Last day: Ljubljana to Loiu through Paris

OUR LAST DAY


Finally the day arrived and we have to leave Trbovlje. At 8 o'clock we have gone to have breakfast and everything was ready for us (even at the hostel have taken care of us). 
At quarter past eight our driver Katarina has arrived  (Go Optic company) and what a wonderful chat from the Hostel to the airport! What an incredible chat we have had with her! We have philosofised about evrything under the sun:  politics, nature, economics, music...What a girl! She could run her own business, but she loves her job and being in contact with people. 

Three little shops at the airport and we bought something in each of them. And of course the T-shirt with the Ljubljana dragon bridge on it:

And at the airport we found this zone, which shows how involved the country is with the reading.

In Paris we have spent 6 hours until taking the plane to Loiu. 

Charles de Gaule is huge comparing to the cossy Slovenian capital city airport. But there are lots of shops to buy souvenirs for the family too. 

And we finish this trip with an image that shows the internationalization: coins from all over the world joined together. 

And remember:

Day 4: best readers competition

Friday, 15 November

Today it has been an exhausting but exciting day , full of emotions, as we are leaving tomorrow. 

First hour in the morning we have interviewed a student about the Reading and Debate Club and afterwards about his skills to draw.
Here you can see the interviews and his drawings.

After this great interview and having seen some of his drawings (most of them comics) we have attended the music class were we have enthustiastically taken part. It has been a very participative class in where rithym and use of different instruments mixed with body expression has been  practised. They were also given a sentences, part of a story, that tey had to read taking into account the mentioned feeling: sad, excited, scared....This has been very interesting to see how they work te reading in other areas.

At 10 o'clock we attended Marian's sport class with the 7th grade student's. They have amazing facilities and today's class has been about volleyball. We couldn't resist the temptation to take part in the class and at the end of hour the teacher has given us a 5, which means a ten in our system. We were more than happy!!!!!

After leaving the gymnasium we have been in a hurry to the Best Readers Ceremony. The selected students from the 4th grade to the 9th grade (3º ESO) have participated in a Kahoot about the 5 books they had to read last school year. The winners have received a prize from the Headmistress. Apart from that , they did a bingo with all the names in a box and the Headmistress took some names out of it and gave them a book. Ursa has asked the winners how did it feel to receive this present. And, of course, they were thrilled and willing to start reading the new book.

From 12 to 13 we have presented our school to some teachers and students. They were very interested in knowing more about us. They really want to come and experience it. 

Ursa and Erika have said that we have lots of things in common, most of all, our worries and our will of self improvement. They have shown us the "Sensorial Room" which is a treasure, like the library, for the students. An as an  image is worth more than a thousand words, have a look at some photos of the room.

We relaxed so much there that we had to hurry to get the train to Lbjuana. What a beautiful city!!!With lots of bridges, palaces and well kept old-town, amazing restaurants and a big square with a market. It will be in short decorated with a big Christmas tree. 

And we have to go to sleep now. Our taxi is arranged for 8:15 tomorrow. We hope you enjoyed the blog. For any questions or information write:

ione.pagonabarraga@sanantonio.eus

itziar.dunaiturria@sanantonio.eus

Day 3: finding new ideas for improvement

THURSDAY 14th

1 PRESENTATION  OF SCHOOL LIBRARY

ACTIVITIES

The National agency  of Slovenia provides the 1st and the 7th graders with a book. In the 7th
grade the problem is that the motivation is going down. This iniative encourages them to know
the local library and the possibilities that reading offers.

In other libraries you have to pay if you don't return a book on time, but here they dont work
with money, they work with candies. On Fridays is the day of the candy. Every child that comes
recieves one. 

READING BADGE (national)

• They read five books and talk with the teacher about the topic of the book: character,

what would you change in the book, etc.

• Ceremony of the best readers: if you talk for all the books in the year you get this badge.

2  OBSERVING READING LITERACY 

9th grade. 

Group work:

Set the corners. Students have to work on different tasks:

• Tenses. The group gets a sentence. They have two dices: one has got question,

affirmative or negative and the other one has activities drawn. They throw the dice and

have to write down a sentence in the tense they have. 

• Reading a text and aswer the questions. Read the text and answer the questions

or write a question for an answer.

• Definitions and words. 
• Present perfect game. Have you ever….?
• Find Slovenian words hidden in class as detectives and translate them. 

3 OBSERVING READING LITERACY AT

ENGLISH LESSONS (7th grade)

1. "Then and now" photo presentation. 

Kitchen photo: Did they have a computer?Did they have a dishwasher, did they
have an electric cooker?

Which year is the photo dated? Students forecast it. 

2. Imagine it is 1940s. What are the things they had at home? In the Student’s Book

there is a list of items. They have to separate them in two columms : they items they had

in the 1940s and the ones they hadn’t.

Lias workshop: games to work on the group feeling.

At the end of the workshop they have created a circle and have spoken  about the aim of
the games which is:

-To feel each oter

-To trust each other

-Not to exclude anybody

- The importance of feeling when you are in a group together.

After finishing the activities, students have been asked about their feelings while doing it
and they all have answered that they have felt like belonging to the group and happy. 

Lia has said that she likes the energy of the group.

We have noticed that some students had different socks and they have explained us that’s
an event for the week  to symbolize the tolerance. 

They are celebrating the international tolerance week:

The United Nations’ (UN) International Day for Tolerance is annually observed on
November 16 to educate people about the need for tolerance in society and to help
them understand the negative effects of intolerance.

The shape of the image is the T of TOLERANCE.

4 PARTICIPATING AT READING CLUB

ACTIVITIES

Students form different grades mixed together. Three students from the Reading
Club and a student from the project Building Bridges.

-Read together. 

DISCUSSION: 

-What have you learnt?

-What were they talking about?

-Themes: do they speak about....?

5 FAMILY LITERACY WORKSHOP

Ursa told us that she was the first eTwinning ambassador in Solvenia. 

The first project she did was with Poland : Working for tolerance.

She got the National Quality Project Certificate and after that they named her
ambassador. She has also a digital book of all the eTwinning projects she has enrolled in.

She is the leader of the family literacy workshop we have been invited to.

One family member has to come with a student. Most of them were mothers, although
there also was a grandmother and a father.

Cobiss reading

She has shown the way of searching a book in their library  via internet.

Suprise bag:( vrecka presenecenja)

• They had to take out an animal out of the bag and then choose a book related

to the animal.

• With that book they had to feel in a sheet with the information required and

draw the animal.

• Afterwards they had to do the presentation in front of the audience.

• They meet once a month. 
• They have to locate each animal in its natural environment in a map. 

After that all, of them have to explain the information with all the group and to finish she gave a sweet to each one and a DIY kit for crafting their own bookmark. On December she will read for them: storytelling and they have already arranged the date. Ursa told us that after this activity she will organise surprising activities.

After such an interesting day of activities and innovative ideas for our classes we have gone to have dinner to our favourite restaurant here the "K5".

And because of the Diabetes international day the school and lots of buildings in Trbovlje have dressed today in blue. Here the photo of the school:

Tomorrow we have another amazing day waiting for us. We are going to interview one of the students of the Debate Club and we are also visiting Ljubljana. We are looking forward to it!!!

Slovenian trip: day 2

Day 2: Wednesday

We have started the day with a typical slovenian breakfast. Ursa the responsible for the school library and Lia, the danish volunteer from the "European Solidary Corps" have come to meet us at the hostel.

 After that we have gone up a hill and the school is on top of it. There is a lot of vegetation in the school hall: it looks alive and fresh. A bust of the second world war heroe "Toncke Cec" is set in a corner of the hall. The school was named after this man.

Then we have visited the school library. It is a cossy place, with lots of resources and the soul of the library Ursa has explained the meaning of the posters and signs that were placed there.

In the library we could also see the "Reading Club" sign with the book that we are reading for the eTwinning project and one of the logos the students have created. 

The last photo is the ad of the national month of common reading. It was hold in September. The participants had to be fifteen minutes a day reading together for a month. It can be a group members of a family, friends, school comunity memebers, etc. 

Ursa spoke to us about the "international month to exchange bookmarks project". Once you enroll the project they asign you a school and students have to create bookmarks to send their international mates. That has arisen in me the wish of creating one for Ursa with our school logo. 

After the tour of the school we have visited some students who have just arrived in Slovenia from Bosnia and were practising the city places vocabulary with the help of cards. Itziar and me have also practicipated in the game.  We continue learning words in Slovenian: pekarna means bakery. 

At 10:15 we have met Minja, the 3rd grade English teacher. They learn English through games and songs , without any books. They focus on the fluency and pronuounciation in this level and in fact the pupils had an amazing pronounciation. They have started with a welcome song. Then they have played a game passing a ball to each other and asking and answering questions about animals, colours, ages and the town where they live. They have  practised vocabulary about ilnesses and after that they have put it into practice rolleplaying it. Before ending the class they have played in corners different games in short periods of times. 

1. At 11:10 the students from the Reading Club presented Trbovlje and Slovenia. They were very excited to share with us all the hard work they have been doing for two weeks. One of the students from the group is very gifted in drawing and one his photos was even chosen by the Townhall to be published:

They have also a debate club and we have taken lots of ideas to put into practise in our classes regardeless the language.

After having rested for a while in the hostel, Ursa has brought us to the Etno Museum. The coal mine industry was very important for the developing of the city  and in this museum they try to build a bridge between the past and the future. They explain the story of the mine coal industry using the new technology, such us virtual reality. The ceiling of the room is the turning platform for the town theatre stage where international meetings about the highest technologies are hold. For example the ASIMO ONDO humanoid robot was presented here. The fact of having the most expert ingeneers working in the mines in the past has a lot to do with the fact that they continue developing the highest technology here in Trbovje.  

 The guide has been exceptional, completely recommendable. The wall fresco behind us is a copy of the real one (including the colours) that used to be in the washing room and was the last thing the miners saw before going down. It represents the importance of collaboration  among miners. They had to go always in groups of three so that if something happened to one of them ,,one could go up asking for help and the other could stay.

On our way to have dinner, ....,What a surprise! We have found a telephone booth where you can find books that people let to share with anyone that is interested in reading.

What watch out!!! (POZOR in Slovenian)

and meeting new people and living new experiences with international mates even more!