Happy new year

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL!!

Looking forward to a new year tougether with you!
Lena

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Dear Comenius Friends, I wish you a

Here is a christmas tree from Portugal-Manteigas, which the children has decorated.

Today it is our party of Christmas in the school.All of the parents and grandparents come to attend. In the end we will have the Christmas' Father company with a gift for all.

Merry Christmas, Dear Friends, Merry Christmas!!!

Heap on the wood!

The wind is chill;

But let it whistle as it will,

We'll keep our Christmas merry still.



Sir Walter Scott

Christmastree from Sweden

Here is a christmastree from Sweden, which the children has decorated.

Autumn tastes

"Taste Buds"

Our gastronomically rich experiences in the countries we have already visited were as enchanting and full of discovery as our cultural experiences in Romania, Lithuania, Slovenia and Sweden.
I truly believe that a significant portion of our Comenius Project also involves being with our “taste buds”.

And that feels so good!

The "Heart of Serra da Estrela" in Onesti, romania

Under the banner of “Nature our Friend” Comenius Project, the Pre-school Teachers Maria João costa, Liseta Nunes and São Direito and Sandra Santos, the English Teacher, were honourable representatives and great spokeswomen of Manteigas and “Serra da Estrela” during the week spent in Onesti, Romania.

As always, the Comenius week promotes each country’s traditions, food and know-how, in activities which show the singing, dancing and other skills developed throughout the year! Well, one evening the “gangs” gathered around a table and experienced a “Gastronomically Rich Tour” which allowed them to travel through tastes and smells from different countries. Swedish cookies, jam, sausage and drinks; Lithuanian chocolate, cheese and vegetables and Portuguese “gourmet products”, kindly offered by “Casa das Penhas Douradas” were the perfect excuse to spend a nice happy evening among friends. Slovenian, Swedish, Lithuanian, Romanian and Portuguese girls all had the chance of tasting some of the Portuguese products which travelled in Maria’s big big bag! What a delicious experiment we had with honey, almond, chestnut, fig and other delicacies!

All these delicatessen are just a glimpse of what all our Friends can taste in Portugal in May 2010! In this little European place, the grey cold granite contrasts with the warm hospitality of Manteigas people.

We leave a big “thank you” note to Dr. João Tomás,Dra.Isabel and his assistants at Casa das Penhas Douradas!

Maria João

O CORAÇÃO DA ESTRELA EM ONESTI-ROMÉNIA

No âmbito do projecto comenius, as educadoras Mª João Costa, Liseta Nunes, São Direito e a professora de inglês Sandra Santos, foram durante uma semana, em Onesti- Roménia, "embaixadoras" de Manteigas e da Serra da Estrela.
Durante a sua visita, promoveram uma noite gastronómica onde todos os parceiros tiveram oportunidade de dar a provar alguns produtos característicos do seu país.
As serranas levaram produtos gourmet, gentilmente oferecidos pela "Casa das Penhas Douradas" .
Suécas, Eslovenas, Lituanas e Romenas puderam disfrutar de alguns dos sabores da nossa terra, deixando antever que a sua estadia em Manteigas, em Maio de 2010, será certamente inesquecivel, porque neste cantinho da Europa, o frio e cinzento granito contrasta com a calorosa hospitalidade e arte em bem receber dos Manteiguenses!

Ao Dr. João Tomás,Dra. Isabel e seus colaboradores uma vez mais o nosso Bem Haja

Maria João

The tree project in Slovenia

A WEEK IN ROMANIA

The week we had in Romania was like all the other Comenius weeks we had had before – wonderful and unforgettable! From Bucharest to Onesti, from the city to the mountains, from the contact with teachers and the children to the flavours we tasted, we enjoyed all we were given the opportunity to live and experience.
We think Romania is a very beautiful country, with a wide variety of landscapes which we are glad we had the chance to visit. The confusion of Bucharest is quite different from the quietness of Onesti, but each has delighted us with its nice places and monuments. And what to say about the mountains painted white for our delight?! Amazing!
We were also pleased with the time we spent in the kindergartens. In Onesti we got the proof that more than the built spaces, the important things are the strength and the will of all those teachers, assistants and staff who do a great work with the children showing them a way to grow up and leading them through their learning process. And we believe those children will become honoured adults and will be able to help Romania become a richer country.
We are thankful for the kindness of the teachers and all staff at the kindergartens and the way they took us in and let us mess up their routines. We thank Tatiana for having done such a great work to provide all necessary conditions for us to have a good stay, we thank her and the teachers for opening the doors of the kindergartens and other schools and letting all happen; we thank the staff for providing food and drink and all we needed to have a nice day; we thank the translators for all their patience and dedication to us throughout the week.
We always come home with the feeling of taking part in a great project, a project which allows us to make friends in so many different places. When the departure time comes, we all share the same sadness and the idea that we wanted the week to go on an on. After one more week, all we can say to our Comenius Friends we leave behind is that we feel richer and happy at the same time because we took them home with us in our hearts.


The Portuguese Team

Hello Dear Friends

This is our Tree Week

Chestnuts

Thankyou for the chestnnuts Portugal! We have looked at them today with the children. And we are going to try planted them. Perhaps they will grow in Sweden./Stina.

we hawe planted seeds from a tree in Romania. emma

Hi!
I have planted a red watermelon. There are yellow too.
Have you melontree in your country?
by Camilo.

A TREE PARTY

Hello everybody!

Dear Friends, we haven’t planted our tree yet. The weather in Portugal is still too hot! Autumn has already started but we keep having summer temperatures ( 27/30 degree)and there has been no rain so far! We must wait a little longer to plant our tree and then we will let you all know we have done it, OK?
But, we took advantage of good weather and went to the countryside to discover the trees of our land (vine, chestnut tree, olive tree,apple tree ).

A big day with a party tree !

We send lots of hugs and kisses to the children and their teachers!

Portuguese Team

Warmest regards from kindergarten ,,Bangele" children and teachers

Little one's and grown-up planted apple-trees

We are small and our oaklet are not high.

Our oaklets will grow high.

PORTUGUESE TRADITION - AUTUMN

" TREE WEEK" - part 1

Tree planting in Sweden!

Our tree planting day!!

On Wednesday the 9th of September we had our Tree planting day. First we gathered all together in the Preschool garden and sang songs about trees. After that we dug two big holes in the lawn there we would like to have our trees. We had bought one apple tree that is called “Ingrid Marie” that is an old kind of Swedish apple tree. The other tree we planted was a Silver willow. The willow tree is very typical for Skania, our part of Sweden.
We gave the trees A LOT OF WATER and some new good soil.
After that we ate grilled sausages and ice cream out on the lawn!!

HELLO LILLE LILLE FRIENDS!!!

I am from PORTUGAL and I am very happy that you have sent messages! =)

I am one of the teachers in the photo. Can you guess who?!

Big hug to you all!

what great pictures! What fun that you responded. what country do you live in? The leaves of the chestnut looks like the leaves of the hazelnut tree, which grows at our preschool. Hazelnuts can eat.
märtha

Chestnuts

Take a look at the chestnuts we love eating!!! The photo of the trees was taken last Autumn. At present, the trees are still green and the fruit is still growing inside its "home". In middle October and in November the chestnuts are ready to be eaten!!! =)

HELLO!!!

Hello!

What a beautiful tree you have there! =) We also have chestnut trees. Plenty of them! The kind you photographed is called "Indian chestnut tree" and we cannot eat the fruit! It is not good!!!

But we have another kind of chestnut tree which gives us very good fruits! We love eating them boiled, raw or roasted!!! They are delicious!

Hugs to everyone!

Lekholmens förskola Snurran

We have also planted a small chestnut tree in our garden. There are not chestnuts yet. Do you have any chestnuts tree in your country.

Märtha Matilda five years old

Lekholmens förskola Snurran

hi!

how are you?

Outside our nursery school there is a big beautiful chestnut tree with a lot of chesnuts.

now I have drawn a great subscription sparkle tindra

Greartings from Lekholmen, snurran

hej! how are you? we are fine we have planted seeds. what are you doing in your preschool? tindra

Hope you all have had a wonderful summer!

Now it's time for us to start work!!!

Hugs to you all!

Lena

Memories!

“The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.”

Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894)

I shall never forget…

I have been offered a bunch of new “SUNS” to keep in my heart!

To all my Comenius Friends: thank you for so much so many times!!!
A special, very special, hug goes to the Portuguese team!

Lithuania

One more great week!

Unforgettable...

Miss you Comenius Friends!

Big hug to all teams!

EUROPE DAY - 9th of May

This year, the Europe Day had a very special meaning. You are now our Friends, very special Friends !

Kisses from Manteigas

THERE WOULD BE NO LIFE WITHOUT WATER-Slovenia

Our main goal of the Water week was to teach children how important the water is for all the Earth's inhabitants. Children of all ages made different experiments (floating, tasting, mixing...).We have learned some facts from the books, made posters which we hung outside our rooms so that even parents could learn something about water. We realized that flowers without water don't survive.

That is also true for humans. There is a lot of water in our bodies and it is important that we drink a lot. We filled the plastic bottles with water (60-70% water in each bottle) and made a new friend, this way children saw how much water our bodies contain.

All water is not good for us, with the help of experiments we have seen that we cannot remove all dirt from the water even with the expensive cleaning machines, that is why we need to be careful with how much water we use in our kindergarten and at home also. If the water disapears we will disapear too.

SAVE TODAY,TO HAVE TOMORROW - MANTEIGAS( PORTUGAL)

Manteigas the capital of water

“Success” is the right word to describe the “Water week” at Manteigas kindergarten.
It was a time for discovering and learning, a time for thinking and habit changing (very bad habits, in fact).
Under the slogan “save today so that we can still have it tomorrow”, children and adults have committed themselves to make an effort and change their attitude towards the use they make of water.
Of all the experiments done, the most remarkable and the one which has made all of us rethink our consumer habits was the experience entitled “Let’s check how much water do I use in my bath!”
To perform the experiment we have selected adults and children who either have a shower or an immersion bath. They were supposed to collect the water they used in a plastic demijohn (flagon). In the end, we compared the results and verified that Ricardo, a four year old child, was the one who had used more water. He had used 6 flagons of water (= 35 litres = 125 glasses) to take a bath.
“A day without water in our school” was also an important experiment to find strategies to save water. The water children and teachers used to wash their hands was collected and reused to flush down the toilet. On the kindergarten playground there is a big tin to collect rain water which is used to water the plants and wash the floor. Small gestures can really make a difference!!!
Along with these experiments, children have made some leaflets on basic rules to save water. The leaflets will be addressed to all Manteigas inhabitants who will get them when they get the monthly water bill.
In Portugal, Manteigas is known as the water capital, but resources are not eternal, so we have to speak out loud: “save today so that we can still have it tomorrow!”

Thanks to all the mamas and dads who collaborated in these experiments.

Sucesso é a palavra certa para descrever a “ Semana da água” no pré-escolar de Manteigas. Foi um tempo de descoberta, aprendizagem, reflexão e mudança de hábitos, aliás maus hábitos. Sob o lema “ poupar hoje para não faltar amanhã”, miúdos e graúdos assinaram o compromisso de fazerem um esforço para mudar a sua atitude face á utilização / consumo da água. De todas as experiências que se fizeram, a mais marcante e que fez repensar os nossos hábitos enquanto consumidores, foi a experiência “ Vamos lá ver quanta água eu gasto no meu banho!” Foram seleccionados adultos e crianças que tomam banho de duche ou de emersão. Quem gastou mais água? Cada um recolheu a água do seu banho para garrafões de 5 litros. No final comparámos e registámos que por exemplo: O Ricardo de 4 anos foi quem gastou mais água : 6 garrafões = 35 litros de água o que equivale a 125 copos de água. Manteigas é, em Portugal, a capital da água mas os recurso não são eternos por isso vamos espalhar aos 4 ventos : Poupar hoje para que não nos falte amanhã! Um agradecimento especial para todos os papás e mamãs que colaboraram nas nossas experiência.

Water in Kristianstad

We made experiments with and without water. Our children have discussed whether water is an important part of life and why it is. We have planted seeds and watched them grow and not grow. Why is there a difference?

Greetings from all at Lekholmen

WELCOME TO THE WATER WEEK

MANTEIGAS - PORTUGAL

Slovenia

Slovenia!



What a great week we had!!!

Big hug to all Comenius Friends!



Miss you already!

Hoje é o dia do Pai. Para todos os papás um grande xi coração e uma montanha de beijocas.

Today, in Portugal is the Fathers' Day. For all "comenius fathers" a big Kiss from our heart.

Thank You !
You are wonderful ladies!
I'm glad that we will meet soon!
Kisses and hugs to you all
Lena

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LENA - 16 MARCH

Portugal, Slovenia, Lithuania, Romania and Sweden saids:

Feliz aniversário

Vse najboljše, Su gimimo diena , La mulţi ani

Grattis på födelsedagen

CARNAVAL 2009 - PORTUGAL MANTEIGAS

OUR FRIENDS...

SO FAR... SO CLOSE...

FROM PORTUGAL WITH FRIENDSHIP

WONDERFUL PLANET

NATURE IS...

Friend

Here are some more coments from the children in Sweden.

En ledsen Wilma för mamma är arg, sen blir vi vänner och jag blir glad.
Wilma 3 year: It is a sad Wilma because mother is angry. Then we becomes friends and I am happy again.

Det är en glad gubbe. Det är roligt att vara vän.
Ville 5 year: It is a happy man. It is fun to be a friend.

Det är mina vänner. Man ska inte vara arg på varandra.
Oliver 6 yer :It is my friends. You should not be angry at each other.

Spiderman, han jagar den som har dödat hans vän Harry.
Liam 5 year: It is Spiderman. He is chasing the one who has killed his friend.

Vi håller varandra i händerna för vi är vänner.
Tilde 5 year: We are holding each others hands, because we are friends.

Vi blir osams om vem som ska äta upp den sista bullen. Då sa mamma att hon skulle äta upp sista bullen. Då blev det bra igen och vi blev vänner igen.
Alice 5 year. We got enemies about who will get the last cake. Then mother says that she will eat the last cake. Then we will get friends again.

Friend

Here is our thoughts and pictures that showes the word friend. The swedish word is VÄN.

The children has been intervjued and they have talked about how to be a friend, what a friend is and what friends can do together. One group has made a short story and another group has made a theater about friends. All the groups have read books about friendships.

Here are some coments from the children:

Eva 6 years: to help

Miranda: to play

Gilbert 6 years: That is someone that you play with

Malcom 4 years: To be a nice person

Oliver 4,5 years: Jimmy and Pontus are friend´s

Anton 4 years: To be nice and happy towards your friend´s

Smilla 5 years: Another word for friend maybe "pal"

Anton 5,5 years:To play with your friend

Matilda 5 years: play

Isac: 4 years: You can play with a friend

Alice 4 years: To play together

Linnea 6 years: To have fun together

Märtha, 4 years 8 months:

We all build a shed together. They sleep, live, and eat in the shed. I am sitting on a stone. This is friendship. The dolls are there. Stina is an adult. If we didn’t have an adult along, we had not made it.

Märtha, 4 years 8 months:
They are dancing and singing, and looking for shells and stuff. They are making a theatre play together.

Emma, 4 years:
They are having coffee together. Then they are having fun. And there are shells.

Inez, 5 years 1 month:
Märtha, Inez , and Stina are friends. We are sleeping in a tent. We are having fun together. They are making Hot dogs. It is summer. They will live in the tent for 5 years.

Marielle 5 years 2 month:

This is Märta and this is me and here is Stina. We are a forrets and we are camping in the forrest. The rainbow is up in the sky and tha sun is shining through the trees.

What is nature?

In the past we asked our children in the kindergarten a relatively simple question: What is nature (to you)? We hadn't disscused anything about the nature before that question was answered. Their answers were very interesting, here are just the most common ones and the most interesting ones:

Children age 3-4:

• Animals.
• Forest, leaves...
• Cows.
• Sea.
• I don't know.
• Pond.

Children age 4-5:

• Sunshine, I like sunshine.
• Flowers that smell good.
• A kite in the sky.
• White clouds.
• When everything is nice and clean, when people take their trash out.
• I like the sky.

Children 5-6:

• Nature are animals, spiders, trees, ants, flowers.
• I don't like when the nature is filthy.
• Nature is everything that we can produce on the farm.
• We can feel the nature.
• Nature is air.
• Nature is everything around us.
• Nature is science.
• Our heart is also nature.
• Nature is when we are alive.
• Mountains and land.

Nature in pictures - Kindergarten no.5, Onesti, Romania

FROSTY THE SNOWMAN

Hellooooo! Do you like our snowman?:-) It's snowing here and we are very happy! A big hug form little Turtles!

1. What is Nature?

1. Here are many animals.
Nature – is mountain. (Kamilė)
Ladybird on the flour. Roe in the forest.

2. Animals. Camels in the sand. Horse drinking river water. (Rimvydas)
High tree-covered mountains.
Big and small stones.

3. Birds, flours, trees, animals.
Wild ducks, garden in blossom.
Sunrise and sunset (Vanesa)

4. Yellow sun. Field in flours.
Rough sea. Red poppy. Merry moon.

5. People. Bee picking honey (Gabrielius).

6. Trees with large leafs. Thick boletus mushroom. (Domantas)

7. Volcano spouts lava. Lightning, rocky stone.

1. Why does the sun shine?

* If there was no sun the world would die it would be very cold. (Dominykas)
* It shines that children would be warm. (Roberta)
* For children to run outside and bask the sun.
* There are many trees, water people rest in camping. (Matas).
* Nature – warm and fresh (Žymantas)

2. What happens in spring?
* Flowers bloom, trees cover in leafs, the days lenghten (Domantas)
* Rain falls and bloom white flours (Vanesa)
* Fresh air, sun shines, blue sky, animals leave their lairs (Eva)
* Snowmen melt, bears wake-up, bugs open their eyes.
* Animals walk in the forest, trees have many green leafs. (Edvinas).

3. What happens in autumn?
* Leafs fall (Domantas)
* It's cold (Auksė)
* Flours fade, the sun and the rain are cold (Eva)
* Bears, bees, flies and hedgehogs fall a sleep (Denas)
* Birds fly out to warm countries (Vanesa)
* Golden leafs fall (Edvinas)
* Chestnuts and acorns fall (Edvinas)

4. What does the rain do?
* Waters the flours, people have water (Auksė)
* Huge of water and puddles to dabble in them (Karolis)
* Vegetables and fruit will grow (Denas)
* Washes dust from the leafs (Edvinas)
* The barrel will be filled with water and we will water our flours (Kornelija)


5. Who live in the lake?
* Seahorses, whales and fish (Eva)
* Sharks, shells, crabs have home there (Denas)
* Different grass, big carp, pike with sharp teeth (Edvinas)
* Big fish, beetles, different plants (Kornelija).