Our school newspaper for this year

The students of 5th Grade made a newspaper this year. Some of them participated eagerly in the process, like real reporters. They all deserve congratulations!
 

English 5th Grade (interactive book)

Click on the book to read and listen to the stories, the songs and the activities of your course book, to play games and much more!! You can navigate to the different Units from the Table of contents in the top-right corner.

To use Present Simple or Continuous? That is the question!

When is it happening? Now? At the moment? These days?
Or does it always happen? Sometimes? Every day? Never?
Very confusing!

Here' s Mr. Chocoman' s recipe for a chocolate mousse dessert for those of you who like cooking.

Below you can find some games:
Cloze test - Simple Present
Multiple choice - Simple Present 
Multiple choice - Present Continuous
Multiple choice - Simple Present or Present Continuous 
Multiple choice 2 - Simple Present or Present Continuous

Numbers

There' s a lot to learn about numbers here.

Do you like fakebook?

The 5th Graders surely liked it a lot! Here are their fakebook pages although they didn' t have much time to complete them!
Angelo' s fakebook
Evi, Chrysanthi and Jenny' s fakebook
Joanna' s team fakebook
I know some of the students tried fakebook at home, too!

The princess and the pea

A fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. You can read it here, but first you can watch the video and do the quiz to see how much you understand!!

Shakespeare and the Globe theatre

A few days ago we talked about Shakespeare in class, his life and works and his theatre, the Globe. I asked the children to make a presentation with all the information that we discussed. Here are the powerpoint presentations that they made with the help of their ICT teacher.

Shakespeare by Alex and Evi from nan_di

Shakespeare by Andrew and Stevia from nan_di

Shakespeare by Angelo and Nick K. from nan_di

Shakespeare by Mary and Chrysanthi from nan_di

Shakespeare by Nick Ch. and Kostas from nan_di

Shakespeare by Rougen and Daniel from nan_di

Shakespeare by Aphrodite and Georgia from nan_di

Shakespeare by Ektoras and Alex from nan_di

Shakespeare by Jenny and Jim from nan_di

Shakespeare by Vasiliki and Micaela from nan_di

The Globe theatre by Spyros and Konstantina from nan_di

William shakespare by Joanna and lucas from nan_di

A field trip to the castle of Methoni

Two days ago the 5^th and 3^rd Grade went on a field trip to the Venetian castle of the town Methoni. 

We went by coach and it took us one hour and a half to get there. The weather was good - a little sunny, a little windy, a little hot, a little bit of everything! 

When we arrived there, we sat at the square near the beach to have a snack and then we took a tour of the castle. We saw the big walls, the emblem of the castle (the lion of Saint Mark), the moat, the canons - even the little colourful flowers and the bugs flying all around us!

We also visited the church and the octagonal tower on Bourtzi, standing in the middle of the sea. The view was wonderful from up there with the waves hitting against the rocks! 

The 5^th graders and their teachers explained a lot of things about the castle and its history and we took a lot of photos. You can enjoy them in the slideshow below.

When we left the castle, we spent some time at the beach, under the shade of the trees, playing, chatting, laughing and having ice cream!  

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Our Vokis

In the computer world, an avatar is a character that represents an online user. Avatars are used in multiplayer gaming, online communities, and Web forums. A voki is a speaking avatar. Click the Play button below to hear my avatar explain how you can make a similar one. You can also read my detailed instructions here.

Look at another example with Nadine, Kostas and Mark here and, if you don' t remember how to post a comment, watch the video here.

THE STUDENTS' VOKIS

After solving the usual problems with our old PC' s which were not working, here are the students' vokis! They are talking about the place where they live and compare it with other places.

A specialist talks to us about Internet safety

Today at school the 5th grade had the chance to listen to a talk about the Internet and being safe while using it.  You know, technology is a powerful tool but we must learn how to use it and avoid its dangers.

This blog is a tool we can all use to communicate, share our ideas and thoughts, comment on each other' s posts, agree and disagree.

This blog gets better when you participate with your own comments. So, please, do share with the rest of us your impressions from today' s talk at school.

How do I post a comment? 

Do you want to know how much you know about internet safety? Do the quiz! 

Did you know we are eTwinners?

Our school is taking part in an eTwinning project this year. Each participating school has to write and illustrate a story based on another school' s wordlist.

Here are my 5th Grade' s first two stories! Enjoy them and forgive us for any mistakes!

 

Here are the next two stories for November:

The story of the lawyer Chimpanzee

Circus for Gorillas

Great Britain or UK?

What do we call Great Britain and what do we call the United Kingdom (UK)?
Find out the difference in this slideshow:

United kingdom from Eugenia Araujo

Story maker

Choose the type of story, then the words that you want and read your story!
Have fun!

Story maker

Kids' Athletics

Yesterday, our two P.E. teachers trained the 5th Grade students to take part in the Kids' athletics event that is coming up. Sprinting, endurance running, jumping, throwing/putting... the athletics games will give children the opportunity to make the most of the beneficial practice of Athletics, in terms of Health, Education, and self fulfillment.

E1 class even made a poster.
See below...

Pirate waters

Click on the picture to play a game with numbers from 10 to 100.

How to play:

Click on the dice to roll. A random number will show up and your ship will advance.
There are traps on the way. Do not land on a volcano island or pirate.
A question will pop up and you must choose the correct answer or risk going back.
Meeting a pirate is ugly – you get shot at and you go back to start. Those pirates are mean!
A dolphin is your best friend in these pirate waters!

The parts of a computer

OK, yοu can use a computer but how many computer words do you know?
Play the game to find out.

Easter Greetings

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Karagiozis

Download and enjoy these Powerpoint presentations created by my 5th Grade students.

Karagiozis 1
Karagiozis 2
Karagiozis 3
Karagiozis 4
Karagiozis 5

Stop bullying now!

Here are the animated videos that the 4th graders made today in the computer lab.

 

ANTIBULLYING DAY by 18dimotiko.kal on GoAnimate

Animated Presentations - Powered by GoAnimate. bullying 2 by 18dimotiko.kal on GoAnimate

Video Maker - Powered by GoAnimate. bullying 1 by 18dimotiko.kal on GoAnimate

Animated Presentations - Powered by GoAnimate.

And here are the posters of the 5th Graders and their messages:

Every problem has a solution

In E class, we learnt how to talk about problems, give our opinion and suggest a solution. The students made some drawings about the things we discussed.