Osnovna škola Dr. Branimira Markovića Ravna Gora

Turkish teacher Meral Aydiner and Croatian teacher Andrijana Simčić have founded a new eTwinning project called ''MORE FUN TOGETHER''. Among other things, the project included the activity where our 3rd graders drew and wrote about what they like and dislike. Their ideas were very interesting and diverse. Most of them like pizza, ice cream, sunny weather, football, TV, computer games, strawberries, Coca-Cola, art as well as different colours and animals.

What they do not like very much are snakes, rain, school tests :), bugs and spiders, pink colour, onions, broccoli and Corona Virus.

Our 4th graders imagined a family of aliens, made their drawings and described what each member of the family looks like/is like. By doing so, they practised to describe a person by their appearance and their character. We love their works of art and descriptions :)

Happy Easter! I hope you are surrounded by sunshine, flowers, chocolate eggs and people you love on this very special day :))

As regards our eTwinning project ''A JOURNEY THROUGH THE WATER'' and since our online Zoom meeting in February, our 4th graders have decided to become real penpals with their Greek eTwinning friends (6th Primary School of Artemis, Greece). So we proudly presented our idea to them and their teacher Angela Florou, and they accepted it in delight :)

4th graders then created their own letters in the form of passports where they introduced themselves, their families, hobbies and pets. They also made nice drawings and short messages for their Greek friends.

Both pupils sent their letters by surface mail in late February and today we received the Greek letters. Yaaay! We were so excited and couldn't wait to open them. It was so nice to read our friends' letters, to see their handwritting, to see their beautiful drawings.

Thank you, dear friends! You made our souls warm up and this warmth will last for a long time 

Our 2nd graders were very hard-working during the online teaching last week. Their task was to make models / draw drawings of their very own wardrobes with all the clothing items inside. After making their models, they brought them to school and gave short presentations about their wardrobes and used colours to describe their clothing items.

The works were very interesting and creative.

Our next activity in our eTwinning project ''A JOURNEY THROUGH THE WATER'' took us to a small lake (called ''the Dead Lake'') which is located near our school (20-minute easy walk). Some of us were there for the first time although we all live in the same place. The lake still has a frosty layer on the top but we managed to see some frogs swimming below it. It was a nice late-winter sunny day and we enjoyed our time in the nature very much.

We found some remains of water plants called dark reeds. And played with them for a little while. And when you peel their dry flowers off, it brings a lot of magic into the moment :)

As regards our 4th grade, we are currently doing some research on London and the pupils created and presented many beautiful presentations about London sights. The presentations were created in Power Point. The pupils were free to chose one or more of their favourite London sights and attractions and were very creative in their selection: the Eye of London, the Harry Potter Warner Bross Studio, the Tower Bridge, Mr. Bean and his 1979 Mini Cooper, Big Ben, etc.

Our Hana, who did the Harry Potter presentation, surprised us with some Harry Potter sweets and their weird flavours (dirt, earthworm, earwax, grass, rotten egg, etc.) at the end of the lesson. Thank you guys, you made me a proud teacher that day! It was a great pleasure listening to you :) 

If I had the power to give you something valuable in life, it would be the magic to see yourself through my eyes. Each one of you have your very own unique gift that you bring to this world and make it better just by being here.

Happy Valentine's Day from your teacher :)

Our little 1st graders performed their first play in the English language in this school year. We were interpreting a story ''THE BIG CARROT'' first, comparing it with its Croatian version ''DJED I REPA'', creating our bunny crowns and finally performed the short play. 

Some pupils have chosen to be the mummy in the play, rare were the daddy, some were the sister, some the mouse and the majority of them wanted to be Ronnie (our favourite character from our coursebook). But they were all very, very happy, that's for sure! :)

About our eTwinning project ''A JOURNEY THROUGH THE WATER'', our 4th graders have realizead another project activity, i.e. writing the short essays on the local legend of Božji studenac. The legend has got its final version and has been uploaded to the common project e-book. Our partners (2nd Primary School of Artemis, Greece) will read our legend and create their artwork according to it. Likewise, our 4th graders will read the Artemis school legend and create artwork accordingly. We are looking forward to our common work with the Greek school! :)

In our first English lesson in the 2nd half-term, we talked a lot about our winter holidays. We did many things: travelled a bit, spent good and cosy time with our families, played a lot with our friends and had a nice little rest from school :)

As regards our eTwinning project ''A JOURNEY THROUGH THE WATER'', teacher Angela Florou from Greece and our teacher Andrijana Simčić have organized our first online meeting via the Zoom platform. By doing so, our 4th graders met their Greek peers from the 6th Primary School of Artemida, Greece. 

Both pupils first introduced themselves by saying their names and describing their hobbies. Then they sang a song from the WATER IN MUSIC project activity to each other (Greek pupils: a song THE WATER FLOWS, Croatian pupils: ZEKO I POTOČIĆ). At the end, they got a chance to ask each other some questions. The questions were very various and creative, such as: What is your religion? What is the weather like (summers, winters) in the place that you live in? What are the most famous sports in Greece? Are you proud of your history? What are the most famous sights of your country?, etc.They also learned how to say THANK YOU! in the Greek and Croatian language (Eufharisto! and Hvala!). 

This was a great and unique experience for both pupils and teachers. We all liked it a lot! Both partner schools have concluded that we definitely have to hear and see each other some time soon.

The "MAGIC ADVENT CALENDAR" competition, which lasted from the beginning of December until Christmas Eve 2020, has come to an end. A total of 54 students from our school participated in it, but only 13 of them reached the very end.

The finalists were diligently opening the windows on the calendar and sent one correct answer every day from December 1 to 24 2020. By doing so and reaching to the very end, they were rewarded with a special gift provided by the school. These are: Josipa Burić (1st grade), Nika Kaparić, Noa Stepić, Tara Stepić and Stephanie Svetličić (2nd grade), Mateo Bonjšak, Katija Burić, Dora Jakovac, Gabrijel Kordiš and Boris Svetličić (3rd grade), Marta Hlača and Hana Mirković (4th grade) and Dorotea Stepić (5th grade).

There was a lot of laughter and also some tears during the competition, joy for those who would pass on and sadness for those who would fall out. Messages to the organizers were sent at all times: the first ones used to arrive early in the morning, and the last ones literally few minutes before midnight. The answers were also very creative and original, and we will particularly remember our 2nd grader Dejana Hajder for a long time. Namely, each of her answers was hand-written, and the full words of a not very short Christmas song…

We congratulate all the competitors on their efforts, especially the finalists! Merry Christmas!

Santa Claus did not forget about us and he came to our school on Friday 18 December. We were so happy when we saw him. We talked about our Christmas wishes and he remineded us not forget to write a letter to him and put it under our Christmas tree at home. By doing so, he would know what to bring to us as a Christmas present. 

Anyway, we got nice presents from him today: a game and some sweets. We sang Christmas carols with him and danced a little bit, too. Thank you Santa! See you next year!

As regards our eTwinning project A JOURNEY THROUGH THE WATER, we completed our last task in the project. We added our beautiful paintings to the common eMaze virtual exhibition. We are very proud because we did most of our work by ourselves. We painted our painitings with teacher Andrijana and we took their photos and uploaded them into a digital tool called eMaze with teacher Goranka. 

You can take a look at our exhibition by clicking on the following link:

https://www.loom.com/share/7feecfa875254c7c95c2498ee2cd1e54?sharedAppSource=personal_library

4th graders

Dear pupils and parents,

The 1st week of our Magic Advent Calendar competition has flown by. You have been very hard-working and sent us many, many correct answers. We are very much surprised by the number of our competitors who, after 10 days, are still in the competition. The magic number is 31. Can you believe that? T-H-I-R-T-Y - O-N-E competitors who are still in. Wow!

The number of pupils competitors per class is as follows:

1st grade: 2 pupils; 2nd grade: 10 pupils; 3rd grade: 10 pupils; 4th grade: 4 pupils; 5th grade: 4 pupils and 7th grade: 1 pupil.

We congratulate you on your knowledge, willingness and regular day-to-day answers that you send. We wish you good luck in the future days! :)

Since September 2020, our 4th graders have been participating in the eTwinning project ''A JOURNEY THROUGH THE WATER''. The project founders are two primary school teachers: Monica Frigerio (Italy) and Lacrimioara Sabareanu (Romania). The project has gathered 125 members up to now. It deals with different types of water in students' surroundings (sea, lake or river) and many various tasks have already been given to the teachers and students.

The project leaders for our school are the Information Science teacher Goranka Herljević and the primary English teacher Andrijana Simčić.

In September 2020, the project was introduced to our students in the natural environment. That is, we visited a little creek in the forest just behind our school, gave ideas for the creek name and voted for the best name. So our little creek got a name: Vodobrkić (author: Zvonimir Liker). We also invented two short poems about our creek. 

In October 2020, we visited our Vodobrkić for the second time. We observed the change that occurs in the nature and around our creek in the autumn and each student took their individual photo of the creek. We were also getting motivation for our next project activity called WATER IN ART where the students had to paint a lake or a river in Gorski Kotar and upload their paintings into a digital tool called eMAZE.

In November/December 2020, the paintings were created with the help of teacher Andrijana's mentoring and uploaded during Information Science classess along with teacher Goranka's mentoring. You can take a look at their virtual exhibition by clicking on the following link:  https://www.loom.com/share/7feecfa875254c7c95c2498ee2cd1e54

We are especially proud because the students did the most of the work by themselves.

On 1 December 2020, our 1st grade teacher Ms Gordana Podobnik was our guest in the 4th grade classroom. The reason is she wrote a picturebook about water 17 years ago. The nameo f the piturebook is ''Gorski potok Klok'' (''Mountain creek Klok''). We found the picturebook in our school library and liked it a lot. We wanted to learn more about how Ms Gordana came to the idea of writing this picturebook and how long did it take to write it, so we invited her to our classroom where she first read her picturebook to us. We had many questions before and after her reading and were so happy and grateful to have the author of this beautiful picturebook with us.