Greek Independence Day Celebration...Greek Independence Day Celebration The Greeks celebrate this...
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Comenius Project
2011 / 2012
The students, the teachers and language assistants in the Arco Iris School
celebrated the Greek Liberation Day enjoying it for two week.
The activities were as follows:
1) We have two posters to advertise this day, one to announce what is celebrated
and the other to explain how they celebrate this day in Greece.
Greek Independence Day Celebration
The Greeks celebrate this day with military parades and celebrations
throughout the country.
Marching bands in traditional
Greek military uniforms and Greek
dancers in bright costumes move
through the streets.
Vendors serve roasted
almonds, barbequed meat,
baklava and lemonade to the flag
waving crowds.
The biggest parade is held in Athens.
Additionally, the Greeks go to a special church service in honor of
the religious events that took place on this day.
Around the world, there are parades with a large Greek population.
Independence Day in Greece
On 25th March, Greece have their national day.
They celebrate their independence from the Ottoman
Empire in May 1832. The Ottoman Empire had been in
control of Greece for more than 400 years.
They celebrate on the 25th March because it is a holy
day in Christianity and it was on this day that a priest
waved a Greek flag as a symbol of revolution.
This started the fight for independence. It lasted for
many years. They celebrate the end of this war and the
independence that followed every year on this day.
2) The students of 1st and 2nd, together with their teachers have done craft and
related chips such as Greek flags, a slipper called "Tsaruchi" of his costume very
representative for them and flags.
3) The students of 3 rd and 4 th with their teachers have made craft on the Greek
shoe, called “Tsarouchi” using fabric and glitter.
Furthermore, in collaboration with the language assistants have produced a Book
with a selection of Greek stories, Myths and Legends in English. You can see in the
web page.
● After that, the students of each class of 3rd have chosen one of them and
they have told the story of the three classes of first year. They chose ‘The Legend
of Hercules’.
Comenius Project Greek National Day 2011-2012
Name: ........................Level:…..Date: ..........
‘Hercules’
Everyone knew that
Hercules was half-man and
half-god. His mother was a
mortal, but his father was
Zeus, the king of all the
gods.
Hercules did not know
he was part god until he had
grown into a man.
Hera, Zeus' wife, was
very jealous of Hercules.
She tried to kill him many
times. One time, she sent a
couple of really big snakes
into his crib. He was just a baby, but Hercules survived. Hercules was
incredibly strong, magically strong, even as a baby!
Zeus loved his little son. To protect Hercules, Zeus sent him to live
with a mortal family on earth. Hercules grew up loved and honest. But he
didn't fit in on Earth. He was too big and too strong. One day, his mortal
father told him he was part god.
All of them produced some posters, and a group was characterized with typical
clothing of ancient Greece told the story. Watch the video in web page.
To complete the activity left them a flag of Greece to color and a form with
a game called "Memory Matching Game ." This is the way they did then:
Mythology has been introduced them telling the children the story of different greek
gods like Hercules, Midas, Apollo and Cassandra, Daedalus and Icarus, Narcissus , Aphrodite
and Venus… All of them has been adapted and written by teachers and our Assistant languages,
Sarah and Amber.
The teachers of the third and forth level and Mª Carmen, estudied the most funny way
to explain the stories to the first and second grade pupils.
They decided that the story would be read by three students and the rest of the class
would paint and decorate many posters that help them to understand the legend better.
The third grades have prepared The leyend of Hercules. The posters has been painted
and decorated by the students, and they have worked hard.
Before starting the presentation the third grade teacher explained the little students
the whole story of Hercules in Spanish, which was supported by students who got dressed in
greek costumes, the posters and the flag of Greece, the country where Hercules lived.
It was a very enriching experience. As always, we have had the advice, support
and work of our ICT coordinator, José Luis. to share this experience with everyone
on our School page web.
When the pupils read the story, they repeated it again to understand it better. In
the end we believe the most of them understood the whole story and they enjoyed it.
The last one step was to paint a greek flag.
We also prepared a memory matching game with countless pictures of Hercules and
other characters of the leyend. We taught them the pronunciation, they coloured them
and finally played in partners.
●The students of 4th have chosen another legend called ‘King Midas’.
A group of each class of 4th, staged the story to the three classes of Second Level .
Then, he left as a token gift and bulleted text to sort and worked on it in pairs a
student of 4th with of 2nd.When they completed them, the read each other. It was a
very enriching, especially for the work of cooperative work done. A video can be seen
in the web page of the school
The “king Midas” story has been
worked in the following way during the
lessons:The procedure was:
First of all the teacher has read the
story twice and ask the children what did
they understand.
Then the key words have been
explained through mimics, gestures, pictures
synonymus and onomatopeic sounds.
We avoiding translation.
After that the story has been read
again by the teacher.
Then the children have been
encouraged to read the first paragraph. Once
they have finished the teacher use body
language and read this paragraph again.
Then they are given some time to re-
read it again and memorize, after some
minutes, the children felt be able to tell the
first paragraph.
The same procedure is made with all
the paragraphs of the story.
During this work, children are asked
if they already knew the story and if they
like it.
And alsom what do they thing about
King Midas, what do they think about
money and the importance of other things
like family, friends, and other simple
activities we do daily and we don’t pay
attention, like breathing, smelling flowers,
and so on.
Once that we’ve been working
through the text children are asked how
would they represent this story, what kind
of clothes would they need, what
accessories (coins, food, flowers) they woul
use, etc.
They have also find out in the
Internet, about the location of Greece, the
clothes used in Ancient Greece.
Finally they have played the story
several times, before telling their younger
partners.
Comenius Project
Greek National Day 2011-2012
Name.......................................................
Level: ...... Date: ......................................
‘King Midas’
King Midas is a greedy
king in Ancient Greece.
Money is more important to
him than his own family.
One day a God grants
him a wish. He wishes that
everything he touches turns
to gold. His wish comes true.
Now he is very very
rich but he isn't happy
anymore. He can't smell the flowers because they are gold. He
can't eat or drink because it turns to gold when he touches it.
He hugs his children and they turn to gold. He misses them.
He tells the God that he doesn't want gold anymore, he
wanted his family. The God changes everything back to how it is
meant to be. King Midas is happy again.
He learns some things are more important than money.
4) The students of 5 th grades, as a volunteer work, prepare a Greek traditional
dance called "Sirtaki" guided them by our specialist music teacher, and they dance in
the third level classes.
You can watch the videos on the web page of the school.
5) The students of 6th grades, as a volunteer work, research tasks to make
Presentations about features of Greece, in order to expose them to the 5 th grade
classes. Enriching activity because the students themselves that explain instead of
teachers.
You can watch these presentations made by students on the web page of our
school.
You can watch the Book of Greek Stories on the web page of the school.
Comenius Project. Greek National Day
2011-2012