1. Our Learning Story:
“A poem from all, for our
mother who love”
IRENE PATERAKI
9TH KINDERGARTEN SCHOOL OF
GLYFADA, ATHENS, GREECE

2. Theme:
• As Mother’s Day is so close, we decided to make a
collaborative poem for our mums and then create
a video with photos and drawings that depict the
poem

3. Dream
• We discussed the idea
• Watched relevant videos inYoutube
• Read poems about mums
• Discussed about different kind of poems

4. Map
• Students were separated in 4 teams: script-
illustration-photography and music/ICT team

5. Map
• Created a mind map, saying why they love their
mum and the illustration team made relevant
drawings

6. Map

7. Map
We also created a mind map using bubble.us

8. Create
• Script team used the mind map to write the poem

9. Create
• Illustration and Photography team met to decide
who is going to do what now they have the poem
• They decided which parts will be depicted with
photographs and which will be depicted with
drawings

10. Create
• IllustrationTeam started making the drawings

11. Create
• Photography team used an iPad to take the photos

12. Create
• Music/ICT team choose free music for the video
, chose the best photos and scanned drawings.
Then usedWindows Movie Maker to make the
video

13. Ask and collaborate
• Students showed the result to their peers in the
other class and had a video-conference with an
expert on video editing, who was the father of an
older student at school

14. Show
• Video is uploaded inYouTube and next week they
will give it to their mother in DVD with some other
gifts

15. Show
• After the end of the activity, a short survey records
students feedback.We also had a discussion and
here are some of their comments:
 I liked when the other teams applauded what we
did
I liked taking photos with the iPad
It was funny to choose the music, some pieces were
not good for my mum
It was tiring to put the pictures in this programme
but the result was magic

16. So: