Open Book Club meetings, May 17

the avengers

Teachers Ivana Bokavšek, Antonia Drlje, Milena Kačunić and Katarina Sablić organised a quiz about The Avengers films and Marvel comics.

Pupils from 5-8 grade teamed up in groups of 3 and showed respectable knowledge in 3 rounds of questions.

Congratulations to all contestants, especially to winning team SHIELD!

Open Book Club meetings, April 19 and May 3

This month's topic is humour. People say that laughter is the best medicine, and we agree.

On April 19 members met and talked about funny situations and stories.

On May 3 Lara Kondić, Maja Vukičević and Zoa Purić read their essays about homour. We had an interesting conversation about different kinds of humour and why it is so important.

Here is a quote from Lara's essay about humour:

" ... So that smile has been in their family for thousands of years. Maybe it is still in some families - maybe in yours, and maybe you will never know if it is. Look for it, I'm sure you can find it, you just need to smile and never stop. "

Open Book Club meeting, March 22

Today, the task was to create a visual of the message of the film Home- love, friendship and girl power.

Using a web tool Canva the girls made their posters.

Take a look at the posters below.

Made by:

Zoa, Lucija and Maja

Made by:

Paola, Marijeta and Sara

Open Book Club meeting, March 15

This month's topic is the role of women in family, friendship and in creating home.

Today the members of the club have watched a computer-animated science fiction comedy-adventure film Home.

Different characters in the film show us the importance of love- in family, between friends, neighbours and what we are all capable of to protect the ones we love.

Open Book Club meeting, February 8

Zoa Purić 5.c and Maja Vukičević 6.a read their essays about love.

Later, they were divided in pairs and created love stories.

Maja and Zoa found inspiration in Maja's essay and they wrote a short story in StoryBird. Click on the photo below and read it.

The second pair Marijeta Lalić and Sara Mančev made a comic using web tool Make Beliefs Comix.

Open Book Club meeting, February 1

RING FOR LOVE

When we think about February, most of us think about St Valentine's day. We are no different!

There have been many famous quotes about love throughout history to explain the true meaning of love.

On our Book Club meeting we tried to discuss the same question. Participants chose several love quotes and had one minute to explain them.

Of course, the secrets of love are not easy to explain but one thing is certain, you can always ring for love.

Open Book Club meeting, January 25

Today, Open Book Club members learned to create story and poem using digital app StoryBird.

Two pupils (4th grade) Sara Mančev and Marijeta Lalić made a nice poem.

Students (7th & 8th grade)

Karla Saratlija, Lara Penović, Karla Čaljkušić and Margarita Šunjić made an interesting story.

It wasn’t easy but it was surely creative and we had loads of fun! Enjoy reading on the link below 🤓

https://storybird.com/poetry/poem/

https://storybird.com/books/story/

Open Book Club meeting, December 14

Our Open Book Club meeting was really lovely and exciting! We watched an Oscar nominee film The Polar Express and after we announced the best Christmas story writer...

and it is...

Zoa Purić 5.c class.

The students voted Zoe’s story as the best one among other 4 ones. Zoe won a book Mali princ as a gift from the Open Book Club teachers.

To all our members and our school students we wish Merry Christmas and Happy New Year ❤

Open Book Club meeting, November 30

This is our last meeting this month. November topics are connected with kindness, tolerance and helping the poor, so we decided to make a comic about that. We used web tool Make Beliefs Comix

making of...

Open Book Club meeting, November 23

After watching Oliver Twist last week, this week our participants have some tasks connected to the film.

They are divided in groups and their first task is to put the story in the correct order.

Next, we play Kahoot quiz. Participants are still in groups, and prizes for winners are cinema tickets. They are going to watch Coco in 3D.

Congratulations to our winners!! Enjoy the film :)

The Book Club’s topics for November are: World Kindness Day (13 November), International Day for Tolerance (16 November), World Day for the Prevention of Child Abuse (19 November) and Universal Children’s Day (20 November 20).

That's why we met at the school’s library on Thursday 16 November to watch a film connected to the topic - Oliver Twist. Next week, pupils will take part in various film-related activities.

by Luce Bračika, 7A

by Domina Antunović, Mirna Knezović, Lara Penović and Karla Saratlija, 7A

3rd Open Book Club meeting

On Thursday, 19th October 2017 in the school's library 5th graders read their essays and one 4th grader read her poem.

1st author: Zoa Purić, 5C

Zoa wrote an essay about a teacher Anastasia and her life outside the school. Audience started a debate about teachers' lives out of school, it was interesting to hear what we think our teachers are like in their "normal" lives.

We asked Zoa: "How long did it take you to write your essay?"

Zoa: "It took me 15-20minutes."

2nd author: Filomena Ban, 5A

Filomena wrote an essay about a magical school and a teacher with superpowers, unicorns and other magical things.

As serious journalists we asked her some serious questions:

-How long did it take you to write your essay?

"I was writing my essay for 2 h."

-What inspired you to write this essay?

"When I started writing I had no idea what I would write about, but then I started thinking about unicorns and the ideas just came out of my head."

3rd author: Zita Buković, 5A

Zita decided to have a character named Anna that will appear in all her future essays. In this essay she wrote about Anna's first day at new school.

We asked Zita:

-How long did it take you to write your essay?

"It took me 1 h."

-Whose essay was your favourite?

"My favourite essay was Filomena's essay."

4th author: Astrid Sučić, 5A

Astrid wrote an essay about her 5th grade experiences, the first meeting with her teachers and her impression on the first day of school.

We asked her some questions so here are the answers:

-How long did it take you to write your essay?

"It took me 30 minutes."

-Whose essay was your favourite?

"I liked all essays."

5th author: Sara Stipić, 4A

Sara wrote a poem about teacher's pets. Sara thinks that all teachers have pet students although they say they don't.

We also asked her some questions.

-How long did it take you to write your poem?

"It took me 15-20 minutes to write my poem."

-Whose essay was your favourite?

"Filomena's essay was my favourite."

Moderators: Karla Čaljkušić and Tea Čikeš

Authors: Zoa Purić, Filomena Ban, Zita Buković, Astrid Sučić and Sara Stipić

Journalists: Rita Rakita, Astrid Sučić, Zoa Purić, Vice Marinković, Maris Jeković, Margarita Šunjić and Franko Farac

2nd Open Book Club meeting

On Thursday, 12th October 2017 in the school's library 6th graders read their essays and poems. All together there were 7 authors with 5 essays and 2 poems. The Open Book Club meeting started at 4:30 pm and ended at 6 pm.

1st author: Fabjan Roguljić, 6B

He wrote an essay about good and bad teachers and their personalities. Fabjan also wrote about what he would be like as a teacher.

We asked him: " What inspired you to write your essay? "

Fabjan: " Good and bad teachers inspired me. "

2nd author: Petra Ivčević, 6B

Petra wrote about what we need to know about teachers, that teachers job isn’t easy and that it sometimes can be stressful.

We asked Petra: " How long did it take you to write your essay? "

Petra: " It took me 20 minutes. "

3rd author: Lara Kondić, 6A

Lara wrote an essay about a strict teacher and a student who wanted to change her. (Lara’s friend Zoa was reading her essay because Lara wasn’t there.)

4th author: Lucija Pandža, 6A

Lucija wrote about a funny and an unusual teacher called Goga.

We asked Lucija: " What is the message you are trying to tell through your essay? "

Lucija: " My message is that all teachers should be more spontaneous and funny."

5th author: Maja Vukičević, 6A

Maja wrote about a girl who thinks that her teacher doesn’t like her and about a bad grade she got.

We asked Maja: " Did it ever happen to you that teacher gave you a grade you though you didn' t deserve? "

Maja: " Yes, in the third grade. I talked to my teacher and she explained it. It is always good to talk to your teachers, ask them to explain what you don' t understand."

6th author: Bruna Čečuk, 6B

Bruna likes writing poems more than essays, and she wrote a poem about her opinion on teachers. She also rhymed the sentences in the poem.

We asked Bruna: " How long did it take to write a poem? "

Bruna: " About 20 minutes. "

7th author: Ivona Bitunjac, 6B

Ivona wrote a poem about what teachers can be like (their personalities).

We asked Ivona: " How long did it take you to write your poem? "

Ivona: " About 30 minutes. "

Moderators: Karla Čaljkušić and Tea Čikeš

Journalists: Rita Rakita, Astrid Sučić, Franko Farac, Vice Marinković and Maris Jerković

click on the photo to see the video

Thursday, October 5th

Our moderators Karla Čaljkušić and Tea Čikeš opened the first meeting of the Open Book Club. They welcomed the audience and presented the theme of the month and authors.

Mia Bebić and Ana Radmilo were the first authors to read their story. They see teachers as superheroes who do everything to help their students.

Ana Dželalija thinks that there are three types of teachers. The first type is a teacher who isn't that involved, or demanding; he just wants his students to be quiet and copy from the blackboard into their notebooks. The second type is a teacher who is joking all the time and teaches through fun. The third type is a teacher who is working hard and who prepares his students for future life.

Ana Primorac described two of her favourite teachers. One of them is always busy, preparing new projects and activities for the students. The other one is more easy-going and jokes a lot. Ana says that her teachers inspire her to be a better student and maybe one day she will also be a teacher.

After the reading, audience had a task to draw a teacher from their favourite story. Authors helped them with their suggestions.