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Meeting each other in Real Life is important. The students really liked to meet with their group face-to-face. During the first year the homegroups met at least six times.

 

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The first face-to-face meeting took place in a library - an ideal place to get to know both books and other readers!

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Then it was time to learn how to use our tools. Only a couple of students had sent e-mail before this project.

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The students worked in cooperative learning groups sharing ideas and teaching each other.

 

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We went together to the theatre to see the Jungle Book. That was one of the books in the Evergreen category.

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The Matilda students invited some popular authors  to visit their schools. The authors told about their work. During the visit the Matilda students were the hosts.

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Out first Matilda year had a great finale: literature carnival. Everybody dressed up as their favourite character. We did impros, watched Matilda video, everybody got a diploma and then we had pizza!!