samos.net is a touristic website that has the aim to give the visitor all the important information about the island. It was created based on an old website made by former volunteers. The old website contained only a few articles, so our team had the task to not only improve […]
Yearly Archives: 2017
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ChiosRadio is proud to present its new section: People’s Voices. Our radio station features a new section and at the same time a new dimension: Video. The idea is to record children’s presentations about different parts of Chios Island; Great idea, motivated children and no experiences in shooting videos, therefore […]
It’s carnival time and so we decided to create masks with the pupils of primary school. We prepared different, but the favorite of the children were the smurf masks. So we did it many times. Before we had to prepare the models for the hat (καπέλο), the face (πρόσωπο) and […]
The children are silent, all eyes are focusing on the small paper boat in the jar and even the teacher is curious, what will happen next.This is how our experiment-workshops look like. Some volunteers prepare an experiment, which will be presented to the children. After showing the experiment, it is […]
At the beginning of the year 2013, we started to prepare a new project: The Calender- Clock. With carton, different paper and many pencils in various colors we created a calendar with the children. It shows the four seasons of the year in the shape of a circle. The arrow […]
lesvosisland.info is a renewed, updated and expanded version of the old website made by former TES volunteers. Our team translated also the missing parts of website’s articles into German, Italian and Polish, so for now the website is avaliable in 6 languages: English, German, Italian, Greek and Polish. The main […]
At the end of the winter season, shortly before the time around Easter, the fifth season starts, and though not particularly long, it is amongst the more colorful: It’s Carnival. Though not on the same date like the Christian Carnival, the Greek Orthodox Carnival is much the same as its […]
In this week we visited the fourth class of primary school and prepared a food pyramid. We created a triangle with three different colors and lettered it with different Greek words: καθημερινά (daily), εβδομαδιαια (weekly) and μηνιαια (monthly). So the pupils had to think about various greek food, especially from […]
On a rainy morning we went to school to do a workshop with pupils in the third class. We wanted to fold snowmen (χιονάνθρωπος) with white paper and colorful pencils. Before we had to prepare the paper at school and fold it again to exercise it the last time. We […]
December on Chios Island, Christmas time began and as in many European countries Christmas songs are a fixed part in the culture and the traditions of Greece. Therefore also at school Christmas songs were part of the music lessons. Our opportunity was to take part in playing the Christmas songs. […]
After having decorated the classroom together with the children in the christmas decoration workshops, we now create the costumes for the christmas play of the primary school. All the children of the school together will perform one play, so each class has a specific role and needs costumes. Either we […]
As December and with it the Christmas period is starting, the teachers asked to prepare some workshops creating Christmas Decoration. For the “χριστουγεννιάτικο δέντρο” (Christmas tree) we thought about a 3D golden or silver star. Also we have already taught some classes how to cut garlands of stars, Christmas balls, […]