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Well hello again.

This year i work at an elementary school in Lindos, Rhodes, Greece.

Lindos is the most touristic village of Rhodes.

Do u have any ideas on project work? I don't know what to do with my young ones, begginers and early elementary.

Please help!

I am a new teacher,too.At first,I also find this job is too hard for me.However,I become my students best friends.I often play with them.For me,that is a good way.

Wow! What a paradise to teach in. I would spend all my classes teaching them to swim in that blue water.

Here is a site of an addicted tourist. The children might like to see the information is correct and then compare it to another town.

It looks like there is a good book about children growing up there in the 1960's. Perhaps they could write the 2007 version of life there to compare.

How about getting them penpals in a place that is completely opposite - in the flat desert or in the middle of a jungle with a river.

Here is the address of the website:
http://www.lindoseye.com/

Well with my sixth grade we are doing the classical newspaper project.

With my fifth we are writing satirical skethces to perform in front of the village.

But my 3rd and 4th grade are starting now to learn English.

Maybe a photograph exhibition combined with traditional food and drinks (there are a lot of British, Australian and American mothers in our school).

Sally it is much better from last year's mountains! Believe me!

I just did that with my granddaughter who is 4. I let her have my digetal camera and she caught onto it right away. It is fascinating to see the world from her point of view - close to the ground and looking up most of the time. She took lots of pictures of the kitchen and the steps in her house, something I wouldn't have thought of doing. Then she commented on the pictures and I wrote that up for her in a small booklet. Again she commented on things I hadn't thought of. "Grammy, you are too big for that playhouse."

One of our teachers in Mongolia did a lovely art gallery night with the pictures taken by his students. He hung the whole school halls with black material and had the black and white pictures in white frames. It was very dramatic. He played jazz and we had New York style deli finger food. It was a community evening and brought a lot of good publicity to the school. The students were dressed in white blouses or shirts and black shirts or pants to serve the goodies to visitors. The students chose their best picture and one student put up his art work.

They did the same for a science night with models the students had made, working experiments, lab reports and biographies of scientists.

We also had a music night with each class performing an English song with actions and costumes. The parents attended and we had a judge and prizes.

Then we had an English Olymipics (also Math, Science and History) where the best in our class formed a team of four and competed with other schools for the local city, then province, than national prizes.