Tuesday 16 December 2014

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.

Monday 15 December 2014

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.

Saturday 13 December 2014

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

Thursday 4 December 2014

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.



Finland - Finnish singers and bands







My hobby! Oinaskatu, Finland 4 b




Wednesday 3 December 2014

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

Saturday 29 November 2014

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.




Tuesday 11 November 2014

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.




Thursday 6 November 2014

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 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th 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.”