The first french letter in 2011

Bonjour, bonjour

It’s under the rain that the French team tell you : hello , how are you?

Since January, everything has been fine.

The weather is a bit wet but not cold at all. The pupils can play football on the playground.

The two Freds’ forms has started to go to the swimming pool twice a week (on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons). This “aqua” project will take over at Easter.
Usually, we used to go once a week during all the year but the swimming pool’s boss has decided to try something new. Less weeks (just a term) but as much lessons as last year. So we wear our swim suits and learn how to become a mermaid.

Since January, all the school has got the chance and the pleasure to have two new teachers for the term.
The first one is American and he teaches in nursery school English songs.
The second is French and she teaches music in each form. Nursery rhymes and rhythms’ discovery for the nursery school. In the primary school, she has discovered songs chosen by the teachers. All these songs have got the name of a French town in the title and they have to be sung for our marvelous Comenius partners!! She teaches them to our lovely pupils. Most of these songs are very famous, so at home parents and grandparents repeat them too.

The gardener came last Friday to give us advices about our small gardens. The French team will have to find time to work on , like planting, sowing, weeding (not to confuse with William’s wedding ahaha!!!).

We’ve forgotten to tell you how delicious was the food found in the parcels : biscuits, nougat, and so on. Thank you, thank you.

We’re working on the vocabulary parcel to be ready in time (the 25th March). We will be on holidays (again) in two weeks and for two weeks. We will back school the 14th March.

In wait of news , we wish you plenty beautiful things!!

The French team

The french newsletter

JOYEUX NOEL

The letter from Brest

Hello everybody from Brest How are you? We know we are writing very late but our silly Fred had lost the dates!! We’re very sorry about it (he feels very guilty!!!).

We’ve been on holidays since last Saturday. During the last week, after days full of evaluations, we had the pleasure to receipt the parcels. So on Tuesday night, all the teachers were invited by Katell to discover your treasures in her home. We were like in family, waiting near the Christmas Tree, the eyes full of joy!!

Then, the discovery began.

Wonderfull!!
So many many things!!! The decorations are superb, and we were all surprised by the carps. What a marvelous biscuits’smell, arriving from Prostejov, invaded the living room. Tio and Tia were unknown for all of us. Sophie brought the parcels back school on Thursday to show them to the nursery pupils. On Friday, the two Freds carried them to the European corner and during the last afternoon, each form came to discover them (the parcels not the two Freds!).

What a success!!!

With the flashcards, they’re looking forward learning the pronunciation. They have been too very surprised by the carps cause in France we draw paper fish too, for the jokes'day, the first April, to be hung in your friends'back.
Tia and Tio are now as famous as Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie but less appreciated than the Caganer…Oh my god what a laugh!!!

We’ve realized our sweet differences between our father Chrismas, and the couple Saint Nicolas/little Jesus and the other couple Tio/ the Three Kings.

Of course we had hung the decorations in our Christmas tree, but we were a bit disappointed to tidy them after the Christmas period. So we’ve decided to keep the tree (on the decorations on) in the European corner for the rest of the year.

We wish you a marvelous and happy Christmas, full of gifts cause we’re sure that you’ve been very kind during the year.

Love from Brest

Caga tió

Hey friends!
Here you have a video from youtube to see how our Caga Tió works. Hope you like it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFXtHrKdKWI

Our Xmas tree

Hi there!
We wanted to share with you a picture of our Xmas tree with all your decorations and the nativity scene. They look really nice!

THE LETTER FROM PROSTĚJOV

Hello everybody from Prostějov,

how are you? We know we are writing a little bit late. We are sorry about it.

Last two weeks we were very busy because of the preparation of our Christmas parcels for you. It was nice and interesting work – making flashcards and decorations, singing Christmas songs, baking gingerbread….

The Christmas decorations made children from Jana´s (Pichlová) school. They are beautiful, you´ll see. Jana Prokopová with her colleges and pupils made sounds for our flashcards.

Pupils from my school (I´m Marcela) prepared Christmas flashcards and songs. It was very strange to sing Christmas songs in November but it brought to our school a peaceful Christmas mood.

Our pupils with their mothers also baked a sweet Christmas gingerbread. By the way that´s very nice decorated. And our theatre group played short scenes to explain three or four words from flashcards. It shows the typical Christmas atmosphere in the Czech Republic.

Our children were very pleased about the letters from Spain. They took their mail address and they are going to answer them soon. Thanks a lot.

Finally our European corners are finished, too. Their photos I will send you next time.

So, we are looking forward to everything new from you. We wish you have a nice time before Christmas.

Love from Prostějov

Spain newsletter

Hi everyone!
How is it going? here, we are very very busy with the preparation of the first parcel to be sent. We've started filming the students saying the Xmas words, we've got the flashcard sets almost ready, all the classes (including infant education) are doing their decorations for our Xmas trees, and we are also thinking about all the things that we'll include in the box. So lots of work for our postman!!
Children are very excited about the idea of participating in everything we send and also about the things we'll receive. The arrival of the parcels will be a party!!
By the way, here we send you a picture of how our European Corner looks now. Paco did a great work with the flags and coats of arms, it's great. Moreover, next thursday we're attending a Comenius meeting in Barcelona where we'll receive a commemorative plaque saying: We're Comenius. This is an official procedure new this year for all the schools participating in a Comenius project. So we'll add it to the European Corner very soon.
That's all for now, we hope we'll know from you very soon!
A big hug for everyone!

School Joan Sallares i Pla.

NEWSPAPERS

Here you have the articles of some local newspapers from Brest and Prostejov writing about our Comenius Project "Thank you postman".