Clay studio

Our  children also visited a clay studio in order to learn how to do a clay house model.
We invite you to share their experience.

Portuguese Clay house

This is film is the result of the work done by the students of Vila Ruiva (one of our perishes) on portuguese clay houses.

Our partners from France got the real model , but here, all of us can share it.

Portuguese arquitecture

This is the final  result of the research students from 2 grade, did  about our houses.
 Hope you all like it
Portuguese Arquitecture

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Project meeting Belgium

From 8 untill 12 November we had a project meeting in Belgium.

We all arrived well on Tuesday and got to learn some Belgian beers this first evening.
After the flight from home, it was a very pleasant welcome for all of us!

The Belgian partners have provided a map of activities extremely well organized: reception, school visits, workshops, cultural visits and also for leisure. .We didn’t know this was going to be a starter of a culinary week.

Wednesday we  visited the classes of out Belgian partner. There are a lot differences between Belgium and our countries!
It was very nice to see how they manage their classes, what they learn and how classes are arranged .We have been given the oppurtunity to observe the educational component, teaching curricula and cultural levels of education
We took some time to evaluate the last activity (stories) and to prepare our next one (food). In meetings, we appreciated the good work dynamic and enormous capacity for communication, planning, sharing and evaluation that went beyond the language barrier.We discussed how did we implement the last activity planned,.and evaluate all the work previously done.It was known by all his colleagues, the interest and commitment shown throughout the work in this period, which meant that the goals were easily achieved We are all very satisfied with watch we agreed to… You will see in school! ...For now... Let´s  do the cooking !In the afternoon we had a guided tour through Aalst, given by a known person in the town of Aalst. He was very humoristic and told us a lot about the history of this wonderful city. The tour ended with an official reception in the townhall by the council of education of Aalst.

On Thursday we met the Belgian Sainte Claus with his helper ‘zwarte Piet’. It was very different as the one we know.

All the children of the school performed for Sainte Claus, but also a bit for us! It was very nice, we appreciated it a lot!

Afterwards we had some time to ask some more things at the teachers of Basisschool Park!

On the last day of our stay, we started immediately with the meeting. Some very important things had to be decided for our big finale of the project. The WOW-Europe day!
 After a couple of hours of working we went to visit Gent together.
 Gent is a wonderful city with a big history. We also ate a typical Gent dish called Waterzooi!

 Our guide was very enthusiastic and loved ‘his’ town like no-one else!

To end our project meeting in a nice way, the teachers from Basisschool Park, prepared a nice WinterBBQ! It was atmospheric with the baskets of burning wood all around.

We ate well  and went back to the hotel, for the last time, because Saturday it was time to go back home again!

It was a nice experience!

Our hosts were extremely friendly, courteous and hospitable, whith a great  sense of responsibility for the development of a work of this size.

Some pictures can be found here!

Vila Alva- Cuba

Discover a little bit of one of our perishes: Vila Alva

Portuguese Materials to build a house

Here you can learn a little bit about some materials used to build a portuguese alentejo house.

Portuguese Clay House

Here we share how to make a portuguese (from Alentejo) clay house.

Our partners from France have the possibility of actually make as many as they want, but, by watching this film everyone will learn how it can be done. Hope you like it.

Filme A velha e a cabaça 2011

The old lady and the small gourd

 At last,  and so that all of us can share,  here it is all the different material every partner  got on our activity Storys. We hope you like it.

The old lady and de gourd (Portugal)

Thank you Portugal for sending us the story about the old lady and de gourd.

It was a simple pleasant story to work with. Our children wanted to dramatise it! It was great fun!
They didn't know (and I didn't eather) what a gourd was, but thanks to your magnificent example the all could feel it, touch it, shake it...

As said, our children dramatised it. The result you can see in this film. The sound is not very good, our excuses!

The Bremen musicians

Kindergarten worked on the story of the Bremen musicians we got from our collegues in Germany.
They made the masks with the material we got!

French "tale", the Grasshoper (or cicada) and the ant.

Animated and musical version of the "tale" everyone has received / should receive soon.

Same "origin" for the "Tortoise and the Hare" :

And with Bugs Bunny as the hare !

Run, run small gourd

The english version on the portuguese story is now available. Hope you like it

Sequel to the Bremer Stadtmusikanten

We read the story untill the musicians came to the house of the rovers and start singing.

Children of my class wrote the ending to the story like they thougt.

The rovers are scared and run outside.

But the rovers come back to see what is happening in their house. But the musicians disguised them as a ghost and a big bear and make sure the rovers never come back.

The day after they leave to Bremen.

On their way they meet a hunter. He shoots at the animals but misses all his shots. The animals don’t like this and run away. But the hunter doesn’t give up that easily and follows them. He stops because a bear ( a real one) is approaching him. Of course the hunter is scared and he starts running away. The musicians are save…

But from all the running for the hunter they are almost in Bremen. Still a couple of minutes and they arrive!

In Bremen, they meet Bobby the duck. He was leaning sadly en tired against a tree. He was fired from the zoo because he was too old and he couldn’t swim anymore. But… he is a really good singer. Therefore the musicians say he can join them.

They go and search for the castle of the king of Bremen. They want to go and play music there. On the way to the castle they pass a ‘free shop’. There they ‘buy’ human masks and disguise them as real people.

They arrive at the castle of King Lars ( the King of Bremen). They ring at the big gate. De gate opens but there is nothing to see… they think. Luckily  for them, the cat has great eyes and sees the king. He is not the king they expected: he is very little!

Together they all start to play their best songs for the king. The king is seized with emotion and makes the musicians the official musicians of the court!

 From now on the musicians have the live they always dreamed of… singing, making music and be laaaaazzzzzyyyyyy…

This sequel was made by children of 8 years!

Meeting in France May 2011

 Some souvenirs from the meeting in Britanny, between May 10th and 13th.

Stories: Manneke Pis

The story we will send you is the 'legend of Manneke Pis'.

It's known all around... don't you know it? Take the virtual tour of the statue by clicking this link!
You can look 360°!!

http://www.visitonweb.com/wikipedia/mannekenpis-nl.html

Some news !

Our Comenius room is getting better every day !

Look at what we received !

- We learned about Carnaval in Belgium and Portugal :

 - And the German Maypole.

We had worked before on the annual Telethon event (charity marathon to raise money to cure genetic deseases), on which occasion we take part in a parade.

Carnival (Fasching) in Germany

 The "crazy days" of carnival are at the peak of interest. From Maundy Thursday until carnival's Tuesday there are many big parties throughout Germany. We also had a carnival-party at school in Hiltenfingen and all pupils and teachers had a masquerade. Have a look!