What a logo is? After watching a powerpoint,, deciding what a logo is and make mindmaps in teams, we can create our project logos. Some of our project logos: And the winner is…. “In this logo the stars are all the children in Spain, in Reunion and in Finland. The colours come from the colours […]

Let’s think about our intelligences. We have spoken about what do we think “intelligence” is, and in teams we think together about our strengths and our favourite activities. Our friends from Finland proposed to create this intelligences wheel… Here you can see Finnish wheel, Turkish wheel and finally, our wheel. Intelligences wheel from Finland: Intelligences

Let’s think about our intelligences. To help the topic introduction we are reading a book “Tales to discover intelligences” by Begoña Ibarrola, a psychologist spezialized in emotional development during childhood. The characters in the stories are children having fun together and facing problems while learning to live together and respecting diversity. They explore together the different intelligences

Learning with heart, mind and Body… The Human Body in the 2nd grade This school year we decided to learn about Social and Natural Science (“Medi”) area without a textbook. Some activities have been planned with the intention of creating a more balanced schedule taking into account some ideas of the multiple intelligences of Gardner.

We have used the Cooperative Learning Strategy “Numbered Heads Together” (Kagan). We have asked the difficult question: “What a LOGO is?” Children have to decide the meaning of this strange word… With their heads together (and each pupil one number) they have to discuss and decide one hypothesis and write it in a post-it. And