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!

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,...