Oct 28, 2010

Rules for: The chicken and the fox

Rules for the game:

The chickens and the fox
One child have to be a hen and she stands on the shortside of the hall.In the middle of the hall stands the fox.
The rest of the children have to be chickens and they stands on the opposite side of the hall.
The hen shout: Come all my chickens!
The chickens answer: We don,t dare for the fox!
The hen shout again: But come anyway!
Then the chickens have to run to there mother, the hen, on the other side of the hall. They have to be careful and run away from the fox.
The fox has to touch as many chickens as he can before they reach the wall.
If the chickens can run to the other side without being touched by the fox they can continue to be chickens. Otherwise if they get touched by the fox they became foxes too. Then they have to help the first fox and so they became more and more foxes.The game continue until there are only one chicken left and there you have the winner.
Have a nice time!!

First Meeting in Rugby

Oct 11, 2010

swedish september tradition , picking blueberries


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPbxZTuKmiI

Project Introduction

Knowing by sharing.

In our opinion sharing offers us a great opportunity to enrich ourselves as people, not only in an intellectual way but in a human one. In this sense, the more we share, the more we grow. This is the aim of our project.

There are four main issues that we are going to work and develop during our partnership. These are:

1. Traditional games.

We want to focus either in indoor, outdoor or table games.

2. Traditions and great musicians (classical/pop).

This issue will have two fields that we are going to work:

· Traditions (songs, dances etc....) related to different festivities we celebrate throughout the year.

· Biography and main productions of two great musicians born in our countries and their contributions.

3. Art

In this case we want to link our local arts with famous artist’s productions and work different art techniques. The contents will be:

· The four elements: water, fire, earth and air

· The urban art

· The human figure

4. Geographical,historical and social situation of our cities,regions and countries.

The main reason that pushes us to apply for and carry out this project has been our firm conviction that our students must learn not only the specific contents of their closest environment (city, region and country) but also come into contact with the cultures of our European neighbours,that is an increasingly important issue. In this way we obtained an interaction with others, and an exchange of traditions, customs and other cultural aspects relating to different disciplines like music, games, art, history, geography and languages not forgetting the use of new technologies so necessary in the twenty-first century society in which we live

Oct 9, 2010

August tradition from Finland: Valkosipulifestivaalit

The Garlic festivals

The garlic festivals are on the third weekend of August.

The garlic festivals are organised since 1987.

In the festivals they sell garlic, of course, foods and drinks spiced with garlic, garlic shaped things like
candles and jewellery.

Every year they choose the garlic person of the year,
who is publicly commendable as a friend of garlic.

The traditional food of Kerava is garlic mutton with garlic potatoes.
















September tradition from Finland: Sirkusmarkkinat

Circus Market

We have Circus Market on 13-14th September every year. There are music shows, magicians, jugglers, acrobats, pancakes.











There are also market stalls where people sell earrings, food, jewerly and other things. 
Circus Market was in the town first time in 1972.

 There are tens of thousands of people visiting the market every year. There is also a fun fair in town at the same time.



Our school sells lottery tickets and cookies to get money for 6th graders' camp school.

Oct 7, 2010

October Italian tradition

October Italian tradition

Swedish August tradition part 2 "crayfish party"

Hur man bäst äter kräftor

August tradition from Sweden




The sour herring premiere




The sour herring premiere takes place at the end of August. The dish is made from small Baltic herring, which is caught in the spring, salted and fermented. It’s packed in sealed tins but the fermentation continues and in the time the tins swell, both on the top and underneath. As a strong pressure has built up in the tin it should be opened under water preferably outdoors.
Sour herring has a strong, pungent smell of rotten fish. Enthusiasts love this smell while newcomers reel back in shock. The dish tends to divide the population into two camps – those for and those against.
The traditional way of eating sour herring is wrapped in a thin-bread sandwich. You butter the bread, place the gutted herring on it together with slices of almond-shaped potatoes and chopped onion and tomatoes. Fold the bread and eat with your hands. Enjoy the dish together with friends.


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Surströmming - A Taste Of Heaven (Curt)

Oct 6, 2010

October Spanish Tradition Text

Hi everybody!
We are the sixth-grade students in Frederic Godàs school. Today we celebrate an ancient tradition we have here in Catalunya. We call it “La Castanyada”. Every 31st October at night, families and friends use to get together to have dinner. After it, while they stay sitting round the table, they eat roasted chestnuts and special sweets made specially for this day that we call panellets, they are made of sugar, honey, eggs , almonds an pine nuts. They are really tasty and nice.
At school, every year we have our own Castanyada party. First of all, the children from kindergarten until 6th grade, dance and sing traditional autumn dances or songs related to this festivity .After this, all sixth grade students, who are dressed in costumes of chestnuts sellers ,deliver all the other children roasted chestnuts and some drinks. Afterwards, we use to eat the chestnuts in circles with our parents and teachers. We really like and enjoy the party.