1. « A world of tales » Comenius project French work report March 2011 Eric WINTER

2. Search of informations on the countriesPresentation of the work to otherpupils

4. Opening to other cultures

6. Whywe have chosenthese tales? « The threelittlepigs » the more youwork, the more you have the results of yourwork « Littlethumbs » evenyou are little, youcan help some of yourfriends « Nothingforgetsitself more fastthan a returned service » don’tforget to rememberwhensomeonehelpsyou « The uglyduckling » evenyour life seems to be hard, youcanbe happy in the future => These tales correspond to behaviours and difficulties of pupilswe have in ourschool

7. How weworked on the « 3 littlepigs » tales The 6-year-oldpupils made the summarywriting The 7-year-oldpupils : made the summarywritingverifications (wellunderstanding, etc) sent instructions to pupilsfrom 3 to 5 for the drawings

8. The 3-year-oldpupilsdrew the lexicon, the keywords

9. The 5-year-old pupils drew the landscapes, the decoration drawed the lexicon, the keywords

10. The 4-year-old pupils made the characters

11. The 8-year-oldpupils made the french audio of the summarywriting story The 9-year-oldpupils made the summarywriting story translation in english The 10-years-oldpupils made the english audio of the summarywriting english story

12. Presentation of the work

13. How weworked on the other talesExample of « Nothingforgetsitself more fastthan a returned service Karine TOURNADE (Russian) Reading, understanding and summarize the tale Illustrate the tales Drawings

14. How weworked on the other tales Election of the best characterdrawing for eachcharacter

15. How weworked on general tales 8-9-10 year-oldpupils are going to read tales in the 5-6-7 year-old-pupil class Each class reads tales everyweek Pupilsread tales they have prepared to read Teacherread

16. Integration to the project of pupilswithdifficulties Somepupilswithdifficulties have worked in a differentway on the projectwith the help of a specializedteacher Try to realise an electricgame about the tales

17. The electricgame - The uglyduckling Objective of the game find the stages of the story. If it is correct, the lamp is on

18. Presentation of the work to the otherpupils

19. Preparation of the partnervisit by the pupils

23. Difficultieswe met during the project Managing the project by twoteachers (Fabienne and me) and try to motivate the otherteachers Sharing the same tales between 8 classes => takes times, the more we are, the more ittakes time The work on a tale takesmany times in our class => difficult to share and integrateour « normal institutionalwork » and the Comenius projectwork 12 weeks to work on 4 tales isambitious or maybewe have to belessambitiousourselveswithourwork

24. Positive aspects of the Comenius projectin ourschool « Happy new year » lettersfrom and to partners Reading and display of the partner letters at the school Writing letters to partners

25. Positive aspects of the Comenius projectin ourschool Collaboration between the teachers on a commonproject All the class integrated in the project Each class givesitswork for a final common support Pupilsmotivated by the project Cultural opening for pupils Everypartnerspeaks english to communicatealthoughit’s not the maternallanguageso english isuniversallanguagewe must learn Some people in the world speakotherlanguage as french and english Comparisonspanish and french culture (education, landscape, grounds, monuments, etc) by viewing Murcia video film wetook Better know the Europe

26. Conclusion