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Six schools, hundreds of children, dozens of teachers ... Our work
requires that we coordinate all of us. This year we had three meetings to
organize the project: Trutnov (Czech Republic), Cossington (UK) and Porto
de Mós (Portugal) in June. At these meetings, the teachers agreed activi-
ties and dates, discussing
procedures and in search of
solutions to achieve the ob-
jectives. A great experience.
Thanks to our hosts!
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PROYECT NEWSLETTER “VIRTUAL MUSEUM OF MONSTERS”
COMENIUS MULTILATERAL SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS
No. 2012-1-ES1-COM06-52413
We coordinate: Trutnov,We coordinate: Trutnov,We coordinate: Trutnov,
Cossington, Porto de MósCossington, Porto de MósCossington, Porto de Mós
Congratulations,Congratulations,Congratulations,
monsters!monsters!monsters!
First anniversaryFirst anniversaryFirst anniversary
It's a nice dream: VMM project celebrates its
first year, with illusions and effort. Hundreds of children in
Sweden, UK, Czech Republic, Portugal, Italy and the Spa-
nish state have been working together this year around
the monsters and their presence in children's literature.
We met friends, creating monster-pets which travel
along Europe, inventing Virtual Museum of Monsters
beings, writing stories with them, preparing a multilingual
dictionary …
We have worked very hard! Together we have over-
come borders and language differences.
1.1.1.
Congratulations,
Monsters!
First anniversary
1.1.1.
We coordinate:
Trutnov, Cossington,
Porto de Mós
2/7.2/7.2/7.
6 friendly schools
8.8.8.
Good news! Another
year with monsters
8.8.8.
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1 year, 100 joys1 year, 100 joys1 year, 100 joys
We have one year to work with our
friends in Europe. It seems a short time,
but we did many things.
With Lion, our monster-pet, children
learned how to make and read QR codes
on the iPad.
Celebrate Carnival. The whole school
dressed as monsters. Jaco, the monster
Portuguese, was at the party and put on a
mask of Lion.
Children cared much to Jaco: visited a
museum of painting, learned to brush my
teeth, went to the Municipal Library, par-
ticipate in birthday parties, recycle school
paper …
Violeta Monreal writer came to the
school to talk about monsters and books.
Now the school library has more fun
books about monsters: 36 books. 10
monsters invented attractive to the Vir-
tual Museum.
We work with English School and Portuguese
School: write tales of monsters with collaborati-
ve techniques.
VMM prepare project merchandising: pencils
and bookmarks. Also recorded on the iPad the
words that will be heard in the Multilingual Dic-
tionary on line. The kids really enjoy the blog
VMM: like to know latest news and express their
opinion.
In one year the project "Virtual Museum of
Monsters" gave us a lot
of joy.
Friends Swedish, En-
glish, Portuguese, Ita-
lians, Czechs: THANK
YOU!
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This is the view of our childrens 3, 4 and 5 years:
"These monsters because we really like we did with
love, eager and with love.
We like Lion, Jaco, Prutt... We like all monsters. It's
fun to take pictures with monsters. I also had fun at
the carnival, when the whole school dressed as mons-
ters.
We like to have friends in other schools of Europe,
because friends are very Italian, other friends are ve-
ry Swedish, others are very Portuguese... All our
friends are very handsome and very cool.
Our friends in Europe made a very handsome mons-
ter dolls.
We go to see our friends at their schools. As we go
live far away by plane and by boat".

THE TIME WITH LUCY AND STARRYTHE TIME WITH LUCY AND STARRYTHE TIME WITH LUCY AND STARRY
In february a parcel came to Bifrosts
pedagogiskaenhet. It was from England. The excitment was
high when we opend it.
That was the first time we met with Lucy and Starry.
Together we have had a wounderful time that unfortunately
soon will end. Its lucky another monster will arrive!
Lucy and Starry have been a big part of our days here
at Bifrost. They have given us questions and tasks. We have
learnd a lot together!
This week Starry came with us to the forrest and
asked us about different shapes and what they are called.
The children started to look after things in the forrest
with different shapes.
After this day we have read books about shaped, we
have drawn different shapes, we have looked at different
shapes, made monsters out of shaped and with the iPad we
have made patterns of shapes that we later have made out
of pearls.
Thank you Lucy and Starry for a great time and Hello Lion!
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Cossington c of e primary school (united kingdom)Cossington c of e primary school (united kingdom)Cossington c of e primary school (united kingdom)
Lion and JuvenalLion and JuvenalLion and Juvenal
In March some of the teachers involved in
the Project came to visit our school and meet
our pupils. While the weather was typical En-
glish weather, everyone was able to see some
of the sights of Leicestershire. We also took a
trip at the weekend to Stratford upon Avon
which is where Shakespeare was born. Juvenal
came along too.
This is Juvenal outside Shakespears’s birth-
place.
Lion has enjoyed his time in school. Whilst
visiting us he was able to come on a rip to
Beaumanor Hall with the year 2 pupils.
We even made him a pirate hat so he could
join in.
The children in class 2 have all been making
monsters at home so Lion felt very welcome
while in the classroom as he was surrounded by
lots of friends.
Lion went home with some of the children
from class 1 and 2 and even went on holiday
with Jamie S from class 2.
We have now waved goodbye to Lion and
Juvenal as they set off to visit Sweden and the
Czech Republic.
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From Italy arrived a big green monster that likes to eat spiders and insects
and doesn’t like to bathe.
He told us a sad story. He lost his parents in Italy and decided to look for
them. The first country was Portugal. He was happy when he realized that
they also went looking for him and that they were also in Portugal.
We built a monster named Juvenal very environmentally
friendly and the arrival to our school of two monsters
coming from Italy: Gicca and Org. They come for help to the
students of the EB1 Corredoura that would support them in
the pursuit of their son Prutt, which got lost in a garden. The
enthusiasm in helping those new friends was immediate.
The month of February was extraordinary for two main reasons: we built a monster named Juvenal very environmentally
friendly and the arrival to our school of two monsters coming from Italy: Gicca and Org. They come for help to the
students of the EB1 Corredoura that would support them in the pursuit of their son Prutt, which got lost in a garden. The
enthusiasm in helping those new friends was immediate.
We were studying aspects of our coastline and we took them to Nazareth, where he met a sea monster to whom they
asked for help. This monster was going to the Azores. Thus, our friends got to know theexistence of the archipelago as
part of our country. Already in the classroom helped to build a model of that archipelago .
The days passed and Prutt was still missing. Bibliomóvel be came if ther sun was there so they ask the asked the librarian
if she had seen their son or if he was hiding on the shelves. The librarian teld was sorry to them that she had not seen
him.
Meanwhile, our friends went to the mountains surrounding the school, but nothing ... then decided to help colleagues to
cultivate our vegetable garden. After this activity others followed: the construction of m2 participation in cultural
journeys, the recreational reading in the reading corner, a trip to the Municipal Library, among others.
During his staying in this kindergarten,
together with kids, he learned hygiene
concepts and attitudes, learned how to plant
vegetables, heard lots of stories, met Camila
(the character of school libraries project of
this school), learned and taught mathematics
and used ICT to communicate with his
Italian friends.
In summary, a journey full of adventures.
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Jacó is a sea monster, chosen by students from
our Kindergarten to represent us in this project.
Our friend Jacó, after having caught a big scare in
the polluted waters of his river, decided to travel
all over the world to raise awareness and motivate
students to protect and preserve the
environment.
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Present from englandPresent from englandPresent from england
During the visit in England we
received a book for children called
The Gruffalo. Our pupils worked with
the book and the film during English
lessons. Children really enjoyed both
the book and the film, which
introduced them to English
literature. The story tells about a
mouse, who wanders around a
forest and is looking for nut. He
meets a fox, owl and a snake, all of
whom try eat him. To survive, the brave mouse needs to use his wits. He claims he is
about to meet a terrible monster called Gruffalo and this way he chases his enemies
away. The mouse becomes more and more confident. Nothing bad can happen to him in
the forest. Until he turns round the corner and finds himself face with a figments of his
imagination, the Gruffalo well and the mouse can finally enjoy the found nut. At the end
our pupils draw the Gruffalo.

LIFE MOSTERLIFE MOSTERLIFE MOSTER
Children of the Primary School “Gianni Rodari”
are waiting for…. Matylda!
So there! After the lunch time we found a big case with
inside…. Matylda: a beautiful little monster! Finally we
can welcome her among us!
Children pampered her, and later put her to sleep
because Elisa said: “Teacher, she surly is very tired
because of the long travel, she needs to
sleep.” (Matylda has slept for one hour).
When she woke up, Arianna said: “Teacher, maybe she
feels alone because she leaves in Trutnov all her
monster friends. Let’s bring her to our monsters, so
she doesn’t feel alone.” (Matylda met a lots of
different monsters, she socialized with them, she
played with them, she also wanted be in love with
TANTEDITA, but finally she refused him because he is a
latin lover, in fact we saw him send kiss to another
monster, Bruchettola!)
On 14th
March was Matylda’s name day: we made a big
party with her new monster friends. She blew on the
candles and she ate cake (she likes very much the
chocolate cake!)
On Wednesday at school for lunch there is lasagna: so
we bring with us Matylda to taste it and she likes it
very much!
Matylda likes our picture cards that she can find in the
books of our library, so every day, before going home,
we give her a book: she enjoys herself and she doesn’t
fell alone during the night.
Now she has to leave and we are very sad and Daniele
said: “Teacher, I think that Elisa, Arianna and all girls in
the class will cry a lot!”
Looking for Molli
Children of kindergarten F.ll Cervi tell us:
We are waiting
for a long time
the coming of
Molli. Every day
we asked to our
teachers: “Is
Molli coming?”
and teachers
said: “NO”. But
one day Tiziana
arrived at school
with a big case
and we happily
opened it. “That
happiness, it’s Molli”. A little colored and tender
monster, we were afraid to break her. Molli lived
in the monsters’ yellow house, with other Italian
monsters. She enjoyed a lot and she learned some
Italian words: mostro (monster), paura (fear),
amico (friend), bello (beaty), ciao (hello), come
stai? (how are you?), molto bene! (very good!).
When she arrived in our school it was snowing and
she went in the garden to play with children.
Later spring is coming and she went outside with
children to pick up flowers and walk in the streets.
Molli went with us to the theatre and saw an
acting named “il cubo magico” (the magic cube),
and later she visited the toys museum: there were
toys that our parents used when they were
children.
Now we have to say
hello to her, we are
very sad, but we
love her.
SCUOLA F.LLI CERVISCUOLA F.LLI CERVISCUOLA F.LLI CERVI --- SCUOLA G. RODARI (ITALY)SCUOLA G. RODARI (ITALY)SCUOLA G. RODARI (ITALY)
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The VMM Project is one year old but it
doesn´t finish here. During the next academic
year 2013/2014 we will continue with more
work.
Our monster-pets continue their European
tour. We will do a tribute to Maurice Sendak
and his book "Where the Wild things are". We
will write more stories about monsters in co-
llaboration with our friends. We´ll celebrate
the "Monster Month" in our school libraries.
We will make an exhibition about the
VMM project in local libraries. And other two
newsletters will be published.
During the academic year 2013-2014 we will
make coordination meetings in Italy and Swe-
den. And the project will end with an evalua-
tion meeting in the Spanish State in June 2014.
Then our Virtual Museum of Monsters will
come true. Thanks for your cooperation.
Happy summer for everyone!
See you in September!
Good news!Good news!Good news!
Another yearAnother yearAnother year
with monsterswith monsterswith monsters
You can visit our blog vmmonsters.eu
You can visit our wiki http://virtualmonstersmuseum.wikispaces.com/
You can visit our virtual desktop eTwinning:
http://new-twinspace.etwinning.net/web/p86056
Also find information on the web pages of our schools.
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www.vmmonsters.eu
--- Colegio Tremañes (Spanish State)
--- Scuola F.lli Cervi (Italy)
--- Základní Škola (Czech Republic)
--- Agrupamento de Escolas de Porto de Mós (Portugal)
--- Cossington C of E Primary School (United Kingdom)
--- Bifrosts förskola (Sweden) Monster logo created by FOCA CLIPART

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