Byebye from Sweden

We were on a amusement park called Liseberg this Saturday.

We had so fun and stuff.

This is called Uppskjutet.(shootup) basicly it shoots you up.

Uppsvinget. (Swingup). It swings back and forth in the air.

Kanonen. (The Canon) It's a rollercoaster that goes really fast! 70 km/h!

Balder. (Balder) It's a REALLY FUN rollercoaster, THE BEST ! :D

Byebye. In August were going to a new school. Thank you for good collaboration.

Catherine and Linus

There´s a lot in May

Hello and thanks for the postcard. It seems great to go on a camp for a week, even if you have to walk that much that you get tired and your feet hurts.

Now we have about a month left in this school. When school start again in August, we´ll have to take the bus to the huge (more than 1000 pupils)school in Tranemo. and Anna-lena has to start over with small children again , 9 - 10 years old.

There are a lot of extras in May. Tomorrow we will go to our nearest city, Borås, to watch a theatre. We are also going to visit the textile museum. Borås was - and still is - a textile town.

Borås has about 100000 inhabitants, it has a big Zoo and it has a good footballteam, Elfsborg.

Next week the girls are going to Tranemo on a special "girlday". They are going to meet girls from other schools in our municipality. The week after, it is the boy´s day.

We also are going to visit the big industry here in Grimsås. It is a Nexans company and it produces cabel for all different needs. We are going there twice, to see the production and to learn about the company.

The 26th of May the whole school will have an evening with musicals and theatre and songs about environment. Parents, grandparents and other people are welcome to come to school and watch all the performances.

The 31th of May class six invites all the other classes to a long walk with quiz and other activities.

The 4th-5th of June the class is going to Gothenburg to visit the amusementpark Liseberg and the science center Universeum.

So there are a lot of things going on every week.

We read books for twenty minuts every morning. Somer of our favourite books in class six are the Twilight saga, The Hunger games and books written by the Swedish author Martin Widmark and the british author RL Stine.

Earlier we ´ve read alot of books from our famous author Astrid Lindgren. we are very proud of having such a good and well known Swedish author.

How often do you read books? Who´s you favourite authors. Do you know any book written by Astrid lindgren?

We were winners in an e-twinningproject. Watch http://snapshotofeurope.blogspot.com/

The winning photos you can see on this blog as well.

Can we start writing a story together next week?

Our April Plans

Dear friends,
we will not be at our school from 19th to 23rd April. We are going to a school camp in Mežica, one and a half hour drive from our town. We are all very excited. We are going to stay in a home called Peca (named after a near-by mountain) in rooms with 3 to 8 beds.
We are going to do a lot of things: cycling, walking and we are going to learn in nature. We hope it won't rain.
On Monday we are also going to visit Minimundus in Austria. There are models of world famous buildings. One day we are going to a mine, some of us are going to have a bike tour underground.
After that it's our one-week holiday.
We'll be back to school on 3rd May.
What are you going to do till May?

It's Quiz time

Here is a short quiz for you created by 7. b. Tell us about your score and maybe you can create a quiz for us.

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A typical Slovenian teenager?

We think that we are like teenagers in Sweden.
The difference is that we are going to stay at the same school for 2 more years.
A typical Slovenian teenager
- has a computer and a mobile phone
- likes playing computer games and going to the cinema
- spends a lot of time on a computer (Facebook, Messenger)
- wants to look cool
- wants to have her/his style
- texts on the phone a lot
- listens to music
- watches TV a lot
- doesn't like homework
- uses perfume, make-up or hairgel
- falls in love
- wants to be popular at school
- listens to friends not parents
- stops fighting with classmates
- chooses clothes on his/her own

by Ivana, Tadeja, Zen, Arlind, Tina, Kaja






Poster by students from I. OŠ Celje

Easter is here!

Easter greetings from Slovenia! (click to hear our message)



In photo: spring school decoration

Hello from Sweden - Teenager

We gonna tell about to be a teenageger in sweden.



It´s different to be a teenager in a small school than it is to be in a big school.

In a small school like ours it isn´t so important what you are wearing. In a big school it´s more important.

Girls start to use make up and guys start to use hairgel.
The mobilphone is very popular and important for teenagers, also the computer.
We are gonna start a new school when we start 7th grade. That´s a big change.
We all are excited to start in "Tranemo".
You also got more interested in boys and girls.
Girl go shopping wiht friends.
Boys play fotball and computer.

/Felicia 12, Elin 12, Patrik 12.

How is it to be a teenager in your country??

Our recycling suggestions

Good suggestions from you..... and we are really impressed of all your toys that you sent to Madagascar. Do you have any contact there?

Can we have the recipe of your healthy cakes from your ECO -days? I would be great to bake them to our ECO performance in May.



From the tyres we made a submarine.

From the bikes and the chairs we built cars - ECO-car

From the clothes and the books we made a sofas

From the toys we made a bed

From the dustbin we made water pistols

Yesterday we had the Olympic Games.

It was real fun and the sun was shining.

Here is a photo story from the games.

The text: Olympic games i Grimsås the 5th of March

Thanks boys and girla for a fine day togehter.

ECO

Our school had ECO day in October. Check here .
Some of our ideas to your recycling question:
use tyres for swings or stairs, make patchwork blankets from old clothes.
TV frames can become tables or photo frames, from old chairs we make new chairs and paint them.











In October we sent old fluffy toys and school things to Madagascar.
In one workshop students made wishing cards from old paper and a decoration tree for a school play.

We don´t have any festivals in Sweden. But we eat a speial bun on " Fat Tuesday". It is a bun filled with cream and almond paste. And it tastes great!

Today we have had a fun day in school. We have worked with recycling.

We were in groups and we had to decide what to make out of

100 tyres,

50 jeans and 50 sweaters,

100 chairs,

50 dustbins,

50 old TV-sets,

50 plastic toys and 50 cuddly toys,

100 books or 50 bikes.

We had a lot of ideas how to recycle all these things. What abbout you, do you have any suggestions?

We´ll tell about our suggestions next Friday!

It's carnival time

Today it's Shrove Tuesday. Many people wear masks and costumes. Look at us in the photo.
We eat doughnuts on this day. They're good, usually have marmelade inside.

There is a smaller carnival in our town centre in the afternoon. We are there too.








In our country there are some traditional costumes and masks, for example "kurenti".
They're quite scary, but people say that they call the spring. Kurents are dressed in wool and they've got big and noisy bells.








We all like this tradition.
Do you celebrate the same?

Winterholiday

Next week we are onn winterholiday. There are a lot of snow so we can ski. It is cold and we have big ice to go skating or play icehockey one.

Here is a picture from our "outdoorday" some week ago.

You have winter holiday in Slovenia too, Ingrid told our teacher, when they met in Seville. What about Romania?

After our winter holidays it will be fun to write a story together.

Thanks for the beautiful owl. It helps us all to become wise.

Martin and Daniel write

On Monday we went to the "raven house" next to the steep hill. We went snow-raceing, and some were skating and playing hockey on the ice in the valley. Some went skiing. We had snacks, which we call a "fika" we had hot chocolate, tea and cookies. The girls were showing ice-dance. It was also nice to watch. It was fun to be out in the snow.

Friday was different

On Friday we were at the festival about high schools (Festival of Education and Employment). On the festival we can see difrent high schools presentations. There were people from a lot of high schools and they showed us what they do in that school. I think it was great because now we can easier decide to what high school we well go.

by Zen

On Friday we went to a festival of works. They showed us a lott of different jobs. We can saw what you do in difrent jobs.
I'm happy to went on this festival becaus now I now a lot of exciting things.
I want to be an arhitect and now I now wat school I ned to go.

by Davor

We went to "Festival izobraževanja". There were showed us what we can do in our future. We got some questions about what were we saw. It was fun. But I still don't know what I want to be.

by Kaja









Were you at school all the time?

Wintertime

I think you send the snow to us from Slovenia and Sweden. It is snowing ceaseless from 24 hours!
Usualy it is not snowing so much here in Constantza because of the sea!
This is our school today, at noon:
Children playing, we have been send to our homes , because of the bad weather!
So it was a good time to stay in front of our school and make snowballs:
Ans this is my happy dog to, it is her first snow!

Hello in 2010!

Your photos are beautiful. We love them.
Winter is nice, we put on warm clothes and we ski, sleigh, snowball. We adore this time. Look at our 1st graders in the first photo. They are making snowmen.


























We are lucky because it isn't so cold in Slovenia, around
0° degrees. Snow is melting. Some of us are sad because of this.


We started school on 4th January.

Have a great time!

Photos by Miha, Gregor, Tadeja, Ingrid, e-club

Hallo again!

In Sweden we have cold, cold winter. What about you? Can you show us any pictures?

We start school again after Christmas the 11 th of January. What about you?

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!