eTwinning project

1. TradiTionalTradiTional
GamesGames
“Time is a game played beautifully by
children.”
Heraclitus, Fragments

2. Why Traditional Games?
Game is essential to healthy development. During
engagement in social play interactions, children’s
language, social skills, problem solving abilities and
values as teamwork, respect, and self-esteem are
developed.
We decided to join this project because it is necessary
to know about our country’s tradition and
customs and it would be interesting to find
common elements and influences with others.
Through this process we understand and respect every
nation’s culture, we learn the value of cooperation, the
equality among contributors and express our
opinions in an interactive supportive way.

3. Parents participation
Parents’ contribution was essential by displaying the
games that they used to play during their
childhood. Children felt proud by watching their
parents to take an important part to this project and
be substantial members of this.

5. Process
We presented some traditional games from our
country to other schools and we played some of theirs.
Games from Greece:
Kindergarten of Gomati presents

6. King with 12 swords
( 12Βασιλιά με τα
π )σ αθιά

7. Blind fly
( )Τυφλόμυγα

8. Up – Down
( –Ψηλό Χαμηλό)

9. Broken Telephone
( πΣ ασμένο Τηλέφωνο)

10. Skipping Rope
(Σκοινάκι)

11. Apples
( )Τα Μήλα

12. Rhodes presents and we play…
Kilindri
( )Κυλίνδρι

13. Hidden Treasure
( )Κρυμμένος Θησαυρός

14. Chalastra presents and we play…
The bee
(Περνά π )ερνά η μέλισσα

15. Little Statues
( )Αγαλματάκια

16. Games from Slovenia:
John Marion

17. Rotten Egg
( – )Αλάτι ψιλό αλάτι χοντρό

18. Games from Romania:
Entangled

19. Green Light

20. Games from Turkey:
Sek – Sek
( )Κουτσό

21. Dodgeball
( )Τα Μήλα

22. Greece – Turkey – Slovenia play common traditional games:
- Coarse salt, fine salt / Handkerchief
(Αλάτι χοντρό, αλάτι ψιλό /
Μαντηλάκι) (GR)
- I sell butter, I sell honey (TR)
- Rotten egg (SLO)

23. Skype calls
We wanted to speak with our new friends and have
the chance to have an interactive communication with
them.
Rhodes
Slovenia

24. LOGO
Every school prepared and presented some Logos for
the project. Our Logo was the winner after a
competition where every student voted one of the
others.

25. We made some pieces of puzzle with flags of every
country who participated in the project and the word
“game” written inside.

26. We made a puzzle game about our Logo:
http://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=3054270b6534

27. Poster
A poster with all activities that took place in our
school during the project.
http://prezi.com/bstltyfwfvyz/traditional-games

28. Games we made for the
project
We made games about flags, language, alphabet
from other countries.
We say “Good morning” every day in a different language

29. Match the flag to the same country
Memory game with our friends
from all over the world
Domino with flags and the name
of some countries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1i22b1F_fs

30. Drawings for the project
We made pictures with our favorite traditional game
Up – Down

31. Coarse salt – Fine salt
Green Light
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsGcCSi1xzE

32. Difficulties
The only difficulty that I went through was to
persuade parents to publish their children’s
photos for the needs of this project.
After a presentation about the benefits and
opportunities that this cooperation gives us and
about the safety of personal documents they decided
to take part in this without any hesitation.

33. Results
It was our first attempt in eTwinning this year and
we learned how to use web tools to cooperate with
children from other countries. Through an interactive
communication we gained many opportunities to
understand the usage of a computer except for
playing games, listening to music or watching
videos. We managed to cooperate successfully with
other schools from Europe by sending and receiving
information in many ways (e-mail, photos, videos,
power point presentations, Skype calls) about our
culture and tradition.
Children were excited to learn and play games
that their parents and grandparents used to play.
They proudly watched other students play Greek
traditional games and were surprised every time they
watched children from other countries play some
games with common rules with ours and different
names.

34. The collaboration with educators was excellent.
There was a regularly communication via e-mail and
uploading photos/videos/presentations/comments in
TwinSpase. There was some Skype communications
with other schools where children and teachers had the
opportunity to introduce themselves, make a
presentation of their school and share some
information about their country. I was surprised
about how supportive and friendly was every teacher
and how immediate they responded when it was
necessary.
Children and educators gained the chance to feel
proud about their country’s culture and history and
make some new good friends from Europe!

35. Thank you!Thank you!