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Father’s Day Poster Activity

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 Gonca Solmaz /Gaziemir Science And Art Center Father’s Day Poster Activity As part of our special days and cultural awareness activities, our students prepared a meaningful poster for Father’s Day . The aim of this activity was to help students express love, respect, gratitude, and appreciation for fathers through visual design and English language use. In the poster, students highlighted the important values associated with fathers, such as love, support, guidance, strength, and inspiration . They used warm family visuals, hearts, gifts, flowers, and a cheerful design to reflect the special bond between fathers and children. The message “Happy Father’s Day!” was presented in a colorful and joyful way. This activity also gave students the opportunity to improve their creativity, digital design skills, and English vocabulary. While designing the poster, they learned how to use meaningful words and visual symbols together to create an emotional and effective message. Through this wo...

Creating Together Across Seas

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  Here you can find the project joint and collaborative products.   The joint product reflects the spirit of our project: learning from one another, celebrating our cultural heritage and building bridges between countries through collaboration and understanding. Therefore, our students have designed a calendar called "Our Shared Cultural Calendar" in which one can see important days of our cultures.   CALENDAR  👉 The collaborative product is the result of the creativity, teamwork and friendship of students from Türkiye, Greece and Poland. Through shared proverbs, traditional games, local foods, cultural celebrations, music and dances, our students discovered that although our cultures may be different, we share many common values. Working together across borders, they created a story that highlights friendship, cooperation, respect for diversity and environmental awareness.  This collaborative product not only showcases students’ creativity and digital s...

Traditional game "Mila', 105th Primary School of Thessaloniki

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  TRADITIONAL GAME 'MILA'  Since culture also means traditional games , the kids decided to show their friends from the other two countries a traditional game played very often not only at school but everywhere! This game is "Mila" or 'Apples' in English. They prepared a video for them to see: Mila

Dissemination Event_105th Primary School of Thessaloniki

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  03-06-2026 The project was presented to parents, students, teachers in the MUNICIPALITY CULTURAL CENTRE OF THESSALONIKI in ANO TOUMPA. Everyone who attended the event at the Cultural Centre had the opportunity to discover the work we carried out during the project, learn more about our eTwinning activities, and understand how important it is for young learners of English to be given meaningful opportunities to express themselves in English. Throughout the project, our students wrote, spoke, collaborated in international groups using English as their common language, created stories, and contributed to a shared book and a calendar of events from each participating country. Participating in such an inspiring eTwinning project was a truly rewarding and moving experience. Everyone present at the Cultural Centre could feel how meaningful and valuable this journey was. 💖 You can see our presentation by clicking on the link below : 💢 CANVA PRESENTATION (in Greek) 👉  

STUDENTS' ONLINE MEETINGS

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 1st MEETING We were very happy to join an online meeting where our students could meet each other for the first time and have some fun together. They talked about their schools, hobbies, and interests using fantastic question cards prepared by our teacher, Pinar. Students also enjoyed playing an exciting Kahoot quiz about Poland. It was a great chance to get to know one another, share smiles, and start new friendships! 2nd MEETING At our spring meeting, everyone was getting to know each other a little better. The first reason for this was that we had met during our first online meeting, and also another reason was because the Turkish students had visited their friends in Poland during the last week of March as part of the Erasmus+ project they were participating in. During this online meeting, our Turkish students talked about their visit to Poland. Afterward, we learned about 23rd April Children festival in Turkiye, the different Easter celebrations in Greece and Poland. Finally,...

Final thoughts_105th Primary School of Thessaloniki

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What I liked about the project! When the project was closing to its end, I asked the kids to say what they liked about the project. You can see that in the following video.

21 May - World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development

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  Celebrating World Day for Cultural Diversity through  “Connecting Cultures”! 🌍 Happy World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development! May 21st is a special day that celebrates friendship, cooperation, and the beautiful differences that make our world so unique. Imagine a box of crayons with only one colour. It would be quite boring, wouldn’t it? Cultural diversity is what fills our world with different colours, languages, traditions, and stories. This important day reminds us to build bridges of communication, listen to one another, respect our differences, and live together in peace. In our eTwinning project, “Connecting Cultures,” we did not just talk about diversity — we experienced it! Together with our wonderful partner schools from Greece,  Turkey and Poland, we became true digital explorers, discovering each other’s cultures and learning from one another. Here is how we celebrated our friendship: 🎨 We created beautiful posters to show what cultu...

Connecting Cultures: Friendship Across Oceans and Seas (MUSTAFA CANKARA SARIYER SCIENCE AND ART CENTER)

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  An example of a recipe from their own culture created using artificial intelligence by students from the Sarıyer Science and Art Center.

Food recipe_105th Primary School of Thessaloniki

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  Food   is a key element in every culture. We share many recipes with Turkiye and can find similar ones with Poland.  So we decided that we can cook and share some recipes with our partners.  Greek recipe "Spetsofai".  A million thanks to Achilles and his mother, Ms Eva, who cooked it for us. You can see the recipe in this presentation : SPETSOFAI  👉 On this PADLET, we can see some traditional recipes of all the participants.  *  PADLET 👉  *  PADLET-SLIDESHOW   👉

Our Project Brochure

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  Gonca SOLMAZ/ Gaziemir Science And Art Center Connecting Cultures: Friendship Across Oceans and Seas – Our Project Brochure As part of our eTwinning project "Connecting Cultures: Friendship Across Oceans and Seas," we designed a project brochure to present our journey, objectives, activities, and achievements in a clear and attractive way. The brochure reflects the spirit of our international partnership between Türkiye, Poland, and Greece . It introduces the main goals of the project, highlights the collaborative activities carried out by our students, and showcases the skills they developed throughout this inspiring experience. Through this project, students explored different cultures, traditions, languages, and cuisines while raising awareness about environmental sustainability. They worked together to create digital products, write collaborative stories, participate in online meetings, and strengthen their communication and teamwork skills. Our brochure also celebrate...
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  Our recipe for Ödemiş meatballs, a part of our culture. Enver Ekinci-Ayrancılar Adnan Menderes Primary School

1st May_ Labour and Solidarity Day

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 Gonca Solmaz/ Gaziemir Science And Art Center 1 May Labour and Solidarity Day Poster Activity As part of our special days and cultural awareness activities, our students prepared an informative poster for 1 May – Labour and Solidarity Day . The aim of this activity was to help students understand the importance of labour, solidarity, equality, and respect for workers’ rights. In the poster, students presented the origins and meaning of May 1 in a clear and visual way. They emphasized that May 1 represents the value of hard work, better working conditions, safe workplaces, justice, and unity. Different professions were included in the design to show that every kind of work is valuable and important for society. The poster also included meaningful symbols such as workers, hands, gears, hearts, and unity signs. These visuals helped students express the message that labour is one of the most important values in social life. Through this activity, our students improved their English la...

MUSIC AND DANCE ACTIVITIES_105th Primary School of Thessaloniki.

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One way to get to know about each other cultures is through music , songs and dances . ❤ Our 4th graders sang & danced to the traditional song ' MILO MOU KOKKINO' MILO MOU KOKKINO_video 👉    source https://creativemusiclearning.blogspot.com/2016/03/blog-post_20.html 💕Another custom in Spring is ' Helidonismata " , a very old Greek custom. Learn more by watching this presentation: HELIDONISMATA   (canva.ppt) 👉  

'Easter Customs & Cards' padlets

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   This is the month we celebrate Easter in Greece and Poland.  We can find more information about Easter on the PADLETS underneath   § EASTER INTRODUCTION BOARD - PADLET 👉  § EASTER INTRODUCTION BOARD- PADLET-SLIDESHOW 👉 We also exchanged Easter cards to wish each other Happy Easter!   EASTER CARDS FROM PARTNERS  💢 EASTER CELEBRATION BOARD-PADLET 👉  💢 EASTER CELEBRATION BOARD-PADLET-SLIDESHOW 👉

SHORT DIALOGUES_PUPPET SHOW_105th Primary School of Thessaloniki

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Since our project is about getting to know each others' culture, the students wrote short dialogues, which they made into posters using AI. The next step was acting them out as a puppet show using traditional figures they made themselves with their Art Teacher at school. They really loved and enjoyed the whole procedure. You can read the short dialogues in this canva presentation 👉  GREECE-SHORT DIALOGUES  (posters) and their puppet show in this canva presentation 👉 GREECE-SHORT DIALOGUES  (puppet show)

Easter in Greece

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Cultural Significance Easter, or Pascha, is considered the most significant religious holiday in Greece, often more celebrated than Christmas. It emphasizes renewal, family connection, and the coming of spring. See the presentations about Greek Easter Customs 1. EASTER.ppt  (made with Canva)  👉 2. CRASHING RED EGGS. canva_ppt  👉   Do you want to see this custom brought to life in class? Then, watch the video. Just click on the link above or just watch the video below.   A famous figure of Easter is Ms Sarakosti *LADY LENT poster with info   (canva) 👉 You can read about our Lady Lent / Ms Sarakosti in my e-class unit: Lady Lent ( Kyra Sarakosti)  👉 The kids sang 'Lazarus' Carols for our friends.   You can listen to the carols sang on the Saturday bebore Palm Sunday in this video: *Lazarus' Carols    👉 More general information a . GREEK ORTHODOX EASTER.ppt  👉 b. EASTER RED EGGS CUSTOM.ppt  👉 source Twinkle c . GREEK E...