Reaching the end of the pre-unit of Magic Book 2, revising the letters is going to be pursued in a different way this year! In an attempt to combine learning with playing at the same time, we are going to introduce the Alphabet Puzzle Cards that have been designed to be used in different ways: as a puzzle that can be completed individually at school or at home, as a game to be played in pairs or groups with a time challenge – if applicable, or as a competition among individual learners, pairs or groups! Having designed the alphabet puzzle cards on a document, the steps to be followed are very ..read more

Santa’s workshop – Primary School of Efxeinoupoli, Greece Not having an English classroom does not necessarily mean that you miss the chance to enjoy Christmas decorations at school! Find a tree and Christmas decorations that nobody uses at school or the ones you do not use anymore but haven’t thrown away (like I have done), get Santa’s clothes from friends/relatives or even the school itself, find toys from home or the kids at school, choose a part of the entrance or the corridors that is suitable for the task and …. ta daaaaa: Santa’s workshop is now at the entrance of the Primary Schoo ..read more

Food Posters – Primary School of Efxeinoupoli, Greece I don’t know about your teaching context, but posters seem to be our favourite project in my school, especially if learners are urged to work collaboratively on them! Every time we get to the 2nd unit of our 5th grade Pupil’s Book, my learners are very excited to create food posters! They use magazines, leaflets, markers and crayons, they add a lot of imagination and give it all they’ve got with colourful cardboard backgrounds, stickers and glitter! The moment their posters are on the school noticeboard they attract everybody’s attention ..read more

https://blogs.sch.gr/vivihamilou/files/2021/11/Halloween-Primary-School-of-Efxeinoupoli.mp4   This week in our school continues to move in the rhythm of Halloween that is celebrated every year on October 31. We are interested in familiarizing ourselves with this experience that is a cultural element of the English Language that we learn in our school! Last week, the youngest children of the school watched a presentation of the Halloween tradition, sang, danced, while the fourth grade students played a Halloween Escape Room game in groups, using a video projector, in their classroom! Today ..read more

Learners’ progress in Eclass Asynchronous learning platforms have given teachers the opportunity to upload and exploit a great deal of interactive tasks they have either created themselves or found on the internet. Greek public school teachers have been encouraged to use either E-class or E-me, in order to provide asynchronous education to their learners. Although all of us, ESL teachers, upload a number of tasks almost on a daily basis for all of the learners of one or even two schools, we actually fail to have easy access to significant statistics of each task, such as how many learne ..read more

EfxeiNewsPoli, Issue 1, Primary School of Efxeinoupoli, Greece “We’ve got news for you” is the title of the eTwinning project we are involved in this year with the 4th, 5th and 6th learners of the Primary School of Efxeinoupoli, Greece. This project aspires to involve many European learners in the exchange of English school newspapers and the creation of a common newspaper as the end-product of this creative collaboration! Participant learners are invited to write and read English with a real-life purpose and they also have the opportunity to interact via Twinspace, improving thus their ..read more

Here we are again, dear colleagues, in front of our computer screens for hours, trying to do our best to cope with technology issues, as well as provide the optimum learning benefits in 30-minute synchronous online sessions with our learners. Although most of us have been through the same procedure last spring and are familiar with a variety of webtools and lots of theories regarding distance teaching and learning, most of us seem to feel drained after having racked our brains on how to be creative, present engaging tasks and accomplish our teaching goals in different classes for 15-24 sessio ..read more

Physical distancing and long distance teaching have brought forward the best of Greek teachers who seem to have become Web Tool experts in just a few days and struggle to do their best for their learners! In an attempt to create presentable, interactive, educational and entertaining Easter collections for all my classes this year, Thinglink was the web tool that came first to my mind, as it gives teachers the opportunity to integrate links of useful videos and tasks, as well as interactive activities they have probably created themselves using other Web Tools (like LearningApps in my case ..read more

Easter games, activities, information, quizzes, cooking and crafting, all in one place! If this is what you’ve been looking for for your learners, feel free to use it ..read more

Another Thinglink interactive image, for my 5th Graders this time! If your 5th Graders are anything like mine, I think they will love it! Feel free to use it ..read more