Tales Products at an Exhibition

The Icelandic National Agency will have a conference at the University of Education in Reykjavik next week, 4th December. They have asked Digranesskóli to have a stall there and show samples of products that the pupils have made within the Tales of Europe project. Especially they liked the books that we here in Digranesskóli made out of the tales that the partners produced last year. - Remember the laminated, colourful books that catch the eye? Such as The Seal's Skin (Iceland), The Story of Saint Encrácia (Portugal), Little Spiteful Riding-Hoods (Italy).

The coordinator will be there to answer the questions of the conference guests - and hopefully try to get more people interested in this kind of projects.

I hope this empowers you all - What we do seems to draw attention and admiration. I wish you all, both pupils and staff members of all partner schools a very good continuing Comenius and Tales year! The next step is to make the best of our Christmas portfolios visible!

Marjatta

Kópavogspósturinn - Local media in Kópavogur

Kópavogspósturinn hefur fylgt jólaballsfréttinni eftir og birti þessa mynd í tölublaði sínu 1.nóvember. Annars var blaðið aðallega helgað íþróttum. Gaman samt að blaðið veitir einnig okkur athygli þó að blöðin eins og Kópavogspósturinn hafa nóg efni frá auglýsendum.

This photo and some lines about how the project is going was published in our local paper the Kópavogspósturinn, on the first of November. It is nice that the local media remembers us, even if they need to give a lot of space to their sponsors.

Hello from Portugal!

Here we are, working on Tales.

Finland will soon receive our pictures and we hope they will enjoy it.

The Autumn arrives slowly... the leaves are begining to fall... the temperature too...

With the best greetings from all the portuguese Comenius Team.

Hrekkjavaka í Cordenons

Kennarar og nemendur skólans í Cordenons skrifa hér fyrir neðan um nýjan sið sem hefur rutt sér til rúms á Ítalíu (frá 1960-). Fólk hreinsar innan úr graskerum og býr til eftirlíkingar af hauskúpum svipað og gert er í Ameríku. Þessi siður er reyndar að breiðast út einnig hér á landi. Í greininni frá Cordenons er sagt að þessi siður eigi rætur að rekja til fornra Kelta sem gjarnan tóku hauskúpur óvinanna sem þeir höfðu drepið í orrustu og stilltu þær upp í glugga og víðar. Svolítið óhuggulegt, finnst ykkur ekki?

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Marjatta

Pumpkins or skulls?

Since the beginning of the 1960s a curious spread tradition in Cordenons has been re-proposing a very ancient habit: making some feigned human skulls by using pumpkins.

In the last days of October parents and their children empty some pumpkins of all seeds and they cut out some holes, so that pumpkins look like skulls with well emphasized eyes, nose and mouth; then they put the pumpkins on the windowsills of the balconies; in the evening they light a candle and they put it inside the pumpkin. The purpose of the rite is to create fear and to frighten people.
This custom has an analogy with a tragic diffuse practice among the Celtic populations: after a fight between opposing tribes or a fighting, the winners took the killed enemies' skulls and they put them inside suitable niches alongside of the entry of the habitations. The human skull practically was a war trophy, preserved in sign of victory it was a symbol of strength.
Lately on the last Sunday of October an exhibition of carved pumpkins takes place in the main square of Cordenons. On this day Schools also exhibit their own products about the tradition of pumpkins and about Halloween too; nowadays many boys and girls dress up in strange costumes just like in the USA.

Zucche o teschi?
Una curiosa tradizione diffusa a Cordenons fin dagli inizi degli anni ’60 ripropone un’antichissima abitudine di costruire dei finti teschi umani con le zucche.
Verso la fine del mese di Ottobre gli adulti con i loro figli svuotano alcune zucche dai semi e praticano dei fori in modo da ottenere le sembianze di un teschio con occhi, naso e bocca ben evidenziati; poi mettono le zucche sui davanzali dei balconi; di sera accendono una candela e la mettono all’interno della zucca. Lo scopo del rito è quello di creare paura e di spaventare le persone.
Questa usanza ha un’analogia con una tragica pratica diffusa presso le popolazioni Celtiche: dopo uno scontro tra tribù avversarie o dopo un combattimento, i vincitori prendevano i teschi dei nemici uccisi e li racchiudevano all’interno di apposite nicchie costruite a fianco dell’ingresso delle abitazioni. Il cranio umano era praticamente un trofeo di guerra, conservato in segno di vittoria come simbolo di forza.
In questi ultimi anni nell’ultima domenica di Ottobre c’è un’esibizione di zucche intagliate nella piazza principale di Cordenons. In questa giornata le Scuole espongono i propri lavori inerenti alla tradizione delle zucche ed anche ad Halloween; oggigiorno molti ragazzi e ragazze si mascherano come nei Paesi Anglo-Americani.

Classes IV B - IV C "Edmondo De Amicis" Primary School - Cordenons (Italy)

Greetings from pupils and teachers Agnese, Virginia, Mario and Gladys

Dissemination - Kópavogspósturinn miðlar

Now the pupils of Digranesskóli have carried out all the tasks needed for our Christmas portfolio. The only thing that is left is editing the videofilms - which, of course, is perhaps even a tougher task than the singing and making of Yuletide lads. Our local paper, Kópavogspósturinn (Mail from Kópavogur) published an article (18th Oct. ) about the project and the resent activities - a photo of it follows these lines.

Tökunum fyrir jólamöppu lauk í morgun, þegar allir bekkirnir söfnuðust í sal skólans til að syngja jólasveinarvísurnar undir stjórn Þórdísar. Nú hefst þá vinnan við klippingu og tilheyrandi. Stefnum að því að klára allt fyrir mánaðamót. - Kópavogspósturinn birti grein um verkefnið okkar þann 18.okt. Fyrir þá sem ekki sáu hana birti ég hér aftir af greininni.

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Marjatta f.h. Comeniusteymisins

STORY CIRCLE TASK from Italy

DELIVERY FROM ITALY TO PORTUGAL

Yesterday I sent to Maria as an attached file the pictures of our TALE and some information regarding the guidelines with a word file.

The second file might be useful for the teachers to understand the sequence of the story even if we are supposed toreveal it at the end of the year.

I would like to remember to our Portuguese colleagues that they have five days to download the file after while the mail server will cancel it.

Now a litlle hint to all our Talers , our story is entitled "The child in the bag" and the drawings were created by our 4 th grade pupils at the E. De Amicis Primary School.

I hope you will enjoy our job, have a nice time developing a new story with all your creativity and imagination!

We would like to offer the colours of the Autumn here in italy painted from the pupils of 4 B and 4 C of the E. De Amicis:

Greetings from Sabina