On a piece of paper, Katja, Lucie, Annie, Geraldine and Mika decided to create together a strange animal: they called it KLAGM, with the initials of their name.

Have you already got a Freinet pen-friend ?

Couldn't you find one yet ?

Ok! Don't worry, be happy, it's high time RIDEF helped you find your international pen-friend !

How ? Go to the hall of Galileo Galilei School, on the left, there is now a message board dedicated to pen-friends.   

Write your own profile (contact, desires, country, ...) on the message board and/or select one. Done !

In our workshop today we talked about the principles of Freinet pedagogy, and after we have brainstormed to see how to apply these principles in our classrooms. We have started to give them names: work plans, free text, self-correction cards, so what's new? Ah, I have lost a tooth, which tooth ... in Austria they have a list of teeth, in Chili they have photographs of smiling toothless faces... the tooth fairy comes to get your teeth from under your pillow. And then we have seen other techniques: school correspondence, living maths ...

Mia Vävare explains what the CA has worked on: the preparation for Benin, the approval of new movements, and a lot of administrative work as well. She also highlights how the multilingual meetings are long and difficult, but the CA team works together well nonetheless.