Christmas portfolio in making- Jólamappa í bígerð

Pupils of Digranesskóla have been the past days busy in creating a Christmas portfolio that is going to present the essentials of Icelandic traditions. The main theme has been the Yuletide lads. All the work was highlighted in a real Christmas ball - held on the 17th of October!!! Júlíus, teacher of class 5.J. was the cameraman, Ragna and Erna, school assisstants, acted as two lads giving the children apples while other staff members sang and danced around the Christmas tree with the children. Thórdís, our music teacher, has been diligently shooting the musical part of the portfolio and also the most of the poems that tell us about the Yuletide lads, their parents and the famous cat that eats both children and gwon-ups.

Nemendur Digranesskóla hafa verið í óða önn að undirbúa "jólamöppu" sem á að sýna það helsta í hefðbundnum íslenskum jólasiðum. Við ákváðum að einbeita okkur að jólasveinunum og jólaballinu.

One group of pupils also maked Christmas cookies. The recipé with the photos will be sent to our friends in Finland, Italy, Hungary and Portugal.

Einn hópur bakakaði einnig jólapiparkökur undir leiðsögn Hafdísar Erlu heimilisfræðikennara. Uppskriftin ásamt myndunum fer til vinaskólanna.

With Comenius greetings

Marjatta and the Digranes Comenius team

Yuletide lads - Íslensku jólasveinarnir

Now the children in Digranesskóla are finishing their work on the Icelandic Yuletide lads - who nota bene, are quite different from the read and white American CocaCola Santas! The after tomorrow we shall have a real Christmas ball - in an Icelandic way.

Bjúgnakrækir (Sausage Snatcher) 1.Þ. bekkjar og Gluggagægir (Window Peeper) 3.I. bekkjar

Jól í október !- Christmas in October

Nú er nýtt Comeniusarár hafið hjá okkur. Á haustmisseri eru þrjú verkefni 1) teiknimyndasaga sem er byggð á íslenskri þjóðsögu, 2) semja texta við finnska teiknimyndasögu og 3) "jólamappa" (Christmas portfolio) þar sem við kynnum vinaskólum okkar íslenska jólasiði.

Ákveðið hefur verið að vinna jólamöppuna á tímabilinu 10.-17.okt. og lýkur þessum þemadögum með alvöru jólaballi miðvikudaginn 17.okt. og hefst ballið kl. 8.05. Vonandi geta sem flestir mætt í "jólafötunum", bæði börnin og foreldrarnir. Ballið verður tekið upp á vídeó, sett á DVD disk og sent til vinaskólanna svo að börnin úti í löndum geti séð hvernig við höfum það hér. Þórdís tónmenntarkennari og Margrét danskennari sjá um um ballið en annars er jólaverkefnið i höndum umsjónarkennara. Einn hópur mun einnig baka piparkökur með Hafdísi í heimilisfræði.

Auk þess verður unnið að verkefni um íslensku jólasveinana , Grýlu, Leppalúða og jólaköttinn og s.k. söguaðferð (Storyline) notuð í vinnunni.

Þáttakendur:
Bekkirnir 1 K, 1Þ, 3I, 3S, 5J, 5R, 6A, 6Á

Teiknimyndasagan er þegar tilbúin og unnu að henni nemendur 5. bekkjar undir leiðsögn Svanfríðar myndmenntakennara. Byggt var á söguna "Trunt, trunt of tröllin í fjöllunum" en textinn er í Rauðkápu nemendunum kunnur.

Hér er bóndinn eftir að hann breyttist í tröll. Teikning eftir nemendur 5. bekkjar. Drawing by the pupils of the 5th grade, based on an Icelandic folktale. Will be sent to Cordenons, Italy.

Með kveðju

Marjatta

Still waiting for Portugal-Nýjustu fréttir

Hello, lovers of tales.

(Íslenska útgáfan er hér fyrir neðan)

Now Finnland and Iceland have aldready been for ca. one month at school, Italy started 12th Sept. But we are still waiting for an answer from the Portuguese National Agency. They have not been able to decide whether Maria's school should get a grant for continuing the project. Hungary, alas, failed to get a renewal. Tamas the school coordinator tells us that Hungary as a country got less money from the European funds than usually. Therefore the National Agency had to cut down their budget and Deák Diák Iskola was not elected. We are sorry about that, but hope to cooperate with the Hungarians on another level. They will always be our friends.

The theme of the autumn term in Tales of Europe is CHRISTMAS - YULETIDE. Each school is supposed to compile a portfolio about their Christmas traditions - including songs, tales, and all the things that we will teach the others. Deadline for this portfolio is 15th Nov. (must arrive by that time).

Another, separate task was a cartoon of a FOLKTALE (= joint product).

The fact that Hungarians are not with us creates a problem: The next project meeting was supposed to be in Budapest in October and then the partners were supposed to come with their cartoons. Now it seems that the project meeting must either be postponed, while we are looking for a new place - or the meeting will be on line. The cartoons must simply be mailed by ordinary mail or scanned and send in a digital form, which I think is the easiest way.

Best wishes to everyone. Let the parents know about the blog and do write yourselves in your native language. Put photos of pupils' work to show the other partners.

Marjatta from Digranesskóli

Icelandic version:

Comenius 1 verkefnið Tales of Europe eða Sögur frá Evrópu hefur fengið framhaldsstyrk fyrir næstu tvö árin og mun því halda áfram. Á þessu ári reynum við að vinna aðeins öðruvísi en í fyrra og reyna að fá alla bekkina að vinna að sameiginlegum verkefnum. Á haustmisseri ætlum við að búa til "möppu" með efni sem tengist íslenskum jólum og eru þarna jólasveinarnir efstir. Kennararnir hafa valið kvæðin eftir Jóhannes frá Kötlum og Þórdís tónlistarkennari ætlar að æfa söngva sem tengjast efninu. Eins og í fyrra þá verður allt efnið fært í tölvutækt form.

Þegar verkefnið hófst þá vorum við fimm lönd, Ungverjaland, Portúgal, Ítalía og Finnland auk okkar. Nú hefur skólinn í Ungverjalandi því miður fengið neitun og dettur því úr verkefninu. Ennþá hefur ekki borist svar frá Portúgal en bæði Digranesskóli, skólinn á Ítalíu og skólinn í Finnlandi hafa fengið staðfestingu á framhaldsstyrknum.

Þar sem breytingar hafa orðið á kennaraliði Digranesskóla hefur það einnig haft í för með sér breytingar á því hverjir eru með í þessum verkefnum. Á þessu ári eru það bekkirnir 1G, 1K, 3I, 3S, 5J, 5S, 6A og 6Á.

Ég hvet ykkur á fylgjast með vefinn. Hér verða birtar fréttir af verkefninu, myndir o.fl. Eldri börnin geta jafnvel notað enska textann til að æfa sig að skilja málið, en samskiptamál verkefnisins er enska.

Með kveðju

Marjatta verkefnisstjóri

New Tales-year starting

Hello everybody,

Sabina from Cordenone sends her regards to everyone. Italy has got the two-year grant for carrying out the Tales of Europe project. We are very happy about that. So far I have not got any news from the others. Portugal and Hungary are still having there summer holiday, but the schools in Finland and here in Iceland start in August. The schools in Cordenone do not start until Sept. 12.

As soon as I get further information I shall let you know in this page.

We all look eagerly forward to a new school-year with the tales and musical heritage of the five participating countries!

With all the best from Digranesskóli, Iceland

Marjatta, the project coordinator

Visit from Finland and happenings in Italy and Hungary

Hello, everybody!

Now most of the partner schools have either closed or are about to close for the summer season. Italy has had a nice exhibition, which Sabina writes about. Tamás from Hungary has also told me that their school had a two day fair on 10-11 June with shows and exhibits of Comenius activities from all partner schools.

I have myself finished the paper work, both the activity report and money side of it and have chosen exhibits of the work we did to our National Agency.

During the last schooldays we had two visitors from Finland: Matti Piirainen, the headmaster of Hakarinteen koulu in Tammisaari and his wife, Anneli, who is a classteacher in the same school. Anneli taught the 5th grade this schoolyear, but next year she will be with the first grade and is going to lead her new pupils to our Comenius project.

Matti and Anneli visited our classes and the students were eager to show what they knew. Class 5.Á. was with a presentation of Iceland ...in English!!! They were very proud of themselves. Thordis welcomed the visitors with the "Comenius songs" in Icelandic, Finnish and Italian...which reminds me that we have not got any good and simple song from Hungary and Portugal for our students to learn. So, please, hurry up! We want to learn them before the next meeting.

I shall put some photos of the visit here. - Hope that Tamás writes about their exhibition and how it went. Perhaps some photos, too!

Wishing you all a very nice summer and many thanks for the cooperation this school-year, both you, children, and all the staff members

Marjatta and all the Comenius people from Digranesskóli

" NOW I KNOW "

NOW I KNOW..

Questo è il titolo della rappresentazione alla quale sono stati invitati i genitori degli alunni delle classi quinte della Scuola Primaria di Cordenons, Duca D'Aosta a conclusione del primo anno di attività del progetto Comenius.Il risultato finale di questo primo anno è stato un percorso didattico interdisciplinare che ha visto gli alunni coinvolti nello studio della lingua italiana, dell' inglese, della geografia, della storia, nell'utilizzo delle nuove tecnologie per la ricerca dei dati e per la stesura del lavoro stesso, della musica e dell'educazione all'immagine.

This the title of the exhibition of our 5 th grade pupils of the primary school Duca D'Aosta, Cordenons, for their parents, within the conclusion of the first year project .The outcome of the schoolyear activities was a cross curricular research in Italian and in English of the four country involved in the project. The pupils had the opportunity to show their parents how they managed to study different subjects as History, Geography, Italian and English and Arts illustrating it through the New Technologies.They also performed the music learned and composed for the project "Bussame al me Friul", by teacher Sonia and Alessandro.

A questo lavoro di verifica finale è stato dato il titolo "NOW I KNOW.." proprio per la volontà di sottolineare il percorso di conoscenza svolto dai bambini durante tutto l'anno, e la poosibilità offerta dal progetto di avvicinare gli studenti a culture, lingue e tradizioni diverse da quelle di appartenenza, ampliando i loro orizzonti. La documentazione di questo lavoro, insieme alla Leggenda di Cordenons, sarà offerta agli altri paesi durante l'incontro di progetto a Budapest.

This conclusion represents a positive ostensive evaluation of the project for the teachers, for our students and for our community because has given a real choice approaching different cultures and traditions within Europe, widening our students' horizon and getting more aware of their own identity.The documentation of this work, together with the Cordenons Legend, presented during the evaluation meeting of May, will be ready as a DVD for the next meeting in Budapest.

published by Sabina