OUR PROJECT COOPERATIVE MINDFUL POEM

Grateful for what?

“A grateful heart is the beginning of the path to greatness. It's an expression of humility. Faith is a foundation for the development of virtues such as courage, satisfaction, happiness, love and well-being.”

James E. Faust

Living your life gratefully helps you notice small gains, such as when the bus shows up just in time, a stranger holding the door for you, or the sun shining through your window when you wake up in the morning.

 

We asked our students what they were grateful for in their lives to raise awareness about it.

HAPPY ETWİNNİNG DAY!!!

Sibel Yanardağ

                           

 

 It's eTwinning Day! Thank you to the eTwinning platform, which brings us together from different countries of Europe! He brought together idealistic teachers from different countries and developed our vision. It's great to be part of and feel part of the most exciting learning community in Europe!Working together, producing activities together, 21. learn century skills...See that distances don't matter to move together...Thank you etwinning for giving us this opportunity!

Sibel Yanardağ

"Curiosity is a great attitude towards practicing Mindfulness, and towards living life in general". This is what our special guest, Duygu Badur, told us during this excellent meeting.

Mindfulness is not there to tell you you won't have problems or that you won't be stressed out.

Mindfulness is not there to tell you that you HAVE TO be happy all the time. 

Mindfulness is there to tell you that you are a mix of different emotions and states of mind, like this jar is full of small pieces of glitter:

When you're fully involved, or trapped, in your emotions is like when you shake this jar: you won't be able to see things clearly.

All you need to do is STOP, and observe your emotions calm down, like glitter falls down on the bottom of the jar.

And if you ever feel trapped in your jar ... just open the lid, get out, and look at it from outside!

 

Tomorrow we're holding our last group webinar.

At the end of our project, we're meeting a Mindfulness Practitioner from Turkey, who will point out some relevant points and give us useful tips related to being mindful in our daily lives. 

It'll surely be a great meeting!

Celebrating Children's Day

 Last Tuesday, April 20, we celebrated Children's Day in a very special way.

First, Sibel's students gave us a wonderful presentation on the importance of Children's Day in Turkey.

Afterwards, all the schools participating in the online meeting made a presentation of their famous person as a child, for the rest to guess.

Children and teachers had a very pleasant time.

Thank you all for these moments of sharing, which is the soul of our project.

See you soon, colleagues!