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Newsletter number 2December 2009
Welcome to this our second newsletter. Since the first one there have been two meetings, one in Iceland and one in Hungary. Everyone enjoyed the opportunity to get together and to discuss a variety of topics. Everyone is now looking forward to the next meeting in France in February 2010 and then to Wales .
Contents;
Hungary……………………………………………..……….pages 3 - 8
Iceland……………………………………………..……….pages 9 - 14
Italy………………………………………………..……….pages 15 - 19
Spain……………………………………………………….pages 20 - 25
France…………………………………………………….pages 26 - 31
Wales…………………………………………………….…pages 32 - 37
There are 2 teams. Both teams choose a captain. They stand behind the basic lines opposite the enemy group. The players and the captain try to help each other. After deciding which group starts, the first player throws the ball at one of the players of the other group. The player, who is thrown out, must go behind the basic line next to his/her captain. Both the captain and the players can aim at the enemies. If the ball doesn’t hit a player- another player can continue the game. If the ball is out, it means it is the captain’s turn.
Rules: -if the ball hits the player, he/she must go behind the basic line
-if you catch the ball, you are not out-if the ball bounces on the ground, you are not out- the players must not step over the lines
Egyik kedvenc testnevelés órai játékunk a “Seregfogyasztó”, avagy “Tűzharc”.
Szeretnénk ezt a játékot partnereinkkel is megismertetni, ezért küldi a 3. A osztály a szabályt és néhány fotót.
One of our favourite games in P.E lessons is: SHOOT-OUT
There are 12-30 players.Need: a ball (plastic, rubber)
Place: like in the drawing
According to our sport survey, cycling is the most popular sport
among the students in Botev school.
OUTSIDE ACTIVITIES:Sport in Botev School
In old times dancing was the primary source of recreation for village people. Line-, circle-, jumping dances,solo men, women and children's dances can be all found among our folkdances.Folk dances can teach us how to use our body in harmony with the music. We often use utensils (sticks, bottles or cushions).We can learn how to handle the tools and take care of each other. You can see a girls's circle dance in the photos and you can learn it if you visit our blog:www.sidebysidehun.blogspot.com
Folk costumes in Hungary
Yard games/Udvari játékok
Instructions:Children stand in a circle with hands at their
backs. One child walks outside the circle with a handkerchief in her hand trying to flap the
others' hands or shoulders. At the end of the song she/he drops the hanky behind a fellow and
starts to run. The person picks the hanky and tries to catch the runner, who dropped the
hanky before, if he can't, the runner will take his/her place and he/she will be the next person
to walk around.
"I am taking fire, can't you see" / Tüzet viszek
Hajdan évenként egyszer, nagyszombaton szítottak új tüzet. A szentelt tűz maradványának különféle praktikákban nagy szerepet tulajdonítottak, például kivitték a szántóföldre, szőlőbe, hogy a termést ne érje jégverés, hogy a föld termékeny legyen. E hagyományt őrzi ez a játékdal is.
In old days people only made fire at Easter. The ashes of the saint fire had great importance in different practices, they took them to the field or vineyard for example to have protection against hailstorms or to ensure the soil's fertility. This song with the following game is in tribute to making fires in those days...
Video: www.egryovi.blogspot.com
Ingredients (for 4 persons):600 g beef sheen or shoulder in cubes2 tablespoons oil2 medium chopped onions, 2 cloves of garlic1-2 diced carrots, 1 diced parsnip1-2 celery leaves2 medium tomatoes, peeled and chopped, 2 fresh green peppers2-3 potatoes, sliced1 tablespoon Hungarian paprika powder1 teaspoon caraway seed1 bayleafblack pepper and salt water
Instruction:Heat up the oil in a pot and braise the chopped onions in it until they get a golden brown colour.Sprinkle the onions with paprika powderAdd the beef cubes and and fry them for a while with little water.Add the chopped garlic, the caraway seed, some salt and ground black pepper, the bayleaf, pour water and let it simmer.When the meat is half-cooked, add the diced carrots,parsnip and the potatoes, the celery leaf and some more salt if necessary. When the vegetables and the meat are almost done, add the tomato cubes and the sliced green peppers. Let it cook for another few minutes. Bring the soup to the boil and add „ csipetke” dough, it needs about 5 minutes to get cooked. How to make the csipetke: beat up a small egg, add a pinch of salt and as much flour as you need to knead a stiff dough (you can add some water if necessary).Flatten the dough between your palms (1 cm thick) and pinch small,bean-sized pieces from it and add them to the boiling soup.
Hungarian paprika facts:-Paprika powder is produced by grinding the dried deep red paprika pods of the pepper plant (Capsicum annum L. is the botanical name) -It can be sweet, mildly hot and very hot,-The fresh red pepper is rich in vitamin C (150mg/100g paprika) and other important minerals.
Hungarian Goulash
Traditional Hungarian Recipes
Hungarian CuisineVaried, creative
dishes,rich flavourToo many fat
Not for people on dietToo much calory
Ingredients:1 kg flour20 g yeast15 g salt
250 g potatoes, boiled and riced100 ml warm water
Instruction:Dissolve the yeast in the warm water and mix in three tablespoons of the flour, leave it for a bit. Put the flour in a deep bowl. Add the potatoes and the yeast mixture and some warm salted water. Knead until the dough easily comes off the sides of the bowl.Cover and leave it in a warm place for at least one hour.Before putting it in the oven, slash the top with a sharp knife. Bake in a good hot oven for 50 minutes.
Typical Hungarian Bread
Stuffed paprika
500g minced meat1 small onion1 spoon fat100 g rice200 g tomato purée100 g flour10 pcs big green pepper2 pcs eggs1 clove of garliccelery leaf50 g celery
1 L bone soupsalt, paprika powder, pepper, sugar, majoram
Ingredients: Instruction:
Wash and clean the greenpepper. Put the minced meat in a bowl, add the half steamed rice and the whole eggs. Spice it with majoram, paprika powder, and with garlic. Mixed it and stuff the mixture into the greenpeppers.Make a roux on fat from flour, add the tomato purée and the bone soup to it. Mix it smooth and boil it. Salt it, add some sugar, the celery leaf, the clean celery and the onion. During the boiling put the stuffed paprikas into it. Cover it and cook it for aboout one hour. Serve it with cooked potato.
Ingredients:
1 qt. milk to boil6 eggs, separated
6 tbsp. sugar1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 c. cold milkBeat egg whites until stiff. Boil milk and add half of sugar. Drop tablespoonsful of egg whites into boiling milk. Turn on other side after a few seconds. Take
out boiled whites and place in a flat dish. Continue this until all whites are used. Put egg yolks and rest of sugar
in a bowl and beat well. Add cold milk. Add yolk mixture to boiling milk and cook for one minute. Add vanilla. Cool.
Pour this custard on top of egg fluffs. Serve cold.
The Hungarian Floating Islands or Madártej (as we call it in Hungarian, that means Bird's Milk) originally is Bourbon-vanilla custard in a chilled glass cup with whipped egg-whites dumplings floating on top.
Floating IslandMadártej
Another sweet thing fromHungary
Túró Rudi is the name of a chocolate bar popular in Hungary
since the 1960s. The chocolate bar is composed of a thin outer
coating of chocolate and an inner filling of túró/sweet cottage
cheese. "Rudi" comes from the Hungarian "rúd", rod. Rudi is also
a nickname for the male first name Rudolf in Hungary). All
children love Túró Rudi in Hungary.
If you are in Hugary, don’t forget to taste it.
Enjoy your meal!
Real News from Iceland
Gimli activitiesCat and Mouse
The children form a circle and pick one to be the mouse
and one to be the cat. The point of the game is that the cat
chases the mouse and the participants help the mouse by
blocking the cats entranceway into the circle by ducking
down and thereby closing the route into the circle We often take a walk in
our neighborhoodWe love our parachute
Sometimes we visit the town sport hall where
we always have a great time jumping and
running all over the place
Köttur og mús
(cat and mouse)
GIMLIWe bake our own birthday cake at school
Birthday Cake (without eggs and milk)
6 dl wheat 2 dl cocoa 3 dl sugar 1 tsp baking soda 1 tsp salt 1 tsp baking powder
1-2 tsp vanilla drops 1 dl cooking oil 6 dl water
Dry ingredients mixed into a bowl Liquid’s added and mixed
Baked at 180° C for 20 minutes in an oven
Afmæli = Birthaday Vinir = Friends Blaðra = Balloon Gjafir = Presents
Njarðvíkurskóli Our outdoor facilities
Indoor facilities
We had very nice presents from a former student of Njarðvíkurskóli
a billiard table and a soccer game
My favoriteChildren in 8th. and 3rd. class tell us “what is their most favorite food”
What do you usually have for breakfast?Honey nut cheerios (2)
Weetos, Boost,
Cheerios (3)Coca cola.
Cocoa puffs (2)toast
nothing (4)
What is your favorite drink?Dr. Pepper (3) Energy drink,
Cult energy drink (3)Monster Cool aid
Coca cola (3)Root bear
BurnPepsi
What is your favorite food?Fish in roman style
Smoked porkPizza (4)
Chicken saladLobster (2)
Icelandic lamb soup (2)Pasta (2)
HamburgerFish
8th. graders
13 years old
What do you usually have for breakfast?
Oat cereal Toast (2)
Cheerios (3)Lucky charms
CornflakesOatmealYogurt
What is your favorite drink?Cool aidWater(3)
Boost with fruits (2)Sprite (2)
Coca Cola (2)Milk
What is your favorite food?Hamburger (2)
Meat ballsRice pudding
Pizza (2)Fried fish (roman style)
PitaBoiled fish
2. and 3rd.graders
7- 8 years old
8th. graders
2. and 3rd. graders
During the school year children in Njarðvíkurskóli
participate in all kinds of sport activities
The Nordic school run or Norræna skólahlaupið The school athletic day or Íþróttadagur Njarðvíkurskóla Basketball
tournament or Körfuboltamót Football tournament or Fótboltamót Handball tournament or Handboltamót and
Skólahreysti or The Fitness competition for secondary students
Norræna skólahlaupið
Íþróttadagur
Njarðvíkurskóla
Musicin Njarðvíkurskóli
All young students in Njarðvíkurskóli take music classes
Here they are in a concert
Many older students also take music classes in Njarðvíkurskóli
We also get visits from professional musicians that play for us
That is sometimes really amazing
Real News from Italy
Hello everybody! We are children from nursery school. Together with our teachers and grandmothers we are making BREAD!!!
It is a great fun to mix flour, eggs, salt, yeast, water and then knead all together with our hands. Then with the mixture we make “panini”.
Bread: essential part of an Italian menu
Ecco i bambini della scuola materna alle prese con la preparazione del Pane.
Raccolti gli ingredienti,
i bambini hanno impastato la farina, poi con l’aiuto delle nonne, hanno fatto
delle belle e buone “rosette!!!!
Che divertimento!!!! Sporcarsi le mani
con la farina!!!
And finally…..here they are our fantastic and delicious rolls
( rosette)!!!!!!
Butter: essential ingredient in our Italian cuisine
This is a traditional afternoon break: bread, butter and sugar. Even our parents ate it!!!
Pane burro e zucchero ..la ricetta dei nonni che piace tanto ai bambini!!
Everyone wants to taste our butter. Does it taste good?
What a magic experiment!! Cream has become butter!!
From milk to cheese.Our grandmothers are teaching us how to make cheese. We are checking if milk is becoming thick.
Now we are putting some soft cheese into small tins. Then we have to wait for some days.
Finally our caciotta is ready. It tastes good!!!!
Che emozione!!! Siamo riusciti a fare il formaggio…
e che buono!!!
Are you ready with your muscles? Let’s beat with energy the bottle with the cream inside. What will it happen?
Pasta e fasioi (pasta and beans)
Pasta e fagioli is a
traditional meatless
Italian dish that is now
a frequent menu item
throughout the world.
The dish started as a
peasant dish, due to
cheaply available beans
and pasta. Today it can
be widely found, even in
restaurants.
It is made with borlotti
beans and some type of
small pasta such as
elbow macaroni. The
base is generally olive
oil, garlic, minced onion,
and spices.
Venetians use to eat it
during the Redentore
Night in July!!
It consists of a starter, main course: 2 dishes and a dessert.
DELICIOUS!!!!!!!
But what children and teenagers like most is pizza and especially pizza with chips and packed lunch!!!!
Pizza is a world-popular dish of Italian origin, it is made with an oven-baked, flat, generally round bread that is covered with tomatoes and mozzarella cheese. Other toppings are added according to region, culture, or personal preference.
If you want to know more about some Typical Venetian dishes, don’t forget to visit our blog!!!
A TYPICAL ITALIAN MENU
Guess what!!!! These are the Frenchdishes we ate during our school trip to Ouistreham.
YARD GAMES CAMPANON
TIRO ALLA FUNEWho is the strongest ????
GIROTONDO
We usually play many yard games during our break from school. These are only some examples.That is a track for bottle caps.
Quello che vedete è il gioco dei tappi. Vince chi riesce a lanciare il tappo più lontano.
We have great fun playing “campanon”, we like drawing squares, circles and numbers. You have to throw a stone and then….Jump on one foot…..Dopo aver disegnato il campanon con i gessetti colorati, ci siamo divertiti a giocare.
LE CONTEWe usually make a circle and
recite a rhyme when we want to select a person to
be “it”. These are some examples:
Here we are with our parents in a big circle while singing:Giro girotondocasca il mondocasca la terratutti giù per terra!!!!!!!!
Ambarabà ciccì coccòtre civette sul comòche facevano l'amore
con la figlia del dottore
il dottore si ammalòambarabà ciccì coccò.
Do re mi, Empoli Empoli, Cingoli CingoliLuglio agosto e poi poi poiBuone buone festebuone buone festenoi faremo flic floc flac.
A wonderful school trip to Ouistreham
These are some postcards from our trip to France. It was a wonderful experience to meet new friends and visit their school and some interesting places: St. Pierre and the Castle in Caen, Mont Saint Michel and Bayeux.
Here we are outside “Les Marines”, the youth hostel where we stayed for five days. Che divertimento lanciare in aria i nostri berretti rossi!!!!!! We are in the
lagoon to fish crabs, shrimps and other shell fish !!!Eccoci qui tutti impantanati nel fango…con le scarpe da ginnastica!!!!!!!! E i nostri amici francesi con gli stivali!!!!
What a rainy day!!! We are going to visit St. Pierre’s church in Caen.In questa giornata di pioggia, stiamo andando a visitare una chiesa, con delle bellissime vetrate colorate.
The teacher from our Nursery School “Girasole” is giving some little gifts to the French children.
This is “le Mont Saint Michel”: what a wonderful place! E’ stato bellissimo visitare questo posto suggestivo. E’ un’abbazia che assomiglia molto a un castello. Che camminata!! Ma ne è valsa veramente la pena per vedere un paesaggio mozzafiato!Ed eccoci qui pronti a ritornare a casa e a scuola!!!! Now we are ready to start our Junior Secondary School!!!!
EL TEJE (HOPSKOTCH)You throw a rock into box nr 1. Don´t let the rock touch the borders of the box.Jump into box nr. 2 on one foot. In that same position, jump through the boxes until you reach the end. You may then land on 2 feet once you reach the last box. Repeat this process on the way back and pick up the rock once you return to box one. The rock must now be thrown into box nr. 2 and the player must jump all the way through to the last box and then, all the way back to box nr 1. Repeat this process until 9 rounds have been completed. Whoever can complete all 9 rounds without error (touching a border or landing on 2 feet) wins !. If you commit an error, you are out and it´s the next players turn.
En este juego, se
hace un dibujo
con una tiza en la
acera, calle,
cancha... Se
utiliza un objeto
para lanzar a
modo de laja.
Real News from Spain
LA COMBA (JUMP ROPE)
Se juega con una cuerda. Dos jugadores
la agarran, uno por cada extremo, para
dar vueltas a la cuerda. Los demás se
colocan en fila para ir pasando a saltar
sin perder turno, una vez que empieza a
saltar el primero
You play with a rope. Someone grabs the rope at each end. The rope is then swung in circles as someone in the middle repeatedly jumps over it. You can have many people in a line jumping over the rope. Anyone who does not jump over the rope or trips on it, has to switch places with the person swinging the rope.
There are many songs that accompany this game with various rithms. Songs are sung together while the game goes on.
EL JUEGO DE LA SILLA(MUSICAL CHAIRS)
Se cuenta el número de
participantes y se ponen en el
centro de un gran círculo otras
tantas sillas, menos una, de
forma que en un momento dado
todos, menos uno, se puedan
sentar. Se pone música y todos
bailan
• To play this game you need chairs and music that can be played and stopped as you wish. You need as many chairs as you have people, minus one.
•Put the seats in a circle with the backs of the seats facing each other. The players need to be standing in front of the chairs. Meanwhile, one person control the music.
•When the music starts, players need to walk in circles around the chairs. When the music stops, each player must inmediately find a chair to seat in.One person will be left without a chair and this person is out. After each round, remove a chair.
•This repeat each time.The music stops and starts. The game goes on until 2 people compete for one chair. The last one remaining with a chair, wins !!
INGREDIENTS
2 cups olive oil.Four large potatoes (peel and cut into small pieces about 2mm thick).Salt to taste.One large onion thinly sliced.Four large eggs.
Heat the oil in medium flame, add potato pieces, and onion. COOK slowly, . DO NOT FRY!! Turn occasionally until potatoes are tender, but NOT brown
Beat eggs in a large bowlwith a fork. Salt to taste.Add potatoes to beaten eggs,pressing them so that eggscover them completely. Letsit for 15 minutes. Heat 2tbsps of the oil in largeskillet. Add potato-eggmixture, spreading quickly.Lower the heat to medium-high. Shake pan to preventsticking (crucial step!!) Whentortilla start to brown, put aplate on top skillet and flip tocook other side, addinganother tbsp of oil.
After cooking, the tortilla can be cut into pizza-like triangles to serve 4-6 people, or cut into squares to give a whole group a bite-sized toothpick sample.
SPANISH TORTILLA(from Claudio´s kitchen)
It´s super for parties or picnics, you can cook it the
previous day and eat it hot or cold
Este plato se come en todas las familias españolas. Combina bien
con el tomate, el pimiento…. Se puede tomar tal cual o en salsa y ,
sobre todo está más rica aún cuando se comparte con los amigos.
GAZPACHO ( from Ines´and Javier´s kitchen)
NATURAL, CHEAP, EASY TO MAKE AND VERY HEALTHY.
There might be as many recipes of gazpacho as families are in Spain.
Fruto de la sabiduría popular, este plato combina , como ningún otro, los sabores uniendo placer y salud. Importante utilizar materia prima de calidad
( básico aceite de oliva virgen extra).
Ripe tomatoes, at least1 kg. And water, as much as you like.
a clove of garlic
All is mixed until everything is
blended "homogeneously". Take a
spoonful and taste it. At this point
you can decide what is missing,
what is in excess, etc. You can
experiment with the recipe: some
people like the gazpacho very thick,
so they add a lot of bread, while
some others like it very liquidly, and
they add more water instead, or
less bread, whatever.
Salt and vinegar to taste
Cut some bread, half
of this, ( can be a
hard one) and soak it
in water.
You do not need to
peel the cucumber (1)
or the tomatoes or
remove the seeds from
Anything- add 1 pepper
too-
A glass of olive oil.
It is served like cold
soup and can
accompany on garrison
to own proper taste as
like for example:
Orange, ham , hard-
boiled egg ,bread -
peppers , onion …
1. Pour milk together with the lemon zest, salt and the cinnamon stick, into a large pot and add the rice when the milk starts boiling, once it boils again we’ll reduce heat to very low. We have to stir it with a wooden spoon, all the time, for about , at least, one hour.
2. Add the sugar and the butter and stir it ten minutes more.
3. Remove the cinnamon stick and lemon peel . Serve hot or cold, sprinkling the top with some ground cinnamon.
INGREDIENTS:
•Rice (150grs) (Short
Grain Rice)
•Milk (3 litres)
•Sugar (300grs)
•A pinch of Salt
•1 Lemon (or orange)
zest
•1 stick Cinnamon
/Ground cinnamon.
•Butter (125 grs)
ARROZ CON LECHE( from Marta´s kitchen)Tan básico como leche, arroz y azúcar. Mientras lo preparas se llena la casa de un olor a dulce hogar. Quizá sea el mejor alimento, después de la leche materna, claro.
Nursery school / Ecole Madame René COTY / 2 to 5 years old
The pupils from the Nursery school present two delicious dessert recipes : the « clafoutis » and the « marbled cake ».
Les élèves de l’Ecole Maternelle vous présentent deux savoureuses recettes de dessert faciles à réaliser : le clafoutis et le gâteau marbré.
Cook at 210°C for 30 minutes
You just have to mix the ingredients in a salad bowl, in the order of the list.
Then put in the oven at 180°C for 35 minutes.
Marbled cake
Dans un saladier, mélangez les ingrédients dans l’ordre et dans les quantités indiquées.
Puis placez au four à 180°C pendant 35 min.
Nursery school / Ecole Madame René COTY / 2 to 5 years old
BAKING POWDER
Primary school / Ecole Elémentaire Jean CHARCOT / 8 to 11 years old
LES CREVETTES AU CIDRE / CIDER SHRIMPS
Pour 4 personnes
500 gr de crevettes grises vivantes
50 cl de cidre brut
Gros sel de mer
1 feuille de laurier
1 brin de thym
Poivre noir
• Versez le cidre dans une grande sauteuse. Ajoutez 50 cl d’eau,1 poignée de gros sel, 1 cuillère à soupe de poivre, le laurier et le thym. Portez à ébullition.
• Jetez les crevettes dans le liquide bouillant et laissez cuire à découvert sur feu vif de 3 à 4 minutes en finissant à pleine ébullition.
• Egouttez les crevettes et servez-les chaudes, avec du pain de campagne et du beurre bien frais.
For 4
500 gr of shrimps
50 cl of cider
Sea salt
1 laurel leaf
Some thyme
Pepper
• Pour cider into a big shallow pan. Add 50 cl of water, some sea salt, 1 spoonful of pepper, laurel and thyme. Bring to the boil.
• Drop shrimps into the boiling liquid and let it cook, without covering , for 3 or 4 minutes.
• Then, drain off the liquid, and serve the shrimps while hot, with crusty bread and fresh butter.
CROQUE-MONSIEUR NORMAND / NORMAN « CROQUE-MONSIEUR »
Pour 6 personnes
. 1,5 kg de pommes
. 4 cuillères à soupe de calvados
. 120 gr de beurre
. 1 camembert
. 1 pain de mie
For 6
. 1.5KG of apples. 4 spoons of “calvados”
(strong norman apple alcohol). 120 gr of butter
. 1 “camembert”(famous norman cheese)
. 1 sliced loaf• Préchauffez le gril du four.
• Lavez les pommes, coupez-les en quatre, retirez cœur et pépins et émincez-les en fines lamelles.
• Versez le calvados dans un petit plat à four et mettez-y les pommes à macérer quelques minutes.
• Beurrez les tranches de pain de mie puis tartinez-en six de lamelles de camembert.
• Ajoutez une belle couche de lamelles de pommes se chevauchant et recouvrez les croques avec les 6 autres tartines beurrées.
• Passez-les sous le gril quelques minutes de chaque côté.
• Heat the grill of the oven.
• Wash apples, cut them in 4, take out pips and cut into fine slices.
• Pour Calvados in a small ovenproof dish and macerate apples for a few minutes.
• Butter 6 slices of the bread, add slices of camembert and a thick layer of apples to the dry side of bread.
• Cover with another buttered slice of bread, buttered side facing outwards.
•Toast each side for a few minutes under the grill.
Primary school / Ecole Elémentaire Jean CHARCOT / 8 to 11 years old
Primary school / Ecole Elémentaire Jean CHARCOT / 8 to 11 years old
The aim of the hopscotch game is to throw a flat stone on different squares of the game and to hop on each square to the end. However he must not hop on the square with the stone. On the return journey the player picks up the stone in order to give it to the next player. (The only squares on which the player is allowed to put both feet are the twin squares : 4 / 5 and 7 / 8, one foot in each square). When one of the players has thrown the stone on the right square (in increasing order) he can hop there and back on the game.If he misses :
• when throwing the stone out of the aimed square• or when the stone lands on the line of the aimed square
he has to go to the sky part and wait there until a player manages to reach him on his following turn. Then he can be “freed” (by following the player who has just freed him on his return journey) and take part in the game again.A player loses his turn when picking up the stone on one foot he loses balance and puts two feet on the game.
The squares go up to 8 plus a special half circle pattern (called the “sky”) on top of the game. Therefore there are 8 stages to the game. Then the game is over for the winner and the other players carry on.
The hopscotch gameLa marelle
This game is very popular in French school yards and it is played by both girls and boys.
A pattern is drawn on the ground with a piece of chalk (though nowadays many school yards have a hopscotch pattern already painted in the yard).
You also can see a video on our site : http://sidebysidefrance.blogspot.com/
The knuckle bones game / Les osseletsIt used to be a popular game in school yards. Then it almost disappeared. We’re trying to make it come back into fashion.There are 7 stages and it’s best played by no more than four players :
The one / The two / The three / The four / The Eiffel tower / The pancake / The final stage : the skull and cross bones
Explanation of the first four stages :Stage one : One of the knuckle bones is red and is called the “father”. The other knuckle bones are grey. The game is played with only one hand (right for the right handed and left for the left handed). The player throws the five knuckle bones on the ground, picks up the father, throws it in the air and while the father is in the air, he must pick up, with the same hand, one of the knuckle bones that’s on the ground and catch the father before it touches the ground. The player puts aside the knuckle bone he’s caught and does the same with the remaining knuckle bones, one after the other.
Primary school / Ecole Elémentaire Jean CHARCOT / 8 to 11 years old
The player continues playing until he makes a mistake (for example if he picks up two knuckle bones instead of one or if he fails to pick the grey knuckle up whilst the red one is in the air) he must hand the knuckle bones to the player next to him. When he is able to play again, he starts his game where
he left off.Stage two : It’s the same procedure as stage one . Except that he has to pick up the knuckle bones two by two. Stage three : This time the player has to pick up three knuckle bones and then the last remaining knuckle bone on the final throw.Stage four : The player has to pick up the four knuckle bones in one go.
The winner of the game is the one among the four players :• who has managed to succeed in the seven stages• and who has won the most points on the pan-cake stage (the sixth one).
More explanations and video on our site : http://sidebysidefrance.blogspot.com/Final stage : the skull
Colour Mixing in the Rain! / Cymysgu Lliwiau yn y Glaw!
Peintio Tu Allan / Painting Outside
Adeiladu Den / Den BuildingPalu yn y Pridd / Digging in
the Soil!
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The farmer wants a wifeAll the children stand in a large circle holding hands, a child is chosen to play the farmer and stands in the middle of the circle. The children in the outer circle then walk around the farmer singing“The farmer wants a wife, the farmer wants a wife, hey ho, dee hey dee, ho, the farmer wants a wife”, the farmer then chooses a wife from the outer circle to join him in the middle, they then hold hands creating an inner circle. The game continues, finishing once all the verses have been sung.
The song sung during the game:Verse 1The farmer wants a wife ,the farmer wants a wife, hey ho, dee, hey dee, ho, the farmer wants a wife Verse 2The wife wants a child, the wife wants a child, hey ho, dee hey dee ho, the wife wants a child.Verse 3The child wants a nurse, the child wants a nurse, hey ho, dee hey dee, ho, the child wants a nurseVerse 4The nurse wants a dog, the nurse wants a dog, hey ho, dee hey dee, ho, the nurse wants a dog.Verse 5The dog wants a bone, the dog wants a bone, hey ho, dee hey dee, ho, the dog wants a boneFinal verseEveryone eats the bone, everyone eats the bone, hey ho, dee hey dee, ho, everyone eats the bone.
Mae’r ffermwr eisiau gwraig
Mwynhewch!!!Enjoy!!!
Sut i wneud caws ar dost
Cymreig
How to make Welsh
cheese on toast
1) Slice the cucumber and tomato so they look presentable on the plate and add some lettuce leaves.
2) Put a slice of bread in the toaster and grate some Caerphilly cheese while you wait.
3) Spread the Caerphilly cheese evenly over the toast and place under a pre-heated grill until the cheese melts.
4) Place the cheese on toast on the plate before enjoying your starter!
Ingredients:
•2 Parsnips
•8 Potatoes
•6-8 Carrots
•1 Leek
Instructions:
1. Wash, peel and chop the vegetables.
2. Put them into a pan with cold water and 2 stock
cubes.
3. Boil for 1 hour.
“Cawl cennin" or leek cawl, can be made without meat but
using meat stock. In some areas cawl is often served with
bread and cheese, (the bread is usually half a baguette or a
piece of french bread). These are served separately on a plate.
The dish was traditionally cooked in an iron pot or cauldron
over the fire.
•2 Onions
•Water
•Stock cubes
•Shoulder of lamb (optional)
In Welsh dialect, to make a cawl of something is to mess it up!
Dawnsio Gwerin/Folk Dancing
Instructions for a traditional danceJac y Do
This dance is a long ways set for four or five couples. Partners stand facing each
other.
1. Partners all walk towards each other (4 steps) and then back (4 steps).
2. Walk towards partner and change sides passing right shoulders. (8 steps)
3. Repeat 1 and 2 back to original places.
4. Couple one at the head of the set slip stepto the bottom of the set and back.
5. Couple one cast out to the bottom the set make a bridge with their arms; the others follow then dance with partner under the bridge, progressing one place.
The Urdd National Eisteddfod promotes Welsh
dancing and attracts thousands of young people in dancing competitions every
year.
Mae Eisteddfod yr Urdd yn hybu dawnsio gwerin ac yn denu miloedd o bobl ifanc i
gystadlu pob blwyddyn.
Pice Bach – Welsh CakesIngredients225g/8oz self-raising flour, sieved110g/4oz (preferably Welsh) salted butter 1 egghandful of sultanas milk, if needed85g/4oz caster sugarextra butter, for greasing
Method1. Rub the fat into the sieved flour to make breadcrumbs. Add the sugar, dried fruit and then the egg. Mix to combine, then form a ball of dough, using a splash of milk if needed. 2. Roll out the pastry until it is a 5mm/¼in thick and cut into rounds with a 7.5-10cm/3-4in fluted cutter. 3. You now need a bakestone or a heavy iron griddle. Rub it with butter and wipe the excess away. Put it on to a direct heat and wait until it heats up, place the Welsh cakes on the griddle, turning once. They need about 2-3 minutes each side. 4. Remove from the pan and dust with caster sugar while still warm. Some people leave out the dried fruit, and split them when cool and sandwich them together with jam.