Happy New Year

Hi everyone,
we have had some really cold days, nearly -30 degrees C. Now it is a bit better and you can even be outdoors. We have also got snow now, so the children are very happy. Now they can do all the things they have longed for during the dark and wet autumn.

Marianne took a much better photo of the three suns, so I send it as a new years greeting.


Happy New Year 2010!

Happy New Year to All

Hope all your dreams come true in 2010...

The Experiment

On the day of the solstice it was raining heavily so we did not have the chance to see the sun..the next day was rainy as well..On 24th December, at noon we had sun for a few hours and we were able to measure the shadow..It was 2,14 metres long. But we couldn't take any photos. As we were not expecting to see the sun, we did not have the camera with us.
The weather here is really strange these days..Yesterday it was about 20°C but tonight it was 1°C.
We could not see the first snow of this winter here yet..

Result of experiment

We had problems measuring the day of the solstice. No sun, but luckily we started early, so we had a little sun on the 17th. The result is from that date. Impressive 18,40 metres!
We started at school, but there were lots of trees shadowing the sun. We had to go down to the lake, Tåsjön. There we saw a rather interesting weather fenomenon, three suns!

EXPERIMENT - Result

We were lucky 21st December was a beautiful sunny day.
Our shadow was 3 metres long.

Presentation of the Czech Republic

Our school is in a little village Okna in the North of Bohemia.
There are two buildings: one for the pre-primary school, 2 teachers, 23 children.
One for the primary school, 5 teachers, 27 children.
Our school wants to promote the environmental education and learning of English.

Christmas

Hello!
We have a question:
Who brings presents in your country?
In the Czech Republic it is baby Jesus. He brings the presents on the evening of December 24th and lays them under the Christmas tree.

Lucia

Every year we celebrate Lucia at the 13th of December in Sweden. It is a way to brighten up the darkest time of year. At every school, in communities and lots of other places we have "Luciatåg". That is Lucia and her followers, dressed in white with candles. We had our in church where we sang songs and every child was dressed up. Even the smallest children participated

Presentation from Turkey

Yusufca Primary and Secondary School is located in a small village in Kandira, Kocaeli, in the northwest of Turkey.
This year we have 147 students and 16 staff.

EXPERIMENT

On the day of Solstice - December 21st, at noon we are going to measure the shadow of a stick.
Will you join us?
Take a one-metre- long stick, place it perpendicular to the ground and measure its shadow.
We hope there is enough sunshine to see the shadow...
Veronika

Advent

Every year we celebrate the first of Advent by going to church to sing songs and read poems. We march there with torches. Everyone is welcome and it is very solemn.

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hej, hej

How are you? Here in Spain the weather is cold and it's rainning too. Xmas. is coming, so enjoy it!
Olga.

Hello!

Hi all from Turkey,
In the end I am also here :) Thank you Annika..
hope to hear from all in this blog.

Serpil

Presentation from Sweden

Our school is in a small village in the north of Sweden, Kyrktåsjö.

There are twentyfour pupils in our school and in the daycare there are about fifteen children.

Hello!
I´m with you now. Hope to hear from you all!
Carola

This is a blog for the schools from Czech Republic, Turkey, Spain and Sweden that take part in the comeniusproject "Why are we so different?" We want to share our work with you.