Wishes from Slovenia

Here is our poster with best wishes for you.
To see and hear more click on the photos and two singing snowflakes.

Lucia

The Lucia procession sings carols. Do you know any?

Merry Christmas from Romania

A traditional Christmas carol , a present for you all:

Caută mai multe fişiere video ca acesta pe ORA de DIRIGENTIE

Traditions around Christmas

Every Sunday in Advent we light one candle, just as you do..

We also have electric lightholders in the windows, or big stars, and many families have a lot of electric lights in their gardens We also have a calender where we open one shutter every day from the 1st of December until Christmas Eve, the 24th.

On TV and in radio there are "calenders" too, and the calenders are made up by stories, one part for every day.

Lucia is a special day in Sweden. The 13th of December the Saint Lucia comes together with her maids, "starboys" and goblins. The Lucia procession sings Lucia songs and Christmas Carols. They also give out coffee, ginger bread and a special kind of bun, called "Lucia cat".

We have trained for our Lucia Procession for months. We will perform three times, for all the citizens in Grimsås on Sunday, for the school children on Monday morning, and for the big factory Nexans on Monday afternoon.

Elin is Lucia this year, and all girls from class 3 to class 6 take part of the performance. And so do three boys, Daniel is among them.

We´ll send you some pictures from our Lucia procession on Tuesday.

Friday the 18th we finish school.

The most important day for Swedish people is Christmas Eve.

The Christmas tree is decorated, and many other Christmas decorations in the house. ( Most common are small Father Christmas figures.)

At lunch time many families "dip in the saucepan". You dip bread in the clear soup you get when you cook the ham.

At 3 o´clock in the afternoon is an important time. Since many years TV sends "Donald Duck and his friends" - short cuts from Disney films.

In the evening it is time for the huge table with Christmas food -ham, meatballs, salmon, special sausages, herring, " Jansons temptation"and many other dishes.

And after that Sancta comes ( and we´ve got the real Sancta in Sweden- no mums or dads - we don´t understand what you mean :)) and gives gifts to everybody.

After that we eat sweets and cakes and we don´t feel well at all, actually....

Some people go to midnight mass, some people go to the early service at 7 on Chritmas day. Most people do not go to church at all - because we seem to have forgotten why we celebrate Christmas. That´s a real shame....

You asked how much money we raised on the market. About 400 euro. ( 4000 Swedish kronor)

We would like to go to Stockholm,Gothenburg.....we really haven´t decided yet.

Merry Christmas all of you! We meet again in 2010. We start school the 11th of January.

The concept Lussekatt had originally nothing to do with Lucia, but is etymologically traced to Lucifer, Ie the Devil. It was in Germany in the 1600s as the custom with Lussekatt arrived. The devil, in cat form, gave the child beating, while Jesus in the form of a child handed out brownies to the good children.[edit] To keep the shady devil away colored saffron buns with yellow saffron spice. The bright buns were scaring Saffron, ie Lucifer.[edit (from Swedish Wikipedia)

Answer from Slovenia: Christmas traditions

Yes, December is here and soon Christmas trees will be standing in our homes. In the photo you can already see some of our this year's school decorations. On 21st December there will be a Christmas choir concert at our school.
Our secretary says that before Christmas she does general home cleansing.
We are looking forward to the presents that we get from Santa who is really our mum and dad, it just looks like it's him.
This weekend many of us got small presents (mostly sweets and fruit) from St. Nicholas and at the end of the year there is another tradition of Father Frost which is similar to Father Christmas.





What do you eat for Christmas? We eat our traditional food potica. Do you remember it? Many in our class go to midnight mass on 24th December and we will have cribs under our Christmas trees.
We also light one candle every advent Sunday. On Friday our 6th graders made their own Christmas table decorations. We did the same last year.








Your market looks very interesting. How much money did you raise? Where would you like to go at the end of class 6?
We wish you all the best!!!

Christmas traditions

It is December and soon it is Christmas. Christmas markets have already started on many places. In Grimsås there was a small market last Sunday, the first Sunday in Advent. Our class had a lottery on the market, just to get money so we can make a small journey before we split up in the end of class six.

There were one hundred prices in the lottery.

What traditions do you have when it is Christmas time?

Project of the month

We are so happy and excited because we were eTwinners of the Month.
We like our new web camera and headphones and thank the eTwinning team for the prize.
With them we can do even better collaboration.
Thank you partners!

Price from Sweden and another price...

Today we received the webcam and the earphones... nice surprice.
We are very proud and happy. In the same time we won another price with our ecological project CO2nnect. The jury gave us 2nd price and we are going in Norway in springtime !!!!

Soon we will begin to write again on our nice Questions' blog, we were very busy with the CO2nnect project.

What we are proud of....

First of all, congratulations to beeing one of the best football nations in Europe! Great work beating big, big Russia! What stars do you have in the Slovenian team? Do you have any good Slovenian clubs or are most of the players professional players abroad?In which clubs?
We are a bit disapponted here in Sweden, not reaching the World Championship in South Africa. But it is just to face the facts,the Swedish team wasn´t good enough this time.


In the class we have discussed what we are proud of and here is what the pupils said:
We are proud of our good skiers, Robert in our class and Anja Person and Jon Olsson, who make great results in the World Cup.
Even cross country skiers as Charlotte Kallas makes us proud.

Mats Sundin and Foppa Forsberg are hockeyplayers who make us proud, and some times we can be proud of the Swedish hockeyteam as well.






And of course our famous players Henrik Larsson and Zlatan Ibrahimovic make us proud.


Many good films are made in Sweden, and Mauricio mentioned his favourite Stig-Helmer.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmp9cmDV59E



Astrid Lindgren, the famous author, has written books as Pippi Longstocking and Ronja. Have you read any of her books? She was a great story teller, and we are very proud that she came from Sweden.

Quite a lot of good musicians come from Sweden. We suppose that many of you know ABBA, and the film " Mama Mia".

Alexander Skarsgård and his father Stellan Skarsgård are two famous actors. You can see Alexander in "True blood" - and Stellan you can see in "Mama Mia".

Björn Borg is almost as old as the teacher of the class, ( she is 56) but the pupils still remember him and feel proud about the world´s best tennis player in the late seventies.

Class six in Grimsås School

... and here comes the SUPER CLASS from Grimsås school in Sweden!
We say Zdravo, Salut, hej and Hallo to you all!

Happiness in Slovenia

We are very happy.
Can you guess why, what happened?

Hint:
f o o tb a l l.


How popular is it in your country? What are you proud of these days?

Panic in Slovenia?

Hello!
We are back, wishing you a lot of health.
In our class two students weren't at school yesterday. They had virosis and a headache.
We have flu vaccine but there is a dilemma about using it and nobody in our class decided to have an injection. Most of us are not too afraid.
At school we wash our hands regularly and we desinfect our hands with a desinfection liquid.
Here in Slovenia is a small panic about the swine flu because one old woman died and one man is in hospital very ill.

We are looking forward to your presentations. It was the same in our class, we waited for some students.

Tina

Hello all of you!

Now our presentations are nearly finished. When we read about our friends i Celje, everybody in Grimsås wanted to make a presentation of their own.
Most of us are ready,but we are still waiting for some to finish.
Many of us in the class, and in our school, have been ill - and some still are.
We have got the flu here, some have got the swein-flu, others might have an other kind of flue. Only if you go to hospital, and stay there, they take a specimen to check out if it is the swein flu or not.
Yesterday teachers and pupils here in Grimsås got an injection to prevent us from the flu. So we hope all children are back to school soon again.
What about you - have you got the flu? Have you got vaccine against it?
We miss you on the blog - it is so fun to answer your questions......

Get to know us better

Boys and girls introduce themselves.

Click on the photo and find out what they like, do ... etc.

Swedish weather

This week the temperature was around +5-8 degrees. It was really cold, grey and boring. We havn´t seen the sun on the whole week. Our hands did shake very much when we cycled to school. Because it was so cold.

The trees leaf wasn´t on the trees. They are on the ground.

And the sunrise comes at 8 oclock and the sunset 17.47.Soon it will be snow we think. It has snowed once. It was about one and a half week ago.

The picture was from yesterday when we

had green-flag work.

By: Kevin lidh and Sebastian folke

The Weather in Celje in October

In Slovenia, in Celje in October it is pretty cold right now, but it's sunny too. The weather is now always changing. In the mornings it's from -1 to +8 °C. In the afternoon the sun shines, but it's not hot. It is around 8 to 11 °C and it's often windy. This is for us very cold because last week there was +20 degrees.
And when the sun goes down it's from 9 to 3°C. Now some mornings the grass is »frosted«.
We like autumn tree colours.

Somewhere in the mountains the snow already fell and some of us can't wait for the snow to come in Celje, so we will go skiing, ice skating, ice sledging,...

Weather in October at the sea ( Constanta, Romania)

"Wednesday it was so cold but the sun was shinning."(Jacqueline, 11 years old )

"Autumn mornings are cold and foggy ." (Stephen, 11 years old)

"Today was a beautiful autumn day. The weather was warm even though in the morning, clouds were all over the sky forcing temperature to decrease somewhere around 10 degrees on Celsius scale. At first, I was afraid that it would be a rainy day and I would have to hide myself under my big umbrella. But slowly, the temperature started to get into her senses and at noon , the thermometer showed me that I could enjoy a beautiful, warm day. The day was perfect for running in the park and enjoying the shy sun. Wind was blowing moderate caressing my chicks. When the sun disappeared under the horizon line I started to feel my nose and my hands getting a bit colder. I realized that I had to accept that summer was gone and so was autumn. I felt that winter sent us a warning. I smelled the cold air and smiled because I knew that once winter came Santa would only be a short distance away.

Only two months and I will be playing with snow. "( Vangu Maria, 11 years old )

Weather

You posted a very nice picture from Sweden...You inspired us to ask about weather!
The question is : "How is the weather in your town?" (from Stephen, 11 years old).
You colud upload some pictures or even watch everyday temperatures.

My Lunch ( answers from Romania )

We have a very crowded school and we have to learn from 8a.m. till 7 p. m. In the afternoon the litle ones ( from 7 to 11 years old) are going home and it's time for us (12 to 15 years old) to start classes. Sometimes my pupils begin at 12 a clock and they have no time to have lunch. At 3p.m. we get from our government what you see in this picture: yoghurt (or milk) with biscuits( or roll of bread). It's better then nothing ! Some children are eating it or get it to their homes... for grandma :-)




"I usually eat for lunch a sandwich with cheese, salad and vegetables, a chocolate or, sometimes, I don't even have time to eat." ( Stephanie, 11 years old)
"For lunch I eat fruits, one sandwich and I drink a lot of water!!!" (Jacqueline, 11 years old)
"When I don't go to school I am eating something new everyday because my mum makes a very good food for lunch" (Antonia, 11 years old)
"My lunch consists of: soup, rice with meat, french fries and bread. Theses are kinds of food I eat when I'm at home. I would like to eat at school, at lunch time, but I think it is no possible." (Stephen, 11 years old)

School lunch in Slovenia, I. OŠ Celje

Hello back to you all.
In Slovenia, there is different than in Sweden.
We need to pay our lunch. It costs around 38 € per month. In our class seven students take school lunch after school.
Our ordinary lunch is soup, pork meat, potatoes, salad and not so sweet juice, because it isn't healthy for us. But sometimes we have pasta, chicken meat, rice, ice cream or cake.

Everybody in our class take a school snack at 9.30. Parents pay 12 € for this school snack and governement pays the rest. Yoghurt, a hot dog or a slice of pizza are the best.

Four times a week at our school we have a free fruit at 11.30. We get a piece of fruit, often it's an apple.

Enjoy in good food.

Bye, greetings from Slovenia from 7. b

School lunch?

Hallo to you all, from a beautiful Sweden, dressed in autumn colours.

Our question for the week is about the school lunch. We have understood that is more common not to have a free lunch in school, than to have one.

In Sweden we have had free school lunch for all school children from 6 - 19 years age, for about sixty years.

The question is What about you? How do you get you lunch, and what do you eat for lunch?

In our shool we use to have minced meat once a week, fish once a week, sausage once or twice, soup once a week and sometimes we have chicken meat or pork meat. We have lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, carrots every day - and sometimes some other kind of vegetables. Rice, pasta or potatoes is served to the fish, meat and sausage. We drink milk or water.

We are very curios about the habits in Slovenia, Hungary and Romania.

And we are also curios about the question for next week - from Romania.

Time to start again?!

Hallo all of you, in Celje, in Constanta and in Budapest. Very glad to say hallo and welcome to Katalin and her pupils!
Here is a small video, there the thirteen pupils in my class, Class 6 in Grimsås school say "Hello" to all of you! They are 12 years old, all of them - going on their thirteenth year.

Can we start with the questions on Friday the 9th ????
One question every Friday? Or every second Friday, what do you think?

Here is a timetable:

1. Sweden

2. Romania

3. Slovenia

4. Hungary

And here we say HALLO to all of you!!!

New for this year....

Hello from Sweden.

Language is new this year.

We are going to try Spanish, French and German.

We are going to try twice and then make a choice of one language, that we will study for atleast three years.

We are in the 6th grade now.

We are 12 years old.

Some lessons we work together with the 5th grade.

Together with the 5grade we are 25 pupils in our class.

Good bye from Sweden.

This is some picyure from our atletics compitition "RO".

We are back. What's new?

Hello from Slovenia! Our school year starts on 1st September.
This year we are class 7b with 23 students. We have a new classmate. His name is Asdren, he's from Albania. We are 12 years old. We go to the same school for 9 years.
We usually start school at 8 o'clock. There are some optional extra lessons or activities at seven.

There are some new things this year:
some new school subjects (two lessons of German every week, a subject Ethics and Civil education, an obligatory elective subject by our individual choice). There's a new interactive board in our English classroom. It's cool.

What's new with you?

Have a good school year!

Starting classes 2009 /2010

In Romania teachers are going to school 1st September . Students start 15th September ! This year I have to take another class for a period of 4 years. My older students are now at highschool. I'll continue the project with Evelin's class, which you already know.
Pupils from7 to 11 years old are learning in the morning , from 8 to 12 a clock. The others in the afternoon. We have a crowded school!

School has started again

It is ten minutes past eigth and the classroom is still empty. The children hasn´t come yet. School starts at 8.40.

We have been back to school for a week, and it feels like we never have had sommerholiday.

This year the class is a class six, they are 12 years old. It is the last year in the small school here in Grimsås. next year they have to go to Tranemo, to a big school with almost 1000 pupils.

Question: At what time do you start school int the mornings?

What date did you start school after summerholiday?

Slovenia - next time it´s your turn to ask?

.... and after that Romania.

It was my ...class

Now I have to start again with 12 years old children and

continue with the other three classes I had last

schoolyear. A wonderful holiday for everybody,

both students and teachers!

Another school year is over in Constanta

Me and my class after the school festivity! It was our last meeting after 4 years of school. Now they are going to highschool.


Presents, flowers and diplomas for the best students in our school!
Lots of people : parents, grandparents have come to see the final results of their children. It was a nice day!

Summer holiday!

We wish you all a wonderful summer holiday -

we meet each other in autumn again.

The 18th of August we´re back in school.

Tomorrow we finish the schoolyear in the church - singing SUMMERSONGS!

School end is near

Bye till September, enjoy your holidays!
Here is a song to finish our exchange so far...

With e-Twinning we are learning,
using blog is always fun.
Here we're reading, we are writing,
having such good time!

Taking photos and recording
this is what we like to do.
Giving answers to the questions,
meeting pupils from abroad.
What's the same and what is different?...
finding out and learning more.

Video coming soon...

Students have written these words to the tune of a Slovene song Kekčeva pesem (about spreading the good mood, from an old film) to round off this school year with eTwinning.
We are looking forward to working with you again!
We finish school on June 24th and start on 1st September.

Quality Label

Now we´ve got a

quality label

for this project in Sweden!

Great

- and thanks for the collaboration so far!

Around our school

Our school is situated in a crowded area. Never the less we have a small park just in front of our classes. Here is what we see from our windows!
In this park will be a cathedral even we have a little church!Here is a little playground:
... and the little church:
Our school has a nice, interior courtyard . Here are living 2 cats and 12 tortoises.