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Pinnochio

By Teresa Bartecka-Urbanek

Challenge: Pinnochio the puppet from shapes&nbsp;

Teacher comment: Construction of Pinnochio from shapes

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The Lion &amp; the Mouse

By Gülgün GÜVEN ZEYTÜN Ata Kindergarten-Turkey

Challenge: Mindful emotions

Teacher comment: With the arrival of spring, this beautiful garden event has gained a great meaning for us.

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The Bremen Town Musicians&nbsp;

By Zeynep Karabulut ATA KINDERGARTEN, TURKEY

Challenge: Measuring Pinnochio's nose

Teacher comment: Our favorite activity in which they participated in the most. Thanks to this activity, students improved their math skills: measuring, counting, from one unit to the whole. They also encountered blocks of math. They used different measuring instruments with ropes, rulers, legos

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By Zeynep Karabulut ATA KINDERGARTEN TURKEY

Challenge: Counting treasure found on Neverland

Teacher comment: They were so impressed with finding the hidden coins. The activity helped students improve their proficiency in mathematics. They also had fun and collaborated a lot.

By Barbara Trivelli IC Giovanni XXIII Sc Inf San Michele

Challenge: Designing Puppets just like Geppetto&nbsp;

Teacher comment: Thanks to this activity pupils improved their maths skills: measuring, counting, from a unit to a whole. They also met maths blocks

Challenge: What comes next? Sequencing

Teacher comment: "What comes next?" event was the most fun activity. Our distant education students also enjoyed this interactive activity.

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Activities related to story: Barbara Trivelli: Cinderella wants to find out if her stepsisters' feet can fit her shoes. Help her to measure&nbsp;peoples' feet&nbsp; Charmaine Attard&nbsp;: The Fairy God Mother wand is not working properly so Cinderella needs some Magic to create a Carriage. Can you create a carriage for Cindirella?&nbsp; Zeynep Karabulut: Cindrerella doesn't want to be recognized in the ballroom. Please help her to design mask Özge AKDUMAN:Can you design beautiful clothes for Cindrerella?

Cindirella

Cindirella

By ÖZGE AKDUMAN- ATA KINDERGARTEN/TÜRKEY

Challenge: Design &amp; Make Cindirella's dress

Teacher comment: The clothes we designed for Cinderella were beautiful. Our creativity has improved.

Peter Pan

Activities related to story: Charmaine Attard: Treasure hunt! Let's look for shapes before Captain Hook finds them!&nbsp; Barbara Trivelli:&nbsp;Peter found a treasure box full of coins, but he doesn't know the value of them. Help him to find out if he is rich. (learning coin activity - maths) Gülgün GÜVEN ZEYTÜN<a href="https://www.liveworksheets.com/ml1479858vh">: What comes next? Find what picture is next and drag it to the space.</a><a href="https://www.liveworksheets.com/lj1479836qh">Let's find out which of the peter pan characters will come to the space.</a> ÖZGE AKDUMAN: LET US MAKE AN ENERGY DRINK FOR PETERPAN FROM THE CAPTAIN HOOK AND MAKE IT STRONG

Challenge: Creating a new magic wand for the Fairy Godmother

Teacher comment: Making fairy Godmother wands

Challenge: Design &amp; Make Cindirella's Carriage

Teacher comment: It was a lot of fun designing new tools for the Cinderella. Thanks to this activity, we developed our creativity, imagination and motor skills.

The Lion &amp; the Mouse

Activities related to story: Barbara Trivelli: Animate the story (You can try a stop motion activity, a drammatization, ...) Charmaine Attard:&nbsp;Identify big and Small objects (Big like the Lion &amp; small as the mouse. Ülkü ÇAK:&nbsp;Let's help the animals in the animal shelter like the lion in the story .Let's create an algorithm to get the lion to the mouse&nbsp; Teresa Bartecka-Urbanek: Can you find something big/small?&nbsp;Listen to the story and answer some questions. Story sequence - order the story cards.Let's make paper puppets and act! Role Play.

Teacher comment: The activity helped pupils to improve their competences in maths. They also had fun and collaborated a lot

By Ülkü ÇAKAR ZÜBEYDE HANİM KİNDERGARTEN BİNGÖL TURKEY

Challenge: Helping the Stray animals

Teacher comment: With this activity, my students developed sensitivity towards animals

Challenge: Create a mask and make animal sounds

Teacher comment: It was fun to get the Bremen musicians characters talking. we learned the sounds of animals. we used web 2 tool

Teacher comment: We had a lot of fun measuring Pinocchio's nose. We have repeated the concept of measurement.

Challenge: Design &amp; create a flying vehicle

Teacher comment: We designed a flying vehicle like Peterpan. 21st century skills have been acquired

By Charmaine Attard, San Gorg Preca Hamrun SS Primary

Challenge: Create Cindirella's carriage from recycled objects

Teacher comment: The sheer creative concepts students came up with while creating a carriage for Cindirella out of recycled objects was simply mind blowing and innovative. These are our classroom kind of fun filled activities and they go hand in hand with our school action plan of S.T.E.A.M education but above all pass and parcel with our Emergent curriculum.

Challenge: Editing and Making sounds of the animals from the story

Teacher comment: Making the instruments: This was our favorite activity. We all had a lot of fun. this is a craft activity with recycled materials that enhanced fine motor skills and collaboration competences.

Pinnochio is a timeless story in which a boy puppet turns into a real boy upon his masters wishes. The adventures never stop yet alone when they are done in a classroom full of fun students and educators who embrace 21st century skills and traditional stories! Here is a glimpse of the story in different native languages!

A Taste of Pinnochio Story in our Native languages.pdf

Author: Barbara TRIVELLI, leone topo

Author: Zeynep Karabulut, We group big and small objects with the musical sculpture game

Kinder 2.1 Charmaine Attard, THe Lion & the mouse

Author: Gülgün Güven Zeytün, Beat the Boredom eTwinning project February activity.

Beat The Boredom eTwinning project: Author: Gülgün Güven Zeytün

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Beat the boredom-Pinocchio, Activity Author: Gülgün Güven ZeytünBeat the boredom-Pinocchio Activity

Author: Zeynep Karabulut, Just like the mouse does a favor for the lion, let's help the stray animals by feeding them: 

The transformation of the pumpkin into Cinderella's carriage

Activities related to story: Beyza Dolar: Let's help the mouse overcome the fears of the mouse. (Play games about fears, paint, etc.b.events can happen.) Alice-Salomon-Schule: We bring our cuddly toys from home and count them - and do the same with mice on a worksheet - and who can do sums? Where do mice and lions live? Looking for mouseholes in the garden. Let's test how strong different kinds of threads and ropes are. Whose footprints are these? Comparing paws, feet and hands. Zeynep KARABULUT: Just like the mouse does a favor for the lion, let's help the stray animals by feeding them. Can you help me for this? Özge AKDUMAN: USING JIGSAW PLANET WEB 2.0 TOOL, WE MAKE LION AND MOUSE PUZZLE.<a href="https://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&amp;pid=1cd91c2c2783&amp;pieces=24">https://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&amp;pid=1cd91c2c2783&amp;pieces=24</a> Gülgün GÜVEN ZEYTÜN: counting activity or&nbsp;<a href="https://learningapps.org/display?v=ph0abwzmk21">Match The Lion and The Mouse characters</a>

Challenge: Big like the lion vs small like the mouse concept

Teacher comment: Students finding something big vs something small

Chapters: 1) Pinnochio 2) Cindirella 3) Peter Pan 4) The Bremen Town Musicians 5) The Lion &amp; the Mouse

Credits to Schools &amp; Educators - Barbara Trivelli, IC Giovanni XXIII Sc Inf San Michele - Charmaine Atatrd, San Gorg Preca Hamrun S.S Malta - ÜLKÜ ÇAKAR ZÜBEYDE HANIM ANAOKULU BİNGÖL /TURKEY - GÜLGÜN GÜVEN ZEYTÜN, ATA KINDERGARTEN Etimesgut/ANKARA-TURKEY - Zeynep Karabulut Ata Kindergarten TURKEY - Nadine Camilleri Duca, Santa Margerita - Żabbar Malta - ÖZGE AKDUMAN, Ata Kindergarten TURKEY - Uta Lechtenberg---Alice-Salomon-Schule Hannover, Germany - Beyza Dolar, KOÇARLI CUMHURİYET ORTAOKULU - Zamkowe Skrzaty' POLAND - FATMA AĞRALI- ZÜBEYDE HANIM ANAOKULU

Activities related to story: Gülgün GÜVEN ZEYTÜN: What would Cinderella go to the ball with if the pumpkin hadn't turned into a car?&nbsp;Let's design new vehicles for Cinderella. Beyza Dolar: The shoes that Cinderella dropped were made of glass and could break if she dropped her shoes. If you were a fairy, what material would you make the shoe for Cinderella so that it would not break when you dropped it? (testing of plastic, wood, paper, etc.) Alice-Salomon-Schule: What is the mystery of black cinders? Using chromatography to analyze colour pigments. How can we separate the lentils from the ashes when we do't have the doves to help us? Designing shoes and masks for the ball Ülkü ÇAKAR:Let's design a garbage costume for the Cinderella ball&nbsp;.Let's design the tool to clean the house for Cinderella&nbsp;

Challenge: Helping animals in need

Teacher comment: We emphasized the importance of helping all living things by giving children love for animals.

The Lion and the Mouse is one of the many Aesop's&nbsp;Fables in which a lesson is always learnt at the end. Just like the mouse and the lion our students embraced gratefulness, care and above all friendships through activities that promote diversity, inclusion and social &amp; emotional wellness. Here is a glimpse of the story in different native languages!

A taste  of The Lion & the mouse in our Native languages.pdf

Activities related to story: BEYZA DOLAR: Let's design new costumes for Wendy, John, Michael to be worn in dreamland. Ülkü ÇAKAR: What kind of vehicle can we design that can fly like Peter Pan? Let's voice peterpan and pirates with Chatterpix&nbsp; Fatma AĞRALİ&nbsp;Zeynep KARABULUT: Help us to make different floating vehicles that the Captain Hook can use and test how durable they are. Alice-Salomon-Schule: "When I was young...": Comparing childhood and adulthood/ adolescence - Reflecting the meaning of time and identity Teresa Bartecka-Urbanek:&nbsp;How does Peter Pan look like? Describing Peter Pan. Designing dress for Wendy. Counting pirates - How many pirates can you see?

Cindirella is an old time favorite story of a young girl who was mistreated by her family but eventually found true love thanks to magic and her hard work. How can this story be eventful in a classroom of young students? Here is a glimpse of the story in different native languages!

A taste of our stories in Native languages for Cinderella.pdf

By Beyza Dolar-Cumhuriyet Ortaokulu

Challenge: Pinocchio wants to have 10 puppets including himself. How many puppets do we have to make? Let's help Pinocchio by making a dummy puppet.

Teacher comment: Making puppets

Peter Pan

Peter Pan story is classical, fun and whimsical. It is about the adventure of three siblings who fly off their bedroom window together with Peter Pan onto the mystical land of Neverland. The story took the Early Years students and educators on exciting adventures beyond the classroom walls. Here is a glimpse of the story in different native languages!

A Taste of the story Peter Pan in our Native Languages.pdf

By Ülkü ÇAKAR ZÜBEYDE HANİM KİNDERGARTEN BİNGÖL TURKEY

Teacher comment: My students designed new products. Problem solving and productive skills have been developed

Challenge: Create animal masks from the story

Teacher comment: It was so much fun to make and dramatize the masks of the heroes of the bremen musicians story.

Challenge: Making a new Broom for Cindirella

Teacher comment: We designed a broom so that Cinderella does not get tired. problem-solving creativity and muscular skills improved

Challenge: Designing and construction of Cindirella's carriage

Teacher comment: We designed a vehicle for Cinderalla to go to the ball. This activity helped us to develop children's creativity, fine motor muscle development, ability to understand mechanical principles, three-dimensional perception and visual figure-ground discrimination.

Activities related to story: Teresa Bartecka-Urbanek: Let's listen to the story and order the animals.Let' create animal masks and play a role in ' The Bremen Town Musicians'. Alice-Salomon-Schule: Let's construct a house for the Musicians. Who's biggest? Who's smallest? Let's measure the sizes of animals and ours. Let's listen to animals and imitate how they "sing". Whose ears/ eyes/ mouth are these? Let's compare animals' body parts. Let's take photographs of our pets and animals in our town and make a poster. Ülkü ÇAKAR:Let's animate animals with augmented reality&nbsp; Let's mimic the sounds of animals in the story of the Bremen Town Musicians . Let's play story picture Puzzle

Challenge: Reach the lion safely through coding

Teacher comment: WE LOVED THE MOST ENCODING ACTIVITY IN THE STORY OF THE LION AND THE MOUSE. WE HAVE FUN AND LEARN.

Challenge: Animate the story

Teacher comment: Animation of the story in stop motion: an activity that helps to develop fine motor skills, cooperation, entrepreneurship, digital and technology-based competences

Challenge: Can you finish the digital Puzzle?

Teacher comment: After listening to the story of the Bremen Town Musicians, we created puzzles with web2 tools. Cognitive development in my students improved the skills of establishing the visual perception part whole relationship

Activities related to story: Barbara Trivelli: Geppetto wants to make a wooden puppet, help him to design it.&nbsp; Charmaine Attard: How strong is wood? Testing wood in different ways (water, fire, freezer etc)&nbsp;&nbsp; Gülgün GÜVEN ZEYTÜN: If you were to make a puppet, what would you make a puppet? ÖZGE AKDUMAN: We design puppets from tree branches BEYZA DOLAR: Pinocchio wants to have 10 puppets including himself. How many puppets do we have to make for Pinocchio?Let's make Pinocchio any puppet he wants from play dough Nadine Camilleri:&nbsp;Sail away!&nbsp;&nbsp;Pinocchio wants to take Geppetto for a boat ride, he only has recycled items and a collection of nature items. Can you help him?

The Bremen Town Musicians may be a story which not many are aware of but it is a sequential story with animal figures who are on a mission together just like our students in a classroom. Here is a glimpse of the story in different native languages!

The Bremen Town Musicians.pdf

By Charmaine Attard, Hamrun S.S Priamry school, Malta

Challenge: Helping Pinnochio and Giapetto to sail away from the whale &nbsp;

Teacher comment: Creating a Sail boat for Pinnochio and Giapetto was definitely our class favorite. The students managed to incorporate S.T.E.A.M education thanks to this activity and it truly deserves a good mention in the ebook for simply giving us a holistic learning approach through this story.

Activities related to story: Charmaine Attard:&nbsp;create a music instrument from recycled materials. Barbara Trivelli: created these games. Do you want to play? <a href="https://learningapps.org/display?v=pg9qk0kqn21">Match the animals</a> <a href="https://learningapps.org/display?v=pacu09k9321">Place the animals in the right order</a> Beyza Dolar:&nbsp;Let's design a farm where the animals from the Bremen Town Musicians story can stay. ÖZGE AKDUMAN: What animals are in the story of the bremen musicians?How do they sound?I record the voices of children making animal sounds with the web 2.0 tool chatter pix. I make the animals talk. Gülgün GÜVEN ZEYTÜN: <a href="https://www.liveworksheets.com/zu1598481hg">Let's solve the Bremen musicians sudoku.</a> Zeynep Karabulut: Can you help make the masks of the Bremen Town Musicians characters?

By Charmaine Attard, San Gorg Preca College Hamrun S.S Malta

Challenge: Can you finish this puzzle?

Teacher comment: This puzzle was a great activity for this story because students enjoyed doing this as a group in class and followed it also again at home in their own free time. It was one of my students favorite and alot of discussion came out of it. There was alot of talk about colours, sizes, storytelling, etc

Project Description: Stories are fun and bring more to the table than just fantasy and a flair of imagination. Through classical stories we embark on missions and challenges monthly on how to enhance fairy tales into fun holistically tasks. Later on these stories are challenges by students, through hands on activities and documented to help stories overcome problems in order to add a twist to the old tales and make them intriguing in the 21st century world. Project Aims: To enhance stories with S.T.E.A.M related challenges for various learning outcomes opportunities whilst keeping stories alive through a cohesive and collaborative way. This project will help students identify the importance of stories and how they are celebrated and explored in different countries, classrooms as our own too.&nbsp;

By Charmaine Attard San Gorg Preca College Hamrun SS Primary school Malta

Challenge: Testing object that sink or float for Captain Hook

Teacher comment: Water play is one of our favorite type of play and this activity was very loved by my students because it also provided us ample of space to play outdoors and through sensory play. This activity was also a fun scientific one which promoted problem solving skills

By Charmaine Attard San Gorg Preca Hamrun SS Malta

Teacher comment: My students really enjoyed editing the pictures on our ICT device and using digital devices to make fun sounds as part of the story

Challenge: Creating masks from the story

Teacher comment: Mask making from the story

Activities related to story: Zeynep Karabulut: We want to find out how long his nose grows when Pinocchio lies. How can we measure Pinocchio's nose using different methods? (Math) Teresa Bartecka-Urbanek: Take a shape and make a picture. We've used some shapes to create our Pinocchio.&nbsp; Ülkü ÇAKAR: Let's make him a puppet friend using wooden spoons to keep Pinocchio from getting bored.&nbsp;

Challenge: Make musical instruments from recycled objects

Teacher comment: Making the instruments: this is a crafting activity with recycled materials that improves fine motor skills, cooperantion and collaboration competences.

Challenge: Construction of Cindirella's carriage from recycled materials

Teacher comment: Let's design new vehicles for Cinderella. Pupils developed their creativity and improved their motor skills

Challenge: Designing &amp; creating Peter Pan from Shapes &amp; Materials

Teacher comment: It was fun to design Peter Pan from different shapes. Applying the instructions, getting to know the shapes enabled us to produce new products.

by Gülgün Güven Zeytün

Teacher comment: My students designed new products. Problem solving and productive skills have been developed

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