The kids collect information about their favourite singers and play a lot of the songs they love!
Listen to the broadcast, as it was played by the European School Radio, here:
Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts
Saturday, March 15, 2014
Smells like... teen spirit in Top Radio!
The kids collect information about their favourite singers and play a lot of the songs they love!
Listen to the broadcast, as it was played by the European School Radio, here:
Monday, March 4, 2013
Junior potters!
Last month we visited the Art Workshop of the Municipality of Rethymno. We wanted to learn all the secrets of clay at first hand. Most of all, we wanted to learn about vessels and how the ancient Greeks painted them with all those beautiful images.
Mrs Frosso welcomed as cheerfully and explained everything to us!
Mrs Frosso welcomed as cheerfully and explained everything to us!
First we make a draft!
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Original post by Maria Priniotaki
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Saturday, November 24, 2012
A library from...scratch!
A dreary-library! The image of the room that was about to host our school library was something like that! But the kids of the 10th Primary School, as genuine bookworms, deserve a much more beautiful place for reading! Not only for reading, actually! A place where they will be able to relax, let the stress off, but also have fun playing board games, doing puzzles or watching a video presentation! We had no choice, thus, but to give them such a place!
We started out (how else?) by painting the room and we went on to sort the books out and classify them into categories... We added a sofa, some floor pillows and a carpet for warmth and games! There are still a few...artistic interventions (we'll be owing you an updatte on this), but our library iss ready to work!On Wednesday, during the second break, get in line to meet a new buddy: a book!
Let's remember before and after again...!
You must be getting tired of us thanking people, but it's impossible to NOT thank, for once more, our colleagues and friends, Yiouli Bosdelekidou and Dimitris Varelas who, despite the fact that they aren't teaching in our school, often give us their help and talent with great love for what they do!
We started out (how else?) by painting the room and we went on to sort the books out and classify them into categories... We added a sofa, some floor pillows and a carpet for warmth and games! There are still a few...artistic interventions (we'll be owing you an updatte on this), but our library iss ready to work!On Wednesday, during the second break, get in line to meet a new buddy: a book!
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You must be getting tired of us thanking people, but it's impossible to NOT thank, for once more, our colleagues and friends, Yiouli Bosdelekidou and Dimitris Varelas who, despite the fact that they aren't teaching in our school, often give us their help and talent with great love for what they do!
...and don't forget: there are still lots of classroom in an emergency condition in our school...!!! 
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Α story-teller deserving...awards!
Hans Christian Andersen was born on April 2, 1805, in the town of Odense in Denmark. He was born to a poor family. His father was a shoemaker, and his mother earned money washing other people's clothes. Although they were poor, his parents didn't want him to work from an early age and they encouraged him to develop his imagination. So, when he was fourteen, Andersen convinced them to let him go to Copenhagen, Denmark, rather than study to become a tailor. He was determined "to become famous"! Andersen lived very poor in the first years of his life in Copenhagen. He tried to become a singer, a dancer, an actor (!), but he failed. Although he had been a very poor student at school (he himself said that his school days were "the darkest and most bitter of his life") he managed to pass his University examinations in 1828 and that was when he wrote his first narrative, which was quickly followed by a collection of poems.
However, that didn't instantly bring him the fame he was aspiring to... His fairy tales were not popular at first. They started seeing success about ten years later! 156 fairytales and stories were published during his lifetime, but he also wrote other kinds of texts and some of them were published after his death, so, if we add them up, that makes 212 works in total.
Andersen died as a successful writer at the age of 70, on August 4, 1875. Apart from the works we already mentioned, other well-known stories written by him include "The Princess and the Pea", "The Tin Soldier", "The Nightingale", "The Little Match Girl"...
His stories are considered unique because he didn't write in the "traditional" way fairytales were written at the time. We don't only see "good guys" and "bad guys" in his fairytales. There is not always a "happy end". There is often melancholy in his narratives. What he wanted was to make his readers think about his characters and their stories and make his stories appeal and make sense to both children and adults.
Some interesting facts!
His stories are considered unique because he didn't write in the "traditional" way fairytales were written at the time. We don't only see "good guys" and "bad guys" in his fairytales. There is not always a "happy end". There is often melancholy in his narratives. What he wanted was to make his readers think about his characters and their stories and make his stories appeal and make sense to both children and adults.
Some interesting facts!
- Hans Christian Andersen never learnt to study successfully. He never learned how to spell or how to write in Danish!
- Andersen was not considered to be handsome. In fact, some considered him to be quite unattractive! He had a big, long nose, he was very thin and he was about 185 cm tall (which was very unusual for his time) and was a shoe size of 47!!! Some even believe that the story of The Ugly Duckling may have been derived from personal experience!
- There is an award that is named after him-The Hans Christian Andersen Award, given to the best children's books author and illustrator every two years, by her Majesty Queen Margrethe II of Denmark!
- Hans Christian Andersen never married and he didn't have any children.
- He liked watching and listening to operas!
- There is a sculpture of The Little Mermaid on the harbour of Copenhagen, Denmark!
Let's have some fun with Hans Christian Andersen! Click on the image:
Sunday, July 8, 2012
We gave colour!
...to our schoolyard! From back to front! With our bare hands, of course! Pupils and teachers gave their best (and LOTS of working hours) and managed to create what you can see below! And everybody is ready for a second round...!
For starters, here's a short extract of "before" and "after"... As for what happened in between, you can watch it in the video that follows! We hope you'll enjoy it as much as we did...!
A big thanks to little and big ones who devoted endless hours to the realization of our over-ambitious idea... We also thank them because the result was, after all, better than anyone had expected...!
Another thanks to the 9th Primary School of Rethymno and Nektarios Tsagliotis for the equipment they lent us and the expenses they saved us!
A special thanks to the "outside partner", Sofia Nikolidaki for her drawings, her contribution to the painting of the walls and her invaluable advice!
A VERY special thanks for the same reasons (and for twenty extra working hours) to the "outside partner" Giouli Bosdelekidou (with the tongue-twister name)! Despite the fact that we had a hard time to snap her off the walls for three days and her insistence on making everything perfect, we have to admit that, without her, we would probably be at about less than half the way...
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A big thanks to little and big ones who devoted endless hours to the realization of our over-ambitious idea... We also thank them because the result was, after all, better than anyone had expected...!
Another thanks to the 9th Primary School of Rethymno and Nektarios Tsagliotis for the equipment they lent us and the expenses they saved us!
A special thanks to the "outside partner", Sofia Nikolidaki for her drawings, her contribution to the painting of the walls and her invaluable advice!
A VERY special thanks for the same reasons (and for twenty extra working hours) to the "outside partner" Giouli Bosdelekidou (with the tongue-twister name)! Despite the fact that we had a hard time to snap her off the walls for three days and her insistence on making everything perfect, we have to admit that, without her, we would probably be at about less than half the way...
...and so the journey goes on...
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