Happy New Year

Gladys :-)

MORE CHRISTMAS GREETINGS...

Children of 1 A and 1 B of the Primary school

Duca D'Aosta are delighted to publish their drawings :

"JESUS IS BORN

and

SANTA IS COMING"

The pupils of the Duca D'Aosta first grade,

made these

drawings for our European friends.

Here two sheperds are greeting the star

A SPECIAL VISIT...

"Dearest friends, we also made a Christmas present for our parents,

we moulded a little Christmas tree made with clay !

Here at the Gianni Rodari

we spent a lot of time decorating our classroom .

Sabina, Cristina and Valeria read a lot of stories

about Christmas traditions...

Yesterday happened something really special :

we had a GREAT VISIT

an ELF came from the North Pole ,

probabily from FINLAND!

He said that Santa Claus

could come

to Cordenons..."

more news the next week !

pupils of the 3° sezione, ITALY !

here the youngest working at the Gianni Rodari , doing a little Christmas present .They moulded a little Christmas tree made of clay.

Merry Christmas from Cordenons - Italy

Hello talers!

We children of fourth grade of the Primary School "Edmondo De Amicis" would like to show you some of our Christmas gifts that we made at school for our parents. They are made of copper plates and coloured cardboards.

At this very special time we wish you a:

Buon Natale

Merry Christmas

Hyvaa Joulua

Gledileg Jol

Feliz Natal

Kellemes Karacsonyi unnepeket

We also desire to wish you a worm, happy and without any fear New Year, hoping for the joy and peace to last the whole year through.

Pupils and teachers Virginia, Agnese, Mario and Gladys

Jólakveðjur - Merry Christmas from Iceland

Hér eru kátir strákar á jólaballinu. Merry lads at the Christmas ball (6.Á.)

And girls from 3.I. making their Yuletide lad, Window Peeper.

Dear partners,

This morning we had a "parents´hour" - we had invited the parents to come and see what we have been doing this autumn term. It was only a short program, since the parents´oft have to hurry to their work. However, we felt that the parents do care about the school and want to see and hear what is going on, since our auditorium was quite full.

First the children sang Holy night (Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht) in Icelandic, Hungarian, Finnish and Italian - alas, we have not got the Portuguese version, but hopefully it can me amended for the next year. Then we showed bits of the Christmas videos. At the occasion the Parents´Club gave us a fine digital camera, Canon EOS. It is very precious to have such a strong bond with the parents.

Dear partners, we here in Iceland send you our warmest greetings for Christmas and thank for good co-operation this year.

(Icelandic:)

Í morgun vorum við hér í skólanum með stutta dagskrá fyrir foreldra Comeniusbekkjanna þar sem við kynntum hvað hefur helst verið á döfinni. Börnin sungu Heims um ból á fjórum tungumálum, nemendur 2. bekkjar spiluðu á blokkflautu og svo var sýndir bútar af myndböndunum sem gerð voru í haust í kringum jólamöppuna. Við þetta tækifæri færðu fulltrúar Foreldrafélags Digranesskóla okkur verðmæta gjöf, Canon EOS myndavél sem mun án efa nýtast vel. Nú er skólinn orðinn mjög vel tækjum búinn og getur leyst jafnvel flóknustu verkefnin.

Comeniusverkefnið hefur verið okkur mjög dýrmætt, bæði vegna samvinnu kennaranna og áhuga sem það hefur vakið hjá nemendunum. Tilgangur verkefnisins er að kynna sér menningu annarra landa og uppgötva um leið sinn eigin bakgrunn og menningu og skynja hvað er svo sérstætt hjá okkur. Ég held að þetta hafi tekist prýðilega. Hér má nefna frábæra landkynningu sem nemendur 6.Á. gerðu í fyrra (þá 5.Á.) og settu í Power Point og þau leikrit sem byggð voru á íslenskum þjóðsögum og sett voru uppí fyrra og álfaverkefni nemenda annars bekkjar. Í jólamöppunni sem var verkefni liðins hausts rifjuðu nemendur okkar upp sögurnar um jólasveinana og lærðu um jólahaldið í vinalöndunum. Einnig æfðu þeir sönglög frá öðrum löndum og tengdust á þennan hátt menningu annarra. Nú er margt fram undan og vonum við að tónlistarlífið mun eflast enn meir undir stjórn Þórdísar.

Við í Comeniusteymi Digranesskóla óskum ykkur öllum gleðilegra jóla og farsælt komandi ár. Takk fyrir samstarfið í ár. Hlökkum til nýrra verkefna.

F.h. Marjatta

GREETINGS from ITALY & MORE

NICE MEMORIES...



While reorganizing files on my personal computer, I hit on a nice picture sent from Maria, entitled "The very beginning" taken on a very pleasant Christmas party, in December 2005. I believe our group is a a very friendly and creative team and it has been and it is really nice working together.

I 've told my children we've some friends quite far away from Cordenons .... we made this special drawing to wish you, once again , a BUON NATALE , to the older and the younger , this means 4 years old, all over Europe !

During this period I've been working on the tale sent from Iceland with my pupils. Today I e mailed the new story to Portugal. Children enjoyed this story a lot , actually they were really attracted by monsters, giants, goblins...They like to be scared, while listening, by frightening stories , it's a sort of strategy for them to remove fears .

In the picture below they represented three bad creatures on the top of the white mountain, one of them is griping a man, they imagined he wanted to SWALLOW him!

Their last tought was that if they will never travel to Iceland, they won't go up to the mountains neither to volcanos, while the full moon is shining in the sky, it could be too dangerous....

Greetings from Sabina

The Republic of Finland 90 years - Hakarinne Celibrates

The republic of Finland celibrates its 90th year on the 6th of December. It was during the first world war (1917) that the Finnish senate declared independancy from Russia and decided that the country should be a republic. Since the 6th of December is a holiday and the school is closed, the pupils and the staff of Hakarinteen koulu had their celibration the day before. Here we have some photos of the event. There are pupils of many nationality in Hakarinteen koulu and they played a role of ambassidors, each representing their country, like it is done at presidential invitations. On the other photo we see pupils and teachers in the Finnish national costume.

Lýðveldið Finnland heldur uppá 90. ára afmælið sitt í dag, 6.desember. Þar sem 6. des. er almenn frídagur í Finnlandi héldu nemendur vinaskólans okkar, Hakarinteen koulu, uppá afmælið hátíðlega daginn áður. Okkur bárust þessar og fleiri myndir í dag ásamt lýsingu á hátiðinni.

Á efri myndinni sjáum við nemendur skólans af ólíkum þjóðernum leika "sendiherra" upprunaþjóða sinnar og á efri myndinni eru nemendur og kennarar í þjóðbúningi. Konan til hægri er Anneli Piirainen sem heimsótti okkur hér í Digranesskóla í júní s.l.

Tales of Europe kynning / presentation

Tales of Europe verkefnið var kynnt í sérstökum bás í tengslum við ráðstefnuna um nýja menntaáætlun EBS og EEC landanna sem haldin var í Kennaraháskóla Íslands 4. des.

Tales of Europe and its products were presented at a conference which was arranged on the 4th of December by the National Agency of Iceland. On the wall there were drawings by the pupils (cf. the photo) and on the table in front of it we had cd and dvd discs, books and the activity report with the goals.

Many of the visitors showed interest to our project and asked for more information.