2014 IIME REPORTCountry [ FRANCE ]School[ BALZAC Nanterre ] Teacher [ Fujiko MARTIN ] grade (3 )JP School [ Seiko Elementary School] Teacher [ IIDA Junichi ]student number ( 22 )# Subjects, Activities and Times of the lessons
Subject
Conception of the lesson
With a camp-leader, we learnt to make different origami. Each origami explains
ORIGAMI
specificities of Japanese beauty. The process of folding learnt about geometryand physics (strength of the folding, symmetrical strengths etc)
Children learnt to play with Japanese arts. (Hokusai’s and Hiroshige’sARTSengravings)
Children learnt “twinkle twinkle little star “ in Japanese, French and English for
ENGLISHthe show at the end of the year

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weekly# Theme and Message of the mural
Theme

Our beautiful cities

Message

The theme was about our cities. Children decided to represent their real homes (intowers, etc.) but they colored them as they wished. They decided to draw
themselves in very small proportions. The Mural represents also a map to locate theschool.

# Effects and the Problems
Effects your students have gained
Points for further improvement
Pupils understood:
It was my 1st experience in the IIME project, so I
- Speaking English is a basis to communicate would made further improvements:
around the world- Do the IIME project with older children- Japanese and French children are very alike- Make the pupils to learn English so that theyand very different- Geography: Japan is in day time whenwould communicate in English
France is in night time
# How has your impression toward your partner country and/or the world changed?
Change in student’s impression
Change in teacher’s impression
Children started with discovering Japan. At the end Meeting Japanese children‘s mural allowed toof the exchange they are ready to understand Japan understand better the work of a French teacher in amore efficient way.
at a deeper level.
As a matter of a fact, French children who are
studying with Japanese pupils are more efficient andconcentrated. They learned about how important it isto know about oneself to meet the others

# Flow of the Activity
ContentMonthIntroduction

SEPTE
MBEROCTO
BERResearch

NOVE
MBERDECE
MBER

Composition

Painting
Appreciation
Reflection

JANUA

What you didReadingtheJapanese
Introductions. Draw andsend “identity cards” toJapanese children.
Reading the answers of theJapanese pupils.
Answering to the Japanese
introduction-Learning to draw squares
and right angles-using tracing paper to draw
on the muralRY

FEBRU
ARY
MARC
H-Drawing
withmarker, painting

felt-tip

Writing some wishes
Japanese pupilstoYour students attitude/reflection
Interest for a new country

Subject

Understanding of the importance ofEnglish as an International Language

Understanding of the structure ofJapanese cities: Homes, Bridges,
Populations and then, choosing what torepresent: Supermarket (Intermarché),Cultural monument that identify
Nanterre (Prefecture, Amandierstheater), and using 2 Parisianmonuments to give orientation (Eiffeltower and Grande Arche)Interest for proportions of eachcomponent of an entire common mural.
Analyzing what can interest Japanesepupils in France. Giving ideas# Aim of the Lessons and Result
Aim: Rank A to C in order you put emphasis on (A: very much/ B: much / C: not so much)
Result: Rank 5 to 1 (5: very effective / 4: effective / 3: so- so / 2: not so effective / 1: not effective at all)

Expected Effect

AimResultUnderstanding our owncultures

A5

Understanding theother’s cultures

A5A

4.5

A

4.5

Communication ability
in the class/with partners

IT skills
Creating friendshipin the class/with partners

Collaborationin the class/with partners

Attitude in learningA

How your students have reached it
Coming from overseas, French pupils have a twisted relationshipwith France, they are used to separate classic and modernFrance. Painting a mural with Japanese children asked them tomake a synthesis about different angles.
Jet lag and poor capacities in English on French side werecorrected thanks to the forum
We received a white board in January, so French pupils started
to read more and more the messages on the forum.
French Students understood the value of cooperation and offriendship to reach efficiency.

A

4.5

French students realized that they have to work as pairs or teamto reach efficiency during the painting.

A5

Any work connected to the Japanese mural was made with themost accurate seriousness: cards were nicely colored, written.

Expression ability

A

5

Appreciation ability

A5Children started to learn in a quicker and better way French andEnglish languages when they realized that their writings would beread by Japanese pupils.
Children started to be proud of the mural when all the school
started to congratulate them.