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“Travelling around the world through Tales”

‘What We Have Done So Far’

Bahçeşehir College Florya, Turkey

PROJECT POSTER

We created a poster of our project and hung it on our school walls.

We prepared bulletin boards to present our project partners.

BULLETIN BOARDS

• We announced to the parents that our students would be in a project named “Travelling around the world through tales”

• And we held a meeting with the parents.

• We also made a presentation to our students about the details of the project. They got information about the name of the project and our project partners.

***Here is the link of our ppp: http://bahcesehirfloryacomenius.blogspot.com/2013/03/introduction-of-project-to-our-students.html

INTRODUCTION OF THE PROJECT TO OUR STUDENTS AND PARENTS

• Our first theme was ‘the human body’. And we organised a writing competition. The

students tried to write stories using idioms and sayings about body parts.

*** Here is the link of our ppp for the competition: http://bahcesehirfloryacomenius.blogspot.com/2013/03/writing-competition.html

• After the presentation we gave a booklet to our students in which they could find the necessary guidance.

WRITING COMPETITION

We prepared certificates for the winners of the competition.

WRITING COMPETITION

Our students completed a questionnaire about ‘the human body’.

QUESTI ONNAI RE: THE HUMAN BODY

1. Can you name 3 parts of the human body starting with the letter ‘h’?

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2. Can you name 3 parts of the body starting with the letter ‘e’?

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3. Can you name 3 parts of the body starting with the letter ‘t’?

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4. Can you name 2 parts of the body starting with the letter ‘f’?

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5. Can you name 2 parts of the body starting with the letter ‘n’?

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Our students sang a song: ‘iki elim iki kolum’ (my two hands and arms) about 'the human body' in their mother tongue.

***Here is the link for our students singing the song: http://bahcesehirfloryacomenius.blogspot.com/2013/03/iki-elim-iki-kolum-my-two-hands-and.html

THE HUMAN BODY SONG

LONDON, DECEMBER, 2012

We attended the first meeting of the project. We prepared presentations for our partner schools. And we presented them in London. In these presentations we introduced our country and our school.

*** Here are the links of these presentations: http://bahcesehirfloryacomenius.blogspot.com/2013/03/london-december-2012.html

http://bahcesehirfloryacomenius.blogspot.com/2013/03/turkey_13.html

http://bahcesehirfloryacomenius.blogspot.com/2013/03/getting-to-know-our-school_13.html

After our presentations, the students in London answered the questions in this questionnaire.

QUESTIONNAIRE: TURKEY, ISTANBUL, OUR SCHOOL

1. Where is Turkey? ________________________________________.

2. Where is I stanbul? ________________________________________.

3. What’s the capital city of Turkey? ________________________________________.

4. Can you name one of the important historical figures that we talked about in our presentation? ______________________________________ .

5. What’s the name of our school? ________________________________________.

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QUESTIONNAIRE: THE PROJ ECT 1. What was the name of the competition that we organised in our

school? _________________________________________.

2. Who is the main character of the tale that you watched?

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3. Which body parts can you remember from the tale? _________________________________________.

• As a second theme to our project, our students wrote digital stories about ANIMALS. They presented their stories by using finger puppets.They also used their toys in their presentations.

DIGITAL STORIES ABOUT ANIMALS

• They also presented these stories to their friends. Here is a glimpse of their stories about ‘animals’: http://bahcesehirfloryacomenius.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-presentation-of-digital-story-about.html

‘IF I WERE AN ANIMAL’SONG

• The students studied the song named 'If I were an animal' by Patty Shukla. They tried to learn the lyrics of the song.

• Then, they sang the song and danced. They had lots of fun.

***Here is the link of the song: http://bahcesehirfloryacomenius.blogspot.com/2013/03/singing-if-i-were-animal-song.html

We organised a field trip to an exhibition called 'Planet Shark'. Our students learnt about the nature of sharks and watched a video about their lives.

OUR TRIP TO ‘PLANET SHARK’ EXHIBITION

Our students watched a documentary about a Turkish tale character, ŞAHMERAN. They talked about Şahmeran and they were so eager to answer the questions about her. They also summarized the tale in their own words.

***Here is the link of this activity: http://bahcesehirfloryacomenius.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-documentary-about-turkish-tale.html

ŞAHMERAN

Our students watched a documentary about another Turkish tale character 'MEDUSA'. They answered the questions about the video.

***Here is the link of this activity: http://bahcesehirfloryacomenius.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-documentary-about-turkish-tale_18.html

MEDUSA

ŞAHMERAN & MEDUSA

After the video session, the students filled in a questionnaire about Şahmeran and about Medusa.

ŞAHMERAN & MEDUSA

And the students were assigned to write the summary of both legends.

Nasrettin Hodja is considered a Turkish populist philosopher and wise man, remembered for his funny stories and anecdotes.Our students told the jokes of Nasrettin Hodja both in Turkish and in English.

***Here is the link of this activity: http://bahcesehirfloryacomenius.blogspot.com/2013/03/jokes-of-nasreddin-hodja.html

NASRETTIN HODJA

NASRETTIN HODJA

They also wrote the jokes of Nasrettin Hodja in their own words.

ANIMAL TANGRAMS

Also we had some help from Maths Department. The students learned "Shapes" and formed "Animal Tangrams." They worked in groups and drew different animals by using Tangrams.They used our Maths Lab for this activity. They also worked in art class. They drew shapes, cut them out and stuck them on pieces of paper. They then created animals again. The final step was in English class. The students brought an interesting fact about their animals that they had created in art class. And each student prepared a big fact file about his animal. They helped each other. Here are the photos of ANIMAL TANGRAMS AND FACT FILES!

ITALY, MARCH, 2013

We prepared a video, depicting the activities we have done for the 'Animals' topic.And presented it in Italy.

***Here is the link of this presentation: http://bahcesehirfloryacomenius.blogspot.com/2013/03/here-is-glimpse-of-our-activities-about.html

Our 3rd theme was ‘The Past’ and we worked on the historical places and historical figures of Turkish history.

The first historical building and tale that we worked on was ‘The Maiden’s Tower’.

Our students learned the legend of this tower in their Social Sciences lesson and then they made their own model Maiden’s Towers.

THE PAST

Then the students told the legend in English, in their own words, and they drew pictures about it. And they compared Maiden’s Tower then and now. Finally they completed a questionnaire about this activity.

THE MAIDEN’S TOWER

THE GRAND BAZAAR

The second historical place that we studied was the Grand Bazaar. First the students did some research about the history of Grand Bazaar. And then they compared the Grand Bazaar with modern shopping malls.

BOOKLET: HISTORICAL PLACES OF TURKEY

Our students prepared booklet about the famous historical places of Turkey. In these booklets they mentioned Hagia Sophia, Sultanahmet Mosque, Basilica Cistern, Topkapı Palace, Selimiye Mosque, Sümela Monastery, Pamukkale, Troya, Cappadocia, Ephesus and many more.

All the partner schools came to our school. We prepared a video, depicting the activities we have done for ‘The Past' topic.And presented it to our guests.

***Here is the link of this presentation: http://bahcesehirfloryacomenius.blogspot.com/2013/10/here-is-glimpse-of-our-activities-about.html

TURKEY, JUNE, 2013

TURKEY, JUNE, 2013

We also prepared a video about Istanbul.

***Here is the link of this presentation: http://bahcesehirfloryacomenius.blogspot.com/2013/10/istanbul.html

And here are some photos about Turkey visit.

As a 4th theme to our project we worked on traditional ‘FOOD’ from all around Turkey.

We also travelled around the cuisine of all the partner countries of our project.

FOOD

We started with a questionnaire to get a general idea about our students’ taste.

QUESTIONNAIRE

QUESTIONNAIRE: YOUR FAVOURITES

1. What’s your favourite dish? ________________________________________.

2. What’s your favourite drink? ________________________________________.

3. What’s your favourite dessert? ________________________________________.

4. Do you have breakfast every day? ________________________________________ .

5. Which is your favourite: breakfast, lunch or dinner? Why?

_________________________________________. _________________________________________.

6. Do you prefer chocolate or sweets? ________________________________________.

7. Do you drink milk regularly?

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8. Who is the best cook in your family? _________________________________________.

First of all, we worked on a Turkish folk character: Nasrettin Hodja.

Nasrettin Hodja is considered a Turkish populist philosopher and wise man, remembered for his funny stories and anecdotes. He is a well known character both by young and old people in Turkey.

NASRETTIN HODJA

As a wise man, Nasrettin Hodja always helped people to find the right path and stay away from evil. In doing this, he mainly used jokes. In many of these jokes he used ‘food’ items as symbols.

Our students searched for Nasrettin Hodja jokes related to ‘food’. And they shared these stories with their friends both in Turkish and English.

Tarifi Bende

Nasreddin hoca bir gün yolda yürürken canı pirzola çekmiş,

Kasaba gidip pirzola almış ama nasıl yapılacağını

bilmiyormuş.

-Eee ben bunu nasıl pişirecem daha yapmasını bilmiyom

demiş.

Adam tarifi yazıp vermiş hocaya. Hoca yolda giderken bir karga

pirzolayı elinden kapıp havaya yükselmiş.

Nasreddin hoca arkasında bağırmış:

-Karga bak bak tarifi bende. Demiş

NASRETTIN HODJA

NASRETTIN HODJA

They tried to depict the jokes by making flashcards.

They also tried to rewrite some of his funny stories in their own words along with a picture.

In cooperation with Science Department, we organised ‘Animals are Friends!’ Festival.

‘ANIMALS ARE FRIENDS’FESTIVAL

Our students brought their pets and displayed them in the sports hall. Each class visited the stands and had fun.

‘ANIMALS ARE FRIENDS’FESTIVAL

While doing all these, we get the major support from our principal as he is a real animal lover. Here are the animals that live in our school.

Along with the ‘Animals are Friends!’ Festival, we organised a charity bazaar in our school.

CHARITY BAZAAR

Our students brought home-made food belonging to different regions of Turkey. They decorated stands, sold the food items and donated the income to Animal Shelters and Tohum Otism Fund.

After this social responsibility project, we moved on with another questionnaire to raise our students’ awareness towards charity issues.

QUESTIONNAIRE

QUESTIONNAIRE: HELPING OTHERS

1. What’s your favourite animal? ________________________________________.

2. Do you have a pet? ________________________________________.

3. Have you ever visited an animal shelter? ________________________________________.

4. Have you ever been to a zoo? ________________________________________.

5. How can we help people who are in need?

________________________________________ ________________________________________.

6. How can we help animals which are in need? ________________________________________ ________________________________________.

7. What do you know about charity institutions?

_________________________________________. _________________________________________.

8 . What do you think about making a donation? ________________________________________.

In cooperation with Music Department, our students sang a song called ‘Sonbaharda Meyveler’ (Fruits in Autumn) in their mother tongue.

‘FRUITS IN AUTUMN’ SONG

We announced 8th October as ‘Cookie Day’ in our school. We went to the dining hall with our students. They shaped their own cookies. And had great fun!

COOKIE DAY

And 10th October was ‘Lunch for Friends Day’.

First, some of our 6th and 7th grade studentsdesigned menus for that special day.

‘LUNCH FOR FRIENDS’ DAY

Then, they participated in the preparation of lunch for the day.They tried to cook some traditional Turkish dishes like: Izmir meatball, Mantı and Ezogelin soup.

‘LUNCH FOR FRIENDS’ DAY

As the last step, the students were given an assignment to prepare a cookbook. They worked in groups, searched and came up with various recipes including dishes from Romania, Greece, Bulgaria, England, Italy, Poland and Turkey. And they prepared their own cookbooks.

COOKBOOK