Dzień: 2022-06-27

Summing up the project by the Italian team

Here is the summary of this year activities compiled by the students of IC Diotti school from Casalmaggiore. Because of the situation in they region they didn’t take part in mobilities but that does not mean they didn’t work hard trying to:

  • implement healthy habits
  • learn how to manage anxiety
  • develop connecting to others emotionally, being proactive, communicating effectively,
  • overmaster goal setting and working towards them
  • improve speaking skills outside the class by encouraging communication with foreign friends
  • build group cohesion by facing tasks that need researching online or in class, taking action or making common decisions

Let me do it!

To get prepared for functioning in the society and be accepted children should know their roles, rights and a scope of responsibilities. Responsibility generates maturity and increases self-esteem, as the children recognize that they become capable. The sooner they understand their rights and their ability to take responsibility for their actions and behaviour the better, although it is individual based. Teens can provide emotional and practical support to their family and friends and, in this way, build their sense of importance, self-esteem and well-being. To understand how to achieve autonomy and gain social skills, the teens prepared short recordings about how they contribute to their households and how they develop their sense of independence. They were all collected in one digital poster.

https://www.canva.com/design/DAFEuGmnzlw/5On1hlKNgKUm9w4GmqvHcw/view?utm_content=DAFEuGmnzlw&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=viewer

The objectives of the activity:

  • developing foreign language competences
  • understanding how they benefit from contributing
  • developing a sense of belonging and gaining respect
  • building self -esteem and a sense of autonomy
  • gaining self-confidence

My health in my hands

3rd Grade students from Italy reflected on what makes them feel good and reduces stress, they give a thought to the importance of physical activity but also consider how they manage time and focus to achieve objectives. Here is a padlet with their short oral presentations on healthy living.

https://padlet.com/mary14ap/ddui17o1b4xqq2dy

The objectives of the activity:

  • recognize physical activity as a healthy behavior
  • encouraging healthy nutrition
  • lunderstanding that lifelong health and wellbeing begins with promoting healthy behaviours early in life 
  • improving writing and speaking in foreign language competences

Wellness and nature

Exposure to nature gives us a great number of benefits, such as improved attention, lowering stress, better mood and last, but not least, it may turn out preventing and treating certain vision ailments as we flex eyes’ muscles trying to focus on objects off in the distance. Exposure to UVB rays triggers the release of dopamine and circulates vitamin D in the body. All these processes help to preserve good health and a positive attitude.

To understand a connection between nature and our well-being and realize our responsibility to protect and sustain the Earth, our students took part in classes during which they discussed the habits they can adopt to save the Earth. They created cartoon strips and illustrated their own obligations to change their habits. We organized also going out to adventure parks and the beach in order to promote active ways of spending free time outside.