About The Project
Project „Calendar of festivals, Customs and traditions" is a 3 month-long project about traditional festivals in spring in different countries. We will make a digital calendar with the important dates for each participating country, including pictures, photos, videos of activities and short descriptions of the festivals. The success of our project depends on the number of different countries and schools.
AIMS
1. Adapt a variety of learning approaches and environments while teaching students about the traditions, customs and festivals of their own country and of other participating countries;
2. Using digital technologies create a calendar where participating countries introduce their national festivals and traditions;
3. Promote the usage of natural resources in a sustainable way by communicating with partners online.
WORK PROCESS
The project continues for three months, starting on 1st March, 2022. Foreign primary schools are invited to participate as our partners. Partner schools individually create a digital calendar with their most important national/school festivals. Every festival must have a short description. The calendars should include pictures, photos, and videos of songs or dances. The project is intended to have four main stages according to the changing seasons. Planned stages are such:
• I - registration of the project, online meeting with partner schools, decision making on the activities, sharing the tasks;
• II - execution of the project, organizing and documenting the activities, creating each national calendar using digital technologies, 2 online meetings are expected to be organized;
• III - reflection, final online meeting;
• I – 01/ 03 to 31/03;
• II – 01/04 to 31/05;
• III – 01/06 to 15/06.
EXPECTED RESULTS
Project „Calendar of festivals, Customs and traditions will be executed online, on a public „TwinSpace" page. The final product of this project is expected to be a digital calendar where information about national/school festivals will be provided. School partners will share their own and partner calendars on their school websites.
MARCH EVENTS
1-We joined an e-twinning project, named "Calendar of Festivals, Customs and Traditions. 6 partners from Turkey and 9 partners from Lithuania, Europe take part in our project.This document below certifies that we joined this project.
2-We started our whatsapp group with our students and partner schools.
3-The parents signed permission petitions.
4-Our students met each other. We had our first meeting with our students and talked about the aim and the subject of our project.
5-The students introduced themselves using chatterpix and bitmoji
6-We prepared an introduction video of our school.
7-We held our first zoom meeting with our project partners.The parents signed permission petitions.
8-We watched a video about e-security and we talked about the importance of using internet safely.
9-We did student preliminary survey for our project.
10-Each class designed their project logo and we did a logo survey. Our logo selected as a result of the survey.
MARTENİTSA- 1st of March
Martenichka is a bracelet made of red and white wool that we wear to welcome the spring on the first of March every year.Also,it is a well-known tradition in Bulgaria.People wear this bracelet during March or give it as a gift to their close friends by wishing health,happiness,peace and strength.These martenichkas are worn until they see a stork.Finally,they tie it on a tree when their wishes come true. To join this traditional activity ,we also wore martenichkas,made our wishes and tied them to the trees in our school at the end of March.
We performed Martenitsa rituals with our students and had fun.
THE ACCEPTANCE OF TURKISH NATIONAL ANTHEM-12th of March
"İstiklal Marşı" is the national anthem of Turkish Republic.It was officially adopted by Grand National Assembly on March 12,1921.It was written by Mehmet Akif Ersoy and was composed by Osman Zeki Üngör.It has been the symbol of faith,hope,liberty and independence since 1921. Every year on this day,we do many activities to commemorate M.Akif Ersoy and learn our national anthem. Our students did some paintings,tried to memorize ten quatrains of the poem and joined the competition on this significant day.
ÇANAKKALE VICTORY AND MARTYRS' DAY - 18th of March
18th of March is an important day in our history known as Çanakkale Victory and Martyrs' Day.Also,it is known as The Gallipoli Campaign all over the world.Çanakkale War started on 18 March 1915 and continued until January 1916.This war that took place on the Gallipoli Peninsula was fought between the Ottoman Empire and the Allied Powers.As a result of the land and sea war,both sides suffered heavy losses.The victory was won against 253 thousand losses inflicted by the Turkish Army. On the 107th anniversary of the Çanakkale Victory,we commemorate our Great Leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and his comrades with respect and gratitude. For this,we held various activities in our school like painting,reading poem,role playing,designing boards.
WORLD DOWN SYNDROME DAY-21st of March
The 21st March was declared as World Down Syndrome Awareness Day by United Nations in 2012.On this Day, people organise and participate in activities to draw attention, raise awareness and create a global voice for the people with down syndrome. We celebrated this important day and raised awareness in our school by wearing different pairs of socks,painting colorful socks,watching a video about people with down syndrome and their achievements.Finally, we designed our school board with our paintings.
WORLD WATER DAY-22nd of March
World Water Day,held on March 22 every year since 1993,is about taking action to tackle the global water crisis and valuing clean water. E.Bayazıt Secondary School students did various activities like writing and saying slogans,doing jigsaw puzzle,painting and preparing board to celebrate World Water Day.They especially aimed to focus on the importance of the fresh and clean water,point the water management and draw attention to the global water crisis with these activities.
We said our slogans about the importance of water by using web2 tools.
We did jigsaw puzzle and painting, designed our board with them and watched a short video about Water Day with our students at school.
My students did a jigsaw puzzle on jigex and played a matching game in wordwall about March activities.
April Activities
We came together to talk about the content of our April activities and shared our opninions with each other.
We informed our Teachers and students about e-twinning and our project at the conference hall.
We organized an online meeting for children's day,for this reason, we watched a short video with our partner schools and talked about the video.
Our religious Teacher informed us about Ramadan Traditions.
We celebrated Children's Day at Erdem Bayazıt Secondary School. We painted our tshirts, sang a song and filled the missing parts in the song(we are the world, we are the children) as an activity. We had lots of fun.
Ramadan Customs
Our students made a research about Ramadan Month and took photos about our traditions and worships in Ramadan.They joined some events like iftar meal,teravih prayer for this month and shared them with their partners in the project.Also,we played Karagöz-Hacivat shadow play which was once the main entertaintment of the society at school.We learned many new things and enjoyed ourselves.
We designed a screen and played Karagöz Hacivat Shadow Play with our partners for Ramadan Month. It was informative and also entertaining. We learned about our culture and sense of humor in old times.
We held our second zoom meeting with our partners in Turkey and in Lithuania, in April.
MAY ACTIVITIES
HIDRELLEZ SPRING FESTIVAL 5th-6th May
Make a wish
We did various things to celebrate Hıdrellez. Drawing our wishes on a paper , putting coin at the bottom of the rose branch, making shapes by stones for our wishes are some of them.
