Project Meeting Minutes 1 March 2012
Presentations of Games and Customs:
· Romania
o Video of students celebrating a spring ritual of invoking the sun, rain and moon
o PowerPoint presentation of the custom of Spring Amulets
§ Similarities to Bulgarian customs
§ Examples of amulets
o Singing a spring song together
o “Bridge” game
§ The person trapped at the end of the song has to perform a “punishment” chosen by another player—ex. Jump like a frog, sing a song…
· Italy
o Days of the week
§ A hand-clapping game using the days of the week
o Sheep and Wolf
§ A tag game where the wolf is “it” and the sheep try to avoid him
§ A sheep who is tagged can be “saved” by another sheep passing between his legs
o 1, 2, 3, Star
§ One person has his back to the other players
§ He counts 1,2,3 star. During the 1,2,3, the other plays move towards the counter. On “star” they must freeze. If the counter sees anyone moving, that person must go back to the starting point
§ The first person to reach the counter wins
o Queen, Queen
§ Each person takes turns asking the queen how many steps he can take to reach her castle
§ The queen says how many and what type of step he may take—ex. Two small steps; 1 jump; …
· Lithuania
o Counting game
§ The object is to count to 20 one person at a time
§ If two people say the next number at the same time, the count starts back at 1
o Hand game
§ This is a game to play at the desk involving a pattern of hand motions including: clapping, elbow on the table, fist on the table and brushing the table with your hands
Talking about project tasks
· Assignment of new tasks
o Document games played at children’s parties
o Document games used in the classroom as warm-ups and ice breakers
· Talk about the website
o Finding a way to share the great resources that are in the media library
§ Insert these pictures and documents into articles that will then be published by Saulius
· Leave the article in the unpublished area and Saulius will put it in the correct folder
· Books
o Questions about what types of books will be made during the project
§ Book of all games
· Submitted to the Romania team
· The game will be in English and the language of the country that submitted the game
§ Book of common games
· Made by the Italian team
· The games will be in English
§ Multi-lingual Dictionary
· Compiled by the Romanian team
· To include words for greeting, basic communication and game words
· Send word ideas in English and your native language
· Communication
o Becoming pen-pals with each other
§ Already started by the 2nd grade class in Bulgaria
§ School addresses are listed in the project application
o Skype
§ Use classroom webcams and projectors to have the students interact with one another
· One class could teach a game and watch the students in another country try to play the game
Next Meeting
· Lithuania—possibly 4 June 2012
o Workshop model to learn games
o Be in groups with people from other countries
· Spend more time playing games
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