Easter menus in Europe

Today I held an open lesson, where I had invited my colleagues, to share with them my experienc in teaching.
The objective of this lesson was the evaluation of my 6 grade students' mini school projects. The project is entitles "Easter menus in Europe". For some years, I have organized such projects with my students to involve them actively and to motivate them to learn English. I want to make them learn how to organize a research and make a project working as a team and negotiate all aspects of the project.
After studying the chapters about foods, quantifiers, verbs used with processing food, countable and uncountable nouns, etc., we decided to make this project. After discussing in class how the project should look like and what it should contain, the students  organized their groups according to their experience in working as a team in previous projects, and started the research. They used their families, cook books, the internet as resources for information. Each student from the group has certain responsibilities within the group. And the end products are very nice. They had 3-4 weeks for research and on February 21 they had to show me their drafts, so that I could give them more advice on how the project must look. I gave them the format for the title page, which had to contain certain elements. The next pages have to contain: the menu with prices, and the recipes for each item on the menu, all of them bilingual: in English and Romanian.
And today, on February 28, we had the evaluation of the project. The students had to present their projects in front of an audience made of their peers and guest teachers. They had to select 2 spokes people to present their projects in English and Romanian.
All people present got some evaluation grids which they had to fill in with the marks they gave for all evaluation criteria. So we had teacher evaluation, but also peer evaluation.
We also had a sponsor for the activity: two of the students' mothers cooked us delicious doughnuts. All kids tasted the sweet prizes.
Besides this, Marcela Zaplac offered each student an origami daffodil and a surpprise the kids enjoyed.
Our guest teachers considered the activity a great success and congratulated my students for their efforts and results.
If you are interested in reading those menus, I will upload some on the project website in Resources.
Here are some photos from the activity;

Daniela Buda