The document summarizes the activities completed as part of a "Travel around the world through tales" project. It describes presentations made to parents and 5th grade students to announce the project. It also discusses a writing competition where students wrote tales using Turkish characters, selecting winners to act out their tales. Other activities included making a poster, booklet, and field trip to the Basilica Cistern in Istanbul to see representations of Greek mythology.

1. “Travel around the world through
Tales”

2. What did we do?
• Project Poster
• A presentation to our parents
• A presentation to our 5th grades
• A writing competition
• Booklet
• Acting out the tale
• Singing a Turkish song about body parts
• Field trip to Basilica Cistern

3. Project Poster

4. Presentation to the parents
• We announced to the parents that our 5th
graders would be in a project named “Travel
around the world through tales”
• And we held a meeting with the parents.

7. Presentation to the students
• The project and the writing competition were
announced with a presentation in a meeting.

9. Our Comenius Project is

10. Which countries are we
going to visit?

11. How can we travell?
TALES

12. Let’s start
to learn more
about the countries!

14. TURKEY
Capital city : Ankara
Major Cities : İstanbul, Çanakkale, İzmir, Bursa,
Antalya
Currency : Turkish Lira TL
Longest river : Kızılırmak (1.350 km )
Largest lake : Lake Van (3,755 sq km)
Highest Waterfall: Düden Waterfalls
Tallest building : Sapphire of İstanbul ( 261 m)

15. Places to visit
Basilica Cistern
Galata Tower

16. Dolmabahçe Palace
Topkapı Palace

19. ENGLAND
Capital city : London
Major Cities : Birmingham, Oxford, Leeds, Liverpool,
Manchester, Sheffield
Currency : Pound Sterling £
Longest river : Thames ( 346 km)
Largest lake : Windermere (14.7 sq km)
Highest Waterfall: Cauldron Snout (Cumbria) 60 metres
high
Tallest building : 1 Canada Square, Canary Wharf
(London), 245 metres high
The busiest airport: London Heathrow, with 53.8 million
passengers.

20. Places to visit
LONDON EYE BRITISH MUSEUM

23. ITALY
Capital city : Rome
Major Cities : Venice, Florence, Milan, Naples,
Currency : Euro €
Longest river : Po (652 km)
Largest lake : Lake Garda (369.98 sq km)
Highest Waterfall: Cascata delle Marmore (165 m)
Tallest building : Garibaldi Tower (231 m) - Milan

24. Places to visit
Pisa Collesium
Tower

25. Venice Florence
Naples

26. ROMANIA
Capital city : Bucharest
Major Cities : Iasi, Timisoara
Currency : Romenian Leu RON
Longest river : Danube (1,075 km)
Largest lake : Lake Razim (415 sq km)
Highest Waterfall: the Horse Falls (90 m)
Tallest building : Floreasca City Center Sky Tower
(137 m) - Bucharest

27. Places to visit
Bucharest
The Parliament House

29. GREECE
Capital city : Athens
Major Cities : Mykonos, Hersonissos, Rhodes
Currency : Euro €
Longest river : Aliakmonas (297 km)
Largest lake : Limni Trichonis (98.6 sq km)
Highest Waterfall: Styx
Tallest building : Athes Tower 1 (103 m)

30. Places to visit
Herodes Theatre
Acrepolis

32. POLAND
Capital city : Warsaw
Major Cities : Krakow, Gdansk, Auschswitz
Currency : Zloty PLN
Longest river : Vistula ( 1.047 km)
Largest lake : Sniardwy Lake (2.400 sq km)
Highest Waterfall: Wodogrzmoty Mickiewicza
Tallest building : Sky Tower (212 m)

33. Places to visit

35. BULGARIA
Capital city : Sofia
Major Cities : Blagoevgrad, Bourgas, Dobrich,
Rousse
Currency : Lev BGL
Longest river : Arda ( 290 km)
Largest lake : Lake Vaya (27.60 sq km )
Highest Waterfall: Raysko Praskalo (124.5 m )
Tallest building : Hotel Rodina ( 104 m )

36. Places to visit

48. Writing Competition
• As we know that we have a new competitive
generation, we decided to organize a writing
competition with 5th graders.
• They had to write a tale by using Turkish Characters.
• They had to use some idioms that includes body
parts.
• The winner’s tale would be acted out in the class.

49. Some Turkish Characters

50. Booklet

51. Booklet

52. Booklet

53. Acting out the winners’ tale
• The tales were so creative that we couldn’t
select a winner from 80 different tales.
• We decided to select 4 winners from four
different classes.

54. Tale 1

55. Tale 2

56. Tale 3

57. Tale 4

58. Acting out

59. The Turkish Song “iki elim var”

60. Certificate

61. Certificate

62. Certificate

63. Certificate

64. Basilica Cistern
The Basilica
Cistern(Turkish: Yerebata
n Sarayı - "Sunken
Palace", or Yerebatan
Sarnıcı - "Sunken Cistern"),
is the largest of several
hundred ancient cisterns
that lie beneath the city of
Istanbul, Turkey.

65. Basilica Cistern
In Greek mythology Medusa
(Greek: Μέδουσα (Médousa),
"guardian, protectress") was
a monster, a Gorgon, generally
described as having the face of
a hideous human female with
living venomous snakes in
place of hair.
 Gazing directly upon her
would turn onlookers to stone.

66. Filed Trip To Basilica Cistern
• A field trip to Basilica Cistern was planned in
November but according to our district regulations in
Turkey, we had to postpone it in December.
• It will be a good change for our students to see a
mythological Greek character, Medusa, in our
country. So that they can see the similarities
between two countries.