Fado

All the Portuguese people are very proud because Fado has become part of Unesco's World Heritage Cultural Patrimony. Fado (the word means destiny, fate) is a traditional music genre considered as "Lisbon's Song" but it symbolizes the entire country. It has been popularized all around the world by Amália Rodrigues (1920- 1999), one of the most famous Fado singers.

Latte art

A hedgehog in our classroom

Make your own slide show at Animoto.
Today one of our classmates brought to school a hedgehog in a box. All of us were surprised to see him. It was the first time many of us saw a hedgehog.
 Driven by curiosity, we looked for information on Wikipedia. We discovered that the hedgehog is a mammal that belongs to the family of Erinaceidae.
 It has Archaic morphological characteristics (such as the dental formula and the conformation of the brain) that is common to the first mammals appeared on Earth. Over millions of years has only change the covering of spines.
By children of class II C Primary School of Rionero in Vulture

THE PRESIDENT MARIANO RAJOY

The Spanish government has changed, Mariano Rajoy represents the PP. He will be the new Presitent of Spain.

Citiziens of Spain went to the polls last 22nd of November.

 Written by:Javi Medina and Rodrigo.

Maria Skłodowska-Curie

Maria Skłodowska-Curie was born in 1867 in Warsaw in Poland. Her parents were teachers. She studied physics, chemistry and mathematics at the Sorbonne in Paris (the University of Paris). She was the first person honored with two Nobels Prizes - in physics and chemistry. She discovered two elements, polonium and radium. Radium was very important beacuse of it's radioactivity. She died in France in 1934 at the age of 66.

Sara M. SP9 Dzierżoniów Poland

GOOD NEWS FOR SPANISH WILDLIFE

Spanish authorities consider Mad Cow disease risk is over in our country; as a consequence, stockbreeders are allowed again to let their dead animals in places where they can be eaten by scavenger birds like vultures.

From the Mad Cow disease appears till now, Spanish stockbreeders and farmers have had to burn or bury animals died by aging, accident, etc. This fact made that vultures concentrated in protected Nature Parks, where they can only eat dead wild animals. As food was not enough, the number of these birds was decreasing.

More than the 50% of vultures in Europe live in Spain. We’ve got three main different species: Griffon vulture, Black vulture and Bearded Vulture you can see at the pictures.

Now, experts hope we can watch again these wonderful birds flying all along our sky.

Bearded Vulture

Griffon Vulture

Black Vulture

DEAR HELENA MELO AND PUPILS

Ist november

Our names are Rodrigo, Ana and Claudia. We love Portugal. We are neighbours of your country.

We watch your videos about Halloween, and we liked. We are delighted writing this letter for you and your pupils.

Love from, Spain

Written by Claudia, Rodrigo and Ana

“Getting Caught reading/ Silence to read more”

On the 24th of October at 9:45 when the bell rang lessons stopped and all the students, teachers and staff started reading a magazine or a book they had brought. This was the 2nd moment “Getting Caught reading/ Silence to read more” and it happened in all the schools of our group -Agrupamento de Escolas da Lousã at the same time.

José, Rui and Gonçalo
Class:7th C
School: EB nº2 da Lousã Lousã, Portugal

Autumn traditions in Portugal

“Bolinhos e Bolinhós” (cakes and sweets) is a Portuguese tradition similar to Hallowe’en. It is celebrated in the region of Coimbra (in the centre of Portugal) on October 31st in the evening. On that day children carry some boxes of shoes and go from door to door asking for sweets and money and sing a song. This tradition is of Celtic origin, as Hallowe’en, and was later adopted by the Christian religion. This tradition reappeared when in November the 1st, 1755 an earthquake occurred in Lisbon and thousands of people died and the population of the city became even poorer. As the date was a religious holiday, in the following year people went throughout the city begging for money. Unfortunately from the 1980s this Portuguese tradition began to be forgotten and today there are very few people who remember it, as nowadays most children celebrate Hallowe’en, as other children in the USA and in other European countries.This year in our school, on October 31st there was a masks contest and students created different masks using recycled materials. There was an exhibition at the library and students also sang some traditional songs.

On November 11th we celebrate St Martin's Day - at our shool in the evening there is a big party and students, teachers and parents get together, make a fire and eat roasted chestnuts. On this day we also celebrate our school's "birthday".

Pedro Tomás, Márcia Pires
Class C, 7th Grade
School: EB nº2 da Lousã, Portugal

National Trees Day

Customize a slideshow

On the occasion of the November 21, National Tree Day, established in 1951 by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, all first class of the Primary School of Rionero in Vulture came together in the space behind the school building to  plant some trees. In this way our school is intended to contribute in terms of feasibility in this important celebration and an awareness of the importance of our natural heritage.

Journey into the past

On November 21 the students of class III visited the site  Palaeontology of Venosa to observe the animal fossils dating back to prehistoric times. They then created an activity workshop for the creation of objects and terracotta pots. They later visited the house of the Latin poet Horace and the remains of some Roman buildings

My favourite TV SHOW: ''Must be the music''

It's a pop music show. It's on TV every Sunday night at 8.00 p.m. I like it, because It's very funny, interesting and exciting. Young and old people sing songs.
Kora Jackowska, Elżbieta Zapendowska, Adam Sztaba and Wojciech ''Łozo'' Łozowski are the judges. If they like somebody, they say ''YES''. If they don't like - they say ''NO''. We can vote for our favourite singer, too. I like music shows very much.

KACPER K., SP9 Dzierzoniow Poland

Visite to an old vine cellar

The Wineries of Notary arise on the slopes of Mount Vulture, in the center of Rionero. The first winery, once housed a restaurant belonging to a well-known man rionerese later emigrated to America. Not far other caves, dating back to about 4 centuries ago, and belonged to the Franciscan monks, have been dug in the rock along a large imaginary horseshoe. Narrow tunnels connect the other ten wineries. The air filled with a heady scent,makes us imagine men and customs of the past. For the characteristic shape, the square outside, once witness and keeper of the life of the country, tended to collect rainwater as a sort of hollow or easy. The company Cellars Notary, certified company for Quality and Environment, according to UNI EN ISO 9001 and UNI EN ISO 14001, proudly carries the enhancement of the Aglianico of Vulture, typical wine of our country.
The " Cantine del Notaio" won a large number of prestigious awards , as the Oscar 2010 National Golden, for the highest number of DOC and D.O.C.G. awarded across all participating Italian companies, and rave reviews on the national newspapers .

Giersings Realskole, DANMARK, has been awarded with the European Quality Label

Quality label for Charlotte Pedersen

View more presentations from chusipar.

The duckling out of tune

PLOT-In a forest lived a family consisting of seven ducklings and their mother. All, except the seventh, were musical genes so that their name corresponded to that of musical notes: do,Re,Mi,Fa,Sol,La,Si In despair for his diversity Si decided to abandon his family and the place where he lived. One night while everyone slept part in the search for a place where all the inhabitants were not intoned. After a while time Si is reflected in the bustle of the city. All of a sudden see a traffic light and stops to talk with him. The traffic light when realize what a color of duckiling abruptly him away. In despair the Duckling wanders the city streets until encounters a rich man who apparently gentle asks him why his anguish and finally reveals its intention to enclose the Duckling in a cage and use it as an object of the game for his nephew .
Scared by this episode the Duckling runs quickly to seek help from his mother. All when see the ducklining back happy embrace him. The mother makes him understand that should not be considered inferior to the other brothers for its diversity because while his brothers would become good musicians he would have valued other qualities and abilities of which he was gifted. It follows from this follows the idea of diversity as a value for us and for society as a whole. Equality is not given by knowing how to do the same thing or all behave the same way but in possibility that everyone has to assert himself freely

Volleyball - Italy wins the World Cup

The National Women's Volleyball won the World Cup in Japan. Success arrived this morning thanks to victory against Kenya, 3-0 and the simultaneous defeat of the U.S.against Japan. The team of Maximilian Barbolini thus closes the tournament with 10 wins from 11 matches and 28 total points, followed by China and the U.S. pair with 26. This success also ensures direct admission to the 2012 London Olympics.

Hans Christian Andersen, a beautiful statue

 

Hans Christian Andersen is a famous story teller. He was born in Odense, Denmark. Our school is situated not far away from this statue. Some of their most famous books are: The Mermaid and The Tin Soldier.

Written by Charlotte Pedersen, Denmark.

A Letter to Javi Medina, Daniela and all the students

Dear students,

We are fine in Denmark, thank you.

The weather is getting colder now. During day time, we have 4-8 degrees and at night, we have 0 degrees.

Shops in Denmark are decorated for Christmas, already and we are looking forward to Christmas. We wish for a white Christmas. Last year, we had lots of snow.

Do you have snow in Dec.?

We like you news very much. It´s  interesting to hear news from all over the world.

We would like to hear you celebrate Christmas in your country. We´ll write about our Christmas in our next letter.

Love from 4B

Written by Charlotte Pedersen

The new government in Italy

From November 16, 2011 in Italy we have a new government. The chairman of the Government has been entrusted by the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano to Mario Monti, following the resignation of Silvio Berlusconi, on November 12.
The Government Monti is  the sixty-Government of the Italian Republic. It is regarded as a technical government emergency by the international press. However the new President of the Council during the first speech in the Senate, has called her a "government of national commitment."

A letter to Anna and her pupils.

Hello Anna and pupils!
How are you? We are writing from Spain. We are Mª de la Sierra and Marcos. Now we are writing on the project of Children and Reporters . And we are writing a letter to yo. We are childrens of 6h class. We wait you like our letter . We like your new about All saint's day. You have made an excellent work. We'd like writing letters to your pupils or make a videoconference to see you.
Bye Bye!
We are delighted writing to you.
Good Bye Anna and Pupils.

A Letter to Crisitna Silva and her pupils

Dear Cristina Silva,

How are you? We are well. We are children of sixth class. We live in El Toboso. We like the pumpkin you have made in halloween We´d like to know you and your pupils. We would like to write letters to your pupils.


See you soon.

Love from Marina, David and Britany

A Letter to Maria Teresa and her pupils

Hello Maria Teresa and pupils,

How are you? We wait you are well.

We'd like to know you and your pupils. We are from Spain.

Do you know Maria Jesus? We are her pupils, our names are Gema, Javier and Merche.

We've never been in Italy,people say Italy is beatiful.

Have you visited Spain? Spain is beautiful. You should visit it.

We wait you like our letter.

See you soon.

Love from : Gema, Javier and Merche.

From grapes to wine

The territory of our country is known for its wine Aglianico, DOC wine, and considered among the best red wines of Italy. In the Vinitality edition of 2010, has received about 11 major references, and a gold medal. In August 2010 he was recognized as wine DOCG.
Many times we see the Aglianico wine on our table without knowing its origins and production methods. Together with teachers we have created, therefore, a teaching program that has allowed us to discover the process of transformation from grapes to wine. A professor of agronomy, using laboratory instruments, has been with us in this process of exploration and discovery, explaining us many things

Autumn in our school!

Make a free slideshow design

Ah, ah, ah, minha castanhinha!

Song – The Chestnuts

Recycling old newspapers

In our school we are particularly sensitive to the issue of recycling and environmental protection. One way is to use old materials to create  art works. Using old newspapers, we achieved:

an autumn  tree

 a clown 

and an armchair.

 It seems strange, but the chair is very comfortable and we do compete to sit down when  teachers allow  us

It's Autumn

We are now in late autumn. The leaves are almost all already allen, and most of the trees in our country is bare. Picking up some fallen leaves, and a wet sponge in the tempera paints of the various colors of autumn, we  pupils of class II E have created this beautiful poster.

A LETTER TO CHARLOTTE AND HER PUPILS

Dear Charlotte Pedersen and pupils:
How are you in Denmark? We like the video about Halloween in Denmark that you published in children and reporters, specially the photo of the wolf. Do you like our video? We like yours news. And Do you like our news? Some days ago Mª Jesus gave us a diploma of children and reportes. I would like recive a letter from you and your pupils.

Bye bye

From Javi Medina and Daniela.

PUPIL QUALITY LABEL FOR SPANISH CHILDREN

On the 29th of September of 2011 our school was awarded with the Eropean Quality label. We were very happy for that great recognition. This is our Pupil Quality Label. 

Behind us you can see a display area for the news of children and reporters magazine with the Political Europe Map where we have marked  with the correct flag all the countires that participate with us.

In Poland we have All Saints' Day

Halloween in Poland isn't celebrated. On 1st November we celebrate All Saints' Day. It's a very solemn festival. We go to the cemeteries and decorate tombs with flowers and lights. Holy masses are celebrated on the cemeteries. Before 1st November children with teachers go to cemetery and clean the unknown people's and soldiers' tombs.
Sara G, class 6b, SP9 Dzierżoniów

Halloween in Portugal

Make a slideshow design

THIS IS THE WAY WE CELEBRATE HALLOWEEN IN DENMARK

This is the way we celebrate halloween in Denmark.

We make funny hats.

We make Jack o'lantenrs.

We make masks.

Look at them. They are spooky.

We decorate windows.








Written by Charlotte Pedersen.

HALLOWEEN IN DENMARK

Halloween[1]

View more presentations from chusipar

Written by Charlotte Pedersen.

Halloween in Italy

For Halloween in our school we make  posters.

We decorate the windows of our classrooms ....

 the doors .....

and the classrooms with the symbols of Halloween