Charlie and eTwinning Factory

While we look for the mysterious library into the school, we work the first subjet of our syllabus: the school, its dependencies and people who work in the school, norms and routines. 

The thirth test was related with Violet Beauregarde and the feelings. We had to teach the Oompa Loompas what feelings are and how to demonstrate them. So, through different stories such as "The colour monster", "Sad Monster, Happy Monster" or "The Garden of Hugs" we learned to differentiate all feelings, to interpret and empathize with the feelings of our friends and relatives. And together with the rest of the schools we created a museum of feelings so that the Oompa Loompa can visit it and recognize all the emotions that we have worked on.

Main aims related with school: • Participate in cooperative games to improve esteem, coexistence, and their own well-being. • Recognize the organizational norms of the classroom. • Respect and comply with the rules of behavior and coexistence: greeting, saying goodbye, raising your hand, asking for things please, give thanks. • Respect the staff of the school and know their functions. • Orient themselves and act autonomously in the school's facilities. • Pronounce and correctly use the name of your colleagues and school staff. • Recognize the name of the school. • Develop vocabulary related to units and topics worked.

The second test was related with Veruca Salt and the egoism. In this case, we had to demonstrate that we are not a selfish children, doing collaborative work, respecting the rules of relationship with our colleagues, respecting the turn of the word, the turn in the games and all those habits and routines that allowed us to work collaboratively without conflicts. Among all the participating schools, we made a great joint robot and in class, in addition to a lot of games and collaborative activities, we invited parents to come to join with us in a workshop in which we did a collaborative drawing, resulting in a funny and curious Oompa Loompa. And we also participate in the creation of a book and a collaborative drawing with the rest of our European friends

Main aims related with the human body and health: • Know and differentiate the different parts of the body: segments and joints. • Observe the human body inside and outside. • Distinguish the flavors: sweet, salty and acid. • The different systems, their functions and main parts: osseous, digestive, muscular, respiratory, circulatory, nervous system. • Progress in the acquisition of health, well-being and order habits. • Develop personal hygiene standards. • Value the importance of physical activity and rest to enjoy good health. • Know some actions in the prevention of common diseases. • Know how a healthy menu is. • Identify processed and natural foods. • Sort foods according to their taste. • Know the process of making a food.

Main aims related with norms and habits of respect and work: • Value others positively. • Learn the importance of being constant. • Value and encourage generosity among classmates. • Develop the value of listening. • Respect the rules in the games. • Participate in cooperative games to improve esteem, coexistence, and their own well-being. • Learn to work cooperatively through the proposed workshops. • Use the different spaces offered by Twinspace to communicate and work collaboratively with the other schools in the project.

Main aims related with the healthy way of life and family: • Recognize the importance of working at home. • Progress in the acquisition of health, well-being and order habits. • Value the importance of physical activity and rest to enjoy good health. • Identify the functions and occupations of the family group and the kinship relationships established between them. • Recognize different family structures • Know the process of building a house and some professionals, tools and materials involved in it. • Identify different types of housing • Recognize places of leisure and free time. • Enjoy stories, poetry and riddles.

And the last test was: Michael Teavee and his obsesion for tv and videogames. We had to demonstrate that we knew different ways of playing and spending time as a family without using any technological device. So, in collaboration with the families, photos were taken doing different activities both inside and outside the home. In this way, we were able to continue working with healthy lifestyle habits, games and toys as well as allowing us to introduce the theme of the family, its members, its functions and how to collaborate at home and help our families. With this theme we compare our own families with the Charlie Bucket family and establish differences and similarities and work with kinship.

Once we have introduce ourselves we were able to enter into the Factory. The first test was related with Augustus Gloop and his gluttony. We had to demonstrate that we were healthy children, so we worked on healthy foods and the way affect us a bad diet. We learned that bones do not get fat, studying the osseous system. We also studied the digestive system, to see how our body assimilated those foods, and we continued working the rest of the systems: circulatory, muscular, respiratory, nervous ... We made healthy breakfasts at school, also using our creativity. And we even did a chocolate cookie workshop with the collaboration of our families. We created with the rest of participating schools a collaborative book with the main healthy foods that we knew, and we learned a lot of words in other languages. And finally we made a video conference with Greece to see their healthy breakfast style and learn a few more words in Greek.

Main aims related with the feelings and emotions: • Recognize, express and control their feelings and emotions. • Recognize the emotions of: happiness, sadness, surprise, nervousness, joy, envy... • Value others positively. • Learn to recognize, respect and empathize with the feelings of others.

But we have also developed our ICT levels, playing and participating in all the activities that have taken place within the Twinspace, and of course we have also improved our level of English, learning words and phrases to be able to communicate more effectively.

Once, every hundred years, a mysterious library appears and allows its guardians not only to read their books, but also to live them. No one has seen it again ... perhaps for a hundred years ... but that is about to change. Today, the mysterious library has appeared in our school and from today until it disappears again, we will be its guardians. It is a hard task, we have to protect it from the evil ones who hate reading and want to burn all the books, but in exchange we will have the luck to read and really live all the books that it offers us... the first of all: Charlie and the chocolate Factory.

The first book we were going to live was "Charlie and the chocolate factory" and it became to be real when a big package of chocolate bars arrived to our school. If we found a golden ticket in a chocolate bar, we could visit Willy Wonka's chocolate factory along with the rest of the children who also found a golden ticket. And we were lucky to find one in each class, we were able to invite our friends to come with us and we met other children from Spain, Slovenia, Lithuania, Greece and Turkey who accompanied us on the trip, along with 4 rather unpleasant children, called Agustus Gloop, Veruca Salt, Violet Beauregarde and Michael Teavee. The real intention of Willy Wonka was to discover what children were worthy of winning a great prize, so, in secret, while we were visiting the factory within eTwinning platform, he put us a series of tests that we had to go through.

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