This year we are working on a project with 15 schools from 13 European countries. And now we are showing you what we did.We did a skype session with  the class from Poland.We talked about their Christmas and our Christmas,and here are the differences and similarities.

POLAND

1) They decorate a tree in the house.

2) For Christmas dinner they eat 12 differents traditional dishes.

3) They sing carols at home after Christmas dinner.

4) They make gingerbread cookies and fruit cake.

5) They go to church.

6) Santa Claus doesn’t  come on Nea Year’s Eve, but he comes on  Christmas Eve.

7) In Zabor there isn’t a big tree in the centre of the town

8) On New Year’s Eve they do parties and throw fireworks.

9) The Christmas holidays last one week

GREECE

1) We decorate tree in our houses!!!

2) For Christmas dinner we eat turkey, salad, tzatziki, potatoes and cheese!!!

3) We sing carols on Christmas Eve morning and New Year’s Eve morning and Epiphane morning!!!

4) We make melomakarona, kourambiedes and diples!!!

5) We go to church!!!

6) Father Christmas comes on New Years Eve!!!

7) In Akrata we decorate a big tree in the center of the town!

8) On New Year’s Eve we eat with our family and we give presents!!!

9) Our Christmas holidays last two weeks

We like  this project , we feel happy.We want to talk again with another country. This project is interesting and we hope you like it.

By class E’.

We began a program with European countries and we send Christmas cards, videos, photos and carols.

12 countries take part  in this program with 1 school from every country of Europe!!!

Our program is Sing and Write Christmas!!!

We are happy with this program.

Anna, Nikolas and Argyroula

Hi! We are ST’  class. We are running a project with Poland about our schools and we will compare them.

Our school is in a small town, but their school is in a small village. Both Akrata and Zabor are near cities. These cities are Aigio and Zielona Gora.The Polish school  is older because it was built in 1992,wereas our school is younger because it was built in 1997.

Our school hasn’t got as many floors as their school in Zabor. Our school has got one floor, but their school has got two floors. In our school classes A’ and B’ have lessons on the ground floor, wereas in their school classes A’ , B’ and  C’ have lessons. In the first floor of our school classes C’, D’ , E’ and ST’ have lessons but in Zabor classes D’ , E’ and ST’ have lessons.

We haven’t got as many classrooms as their school. Also we haven’t got a playroom for the youngest students or educators’ room like them. We have got a bigger playground than theirs with a garden and lots of courts.

Click on the photos to see the presentations of  our schools and tell us your opinion about the photos and our article.

By ST’ class

Pancake Day began in the 15th century in England. The custom began as follows:
A woman was cooking pancakes when she heard the church bell  ringing. To catch the Service she left her house with her apron on, her scarf and the pan with  the pancake in her hand! In order not to burn the pancake she tossed it three times until she got to the church.

The custom is one day before Lent.The British fry pancakes because people can’t eat dairy products  during Lent.Women usually participate, they wear: an apron, a scarf and hold a pan with the pancake in their hand. The most famous pancake race takes place at Olney.

Click on the video to see this year’s Pancake Race  in Olney!!!!!!!

By Mars Skorpios, Ntaiz and Twitte

Hello! We are the 6th class of the  1st Primary School of Akrata and we’re writing about an event that happened in our school on Friday, 24th February.

On Friday morning we had to have ingredients to cook  pancakes because on 21th it was Shrove Tuesday-Pancake Day in England . Then we read Miss L’s recipe  and we prepared the batter.

Two mothers of our classmates ( Mrs Mary and Mrs Vessie ) helped us to cook the batters that we made. Three children of our class made the awards for the winner classes ( spatulas ). Then we prepared a theatrical play to present the  custom of  Pancake Race to our school .

When we finished the script, we prepared the stage and we invited the other classes and the kindergarten to  see our performance (Our Pancake theatrical play ).

Then, we began the race . At first, all classes raced.

The funniest moment was ”The teachers’ race”. We laughed very much!!!

We are so excited because we made the children and the teachers to have fun !!!

By  Costas,

Emilian

and Panagiotis

This theatrical play presents Shrove Tuesday. We wrote it on February 24th because we wanted to show the children of our school what is Shrove Tuesday.

Αφηγητής 1 : Τον 15ο αιώνα στην Αγγλία μια μέρα πριν τη Σαρακοστή μία νοικοκυρά καθώς έφτιαχνε τηγανίτες άκουσε την καμπάνα της εκκλησίας να χτυπάει.
Αφηγητής 2: Για να μην χάσει τη λειτουργία, αφηρημένη με τη ποδιά , το σκούφο και στο χέρι το τηγάνι με τη τηγανίτα πήγε στην εκκλησία.
Αφηγητής 1 : Από τότε καθιερώθηκε το έθιμο της τηγανίτας. Όσοι θέλουν μπορούν να πάρουν μέρος την << Ημέρα της Τηγανίτας>>.
Αφηγητής 2 : Όσοι παίρνουν μέρος, ξεκινούν από ένα καθορισμένο σημείο και προσπαθούν να φτάσουν στην εκκλησία και να πετάξουν τρεις φορές την τηγανίτα στον αέρα και να την ξαναπιάσουν. Όποιος το κάνει πρώτος κερδίζει.

We played it and presented to the children of our school and the children of the nursery school.The roles were:

The housewife- Ntaiz

People- Original, Betty Boo, Robin, Twitte and Baboulas

The priest- Bobhras

The narrators- FBI and the key

The other children liked it and clapped us.
In our opinion this day was wonderful because we ate a lot of pancakes!!!!

By Sakis Rouvas, Original and Bobhras.

By Stazia, Chris, Debbie, Panagiotis.

Hi guys!

We want to tell you about the program ‘Let’s get to know each other’.

We send emails to Demenika Primary School.

We send photos and a Christmas card.

We work in teams.

These are Akrata’s teams:

The Best

Fantastic Team

Super Children

The Fantastic

These are Patra’s teams:

PC Wizards

Star Writers

The Dancers

Super Team

The Complicated

Super Stars

Look at our photos!

We love this program because we get to know pupils from Patras.

🙂