St. Patrick's Day

   Today was a realy spesial day at our school. It was full of surprises and discoveries.

  Every my English lesson today was devoted to this special event - we had 10-15 minutes contests honored to this saint. The 9th formers have watched the short video about St. Patrick's Day facts with short discussion. In so called "Rainbow Races" both teams showed their knowladge about The Nothern Ireland and its traditions. The winner team got a special prize - Pot of Gold. 

 The students of the 4th grade could find out some interesting information about this holiday and watched the fairy-tale story "How to catch the Leprechaun".

The 5th formers could feel themselves as the best detectives and solved the mystery about Irish symbols.

The 6th grade students have watched the video about history of this holiday and discovered some new facts about the holiday. They also have taken part at St. Patrick's contest full of funny moments. Both teams have got an equal points. 

The students of the 2d and 3d grades have learnt the special St. Patrick's words and special facts, and also have watched a funny stories or songs with Leprechaun.

  Also specially for St. Patrick's Day I prepared for my students the QR-codes'  Video quest. I placed it in some places at the school so everybody could improve his or her IT skills.

 And of course the traditional contest: "Green Day" were organised too. Those who wore today something green could get a prize. Watch these photoes how it was. 

And at the end I wish you to be greeny today (not an anvious one) and, of course,

 Happy St. Patrick's Day for Everyone!

Taras Shevchenko - the Great Poet and the Soul of Nation.

This week in our school was devoted to the name of Taras Shevchenko. Some of my English lesson I also devoted to our Great Poet.

While we were studied the topic "Literature" we revised the writers of the Ukrainian literature too. So, on one of my lesson I tryed to organise the contest for the pupils of 8th grade about the life and the literary activity of our Great Poet. What has it been you can see here.

With pupils of the 6 th grade on the 10th of March we had an hour of speaking: "Kobzar in my life and the life of the country".

 Dring it we revise some facts about life of Taras Shevchenko and recite some of his well-known poems. I also used the method Infographic to present some unusual facts about the Great Poet. 

The pupils in groups learnt to use some books and internet resorses in a way to check are these facts true of false. They liked this type of work, and of course it helped them to train their skills in developing the critical thinking.

Webinar from DINTERNAL Education

 On the 17th of February we had  an opportunity to watch an interesting and helpful webinar: "Teaching Speaking in Online Classroom Environment".

The presenter, Olena Mikhodui shared with us the useful ideas about blending learning.

She told us about the differences in classroom and virtual teaching, and how without changing the strategies in our lesson plans get the better results and feadback from our students without differences in the classical or digital learning. Mostly it was about working with the platform Zoom, but some steps still will be useful and productive in Google Meet. 

So, I like the mostly all ideas thow they are realy helpful and creative. 

Also, Olesia Kozlyshyna gave us some helpful resurses in teaching Speaking which we can use in preparing our online lessons.

Вебінар РОІППО для керівників методоб'єднань класних керівників

 Сьогодні керівники шкільних методоб'єднань мали можливість познайомитись з цікавими формами проведення і організації виховної роботи з дітьми в умовах дистанційного навчання. Наталя Мінакова  поділилась з нами корисними ідеями для отримання ефективного "фідбеку" від учнів та їхніх батьків з використанням різноманітних інструментів ефективних в умовах он-лайн навчання.  

British Council`s on-line forum.

 On the 24th of January we had a great opportunity to watch the on-line forum: "Virtual Teaching: skill of the future?"

Here are the presenters:

 The teachers shared their ideas and sites about using helpful virtual instrumens on their English lessons and give as some information about the successful using of them. They shared also some helpful tips/steps about teaching English they use on the lessons. The presenters shared their own expirience. 

  So, I think this on-line forum gave us a good  piece of information to be thinking about. Because it has a lot of good ideas of succesful work with children  during the distance studing.

New Year Quest - "The TIME MACHINE"

 I would like to say that my 6th formers wanted it from the first minute I've proposed them to do it. They were waiting for it with a great expectations. And it was really a great and happy time for them.

We've travelled to the past times to find out who was Santa in a real life and what special gift he gave for every person on our planet. We also have got a special knowledge about the Christmas tree: who brought it, how it was decorated at first and what was the first unusual christmas traditions in Ukraine.

We also have seen the New Year in Future. The most interesting for my students was to see the future New Year Trees and the special unusual gadgets people have in the future.

We also have made a world-around tour to see the New Year in different countries before we 've came back to our time zone and our time place.

Many funny adventures were happened with us during the quest.

And this is the time to say MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW 2021 YEAR for you! Have the Great and Happy Holidays!

How to make a spirit bright

 The Christmas and New Year time is coming and everyone want to feel the holiday inside himself/herself. Every child wants to feel that holiday mood is not destroyed by something and it stil exists in every person around. This is the time when we can show that we are care of our native people and the time when we can bring something good and make something special for people around us. Today's life runs very quickly, and Sometimes we, adults, forget, ashame, or just do not have a time to show our holiday mood for people and our children.

I've decided to show my students that we, adults, are still have some bright spirit inside of us. That's how it was.

So, and don't forget to be a NICE SANTA for people who need you. Christmas is a really the most wonderful time of the year!