Poland - Christmas greetings

Polish talent show

Talent Show! Oinaskatu, Järvenpää

FINLAND: Saint Lucy's Day Celebration

December 13th is St. Lucy's Day in Finland. The celebration of this day is a part of a Finland-Swedish Christmas tradition. It includes a ceremony in which a girl is elected to portray St. Lucy, Lucia in Finnish. Lucia is wearing a white dress, a red belt and she has a crown of candles on her head. She walks at the head of of a procession of girls or women who also wear a white dress and a red belt, and each is holding a candle. They sing a Lucia song when they enter the room. After this song they sing Christmas carols and more songs about Lucia.

St  Lucy's Day is also considered to be a celebration of light in the darkest time of the year.
Some schools have their own Lucia processions but in our school the Lucia procession traditionally comes from another school, from a Finland-Swedish school Norra Paipis skola.

SPAIN: GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ SCHOOL IS HAPPY

                             https://www.dropbox.com/s/g4gb295ty3bx3qb/happy.mp4?dl=0

FINLAND: A Concert of an Estonian Girls' Choir

On December 11th an Estonian Girls' Choir, " Virumaa Tütarlastekoor " came for a short visit in Järvenpää. We had the honour to have the choir for a concert in our school.

There are 48 singers from the age of 10 to 17 in the choir. They come from nine different schools in the province of Länsi-Viromaa. 39 singers took part in this visit. The choir has two conductors, Kaie Aja and Ly Ipsberg and the pianist Darja Roditsenko. The choir practises twice a month in the province capital Rakvere.

The concert was fantastic! The choir sang in Estonian, Finnish and English. They both sang beautifully and looked beautiful in their national costume-like dresses.

TURKEY-Barış Manço

I want to introduce valuable somebody to you. This person's name is Barış Manço. Unfortunately, Our children dont know him but adults know and love him so much in Turkey. He was a successful singer,musician,song writer and TV programmer.He was pretty different person with his long hair, his interesting jewelies and clothes also he had a good heart. He sang folk music like rock music. He set to interesting songs. Sometimes,he sang ''Tomato,papper,eggplant'' sometimes he sang'' My friend is Dankey'' and  sometimes... ''Bear''. He gave a message with this songs to people. He make child programmes on TV for a long time.One of them was '' Adam olacak çocuk(Child will be man)'' He taught ''brushing the teeth before sleep, drinking the milk, read a book'' to Turkish children. We aged with his advices. He travelled with '' to 77 from 7'' all around the World and he itroduced country's cultures,songs to Turkish people. Everybody was so sad in Turkey when he died in 1999. We are still sad..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3J9a7xNrD8
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWtQ8I6mJ3s

SPANISH SINGERS: LINKS

ALEJANDRO SANZ

LINKS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AqsAvXVf6Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpUDf_ITZLg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tcQ1hi75tQ

AURYN

LINKS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C93N8jZh1w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85jPjoh4H-4

ENRIQUE IGLESIAS

LINKS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koJlIGDImiU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApeC2AGENgo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8I-7Wk_Vbc

MALÚ

LINKS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfJFbCyQRYM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugxR6TElTRE

Sweet California

Links:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxNu9o5-_yo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yFGmHav8LU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsyBG3DmHFc

SPAIN: WE CELEBRATE ST. CECILIA - THE MUSIC DAY

  We had a concert at school!!!!!!! Wonderful!!
        
 Some of our teachers and students played some musical instruments and sang some songs for  all the  primary students.

         We had violins, guitars,  chelos, pianos, trumpets, "castañuelas", ......

                                           The mayor came to enjoy with us our concert.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/d94xfbtp73fzqk2/santa%20cecilia.mp4?dl=0

Finland - Finnish singers and bands

My hobby! Oinaskatu, Finland 4 b

Estonia- 5 singers/bands

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFlUhVyp0cA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlJSQA3uT_4

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q70i2fMEORs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJHU5r4n5tk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddCsOTWz7gI

SPANISH SINGERS AND BANDS

SPANISH SINGERS AND BANDS

SPANISH SINGERS AND BANDS

SPANISH SINGERS AND BANDS

SPANISH SINGERS AND BANDS

TURKEY-Turkish TOP 5

We surveyed. We choosed the students' favorite singers and set their favorite songs

HADİSE

listen please

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nx6iVCaix0

TARKAN

listen please

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85ys1qWzypE

MUSTAFA CECELİ

listen please

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySoWrKU8KRk

İREM DERİCİ

listen please

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTZRQltuHRc

HANDE YENER

listen please

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sprukwRl9ZQ



 

Meeting in Hungary

Poland - Polish TOP 5

Here are famous Polish singers and bands. I am sure you will like them.

Poland - All kinds of songs competition

On November 26 Polish School nr 12 invited children from other schools to take part in a song contest. All children sang beautiful songs.
The winners are: the first best Sandra Kazik School nr 53, the second best Wiktoria Burzyńska School in Łaziec and the third best Julia Lipińska School nr 12.

Poland - concert at the philharmonic hall

Once a month Polish children go to the philharmonic hall. Every time they have oportunity to listen to different kinds of music and instruments. This time we listen to brass instruments.

FINLAND: Experiencing Music

                        EXPERIENCING MUSIC

On Monday November 3rd we had the opportunity to have a very interesting concert in our school. The concert was aimed at the 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd and 4^th graders.

A group of three musicians performed folk music by using very old traditional instruments such as the Finnish kantele, the Shaman drum, the bowed lyre (jouhikko in Finnish) anf the Jew’s harp. also known as the jaw harp. They even made music by using stones. But it wasn’t just a traditional concert with playing the instruments but it was a concert with a plot. The performance was called “ The first Aid Team in the Spirit of Kalevala”. Kalevala is the national epic of Finland. As the title says, the performance was funny and full of surprises. The story had three characters: a shaman, a nurse and a girl called Pirkko  and they tried to heal illnesses by means of songs and music and they asked for pupils’ help.

After  the concert the pupils wrote in Finnish and the fourth graders also in English a review of the concert. Mainly the pupils liked the concert a lot, especially because it was funny and surprising and because it had a plot. They also liked to take part in the concert. The biggest drawback was the length of the concert: many pupils thought that the concert was too long.

Here a few pupils’ comments:

“ It was funny when the shaman turned into a bee.”

“ The concert was funny, extraordinary, weird, loud, surprising and full of action.”

“ There was a funny shaman, a strange nurse and an extraordinary girl in the concert.”

“ The concert was interesting because the musicians had strange instruments.”

“ The concert was strange but OK.”

Estonian students food and activities diaries (6 to 8 grade students)