This e-book has been created by the partners of the e-twinning project, named

"Waldorf is Here. What About You?

Here is the list of the contributing schools and teachers:

Ahmet Uygun - Altınkaya Secondary School

Anastasia Gika - 2nd Primary school of Agios Nikolaos

Burak Yıldız - Nar Primary School

Gülden Veldet - Cihangir Primary School

Ionela Bianca Dumitrascu - Rusanesti Secondary School

Mariana Dinu - Rusanesti Secondary School

Osman Bozkuşluoğlu - Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil Secondary School

Qetevan Emrashvili - Georgia Bareti public school

Sevda Dilek - Cukurca Fan Club Secondary School

Preview audio:

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Once upon a time there was a boy, called Walt. Walt was a 10 year-old student. He was studying at 4th class. He didn’t like going to school, because he was bored all the time. He didn’t want to sit all day long and only listen to the teachers without doing nothing more.

When he was home, he always dreamed of a school with lots of activities and funny games. He was young and he wanted to run around, play games. His school was good and his friends were nice people, but as for lessons; they were not enjoying enough.

Rusanesti Secondary School - Mariana DINU - (ROMANIA)

One day, Walt woke up to go to school. It was Monday and he had two hours of English lessons today. He was excited because he was going to meet his new English teacher. When he entered the class, he was a little bit surprised because his teacher had decorated the school board with three different logo pictures. The teacher introduced herself and introduced an eTwinning project. She said:

- “This term we are going to join a project. During this project we will do a lot of activities. But first we need to choose a logo for the project.”

Rusanesti Secondary School - Ionela Bianca DUMITRASCU - (ROMANIA)

Walt was excited and happy. They chose a logo together with his classmates. His teacher explained the details of the project. It was about an educational approach called Waldorf. The teacher also said they would have friends from other countries, too. It sounded great to the students!

Next week, the teacher showed all the logos. Their friends from other countries had also prepared logos. Walt and his friends looked at all the logos in detail. Then they voted for their favorite logo. In the next lesson, the teacher announced the best logo. It was the logo of a school from Istanbul, Turkey. They liked the logo of their project. The students printed some of the logos and pinned those pictures on their school’s bulletin board.

Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil Secondary School - Osman BOZKUŞLUOĞLU (TURKEY)

Altınkaya Secondary School - Ahmet UYGUN - (TURKEY)

Walt was excited about the next English lesson. He was wondering the project. When he got to the class, he saw some books on the table of the teacher. The teacher said:

- “This month, we are going to read a story in the schoolyard. But I couldn’t decide what to read. Let’s choose the book together!”

All the students voted for the book they were going to read. Then they went outside the classroom. In the schoolyard, they sat under a tree and read the book together. All the students enjoyed reading the book. The teacher took photos of them while reading it. Then she said that some of the project partners had to read the book online because of the pandemic. It was November but the weather was good. Walt thought he was going to remember this day forever.

Çukurca Fan Club Secondary School - Sevda DİLEK - (TURKEY)

After dinner, Walt was watching TV at home. His mother came into the room with two paper plates on her hands. She gave it to him and said:

- “Please, put these plates in your school bag. Your English teacher texted me. She asked these paper plates. I’m wondering why you’ll need them.”

Walt was wondering, too. He quickly prepared his school bag and went to bed, dreaming of tomorrow.

The next day, his teacher came to the classroom with an animal mask on her face. She looked really funny. She said:

- “Did you like my mask? Do you want to wear a mask like this? Let’s make it!”

They chose the animal they like, cut some colorful paper and sticked it on the plates and there it was… All the students had an animal mask on their faces. They were laughing and enjoying the moment. They didn’t forget to take photos with their masks on.