Our favourite Slovene book

Choose the favourite book was a very difficult task. We opted for a fairytale Muca Copatarica, because we believe everyone in Slovenia knows it.

The story has been translated into many other languages:
Die Pantoffelmieze (German)
Pantoflokatino (Esperanto)
La Chatte Cordonnière (French)
Maca Karakaca (Macedonian)
Elvitte a Cica (Hungarian)
Maca papučarka (Croatian)
Papučica – maca (Serbian)
Il gatto ciabattino (Italian)

There are few who do not remember the legendary Muca Copatarica / Cat the Slipper Cobbler and her mysterious mission – taking away slippers from messy children. It has become a customary saying - a kind of warning said by parents: “If you don’t put them away, they will be taken by Cat the Slipper Cobbler!”, a kind of a warning that still to this very day uneasily lingers amongst us since these magical words were written by Ela Peroci scores of years ago.

Poland: A contest for the most interesting bookmark

Today we announced the contest for the most interesting bookmark. The organisation is held by group of five students - eTwinners from 4th grade. The organisators visited every class of our school's youngest students (grades from 1st to 3rd). They invited them to participate in the contest, introduced them to the rules and answered all of the questions. The contest will last until 15th May. Later, children will judge the applications and choose the best ones.

Maybe you would like to join us? Feel invited.



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The school contest ended 

On Thursday we ended the school contest for the best bookmark. We received 85 applications and the jury had really difficult task to choose the best one among them. All of the bookmarks are beautiful, students put a lot of effort in making them. Although the jury had to make a decision and reward some of them. Debates were stormy, but finally we managed to select winners. We will tell about them on Monday. As for now it's a surprise.

Later we scanned all of the bookmarks so you can admire them. 

Our bookmarks

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Award ceremony

On Thursday we awarded winners of the contest for the best bookmark. See the best works and us in action.

1st place

2nd place

3rd place

Slovenia: The Legend of Spud Murphy by Eoin Colfer

Kate pulled from bookshelves book, on the cover showing a potato gun." Another horrible book, I am sure" she said. "There is nothing worse than when your mom during the holidays entered the library, and you've got between her musty shelves every day to spend two hours. It is the perfect scenario for the debacle."

Julia looked at the book and laughed. "Of course, you do not know this story. It is so funny."
Gnome approached: "The book about five brothers in one house? Yes, there things often get out of hand. When Dad has ‘had enough’, he decides that Will and Marty should spend the afternoon in the Library. But he doesn’t know about the librarian, Mrs Murphy, neither did Mom.

Kate made her eyes around: "Can Will and Marty survive the legendary librarian and her gas-powered spud-gun?"
"How the two brothers and the librarian bring about change the library needs is a funny and exciting adventure with touching consequences." confirmed Julia.
Gnome was sure that this is a perfect story for reluctant readers as well as keen readers.  Perfect for Julia and Kate as well. Follow-up fight with the librarian is also interesting because of remarkable and entertaining illustrations.

The author is reading first chapter

Book trailer we made in Slovene:

Slovakia: Class competition

On Thursday we had class competition. Children were asked to write ten words from our vocabulary in English, Czech, Polish and Slovenian language. They did it perfectly! The best ones got nice stickers. We've confirmed what we have learned.

 

 

Slovakia: Girls and Maťko and Kubko

1st story

Kate and Julie decided to take another adventure with the book gnome. He grabbed their hands and they all were began to wiggle all. After a while they discovered two figures. They had hats on the heads, clothes were as Walachians. Everyone started rotated and rotated and suddenly they appeared in the mountains...

Girls found, that Maťko and Kubko are shepherds sheep. They have got a dog. Suddenly they prepared a fire and tried to jump over the fire. Kubko suddenly started to scream and jumped around Maťko and Kate. They thought that Kubko is dancing. Only later they found that Kubko‘s trousers were burning. Julie jumped on Kubko and she put his hat on his burning bottom. There left a big hole on the back of the trousers.

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They were going to the chalet and Kubko tried to sew big hole. He gave into the needle long sewing and he stitched... But the sewing was too long and he was stitching, he ran out of the chalet where he turned around and came back ... And while he was stitching he stitched pants on hat. They cut away the hat and the hole was even bigger.

Then Maťko advised to Kubko to give the pants Kate and Julie. Girls called for help the book gnome. And in the morning were trousers sewn. They were even more beautiful than before.

Kubko was so happy that the girls donated two sheep. Maybe can help them find their way back to the library ...

Your task: Print and find a right way to sheep:

Our favorite books

We like to talk about our favorite books. We have also asked parents and grandparents to tell us what books do they remember from childhood.

In this presentation we show favourite books of: students from our school, our parents and grandparents. We gathered and compared them. We were interested if we have common passions, or maybe we differ in our reading interests.

Those books were the most often mentioned by students, parents and grandparents from Poland.

And what about you? We are very curious. We are waiting for information.

The International Day of the Book

Today is Feliç Diada de Sant Jordi! It's a day of the patron of Catalonia, often called a day of roses and books. Started in Medieval times, the tradition encourages lovers (and other people too) to give gifts to each other. Women receive roses and men get books in exchange. Since 1995 UNESCO declares Feliç Diada de Sant Jordi as The International Day of the Book.

We also remember about this feast day. We invite you you play a game made by students from Slovenia. Match the titles with the covers of 15 popular books for children.


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Slovakia: Our picture dictionaries

Pupils today completed their picture dictionary. Last week they started with Czech and Polish words, and today they wrote Slovene words. We had a lot of fun. On Friday we’ll have a classroom competition. Now, children learn vocabulary at home, because everyone wants to be a winner. We are looking forward to the competition!

Viktorka's dictionary:

Night meeting in the library

We invite you to see the movie taken during our night meeting in the library. See how much fun it was.

 More about the meeting HERE

Our blogs

Five of the students from our eTwinning group have opened their blogs, They write there about their favourite books, their dreams and impressions. They will also upload their works made as part of the project.

Dominik

Amelka

Kuba

Julia

Julia K.

Let's learn new words

We've already discovered a lot of words connected with books in four languages: English, Czech, Slovakian and Slovenian. We tried to remember as many as it's possible. We're glad, that Slavic languages have words which are exactly the same. It helps us a lot during learning. See the short movie from our exercises.

The Czech Republic: Our picture dictionary

The book about bee Terka

The bee Terka is very nice and instructive book for children written by writer Štefan Debnár.
During reading the children have learned new information from the life of bees. Each of them tried to draw a story which they the most liked.

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More about bees

Poland: Dominik's picture dictionary

Books with boys as main characters

Already we discovered books with girls as main characters. What about boys? Of course we didn't forget about them. We gathered a few books about boys. If your favourite is missing among them - add it here:

 

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What movie is this?

And the others

The Czech Republic:

Our favourite Czech book

We have chosen a popular Czech book about advantures of  Ferda - the ant. We visited our town library, where tthe librarian Jarka Eliášová read for us from this bookm showed us various book from O. Sekora - the author. We watched a short video. At school we read the book together. We also drew pictures and made models.

We made models and drew pictures of Ferda Mravenec.

Slovakia:

Our favourite national book Maťko and Kubko

The book Maťko and Kubko is about two geldings who live in the mountains. They shepherd sheep together, they have got a dog. They are experiencing many adventures together. We mostly like story How Kubko with Maťko jumped over the fire. We read this book and then we draw pictures. 

Our pictures about Maťko and Kubko: