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My last days at school have finally ended... My kids at the afternoon cycle threw me a goodbye party last Friday and it felt so weird. They had organized it all together and tried to keep it a secret from

I love my Art class with my little ones! The second graders are my favorite this year, as they are really good kids and they seem to enjoy our lessons together as much as I do. A few days ago we made 3d

Another birthday party took place a few days ago at school. A girl from sixth grade celebrated her special day with her friends and we all had a wonderful time! We had spent days and days talking about

I told you about a new Art project I wanted to work on with my second graders. Since it's my last week at school and my maternity leave begins on Monday, I wanted to leave them with something useful they

I have been through a tough week after catching whatever bug Little Man had and I have been suffering from a runny nose, a very sore throat that ended in me being unable to speak and coughing so hard my

We have been working together with the Teacher of the fourth grade on a project she started about the forest. Since I get to teach Art in her class, I had the students make various crafts in order to make

An old tradition of the Greek Easter is making Mrs Lent, a woman with no nose and mouth so she can't be tempted by all the tempting food we find around us during the Lent. Her hands are crossed because

Our carnival crafts don't stop this week since it's one of the most festive time of year. The atmosphere in our class remains colorful, bright and playful, especially when you have to deal with

Carnival crafts won't end any time soon and our second grader's made a clown gang from scratch yesterday! Our clowns found their place under our Smurf village (the final version of which I haven't showed

As you may remember from yesterday's post, we were getting ready for our Tsiknopempti school party! Being so excited, I made these two diy "photo booths" to take to school. Someone forgot to

Tomorrow is a special day, it's Tsiknopempti, the Thursday that marks the beginning of the carnival before the Great Easter Lent. It's a tradition to cook meat on that day. From Wikipedia, the free

Another successful Art lesson finished last Friday. Our fourth graders were studying about the forest. Their teacher worked on a very impressive project and I supported that during our Art lesson in a

Winter cold... What a better way to fight it than a cup of hot chocolate? This is why today we made hot chocolate with the kids in the after school class. In the small kitchen we have, we heat up milk

Remember the Smurf village we built with my second graders? Well it got a little upgrade last week. That wall behind our handmade Smurf houses looked so depressingly empty that we had to put something

Today, January 30th, is a day dedicated to our great Ecumenical Teachers, the Three Holy Hierarchs. The Three Hierarchs (Ancient Greek: Οἱ Τρεῖς Ἱεράρχαι; Greek: Οι Τρεις Ιεράρχες) of Eastern Christianity

Our school remained closed today, as last night we had some heavy rainfall combined with strong winds that flooded roads and caused trees to fall. Because of this extreme weather there was an extended

Arts and crafts are my favorite! Since with my little students we built a Smurf village, we decided to make a winter village with the kids from the after school class. Some cutout prints, markers and colorful

Today we cut the traditional vasilopita pie with my afterschool students! One boy got lucky to find the coin in his piece and he also got a small present, nothing special, just a deck of UNO cards to play

Our Smurf village has finally gotten some villagers! Lovely blue Smurfs found their place next to their small mushroom houses and a few green trees are now completing the scenery. All the kids were so

My second graders are building a Smurf village this week! During Art class I showed them a simple yet pretty handcraft with a few toilet paper rolls and paper. I designed and printed the houses and roofs