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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)

Estonian recipes

Classic Estonian casserole

For 6 people

600 g bone-in beef 300 g smoked meat (e.g. rib)

1 onion

1 smaller hard-headed cabbage

1-1,5 l water

6 carrots

1 turnip

6 potatoes

butter

salt

chopped herbs

In a pot brown the beef in butter. Toss smoked meat, peeled onion, and wedges of cabbage into the pot. Pour in the water and cook over low heat for 25-30 minutes. Add peeled and chopped carrots and turnip and let it stew for another 10 minutes. Add peeled potatoes and simmer for another 20 minutes. Season with salt and simmer for another 10 minutes, until the vegetables are soft. Garnish with chopped herbs.

Raisin-oatmeal ‘karask’ scones

5 dl thick, toasted oatmeal

1 dl flour

4 dl kefir or plain yogurt,

1 tsp baking soda,

1 dl raisins 1 grated apple 50 g oil 2 tbsp sugar,

 1 tsp of salt.

 Preparation: Mix all the components together, pour the dough to the cake pan or divide it into the muffin moulds. Bake in the 180-degree oven for 30 - 35 minutes.

Oven-baked apples

Apples (soft and floury apples are not suitable)

brown sugar or sugar

cinnamon

butter

Serve with vanilla ice cream

Wash the apples. Remove the cores with the help of a knife or a special device. Pluck a piece of apple in the bottom part of the hole in order to prevent the stuffing from flowing out. Mix sugar with cinnamon. Grease a suitably sized ovenproof dish with butter, lay apples tightly on the dish. Fill in the cavity with sugar-cinnamon mixture. Bake at 200° C for 25 - 40 minutes, depending on the variety of apple. Serve warm with vanilla ice cream or vanilla sauce.

Rhubarb and strawberry pie

Ingredients:

Pastry:

1 egg

•         175 g of butter

•         1 dl sugar

•         3 dl flour

•         1 teaspoon of baking powder

Filling:

•         2 dl rhubarb

•         4 dl strawberries

•         250g sour cream

•         one egg

•         0, 5 to 1 dl sugar

•         1 teaspoon vanilla sugar

Preparation

Mix the butter and sugar till it is blend together. Add an egg and start to whisk it together. Finally add some baking powder and flour. Cover the cake pan with grease-proof paper and put the pastry into the cake pan and build up edges.  Slice the strawberries and rhubarbs and divide them to the bottom of the cake pan. For filling you need to mix sour cream, an egg and sugar together and pour the mixture into the cake pan. Bake at 200 ° for 20 to 30 minutes.