The Red Balloon
A red balloon flies to the sky leaving the primary school of a village in Ioannia. It is full of the habits, thoughts, games, tradition, etc of the life in this village in Greece.

The 'Red Balloon' has now visited schools in UK, Greece (2), Belgium, Iceland, Lithuania and Australia. Each school has written a Chapter of 'The Red Balloon' including something about their community. In some cases the schools have written in English and their own language. The 'Red Balloon' story can be found at www.wells.ik.org - go to the News page and look for 'the Red Balloon' - each chapter is there as a seperate document!

Vefsíða Breiðholtsskóla um verkefnið: www.breidholtsskoli.is/erlent/etwinning.html

Duration: Three months.

Subject clusters: Civics, Religion and Ethics, Philosophy.

Age of students: 6 - 12.

Aims: 1. TO MAKE STUDENTS COMMUNICATE WITH OTHER FOREIGN SCHOOLS 2.TO MAKE THEM WRITE DOWN INFORMATION ABOUT THEIR VILLAGES, PLACE, HISTORY, WAY OF LIVING, HABITS IN ORDER TO MAKE THEM KNOWN TO OTHERS 3. TO REALISE THE USE OF THE COMPUTER IN COMMUNICATION. 4. TO LEARN TO CO-OPERATE BOTH IN CLASS AND WITH OTHERS WHO LIVE FAR AWAY.