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Category pupils age 4-11 Special category  English language prize Links to Project Outcomes TwinSpace: http://twinspace.etwinning.net/1304/home http://www.slideshare.net/englishlab1415/presentations I provide a username an password here: username - katekobakhidze password - ajinaldu12345 Blog: http://katemasw15.blogspot.com/ PROJECT DESCRIPTION Pedagogical Innovation and Creativity The project is innovative because it allowed students to learn some of the English curriculum content in a motivating and creative way. They were in contact with students from Spain and worked in international group, they have made actual use of the English language, as they needed it to understand each other. In addition they designed and carried out the proposed activities using creativity and artistic abilities. Curricular integration This has been the main objective. We have observed the curriculum of both countries attentively and integrated the contents in eTwinning. To do this, we have selected certain activities that were in our programs and adapted easily to eTwinning. We have also worked various skills mainly oral and wrotten as well as ICT and social skills. The artistic creativity is represented through Christmas cards, Collaborative stories, Jokes and Thank-you messages. Socio -civic competence: Its development is very important because the project is based on the relationship with the students of other country of their age. They must respect accept their opinions. Communication and exchange between partner schools We have used Twinspace to exchange messages and email to clarify the procedures for carrying out the activities and to establish deadlines for completion of each activity or part of it. Most communications have occured outside of school hours. Collaboration between partner schools. In most activities we tried to have the greatest degree of collaboration possible. We have created mixed groups, creating the figure of the mentor teacher. The project revolves around the idea of a journey through a fictional thain Madrid -Tbilisi. In some stations students performed missions. These are the missions: Mission 1. eTwinning cards. Students created their own cards to know each other. Mission 2. Find someone with similar likes. They sought students from Spain with similar likes and tastes. This activity helped us to create mixed nationality groups. Mission 3. Logo contest. Students created their own logos using PowerPoint and voted for their favourites. Mission 4. Christmas cards. Students drew Christmas cards and we helped them to upload in PowerPoint . They wrote Christmas greetings for each other. Then they voted for their favourite group work. Mission 5. Create a collaborative story. We teachers wrote the beginning of each story for our mentor groups and the children had to finish them in turn and make a story. They needed creativity and knowledge of English. Mission 6. Jokes for children. We approached the English culture through jokes. Children illustrated English jokes and said them in front of the video camera, Individual videos were edited into group videos for each international group. Then they found their favourite drawing and joke and wrote their opinion using Padlet Mission 7. Evaluation and farewell. We had a simple survey of the students where they wrote their activities, their favourite activities and their ideas for future projects. Use of technology We have taken a creative approach to integrate English curriculum with ICT tools. We used: Google Drive, Padlet, youtube, We Video, Thinglink, GoVote as well as MS Office programmes. Results, impact and documentation