We have been working on our own dictionaries, or ABC books, for the last couple of weeks. Swedish and Latvian students will get email messages sometime in January inviting them to participate. Today we are working on Christmas Power Point Presentations to show to the school in our info screen in the lobby during the last … Continue reading
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Postcards from Latvija!
We received postcards from Latvia today! Our students are thrilled!!! We are in the computer room now posting articles about the cards. Thank you so much and happy weekend!
Friendship Book
We received the postcards from Sweden today. The big and fat envelope was waiting for me in my mailbox today when I came to work. It was perfect timing because our Can I Help You? -lesson is from 10-12 on Fridays. When we started our lesson we took some time to talk about the trip … Continue reading
Postcards across the sea
Two large envelopes full of postcards are on their way to Latvia and Sweden! We spent this Friday’s double lesson making and writing postcards. Our students liked the idea of celebrating the European Day of Languages this way a lot, thanks for the idea Catrin! Last week we were taking photos around Porvoo and now each … Continue reading
Out on the town
Since we will not get visitors this year, we decided to go out and photograph our town so that we could tell you about our town in our blog. Last week we tried to list all the important sights and assigned one for each group to photograph. This week we set off to do the … Continue reading
Blogging – Day Three
This week for our double lesson with the Can I Help You Course we decided to take up a new topic. Katriina and I decided that we will take the kids to town next Friday to take pictures of our home town. We asked the students which places they would like to show our Latvian … Continue reading
Blogging – Day Two
Today we continued working on our student blog. Students opened their posts for editing and added tags and categories in order to make the blog more organized and easy to read. We also added sharing, rating and ‘like’ features, as well as other widgets in the right margin. Some students wanted to write new … Continue reading
Student Blog Started!
Last Friday we met with our students for the second time. One more girl joined the group, so we are now altogether 15 (13 students and 2 adults). Not all of them will be able to travel though, I’m sure. I had uploaded all the photos from last week into the media library in their … Continue reading
In the Beginning
Greetings from Porvoo! This is us looking at your way and waving to you from across the sea. Just some small islands in between and a lot of salt water. We are now altogether 14 people. Katriina and I, four boys and eight girls. It is always possible that one or two students will join … Continue reading