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Six schools, hundreds of children, dozens of teachers ... Our workrequires that we coordinate all of us. This year we had three meetings toorganize the project: Trutnov (Czech Republic), Cossington (UK) and Portode Mós (Portugal) in June. At these meetings, the teachers agreed activi-
ties and dates, discussingprocedures and in search ofsolutions to achieve the ob-jectives. A great experience.Thanks to our hosts!
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We coordinate: Trutnov,We coordinate: Trutnov,We coordinate: Trutnov,Cossington, Porto de MósCossington, Porto de MósCossington, Porto de Mós
Congratulations,Congratulations,Congratulations,monsters!monsters!monsters!First anniversaryFirst anniversaryFirst anniversary
It's a nice dream: VMM project celebrates itsfirst year, with illusions and effort. Hundreds of children inSweden, UK, Czech Republic, Portugal, Italy and the Spa-nish state have been working together this year aroundthe monsters and their presence in children's literature.
We met friends, creating monster-pets which travelalong Europe, inventing Virtual Museum of Monstersbeings, writing stories with them, preparing a multilingualdictionary …
We have worked very hard! Together we have over-come borders and language differences.
1. 1. 1. Congratulations, Monsters! First anniversary
1. 1. 1. We coordinate:Trutnov, Cossington,Porto de Mós
2/7.2/7.2/7.6 friendly schools
8. 8. 8.Good news! Another
year with monsters
8. 8. 8.Follow us online
1 year, 100 joys1 year, 100 joys1 year, 100 joys
We have one year to work with ourfriends in Europe. It seems a short time,but we did many things.
With Lion, our monster-pet, childrenlearned how to make and read QR codeson the iPad.
Celebrate Carnival. The whole schooldressed as monsters. Jaco, the monsterPortuguese, was at the party and put on amask of Lion.
Children cared much to Jaco: visited amuseum of painting, learned to brush myteeth, went to the Municipal Library, par-ticipate in birthday parties, recycle schoolpaper …
Violeta Monreal writer came to theschool to talk about monsters and books.Now the school library has more funbooks about monsters: 36 books. 10monsters invented attractive to the Vir-tual Museum.
We work with English School and PortugueseSchool: write tales of monsters with collaborati-ve techniques.
VMM prepare project merchandising: pencilsand bookmarks. Also recorded on the iPad thewords that will be heard in the Multilingual Dic-tionary on line. The kids really enjoy the blog
VMM: like to know latest news and express theiropinion.
In one year the project "Virtual Museum ofMonsters" gave us a lotof joy.
Friends Swedish, En-glish, Portuguese, Ita-lians, Czechs: THANKYOU!
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This is the view of our childrens 3, 4 and 5 years:
"These monsters because we really like we did withlove, eager and with love.We like Lion, Jaco, Prutt... We like all monsters. It'sfun to take pictures with monsters. I also had fun atthe carnival, when the whole school dressed as mons-ters.We like to have friends in other schools of Europe,because friends are very Italian, other friends are ve-ry Swedish, others are very Portuguese... All ourfriends are very handsome and very cool.Our friends in Europe made a very handsome mons-ter dolls.We go to see our friends at their schools. As we golive far away by plane and by boat".
THE TIME WITH LUCY AND STARRYTHE TIME WITH LUCY AND STARRYTHE TIME WITH LUCY AND STARRY
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In february a parcel came to Bifrostspedagogiskaenhet. It was from England. The excitment washigh when we opend it.
That was the first time we met with Lucy and Starry.Together we have had a wounderful time that unfortunatelysoon will end. Its lucky another monster will arrive!
Lucy and Starry have been a big part of our days hereat Bifrost. They have given us questions and tasks. We havelearnd a lot together!
This week Starry came with us to the forrest andasked us about different shapes and what they are called.
The children started to look after things in the forrestwith different shapes.
After this day we have read books about shaped, wehave drawn different shapes, we have looked at differentshapes, made monsters out of shaped and with the iPad wehave made patterns of shapes that we later have made outof pearls.
Thank you Lucy and Starry for a great time and Hello Lion!
Bifrosts förskola (sweden)Bifrosts förskola (sweden)Bifrosts förskola (sweden)
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Cossington c of e primary school (united kingdom)Cossington c of e primary school (united kingdom)Cossington c of e primary school (united kingdom)
Lion and JuvenalLion and JuvenalLion and Juvenal
In March some of the teachers involved inthe Project came to visit our school and meetour pupils. While the weather was typical En-glish weather, everyone was able to see someof the sights of Leicestershire. We also took atrip at the weekend to Stratford upon Avonwhich is where Shakespeare was born. Juvenalcame along too.
This is Juvenal outside Shakespears’s birth-place.
Lion has enjoyed his time in school. Whilstvisiting us he was able to come on a rip toBeaumanor Hall with the year 2 pupils.
We even made him a pirate hat so he couldjoin in.
The children in class 2 have all been makingmonsters at home so Lion felt very welcomewhile in the classroom as he was surrounded bylots of friends.
Lion went home with some of the childrenfrom class 1 and 2 and even went on holidaywith Jamie S from class 2.
We have now waved goodbye to Lion andJuvenal as they set off to visit Sweden and theCzech Republic.
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From Italy arrived a big green monster that likes to eat spiders and insectsand doesn’t like to bathe.He told us a sad story. He lost his parents in Italy and decided to look forthem. The first country was Portugal. He was happy when he realized thatthey also went looking for him and that they were also in Portugal.
We built a monster named Juvenal very environmentallyfriendly and the arrival to our school of two monsterscoming from Italy: Gicca and Org. They come for help to thestudents of the EB1 Corredoura that would support them inthe pursuit of their son Prutt, which got lost in a garden. Theenthusiasm in helping those new friends was immediate.
The month of February was extraordinary for two main reasons: we built a monster named Juvenal very environmentallyfriendly and the arrival to our school of two monsters coming from Italy: Gicca and Org. They come for help to thestudents of the EB1 Corredoura that would support them in the pursuit of their son Prutt, which got lost in a garden. Theenthusiasm in helping those new friends was immediate.We were studying aspects of our coastline and we took them to Nazareth, where he met a sea monster to whom theyasked for help. This monster was going to the Azores. Thus, our friends got to know theexistence of the archipelago aspart of our country. Already in the classroom helped to build a model of that archipelago .The days passed and Prutt was still missing. Bibliomóvel be came if ther sun was there so they ask the asked the librarianif she had seen their son or if he was hiding on the shelves. The librarian teld was sorry to them that she had not seenhim.Meanwhile, our friends went to the mountains surrounding the school, but nothing ... then decided to help colleagues tocultivate our vegetable garden. After this activity others followed: the construction of m2 participation in culturaljourneys, the recreational reading in the reading corner, a trip to the Municipal Library, among others.
During his staying in this kindergarten,together with kids, he learned hygieneconcepts and attitudes, learned how to plantvegetables, heard lots of stories, met Camila(the character of school libraries project ofthis school), learned and taught mathematicsand used ICT to communicate with hisItalian friends.In summary, a journey full of adventures.
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Jacó is a sea monster, chosen by students fromour Kindergarten to represent us in this project.Our friend Jacó, after having caught a big scare inthe polluted waters of his river, decided to travelall over the world to raise awareness and motivatestudents to protect and preserve theenvironment.
Give and takeGive and takeGive and take
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Present from englandPresent from englandPresent from england
During the visit in England wereceived a book for children calledThe Gruffalo. Our pupils worked withthe book and the film during Englishlessons. Children really enjoyed boththe book and the film, whichintroduced them to Englishliterature. The story tells about amouse, who wanders around aforest and is looking for nut. Hemeets a fox, owl and a snake, all of
whom try eat him. To survive, the brave mouse needs to use his wits. He claims he isabout to meet a terrible monster called Gruffalo and this way he chases his enemiesaway. The mouse becomes more and more confident. Nothing bad can happen to him inthe forest. Until he turns round the corner and finds himself face with a figments of hisimagination, the Gruffalo well and the mouse can finally enjoy the found nut. At the endour pupils draw the Gruffalo.
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Children of the Primary School “Gianni Rodari”are waiting for…. Matylda!So there! After the lunch time we found a big case withinside…. Matylda: a beautiful little monster! Finally wecan welcome her among us!Children pampered her, and later put her to sleepbecause Elisa said: “Teacher, she surly is very tiredbecause of the long travel, she needs tosleep.” (Matylda has slept for one hour).When she woke up, Arianna said: “Teacher, maybe shefeels alone because she leaves in Trutnov all hermonster friends. Let’s bring her to our monsters, soshe doesn’t feel alone.” (Matylda met a lots ofdifferent monsters, she socialized with them, sheplayed with them, she also wanted be in love withTANTEDITA, but finally she refused him because he is alatin lover, in fact we saw him send kiss to anothermonster, Bruchettola!)On 14th March was Matylda’s name day: we made a bigparty with her new monster friends. She blew on thecandles and she ate cake (she likes very much thechocolate cake!)On Wednesday at school for lunch there is lasagna: sowe bring with us Matylda to taste it and she likes itvery much!Matylda likes our picture cards that she can find in thebooks of our library, so every day, before going home,we give her a book: she enjoys herself and she doesn’tfell alone during the night.Now she has to leave and we are very sad and Danielesaid: “Teacher, I think that Elisa, Arianna and all girls inthe class will cry a lot!”
Looking for MolliChildren of kindergarten F.ll Cervi tell us:
We are waitingfor a long timethe coming ofMolli. Every daywe asked to ourteachers: “IsMolli coming?”and teacherssaid: “NO”. Butone day Tizianaarrived at schoolwith a big caseand we happilyopened it. “That
happiness, it’s Molli”. A little colored and tendermonster, we were afraid to break her. Molli livedin the monsters’ yellow house, with other Italianmonsters. She enjoyed a lot and she learned someItalian words: mostro (monster), paura (fear),amico (friend), bello (beaty), ciao (hello), comestai? (how are you?), molto bene! (very good!).When she arrived in our school it was snowing andshe went in the garden to play with children.Later spring is coming and she went outside withchildren to pick up flowers and walk in the streets.Molli went with us to the theatre and saw anacting named “il cubo magico” (the magic cube),and later she visited the toys museum: there weretoys that our parents used when they werechildren.
Now we have to sayhello to her, we arevery sad, but welove her.
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The VMM Project is one year old but itdoesn´t finish here. During the next academicyear 2013/2014 we will continue with morework.
Our monster-pets continue their Europeantour. We will do a tribute to Maurice Sendakand his book "Where the Wild things are". Wewill write more stories about monsters in co-
llaboration with our friends. We´ll celebratethe "Monster Month" in our school libraries.We will make an exhibition about theVMM project in local libraries. And other twonewsletters will be published.
During the academic year 2013-2014 we willmake coordination meetings in Italy and Swe-den. And the project will end with an evalua-tion meeting in the Spanish State in June 2014.
Then our Virtual Museum of Monsters willcome true. Thanks for your cooperation.
Happy summer for everyone!
See you in September!
Good news!Good news!Good news!Another yearAnother yearAnother yearwith monsterswith monsterswith monsters
You can visit our blog vmmonsters.euYou can visit our wiki http://virtualmonstersmuseum.wikispaces.com/You can visit our virtual desktop eTwinning:
http://new-twinspace.etwinning.net/web/p86056Also find information on the web pages of our schools.
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--- Colegio Tremañes (Spanish State)
--- Scuola F.lli Cervi (Italy)
--- Základní Škola (Czech Republic)
--- Agrupamento de Escolas de Porto de Mós (Portugal)
--- Cossington C of E Primary School (United Kingdom)
--- Bifrosts förskola (Sweden) Monster logo created by FOCA CLIPART