come please and help them.
The girls agreed so they followed the gnome to the redchair, sat on and immediately they occured in the middle of the anthill.
There were many ant babies crying, so they gave milk to them and put them to sleep. Then they helped to tidy up all toys and prepared other milk.
Ferda offered them a tour though the ant hill, explained and described the life there.He also devoted a book to them full of stories from his life outside and in the anthill.
The girls then returned back to the library looking forvard to reading about Ferda (Ondřej Sekora) and his friends.



Colour the picture:



Watch a story from the anthill:





11.5.13

The competition by Skype

Yesterday we had the videocall with our friends from Czech Republic. We competed between our classes, who from us better memorized words from our spoken dictionary. I chose with the teacher Iveta six words from the dictionary that could children translate into Polish, Slovenian, Slovak, Czech and English languages. Students in each class worked in groups. They had to translate words approximately 15 minutes. They mastered it really perfectly. Congratulations to the pupils of 1.B class from Humenné and pupils of 2.A from Rosice!



The competition by Skype from Ivana Čepová on Vimeo.


...and the others:

10.5.13

Why is it worth to read?

We already know that it's worth to read books. We like reading, because for us it's a lot of fun and brings many advantages with it. What are they? Let's try to gather them HERE.

On our mutual cork board let's write why, according to us, it's worth to read. To upload your idea on the cork board you only have to click on a colorful card, write a sentence and with the key upload a picture. You don't have to log in. Feel invited!


Why is it worth to read?

During working on our project we acquired a big worth, because:





9.5.13

Adventure books

In May we suggest adventure books. Do you like journeys, adventures, mysteries, unexpected turns of events? That's something for you, then. A journey full of dangers, where heroes discover new worlds, find a hidden treasure, or lost people, then they luckily return home. We invite you to read at least one from featured books.




8.5.13

The Day of Libraries and Librarians

Today we celebrate The Day of Libraries and Librarians. Taking the opportunity, we want to show you a list of more or less famous european librarians. Maybe some of the names will surprise you, because we associate them with different activities. We invite you to see the presentation.


Contest for the most interesting bookmark

The rules of the contest 

A bookmark is a helpful thing for every reader. Thanks to it we avoid bending edges or marking a page with a pencil. It can be a postcard from holidays, a plain piece of paper or a painting. A bookmark can be also home-made from an individual idea.


We invite you to take part in a contest for a personally made bookmark.

The technique and used materials are free to choose. It can be a traditional painting, a cut-out or anything else. You can choose between all of the materials which are flat and don't stain books. The format of the work is arbitrary. Each contestant can create only one application.

The jury will take under consideration: creativity, variety of materials used to make a bookmark, originality and presence.

The examples of interesting and unusual bookmarks can be found here: http://pinterest.com/sp1bol/zakadki-do-ksiazek/








7.5.13

Slovakia: Pigs Budkáčik and Dubkáčik

4th story


Girls had very funny with the story about the dog and the cat. Kate even began to read and she very laughed with a fairy tale how the dog and the cat were cooking the cake together.

 When she was reading a book gnome stopped her, because the ghost Kníhdupák wanted to catch him. He was angry that the book gnome does not want to show him a book about two little pigs. Julie already has heard about them. These two pigs are called Budkáčik and Dubkáčik and this book was written by Jozef - Cíger Hronský. They are funny stories about two funny pigs and Kníhdupák does not like them. He wanted to find and destroy the book!



Therefore Julie decided that she finds this book and hides it before Kníhdupák. Kate told her that she help her. Try it too? Can you help them?

Your task: 
Search for words. Then you can go to the library. Lend a book Dubkáčik and Budkáčik - you'll rescue them before Kníhdupák.







4.5.13

Kerpoof

Kerpoof: http://www.kerpoof.com/

Kerpoof is a free online creative web2.0 tool. Kerpoof provides some handy tools for students to enable them to create their own pictures, drawings, story books, movies and comic. It also gives students the ability to share their work with others in a safe environment. (closing on April 15th)

Demo






3.5.13

Slovakia: Kate began to read ...

 3rd story

Kate still sat with Julie in the library. Kate started read a book about Danka and Janka, but when she read the story about the ghost Gevenducha, she closed the book. She was angry.
She didn’t find why ghosts disappeared near Danka and Janka. You do not know get advice for her?

After a while Julie ran up to Kate. She found a book gnome how he doing something with dog and cat in the corner of the library. When she loves books and she had read the book about dog and cat she knew that they making a cake. They gave into cake everything - soap, ketchup, jam, mustard, bones ....

However, after a while they disappeared. Kate was curious to see how it ended with their strange cake. Smiling book gnome snapped his fingers and immediately was given to Kate a book Rozprávky o psíčkovi a mačičke written by a writer Jozef Čapek. Kate began to read ...



Task for you:
Do you remember words from our dictionary?
Help dog and cat to fill the crossword. Try instead Slovak words to English words. You can to print this crossword.


2.5.13

PicoVico

PicoVico: http://www.picovico.com/

Online video slideshow maker. Converts photos into amazing video. Import pictures from Facebook, Flickr or computer, and adds music and text to it. Creates amazing videos from your photos.

Demo


Slovakia: We write book...

Three pigs

Slovakia: Frightened Kate and Julie

2nd story


Kate and Julie find themselves alone in the library. There was only darkness and silence ... After time they saw a little stars. They were all around them. And the stars gradually changed on various monsters. Girls know the ones that made with their friends from Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic in their Lexicon - for example Zobitriočko, 48 očko chlpaté, mummy, Dlhozubec, Kníhdupák, Knihomňam and the others. They were afraid and Kate started screaming and shouting that if all the ghosts disappear, so she’ll begins to read books.

Suddenly they heard a fight of two girls. There appeared also a book gnome and lit up. Before them stood two exactly the same girls. They were called Danka and Janka. Everyone fell silent, ghosts disappeared and twins Kate brought the book Danka and Janka from writer Mária Ďuríčková.


They told her that if she read a story about Gevenducha then she’ll understand why ghosts disappeared. Kate said thanks and she started to read.




Your task:
Try to get pieces with monster in the righ place:     preview