These are the carols that our partners shared. We have already started learning them!
From ITALY:
From SPAIN:
From NORWAY:
From ROMANIA:
From LITHUANIA:
From POLAND:
From CYPRUS:
Christmas Fun: European carols
Κατηγορία 1st Primary School of Akrata, eTwinning 2016, Christmas Fun, projects 2016-2017 , στις 15 Δεκεμβρίου 2016 από Lenia KMore presents from Europe!!!
Κατηγορία 1st Primary School of Akrata, eTwinning 2016, Christmas Fun, projects 2016-2017 , στις 15 Δεκεμβρίου 2016 από Lenia K
Today class B opened the last envelopes. They came all the way from Poland, Lithuania and Cyprus! Then they put the decorations the flags and the cards up on the tree!
Christmas Fun: video conference with Poland
Κατηγορία 1st Primary School of Akrata, eTwinning 2016, Christmas Fun, projects 2016-2017 , στις 14 Δεκεμβρίου 2016 από Lenia KWe were lucky this time!!! It was a wonderful video conference with great communication between class C and the Romanian class. Not only did they introduce themselves and exchange Christmas songs, Christmas words and wishes but they had lots of questions for each other! The Greek pupils were surprised to hear that Christmas Eve is so important in Poland and it is celebrated with a 12-course-meal that includes fish and poppy cake. They didn’t know also that in Poland carols are sung after dinner at home, wereas in Greece the kids sing carols from door to door on Christmas Eve morning. Moreover, the Polish carols are very sentimental and have serious melodies and slow rythm wereas in Greece carols are more rythmic. They were also happy to see that their Polish friends were of the same age and they were in the same class! All in all, a very nice conference! Thank you for this wonderful experience!We had fun and learned a lot!
The questions class C had prepared to ask their Polish friends and the pictures they used to exchange Christmas words in both languages
class C is singing the Greek carols
Advent Calendar: TASK 23 by Lithuania
Κατηγορία 2nd Primary School of Akrata, eTwinning 2016, Advent Calendar, projects 2016-2017 , στις 13 Δεκεμβρίου 2016 από Lenia KA few days ago we received a parcel from Lithuania with a special treat: poppy seed biscuits!It is traditional for them to eat them with poppy milk at Christmas Eve dinner.
They wrote:
”The Christmas Eve cookies are very important on Christmas Eve in Lithuania. A lot of housewifes bake them at home. If they don‘t bake at home, they necessarily buy them in the market. Christmas Eve in Lithuanian is called ,,KŪČIOS“, and these cookies is called ,,KŪČIUKAI“. You certainly find those cookies on every Christmas Eve table, without any exceptions’
Since we couldn’t find poppy seeds to make the milk, we tried them and liked them!
Thank you so much for this experience!!!
Advent calendar: TASK 12 by the UK
Κατηγορία 2nd Primary School of Akrata, eTwinning 2016, Advent Calendar, projects 2016-2017 , στις 13 Δεκεμβρίου 2016 από Lenia KIn Britain children hang stockings on Christmas Eve so that Santa can fill them with presents.
So, we hung two stockings in our Advent Calendar corner and filled them with presents!
Advent Calendar: TASK 11 by Slovenia
Κατηγορία 2nd Primary School of Akrata, eTwinning 2016, Advent Calendar, projects 2016-2017 , στις 13 Δεκεμβρίου 2016 από Lenia K
Advent Calendar:Task 4 from Slovenia -Task 7 from the UK
Κατηγορία 2nd Primary School of Akrata, eTwinning 2016, Advent Calendar, projects 2016-2017 , στις 9 Δεκεμβρίου 2016 από Lenia KMore customs for the kids today:
TASK 4 From Slovenia:In Slovenia they put Christmas wheat under the Christmas tree or into the nativity scene (Christmas crib), or have it as a table decoration. It is ready by the 24th December. So the kids sowed their own seeds. Will it be ready for Christmas Eve? We will see…
TASK 7 from the UK:The crackers are small presents that decorate the Christmas dinner table.The family pulls them and find a paper hat, a riddle and a toy inside!The kids made their own crackers today with the presents!
Pulling the crackers the British way!
Opening envelopes!
Κατηγορία 2016-2017 school year, eTwinning 2016, Christmas Fun , στις 9 Δεκεμβρίου 2016 από Lenia KClass A opened envelopes today! Wow! Such beautiful presents from Romania and Italy! Thank you so much!
Voting for the best logo
Κατηγορία 2nd Primary School of Akrata, eTwinning 2016, Advent Calendar, projects 2016-2017 , στις 9 Δεκεμβρίου 2016 από Lenia KToday we voted for the best logo:
And the winner is Hana from Slovenia!Congratulations! This is going to be our project’s logo from now on!
CLICK HERE to see all the entries.
Advent Calendar: TASK 8 by Lithuania
Κατηγορία 2nd Primary School of Akrata, eTwinning 2016, Advent Calendar, projects 2016-2017 , στις 9 Δεκεμβρίου 2016 από Lenia KChristmas Eve in Lithuania is considered magical and it’s the perfect day to predict the future!
Look at the predictions by POLAND and SERBIA
Christmas Fun: a Skype with Romania
Κατηγορία 1st Primary School of Akrata, eTwinning 2016, Christmas Fun, projects 2016-2017 , στις 8 Δεκεμβρίου 2016 από Lenia KAnother great Skype meeting today for class B and a class from Romania and their teacher Valerica in their beautiful classroom. The pupils introduced themselves and sang carols. Class B really enjoyed listening to the Romanian carols. We also listened to them singing to us ‘We wish you a Merry Christmas’ and we sang along, too! Then, the pupils taught each other how to wish Merry Christmas in both languages and the Greek pupils taught some Christmas words to Valerica’s pupils. They were very good students! It was a wonderful experience and class B did great! Many of them asked me for another skype! However, the last skype is scheduled for class C next week and they can’t wait!
Christmas Fun: Skype days
Κατηγορία 1st Primary School of Akrata, eTwinning 2016, Christmas Fun, projects 2016-2017 , στις 7 Δεκεμβρίου 2016 από Lenia KSkype days have officially started with Lithuania, Poland and Greece! The first Skype between Lithuania and Greece (class A) started very early in the morning. The pupils introduced themselves, they sang carols and taught each other the Christmas wish in their mother tongues. The Lithuanian kids even shared a very old traditional game that they play during Advent which the Greek kids really liked! The experience was so enjoyable that the Greek headmaster came for a quick ‘Hello’ and stayed throughout the meeting!
Unfortunatley, the second Skype of the day (between Greece, class C and Poland) didn’t go as planned due to technical problems. However, the Greek kids sang the christmas carols and promised to meet again same day and time next week! We can’t wait!
The Skype meetings have been the best activity of the whole projectso far and class A enjoyed it so much that they talked about it all day long!
Advent Calendar:TASK 5 -St Nickolas Day
Κατηγορία 2nd Primary School of Akrata, eTwinning 2016, Advent Calendar, projects 2016-2017 , στις 7 Δεκεμβρίου 2016 από Lenia KIn many European countries St Nickolas is celebrated in a special way. Here is what our partners wrote about this special day on TASK 5:
GREECE: In Greece we celebrate St Nicholas on December 6th .This day people with the name Nick,Nicolas and Niki celebrate their name day.We go to church but we don’t get presents from St. Nicholas. We get presents from Agios Vasilis (Santa Claus) on January 1st.
POLAND: In Poland we celebrate St Nicolas day on December 6th. Children write letters to St. Nicolas. In these letters there are wishes about presents. On December 6th St. Nicolas takes these letters and puts in children’s boots small gifts. Big gifts, children get on December 24. In our kindergarten every year on December 6th St Nicolas visit children. He play with them and takes them letters.
LITHUANIA: In Lithuania we don‘t celebrate St Nicolas day on December 6th. The vast majority of people do not know about St.Nicholas. In Lithuania he sometimes is called St.Mikalojus. They both are like one person and more famous is St.Mikalojus and he is considered as a prototype of Santa Clause. But there isn‘t tradition to give grifts or somehow else celebrate St.Nicholas day.
SLOVENIA: Children in Slovenia are lucky, because in December three men that bring presents visit them. First is St. Nicholas (Miklavž) that brings presents on 6th of December. Children usually get oranges, nuts, small chocolates. The children who didn’t behave well during the year get golden or silver rod to remind them to be better next year.
The second man is Santa Clause that brings present on 24th or 25th December. And the third one is Dedek Mraz (“Grandad Cold”) that brings present on the 1st of January. Here is a picture of all three good men.
SERBIA: In Serbia we celebrate St. Nicolas two times a year. Once on 19th December, and once on 22nd May. We gather for reach feasts with our friends and family.
Saint Nickolas
Advent Calendar: TASKS 1, 2 ,5
Κατηγορία 2nd Primary School of Akrata, eTwinning 2016, Advent Calendar, projects 2016-2017 , στις 6 Δεκεμβρίου 2016 από Lenia KToday we did many things: we set up an Advent calendar corner in the classroom with the partners’ flags, country names, goodmornings and with all our creations so far: our logos, the Greek recipe and the Christmas card. Then, we made videos. One for TASK 1 (goodmorning in every participant language) as explained by the Polish partner
Here are the greetings from the partner countries: POLAND , LITHUANIA, SERBIA, SLOVENIA, and SWEDEN
One with our last task (TASK 10) for our partners: the Greek Christmas carols with a small text by Hara and Ermela explaining carol singing in Greece.
Aggelos and Aourelio made and uploaded a card for TASK 2 by Poland
and Marios and George wrote what we do/don’t do in Greece on St Nickolas day for TASK 5 by Slovenia. We had great fun, although we were stressed with the time running out and we’re looking forward to the next Advent calendar tasks!!!
Looking at the partners’ videos to prepare for the next tasks
Making TASK 1 video! The photo is in our Advent Calendar corner!
Our circus
Κατηγορία 2016-2017 school year, 2nd Primary School of Akrata, Classroom activities με ετικέτεςclass D' , στις 6 Δεκεμβρίου 2016 από Lenia K
Christmas Fun: Our Christmas Fun tree!
Κατηγορία 1st Primary School of Akrata, eTwinning 2016, Christmas Fun, projects 2016-2017 , στις 5 Δεκεμβρίου 2016 από Lenia KToday class C opened the first three envelopes. They were from Spain, Norway and Italy. They found wonderful cards and crafts and they were very impressed by them! Then they decorated the christmas tree and took lots of photos!Mr Argyris, our headmaster helped too!
Memory game
Κατηγορία 2016-2017 school year, 2nd Primary School of Akrata, Classroom activities με ετικέτεςclass B , στις 2 Δεκεμβρίου 2016 από Lenia KClass C don’t only have great memory as they managed to find the pairs but great English pronunciation,too
! They remembered all the new words! Well done, kids!
Advent Calendar: European Christmas traditions
Κατηγορία 2nd Primary School of Akrata, eTwinning 2016, Advent Calendar, projects 2016-2017 , στις 1 Δεκεμβρίου 2016 από Lenia KIt’s the 1st December and we have been started the Christmas countdown!!!Tomorrow we will click on the first two stockings and do the tasks! We can’t wait!!!
Advent Calendar: Our logos
Κατηγορία 2nd Primary School of Akrata, eTwinning 2016, Advent Calendar, projects 2016-2017 , στις 29 Νοεμβρίου 2016 από Lenia KThere is a copmetition for the best logo at the ADVENT CALENDAR eTwinning project. These are what class ST created today!
Good work everyone! And good luck, too!
Christmas Fun: English room or post office?
Κατηγορία 1st Primary School of Akrata, eTwinning 2016, Christmas Fun , στις 21 Νοεμβρίου 2016 από Lenia KBusy, busy , busy! Today class C learned the envelope format- how we place the addresses on an envelope. They really enjoyed sticking reading all these strange addresses. They drew some labels for the envelopes and finished the pomegranate ornament. The envelopes are filled with presents and are on their way to our friends!
Making the traditional Greek pomegranate, the symbol of New Year for our partners
The second ornament for our partners is a Santa
Preparing the envelopes
Painting some lovely christmas labels for the envelopes
