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THE THIRD WONDER The Seven Countries in our project announce the winners of the Third Wonder of our Re- gion, The Most Tradi- tional Handicraft. In This Issue Read about what the teachers did when they visited Cyprus. Read about how the seven countries went about finding the most interesting tra- ditional handicraft of their region. Comenie Mouse in Europe Most interesting traditional handicraft Each of the seven schools in our project have been busy visiting places, inviting specialists at school, researching and making traditional handicrafts from their own countries. Twinspace Don’t forget to check out our Twinspace webpage to see all the current videos and news about the work everyone has been doing. Cyprus - The Fourth Mobility From 5th to 10th June 2014, 20 teachers from 6 countries visited the 1st Primary School Aradippou, Cyprus within the framework of Comenius pro- ject “The seven wonders of our region.” During this time teachers from Slovakia, Czech Republic, Greece, Turkey, Scotland and Poland took part in the varied educational program. The Seven Wonders of our Region Year 1 Volume 3 August 2014

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THE THIRD WONDER

The Seven Countries in

our project announce the

winners of the

Third Wonder of our Re-

gion, The Most Tradi-

tional Handicraft.

In This Issue

Read about what the

teachers did when

they visited Cyprus.

Read about how the

seven countries went

about finding the

most interesting tra-

ditional handicraft of

their region.

Comenie Mouse in Europe

Most interesting traditional handicraft Each of the seven schools in our project have been busy visiting places, inviting

specialists at school, researching and making traditional handicrafts from their own

countries.

Twinspace

Don’t forget to check out our Twinspace webpage to see all the current videos

and news about the work everyone has been doing.

Cyprus - The Fourth Mobility From 5th to 10th June 2014, 20 teachers from 6 countries visited the 1st

Primary School Aradippou, Cyprus within the framework of Comenius pro-

ject – “The seven wonders of our region.” During this time teachers from

Slovakia, Czech Republic, Greece, Turkey, Scotland and Poland took

part in the varied educational program.

The Seven Wonders of our Region Year 1 Volume 3 August 2014

Slovakia Slovakia has discovered the 3rd wonder

Our 3rd wonder is a handicraft called Bobbin lace making. It was not an easy process to discover it. Our pupils were looking for this wonder not just in books, on the internet, but they also asked their grandparents to help them find something in their attics or cellars. They were looking for the pieces of information to create some educational posters which were used to bring interesting knowledge to our whole school/ also to our janitor/ and, as well, they were looking for the exhibits of the handicrafts to be able to create the big presentation of handicrafts. Some craftmen came to our school and so we announced The Day of Handicrafts. We have discovered a lot of handicrafts and a plenty of crafts. Our pupils and parents voted and our 3rd wonder is Bobbin lace making.

The Winner Bobbin lace making

The lace is created by moving a thread with a

bobbin

A bobbin lace maker in our school

We are learning to create the bobbin lace

Do you want to learn bobbining?

You need to have a boobin roller, a lot of pins with pinheads, bobbins, threads, a lace prototype and a lot of patience.

TŘETÍ DIV V SIVICÍCH –ČESKÁ REPUBLIKA: NEJZAJÍMAVĚJŠÍ TRADIČNÍ Ř

České děti našeho projektu žijí

na venkově. Navštívili jsme a

poznali mnoho zajímavých

řemesel. Děti mají blízko ke

starším, tradičním řemeslům,

která se ve vesnici, kde

žijí ,nazapomněla. Navštívili

jsme i mezinárodní výstavu

tradičních řemesel. Poznali

jsme zemědělská zvířata, chov

dobytka, zemědělské stroje,

navštívili jsme včelaře.

Vítězem se stalo oblíbené

řemeslo – houslař. Byly jsme

na návštěvě u pana Petlacha

v Sivích. Ukázal nám, jak se

vyrábí housle, violy a

kontrabasy. Zkusili jsme i

pracovat s nářadím.

Czech Republic THE THIRD WONDER IN SIVICE— CZECH REPUBLIC THE MOST INTERESTING TRADITIONAL CRAFT

Czech children of our project live in the country. We visited and met many

interesting crafts. Children are close to the older, traditional crafts, which

is in the village where they live. We also visited the international exhibition

of traditional handicrafts. We met farm animals, livestock farming,

agricultural machinery, we visited a beekeeper.

The winner was favorite craft - violin maker. We were visiting Mr. Petlach

in Sivice. He showed us how to make violins, violas and basses. We also

tried to work with the tools.

The Winner Violin maker

Greece Most famous Greek crafts

Our pupils visited the Museum of Popular Art, coloured traditional needle work de-signs and also made their own ones. They designed Ancient Greek pottery on paper, decorated their Easter candles with clay crafts and presented some of their moth-

ers’ and grandmothers’ embroiders.

They also wove a small “carpet”, knitted the Comenius scarf, made sculptures and visited a crafts’ workshop where they painted a ceramic plate and wove on a tra-ditional Greek loom. Finally, we have started making an embroider of the

Comenius logo on camvas.

Traditional needle work de-signs

The Winner Our small carpet

Some of the most famous Greek crafts dating

back even to Ancient Times are:

1. Pottery

2. Sculptures

3. Weaving

4. Knitting

5. Needle work

Turkey Doll embroidery

We are going on searching our wonders with the participation of all students and teachers. For the third wonder, we discussed a lot and couldn’t decide on a specific handicraft so easily. In the end, we, the teachers, put forward the idea that we should carry out many activities for a variety of our traditional handicrafts and then decision process will be facilitated. This is the traditional handicraft map of our country and we started “doll embroidery” activity with the 7th graders with the guidance of our Art Teacher. It is a traditional handicraft in our region. The students brought some fabric, ropes, needles, wool, cotton and each of them created their own dolls. They wanted me to take them to our partners to give as gifts in Cyprus. We hope you all liked them.

Cage embroidery

Then, the 7th graders focused on another handicraft “cage embrodiery”. Our culture gives much importance to birds and thus, bird owners would like to prepare beautiful nests for their lovely birds. Some students got carpenters to make wooden cages and they decorated them on their own in Art lessons. Here are the results.

Ebru

What is next? We are really excited to present our wonders to you. Another traditional art is “ebru” (Turkish art of marbling). Ebru is the art of “writing on water.” I know it sounds interesting but it is an art with the roots dating back many centuries, Ottoman times. Special equipment and an ebru specialist is needed to discover “ebru” art. For this reason, we requested another school management in the vicinity for their atelier, equipment and experienced teacher. Five students and two teachers took part in this discovery. Moreover, an ebru artist accompanied our activity. All the students had much fun and they also sent their first products to the partners.

equipment: special colors, a special comb, paint brushes (made of horse hair), special liquid (called tragacanth)

The Winner EBRU (TURKISH ART OF MARBLING)

Writing on water

Jewelry design

The last activity is “jewelry design”. The Comenius Group prepared small gifts for the Cypriot students.

We would like to mention our traditional craft peculiar to our own region as it is by the great Salt Lake. In winter, craftsman put some shapes in some places of the lake. In June or July when the salt level reaches a specific amount, they can obtain some natural shapes. Many tourists buy these shapes as

Unfortunately, we couldnt hold more acitivites for our other traditional handicarfts in our region as our school is not an appropriate place for some handicrafts and we have limited time. However, we will be very pleased to show our other traditional handicrafts in March 2015.

The Winner " Grod foluszek"

Poland

Work on discovering the third wonder started during the Comenius

meeting in Brodnica in April.

The meeting was organized in such a way so that the participants

could learn about the traditional handicraft in our region. The group

was quite big, it consisted of 25 students.

Visiting the Nicolaus Copernicus Museum was the first element of the

meeting. Nicolaus Copernicus was an outstanding person of our re-

gion, he made a great discovery in astronomy. At the museum, you

could see the de-

vices he worked

with.

Next, we went to

the Gingerbread

Museum. We

found out how the

gingerbreads, fa-

mous all over the world, are pro-

duced. It is a kind of handicraft which

lasts even now. We are very glad that

the participants took part in the gin-

gerbread making activity and thanks

to this wonderful ginger cakes were

created.

Our students have a chance of learning about this carft and of

participation in such activites during their school trips organized

by many teachers.

The visit to the Foluszek settlement was the next step in familiar-

izing the participants with the traditional work. Our guests learnt

about the handicraft present in our region for centuries. At the

workshops, organized in a very interesting way, we turned into a

blacksmith, an archer, a knight, a baker or a farmer.

The students of grade four take part in such activities every year.

These activities give them a lot of knowledge about our tradi-

tional handicraft. Then, they discuss the topic in detail during

their History lessons. What’s more, this year our students made

posters about our traditional handicraft.

The students of the first grade took part in another multimedia

class prepared and conducted by Mrs Salej from our Town Li-

brary. The children found out about the origins and importance

of handicraft in every man’s life. They got to know who an arti-

san is and what kinds of handicraft have lasted till now in our

region.

A wider knowledge of the subject will surely make the childen

respect all the craftsmen more.

The third wonder of our region

Traditional handicraft

„A worker works with his hands, a craftsman

works with his hands and head.” Pino Pellegrino

Tartan Primary 2 designed their

own tartans on the computer.

Tartan has stripes of different

colours and varying breadths.

By varying the colours, the

width and number of stripes,

we can create and design

Comenius 2013-2015 Tartan Design

Scotland Weaving

Primary 6 learned about the history of weaving in Glasgow. Glasgow imported cotton in the 18th century and many peo-ple worked at home using hand looms. P6 learned how to weave using hand looms.

Carpet Weaving

They learned how Glasgow weavers worked in the famous Templeton's building near our school, weaving car-pets for around the world.

Workshop

Primary 2 visited Primary 6 to find out how to use hand looms and then tried some paper weaving.

This tartan was designed on the computer. It uses all the colours from the flags in our Comenius partnership.

Primary 2’s Tartan designs

After invitation from school, Mr

Orthodox came to school and

showed to children how a pith-

kiavli is made. He did not come

alone as he brought some other

musicians who at the end played

traditional music. Students sang

and danced traditional dances

with the melody of violin and

pithkiavli.

Cyprus

Students of D'2 class with their teacher Christiana Rokopou made a re-

search for all traditional handicrafts and chose pithiavli, a small traditional

flute as the best handicraft. Then they asked all around to find persons

who make this kind of flutes and they were surprised to find out that a par-

ent of our school was having a hobby in creating traditional music instru-

ments. His name is Orthodox and he is actually a professional violin

player.

The Winner Pithkiavli

Day 2: Larnaca touring

After the coordinators’

meeting all participants

had a touring in the

near town of Larnaca

seeing St. Lazarus

church, a medieval

castle and the Palm

trees promenade. At

night there were festivi-

ties for the celebration

of the Holy spirit and

Larnaca hosts the

most.

Day 3: Day trip to

moutnains

The whole day was

dedicated for a long trip

onto Troodos mountain

–the green lung of the

island where we visited

the Kykkos Monastery

and a winery in Koilani

village.

.

Cyprus - The Fourth Mobility Early in June this year a trip was made in the island of Cyprus for the 4th mobility.

The hosted school was 1st Primary school of Aradippou, a town in the southeast of

Cyprus. The meeting attended 18 teachers from all schools participating in our pro-

gram. The program of the whole visit was educational and full of surprises.

Day 1:Visit to school

A short welcome ceremony was prepared by the teachers and school with Cypriot

traditional songs and dances. Then teachers presented their countries in class ses-

sions. Grandparents participated in an hour festivity which was dedicated to tradition.

They played traditional music, danced and cooked traditional Cypriot food. At night a

grand ceremony was made in an open-air theatre where students presented a theat-

rical play to all the community.

Day 4: The Sun day

Actually was Monday when we drove to Pro-

taras’ beach and stayed all day long to the

beach, swimming and sunbathing. It was

hard for all to leave as the Mayor of Aradip-

pou was waiting for the farewell dinner at

night.