Our Children's Journey Of Values

 

 

 Children participated in cooperative activities. They created and solved puzzles together, played interactive games, and built a city out of blocks together. The activities also integrated the development of other competencies, as children improved their ability to read, write, count, and so on.

 

 

 

  Here are some pictures from our online student meeting. In this meeting, we first introduced ourselves, listened to our project song and played an online puzzle game.  (Fatih Primary School, Ece ERGÜRTUNA)

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                        As part of the kindness value, students wrote kind words on heart-shaped papers and shared them with their friends. Then, they said 'Good morning' in five different languages using the Genially platform.  After that, we performed kind and unkind behaviors from daily life using drama techniques and  listened to a song about kindness.   We played a game about kind and unkind behaviours via Wordwall tool, too. Finally, students  created a Kindness Flower with petals made up of kind actions from daily life.  (Fatih Primary School, Ece ERGÜRTUNA)

 

The children listened to the story "The Flower of Kindness," created their own flower of kindness, and played an interactive game where they sorted pictures based on whether they depicted kindness or not, they discus where is kind in our group in our class behavior.

  To raise awareness about a sense of responsibility, students were first presented with the digital story titled Coco and the Responsible Bird. Then, the students  were  asked  about the responsibilities they have in daily life and did a quick survey. After that, we played a game using a Web 2.0 tool to make the topic more fun and engaging. Finally, a  fun game was played to help students develop a sense of responsibility. They were given five minutes to organize and tidy up their desks and school materials before the time ran out. This allowed them to embrace responsibility in an engaging and enjoyable way.  (Fatih Primary School, Ece ERGÜRTUNA)

  To understand the value of peace, we watched a short film with the students and had a discussion about peace. Then, t he students designed and colored symbols about the value of peace. After that, t he students’ drawings were put up on a board. Finally, we added the word “Peace” in five different languages on the white dove shapes to the board.  (Fatih Primary School, Ece ERGÜRTUNA)

  On the Empathy Day, we watched short films about the subject and shared our thoughts with friends. After that, w e played an online game via Web 2.0 tools and discussed empathy by giving examples from daily life. In the end, we  played blind man's buff to understand people with disabilities and talked about our feelings at the end of the games.  (Fatih Primary School, Ece ERGÜRTUNA)

  First, we listed what we know about privacy and boundaries and had a discussion based on a presentation. Then, we listened to Mino's Song about the importance of saying no to other people.  To establish our personal boundaries, we completed a worksheet titled My Personal Bubble. Then, to reinforce the topic, we played  the "Waiting in Line" game to understand the importance of personal boundaries and privacy.  Through this activity, we understood the negative aspects of violating others' boundaries.  (Fatih Primary School, Ece ERGÜRTUNA)

  In order to make sense of love, students were first shown an animated movie on the theme of love and discussed the movie. Then, g ratitude cards were distributed to the students so that they could express their love for their loved ones, especially their families. They then filled in their own cards and shared them with the rest of the class.   Finally, they were asked to fill each heart with symbols and images of the things they love. The hearts were hung on the marked places on the Tree of Love and displayed on the class board.  (Fatih Primary School, Ece ERGÜRTUNA)

  In order to recognize the value of respect, students first tried to find pictures about the theme of respect hidden in different parts of the classroom. Then, they  did a puzzle activity to learn the theme of respect for nature and animals. If they answered the questions correctly, they selected a picture from the box and pasted it in the appropriate places on the board. Finally, we decorated the resulting picture with dry leaves they collected and hung it on the eTwinning board at the school. (Fatih Primary School, Ece ERGÜRTUNA)