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COVID-19 resource book for young learners

24/5/2020

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Please find below two links for the electronic version of a book regarding COVID-19 addressed to young children.

The author of the book, Manuela Molina, describes her book as an invitation to families and educators to discuss the full range of emotions arising from the recent circumstances after the outbreak of the COVID-19. It is pointed out that the resource does not seek to be a source of scientific information, but rather a tool based on fantasy. The recommendation is to print the material, so that young children can draw on it.


You can access the Greek version of the book here.
For versions of the same book in a variety of languages, please visit the link here.
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Language learning resources in Greek

17/5/2020

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Please find below a list of resources and online tools that can further assist the online teaching of Greek:

1. Through Photodentro (user generated content), the repository of educational resources of the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, Greece, you can access e-me for all, an edition of the official version of e-me, where everyone can register. "e-me for all" is a digital educational platform for primary and secondary education that can be used by students, teachers, researchers and educators who do not have access to a Greek School Network account.  Access to the platform is given through user registration.

2. The Cyprus Pedagogical Institute (Cyprus Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport and Youth) has made available pdf versions of materials for teaching Greek as a second language. The materials cover topics such as greetings, around the school, family, food, fruit, vegetables, body parts, clothing, weather, animals, house, professions, neighbourhood, means of transport, holidays.  The materials can be accessed through the link here, where you can find pdf files of two books, a guide for teaching the materials, flashcards as well as additional worksheets.

3. All the materials for teaching Greek as a second language developed by the Centre of Intercultural and Migrations Studies (Department of Primary Education, University of Crete, Greece) are still available for free access in the link here.

4. The following educational portal offers online games and activities for the teaching of sounds to Early Stage 1 and Stage 1 students: link 1, link 2.

5. StoryWeaver is a platform that provides young students with reading resources in different languages.  Under Read and then Languages, Greek can be chosen and you can access a number of illustrated, open-licensed children's stories in Greek.  The digital platform can be used not only to read a story, but also to create, adapt and translate new stories.
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Happy Mother's Day 2020!

10/5/2020

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Nurse Reading to a Little Girl,
1895,
Mary Cassatt
Source:
https://www.metmuseum.org

Happy Mother's Day to our colleagues, the women teachers who teach and care for other women's children at schools!

Resources in Greek for Mother's Day tasks for Early Stage and Stage 1 students can be found here and here.

Older students can engage with the plethora of themes relating to a mother's life that emerge from the following excerpt of a poem by Greek writer and poet,
Nikiforos Vrettakos (1912-1991).

Excerpt from:

Όλα Είναι Μοναξιά στο Καλέντζι
Νικηφόρος Βρεττάκος


Δίχως θέα στο μέλλον,
περπατούσες στα νύχια, γονάτιζες,
αφουγκραζόσουν τον ύπνο μας τα μεσάνυχτα,
μάς έλουζες και μάς χτένιζες,
μάς φορούσες καθαρά ρούχα την Κυριακή,
μάς συνόδευες κάτου στην πόρτα
και μάς κοίταζες άφωνη, ώσπου
μάς έπαιρνε ο ήλιος.

Όλα ήταν για μας.
Για σένα δεν είχε τίποτα ο κόσμος.
Για μας τα λουλούδια κι η θάλασσα,
τα τραγούδια και η Λαμπρή.
Χωρίς δαχτυλίδι στο χέρι,
περιχαρακωμένη στη μοίρα σου,
ψήλωνες μέσα στη μοναξιά σου,
μας μάλωνες με την πίκρα σου.

Κι ενώ τρέχαμε μείς
πιασμένοι απ' τα χέρια
ν' αγκαλιάσουμε τον ορίζοντα, εσύ
έψαχνες για παράθυρα,
σ' ένα σπίτι παράξενο και πικρό, που δεν είχε τίποτε άλλο εκτός
από μια πόρτα να φύγεις.

Μα τα πλοία δεν σε παίρνανε
γιατί είχες τον άνεμο και τη θάλασσα μέσα σου
γιατί είχες μιάν έρημο μέσα σου, δίχως
πουλί και τραγούδι.


Source: Νικηφόρος Βρεττάκος, Όλα Είναι Μοναξιά στο Καλέντζι, Η εκλογή μου: Ποιήματα 1933-1991, Ποταμός, 2008.
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