Our learning story mother's day

Our Learning Story: “A poem from all, for our

mother who love”IRENE PATERAKI

9T H KINDERGARTEN SCHOOL OF GLYFADA, ATHENS, GREECE

Theme:• As Mother’s Day is so close, we decided

to make a collaborative poem for our mums and then create a video with photos and drawings that depict the poem

Dream• We discussed the idea

• Watched relevant videos in Youtube

• Read poems about mums

• Discussed about different kind of poems

Map• Students were separated in 4 teams:

script- illustration-photography and music/ICT team

Map

• Created a mind map, saying why they love their mum and the illustration team made relevant drawings

Map

Map

We also created a mind map using bubble.us

Create• Script team used the mind map to write

the poem

Create• Illustration and Photography team met to

decide who is going to do what now they have the poem

• They decided which parts will be depicted with photographs and which will be depicted with drawings

Create• Illustration Team started making the

drawings

Create• Photography team used an iPad to take

the photos

Create • Music/ICT team choose free music for the

video , chose the best photos and scanned drawings. Then used Windows Movie Maker to make the video

Ask and collaborate• Students showed the result to their peers

in the other class and had a video-conference with an expert on video editing, who was the father of an older student at school

Show• Video is uploaded in YouTube and next

week they will give it to their mother in DVD with some other gifts

Show• After the end of the activity, a short survey

records students feedback. We also had a discussion and here are some of their comments:

I liked when the other teams applauded what we did

I liked taking photos with the iPad

It was funny to choose the music, some pieces were not good for my mum

It was tiring to put the pictures in this programme but the result was magic

So: