De La Salle Primary School

 

                International Day of Peace at De La Salle Primary School 

                          

                               Representing war-representing peace

With the theme "1,2,3 Red Light!" we approached 16 adjectives determining warlike and peaceful moods. 

The occasion was the vocabulary of the book "The War of Omegavita" by the author Evgenios Trivizas.

This experiential activity aimed for the 2nd-grade students to deepen and consolidate complex concepts and nuanced lexical differences.

The adjectives we worked on were the following:

a) for vocabulary related to war: armed, panicked, belligerent, haughty, greedy, suspicious, wounded, bereaved,

b) for peace-related vocabulary: praiseworthy, lovable, admirable, industrious, cheerful, kind-hearted, sorrowful, humble.

The specific adjectives were rendered in the form of still images.

In the next step, we tested the effectiveness of the pictures our students made: this time, the meaning had to be rendered extraverbally and turned into a word again.

 The twinned 6th grade classmates were asked, seeing the picture, to identify the word in a reverse lexical immersion game, as they needed to use their observation skills to distinguish the differences between lovable, kind-hearted, painful, admirable, etc.

Overall, our students warmly received the activity and cultivated a vocabulary that the children will remember in the future.

Finally, the above activity was observed and applauded by the Western Thessaloniki Primary Education Advisor, Mrs. Dolkera, who noted that it was an excellent, experiential activity.

Sophia Lykopoulou

Teacher of "De la Salle" Elementary School