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Guasticce: Christmas 2011

The Coccopresé ... A nativity scene, made with eggs, primary school Falcone and Borsellino Guasticce (LI)
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Christmas in Rionero in Vulture

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The live nativity scene

For Christmas is tradition in our country make a live nativity scene. To organize the elders of the town center, a group of elderly people that gets together and tries to keep alive ancient traditions and customs of the country

CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL IN MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SCHOOL, EL TOBOSO, SPAIN

On the 23rd of December, our school celebrated the famous Chirstmas Festival. Children of all the classes sang a Christmas carol or perfomed a short Christmas play.

Children in 3rd class

Children in 2nd class

Children in 6th class. The presenters.

This year, children in 6th class were the presenters of the festival.

THE THREE MAGIC KINGS VISIT OUR SCHOOL IN SPAIN

On the 22nd of December The three Magic Kings  (Melchor from Europe, Gaspar  form Asia and Baltasar from Africa) visited our school. They went to all the classes and gave presents to all the children. They will come back on the 6th of January to all the houses to bring presents to all the good children in the world.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Poland!!!

In Polish schools we celebrate Christmas on the last day at school before Christmas. This year it was on 22nd December. We gather in the gym and listen to Christmas carols, in the classrooms we have Christmas Eve dinner with many traditions: holy wafer, some traditional dishes with fish and poppy seed and ginger bread. Additionally with some fruit. And of course we sing carol then.

Unfortunately we couldn't take part in the videoconference, but we sang Christmas wishes for you and a Christmas carol in Polish.

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012 TO ALL OF YOU FROM STUDENTS AND TEACHERS OF SP9 DZIERŻONIÓW, POLAND!

The Christmas market in Piazza Navona in Rome

The letters to Santa Claus

Termini Station, on Christmas trees set up in the big railway station in the capital, hundreds of tickets to ask for a gift to Santa Claus. A cross section of our country in a difficult economic and social development. Someone asks for a job, a love someone, smaller gifts, the greatest peace and serenity. The non-EU exchange greetings and thoughts in their own language and someone asks Santa Claus a ticket to return home from their loved ones. And this is Christmas.

Christmas Artwork

With the desire to do our best wishes to all of you and all your loved ones are publishing this video with works created by children for Christmas 2011 ... accompanied by pictures of the crib in the country of Guasticce and decorations of the imagination ...
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Christmas melodies

Thanks Illianor Illios friend last night, December 23, 2011, in Second Life, we heard sweet melodies, dedicated to Christmas e. .. more ...
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The crib

Merry Christmas together

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The December 19, pupils of primary school class II C of Rionero in Vulture, met with theircompanions of El Toboso, to exchange good wishes for a Merry Christmas. Both classes sang and presented to its partners a few Christmas songs typical of their country. Eventuallythey exchanged greetings with singing We wish you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year,a song by Anglo-Saxon origin known around the world

HOW TO MAKE FUNNY "DIVER TEXTIL" CARDS

Three Magic kings card

You need:
- plush
- a card
- scissors
- glue
- glitter
- felt tips

First, draw a Christmas image on the plush.
Then, cut out your drawing.
Fold your card.
Next, stick your drawing on the card.
Decore your card with glitter.
Write a Christmas massage inside your card.

HOW TO MAKE A FUNNY REINDEER CHIRSTMAS CARD

You need:

-  two cards

- scissors

- glue

- colored pencils

- felt tips

- First, fold the card.
- Next, draw your hand and your food in the other card. 
- Then, cut out the figures. 
- Stick the hands and the foot in your folded card.
- Finally, write a Christmas massage.

CHRISTMAS CARDS IN SPAIN

Every Chirstmas children of Miguel de Cervantes School, in el Toboso, Spain, make Christmas cards to say  happy Chirstmas to our families. These are some of our works:

4th class

3rd class

6th class

5th class

1st class

2nd  class

The first snow of the season on Mount Vulture

Yesterday appeared the first flakes of snow in our country. They have not collected but the summit of Mount Vulture this morning was completely covered with snow, making  very evocative the atmosphere of the pending Christmas

6th December - Santa Claus's Day in Poland

On 6th December in Poland we celebrate Santa Claus's Day and on that day Santa comes to children with lots of presents. In schools it looks different: children make presenta to each other, sometimes parents buy and make percels to the whole class, sometimes childen go on trips. At our school the tradition is sports competition: students in each year take part in races - we haven't got lessons on that day. Santa brings sweets. All have fun!!!
Do you have the same festival in your countries?

The Macedonian culture

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My name is Bojka Ristova, I'm twelve and I am Macedonian.
Three years ago I came to Italy to spend some 'time with my mom. I loved my new home, especially my new country "Italy". I thought that by staying here my life would change. So I stayed in Italy, Rionero inVulture. I enrolled in this school. The manager and the teachers welcomed me very well. I was a bit sad at the begin, because I missed my friends and because I did not know the language, but because my new classmates were younger than me a year and a half. Day after day I used to be with peers than with teachers. The rioneresi, the teachers, companions, friends made ​​me feel one of them. I want to thank my mom, but most of the teachers who love me and made me learn so many beautiful things. I wish one day I should obtain Italian citizenship to feel that in all respects and at all times to help foreigners who feel disoriented as I felt myself.

Bojka Ristova class V E T.P.

Waiting for Christmas in our school

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The Christmas holidays in our school will begin on December 23. Waiting for Christmas we prepared several cribs, Christmas trees, paper stars, festooned with various traditional symbols of this event

Bruna and her friends wish you…

Christmas tales

At Christmas it is traditional telling of fairy tales. On 16 December with many classes in our school we attended a theatrical show dedicated to stories of Christmas. Among the actors were also of our classmates and the expert drama, Lydia, who often collaborates with the school for drama activities. Among the stories represented was "The Little Match Girl" of Andersen, the "Legend of 'Abeto." There were moments of interactive, where we also took part in the show with our songs.
At the end we all went back to school happy and full of what is usually called "Christmas spirit"

A letter to Marina, David and Britanny from El Toboso

Dear Marina, David and Britany,

Thanks for your letter. We are a group of students from Class 7 C working on eTwinning. We are in the 7th grade and go to Escola Básica nº2 da Lousã school, the "head school" of a group of kindergarten, primary and elementary schools. Our names are Carlos, Mariana, José, Vânia, Rui, Gonçalo, Márcia, Nelson,Pedro Veiga and Pedro Tomás.

This school term is now finishing and soon we will have our Christmas holidays. Lessons will restart on January, the 3rd. At our school there are different Xmas decorations made of recycled materials during Visual Education and Religion lessons. Tomorrow we are having a sports activity - Cross Country Running and on Friday we are having Xmas celebrations.

In Portugal at Xmas Eve we usually have boiled stockfish, potatoes and cabbages and for dessert we have a typical xmas cake called "Cake of the Kings". What do you have for Xmas dinner? When do your Xmas holidays start?Tell us about your xmas celebrations.

Wishing you a Merry Xmas and a Happy new Year

Bye

your eTwinning friends from Lousã, Portugal

RAFA NADAL WINS THE DAVIS CUP

The famous spanish tennis´s player Rafael Nadal won the tennis´s Davis Cup the 2nd of december of 2011.
The Davis Cup men's tennis event is the largest annual international team competition in world sport.


Written by:Javi Medina

Happy Birthday together

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On the 12th of December, we students of class II E  met for the first time our comrades from Spain. Initially, we presented to get to know and become friends. Then we sang a song typical of our country. It was the birthday of one of our classmates and with the children of Spain celebrated its seventh year  singing together Happy Birthday
By pupils of class II E

Skating - Gold Medal to Italy

In Canada, Carolina Kostner won gold in the final of the Grand Prix, 2011, in Quebec City, Canada, one of the the most important events of the season  on ice

Dear Claudia, Rodrigo and Ana

Ist december

Dear Friends,
We are 6º C. (Sixth Form, Class C)
We live near Spain. The closest city to us is Badajoz, in the Extremadura.
We often go to Spain: shopping, vacation, eating or going to the cinema.
We watched your videos and we liked them. They were funny!
Soon, we will send you a Xmas message!
Bye.

Un Bambino ( A child)

A Child is a Chistmas song sung in the 1975 by the  Choir of Antoniano in Bologna. We students have taken this song and after have listen her have plotted the story.

Where is Santa's sleigh?

Story about a trick the elves play on Santa when they hide his sleigh just before Christmas. Santa tries to solve the mystery and looks for it everywhere.


Very soon the students will be immersed in the story without realising they are reviewing tenses, prepositions and vocabulary they have learnt this time of year - Christmas.

The digital story of the Nativity

How social media, web and mobile tell the story of the Nativity.
Christmas story told through Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google, Wikipedia, Google Maps, GMail, Foursquare, Amazon...

Christmas in Poland

Chritsmas !!!

Christmas are fantastic ! In Poland children love Christmas ! Why ? Because they get a lot of presents from Santa Clause ! Children very would like to see Santa ! When goes Christmas Eve people eat together Christmas supper. Then everybody goes to open the presents that Santa brought them. We all enjoy a nice family atmosphere that surrounds . WE LOVE CHRISTMAS !

Some images of the region in which we live: Basilicata or Lucania

Basilicata, commonly known as Lucania, is a region of southern 586 794 inhabitants. Its capital is Potenza.
The territory of the Basilicata region is mostly mountainous (47%) and hilly (45%) and has one large plain, the plain of Metaponto.
To learn more about our country and our region click on this link http://progettoregioni.wordpress.com/
The information contained on this blog are the result of a research work that our school mates have done together with other Italian students in the past years

From olive to oil

The Vulture area in which we live, is typical for the production of olive oil Denomination of Protected Origin. Its color  is yellow with green highlights, its taste sweet . We use olive oil as a base for many dishes from the kitchen, for bruschetta with tomato, salad dressings and vegetables in general. Driven by curiosity, along with teachers, we decided to see how olive oil is produced. We are so gone before in an olive grove to pick olives, then to the mill to observe the process of transformation from the olive to oil. We realized that to get a good oil should be pointed out some very important steps and comply with the hygiene and cleanliness. For the pressing of olives and oil extraction are allowed only mechanical and physical processes, it is forbidden to use products to chemical action.

In Lisbon, the nights begin with Fado.

An accompaniment to the city’s history, Fado grew out of the old quarters of Mouraria, Alfama, Bairro Alto and Madragoa.
Amália was the most charismatic of these early Fado singers and the first to take the music overseas. Possessing a great stage presence and being a natural entertainer, Amália left us with the classical image of the traditional Fado singer in a black dress and shawl. Her former residence is now a museum that is well worth a visit.

Fado, Humanity Heritage

A shawl, a guitar, a voice and heartfelt emotion. These are the ingredients of Fado.
Nowadays, Fado is almost a symbol of Portugal, a celebrated form of world music that has retained its traditional qualities but moved with the times. Amália, the world-renowned singer who brought Fado to the great concert halls of Europe and the attention of international audiences, has found a worthy successor in Mariza, who continues to tour overseas, taking the Fado to an even wider audience.

Pupil Quality Label for portuguese students

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We received the diplomas related to last year's participation in the Project.
We were happy and pround of our work and we were very happy for that great recognition. This is our Pupil Quality Label.

TRYING TO USE TALK BOX TO MAKE A VIDEOCONFENRENCE

On the 1st of December, María Teresa and María Jesús, the founders partners of the project Children and Reporters, tried  talk box to make a videoconference to improve the communication between partners and schools because all the partners want to have a videoconference before Christmas Eve.
The meeting started at a quarter past eleven and finished at a quarter to twelve.
Maria Teresa, from Italy, was in class with her students and María Jesús, from Spain, was in 6th class with her students too. All they were very happy and children took some photos to remember this fantastic and funny moment, and to write this new, of course.

After the videoconference we, the spanish students found some problems:

• We must open the door to have a better conexion to internet because internet conexion in our class is very bad. We could listen to María Teresa, but we couldn't see her and her pupils very well.

In a few days we will have another videoconference with all the partners. The topics will be:

1. Welcome and greetings.
2. Tradictional Christmas Carols from all the countries. (Each country will sing a Traditional Christmas carol in his/her country)
3. We sing together the Carol "We wish you a Merry Christmas".
4. Any other bussines.

You can try talk box in our videoconference room, here on the left of the page, on this magazine, and be ready to talk and sing on the day of the videoconference. It is coming soon.

María Jesús working on the computer and María Teresa on the digital board.

Pupils in 6th class watching and listening to the videoconference.

Pupils in 6th class watching and listening to the videoconference.

Maria Teresa in Italy, talking to us.

Christmas in Denmark

Christmas in Denmark

The Italian students meet their Spanish comrades

 The Italian students were really excited to see and greet their fellow Spaniards. These are some pictures taken during the meeting.

How we celebrate Christmas in Denmark

In the middle of Oct.,all shops begin decorating their windows with Christmas lights and other decorations. They sell Christmas decorations already in Oct.

   Last day before our Christmas holidays 20^th Dec all students and the teachers at the school go church,- the doom which is situated in the middle of our city. Each class is ”called out” and all are lined up for giving a big candle to light up the dark on the 600 metres path to the doom. Our students walk 2 and 2 and the younger student goes with a senior student who has the big candle.

The many candles is a wonderful sight in the dark at 8.30 in the morning. Lots of parents join us to church and we have had this tradition for many years by now. I must say,we haven´t had any accidents with all the many big candles, so far.

                                 Last day before our Christmas holidays. Our school tradition.

	Here some elder students are given the candle light by a teacher.

In the doom, our students sing special Christmas songs and our music teachers sing and play as well. This is so fantastic to hear 

and ALL students are so excited about this and they all sit very quietly in the big doom, which is totally full this day. Did I remember to tell only our school have booked this doom this day?

Students, teachers, parents fill up the many 600 seats in this doom such a day.

                                 Waiting for Christmas Eve 24th, we´re playing in the snow.

Here is a traditional Christmas tree. Some put candle lights on the tree but due to dogs and small children, many use electric lights on the tree. The gifts are put under the tree in in the morning 24^th Dec.

                                  A traditional Danish Christmas tree.

          Christmas Eve 24^th many people go to church at about 4 pm. When they come home, they make the last preparations for the dinner and then we´ll have the traditional Christmas dinner; duck or goose, potatoes, sweet potatoes, chips, and for dessert a kind of a rice pudding; rice porridge with almonds and whipped cream. Her we have to find the almond which is not cut into pieces. The one who gets this special almond gets a small present.

 After the dessert, we sing Christmas song while walking around the Christmas tree. Then it´s time for the presents. The clock is often around 8.30 pm. We take one present at the time. Some families with smaller children often end up in paper in the whole living room, but the older you get, the smaller the presents are and the less paper we have. The children play with their presents.

     After this we get a cup of tea or coffe and some Christmas candy and then relax. Othen the time is 10.30pm and we are all very tired and go to bed. Yearly the next morning, children are up early to play with their presents and at noon we invite family for a big lunch or we are invited out. The day after the same programme and we´re all full and have put on weight after 3 days of eating.

   We spend our holiday by playing in the snow and reading books in front of the fire.

           This is our traditional Danish Christmas dinner:

                                 The typical Danish deseert at Cristmas Eve:

      A kind of rice pudding with whipped cream, almonds and cherry sauce. (We usually have more bowls with this dessert, but not to get so full before we get the almond, we´ll have a small bowl to eat first....)

                                 Homemade Christmas sweets:

May you all have a Merry Christmas

 and a happy New Year!

 Kindly regards,

       Giersings Realskole, Denmark

Charlotte Pedersen