Time to go Paris and airport (Orly). Parents got us to the train station, then, my friend got us in Paris then we took metro, train and bus to go Airport. We ate in airport then we flew to Copenhagen. Andreas (martin father) got us with minibus in Kastrup. First Lovisa and Åsa went away. Then Ottilia met with her parents. Petra got Wilma around 1.45. Then, Elin hugged her mother and father at 1.50 and I entered to my room around 1.54. Martin and his father was the last.

Thank you so much for this trip.

Host families, French team, Åsa, Lovisa, Elin, Ottilia, Wilma, Martin, Andreas, Swedish parents, our Comenius team with works.

See you in another mobility…

Neco

Friday, time to go swim. The weather was perfect and we all had swimming clothes so we decided to go swim. The water was so cold. Lovisa was the first person that put her head underwater but she could not stand more. Ottilia, Elin, Wilma and I jumped into water and swim and played with waves. Martin and Åsa wanted to stay outside. Then, martin and I wrote SWEDEN with big letter from stones. We also wrote Comenius. We took pictures, we become wet, we enjoyed a lot.

Thursday, we were on the way of new school that there were students from 10 years old to 14 years old. One English teacher guided us. He introduced first around school, explained school system, how to teach English, about library, computer room, and he played to us also some songs with his music club. We had chance to see also English lecture with 11 years old children. Teacher was a bit nervous because we were in the class 3 teacher and 4 children. She allowed students to ask questions about ourselves. Then, we learned that they would go England for one-day trip for Friday. It is like one-day trip to Denmark. It takes two hour to visit England. We observed teacher and lecture. First time I saw a French teacher who was not strict but they have still this funny Parisian accent when they speak English. After this new school, we came back to Oust Marest. Children wanted to show us some performance about personalities, which we worked in the project. Oldest children of the school started to sing from Roxette, It must have been love. I took movie and I will show you later. School finished and we were ready to realize last working session. Time to speak about Swedish festivity, Midsummer. I presented midsummer with pictures and PowerPoint. Lovisa and Åsa helped me to explain details about midsummer. We showed the movie that our children did and Nora recorded about three dances. We finished our working sessions with gifts from French group. Dinner was near the cost and vision was panoramic. We took pictures, we gave flowers to French team and we laughed a lot. It was time to go party hehe. We wanted to play bowling but it was closed. Some of countries would go home early so they went to sleep. Åsa slept also early. Lovisa and I stayed a bit longer to collect all pictures and videos. We played card games and then went to sleep too.

Amiens and Le Treport

Wednesday, It was the day that I should write my report for Lund University so I stayed in hotel until 18:00 and others were in Amiens. Children made ice-skating, adults had bout trip around fantastic gardens (I saw pictures). We met for dinner near the hotel. After dinner, we decided to go for a walk to Le Treport. When I saw the Sea I could not stop to touch water. So I jumped to beach to contact with water. Then, Lovisa and Wouter came. We took several pictures, enjoyed beach. But, we got lost (no no). Others left us there. We tried to find them and after two phone conversations we found French group. They said they wanted to go up but they could not do that because lift was not working. Thus, we decided to go hotel on foot. When we arrived to hotel, we were exhausted and ready to sleep.

Tuesday, another day started earlier around 8.50. By the way, we did not want to have breakfast in the hotel but breakfast was really great in the hotel so we changed our mind. School started with stations (activities). There were 75 French children and 17 visitor children. These children were divided into 10 groups. Each group visited one station for 15 minutes. Activity stations were different; namely, dance, kub, pizza, flag, crossword, Esher, geography, etc… whole morning we engaged with these stations. In my station, we danced a lot. Lovisa teach how to play Kub. Åsa was responsible of crossword. In the afternoon, we had free time to see around EU. Then, we started again working session, which we talked about progress report for National agency. We also decided 4 questions to evaluate first year. Every country also presented what they did until France mobility. We watched also short movie about Swedish mobility. It was like a summery of our mobility. We became tried and we were so hungry. Parents prepared barbeque and we prepared tables. When the dinner was ready, you could see the three parts of the society in different tables (children, parents, and teachers). We ate together; we sing together, we danced together.

Monday, it was the first day to start Comenius work but we had time to see around the hotel first. We came school around 11. Parents were so active and helpful to bring us to school and preparing food for us. It was official opening. French children prepared and showed us several activities, we also worked about magazine (comegenius). Cristina created great magazine with the help of partner countries. The day finished with dinner which we ate great foods. Many people were tired especially Italians because they arrived Monday morning. They went sleep first.

Travel To France 2010 June

After Oslo, Paris was the first destination for me. I arrived Saturday and I waited for Swedish team for Sunday in Airport. Lovisa, Åsa, Martin, Wilma, Elin and Ottilia appeared in front of Orly airport departure gate. Wow, we completed as a Swedish team. Time to get all 7 big luggages as well as back packs. They were so heavy but we were strong like Turk hehe.

My friend helped to go Paris center. We got Bus, Train, Metro one by one, and then we arrived Gare De Nord. We were ready to go Oust Marest. But our stomach was ringing and we wanted to eat real food near to station in a restaurant. Buffalo restaurant was perfect with meat for us and omelet for Lovisa. We sit together like circle and it took almost 2 hour to eat. We did not eat slowly; on the contrary, they served the food slowly. We were full; no need toilet, luggage in our hands and ready to take train to EU (read like Ö). We did three hours trip but we did not feel bored because we decided to make short movie about participants from Poland, Slovenia and us in the train. We prepared simple questions and Ottilia and Elin asked to teachers and students. I had camera to record all moments.

some pictures about mobility in sweden

last news hehe
Swedish Children Team against European Teacher Team
opening dinner...

Welcome to Sweden...
Helsingborg...
Child Performance

Hosting 6 Countries

Hello!

We were hosting 22 teachers and 12 children from 6 countries. It was pleasure to host them. During this week (week 15), our comenius team, families and municipality worked together and all visitors satisfied what we did.

Second personality - ROXETTE -

Roxette kom ut i Sverige i slutet av 80-talet. Roxette är Marie Fredriksson och Per Gessle, och deras spel är pop. Vi arbetar på två låtar. En är "It must have been love" och den andra är "The look". Du kan se detaljerad information om Roxette här http://www.roxette.se

Roxette came out of Sweden in the late ‘80s. Roxette is Marie Fredriksson and Per Gessle, and their game is pop. We are working on two songs. one is 'It must have been love' and second is 'The look'. You can see detail information about Roxette here http://www.roxette.se

Slovenian Trip

here we are...

Slovenian trip is over. We had several experiences. We met new friends. We ate delicious foods. We were north east part of Slovenia called Slovenj Gradec. It is located in high part of Slovenia and near Austria. This picture is from Sledding as you see. We enjoyed a lot.

här vi är ...

Slovenska resa är över. Vi hade flera upplevelser. Vi träffade nya vänner. Vi åt utsökt mat. Vi var nordöstra delen av Sloveniens kallas Slovenj Gradec. Den ligger i stor del av Slovenien och nära Österrike. Denna bild är från Sledding som du ser. Vi hade mycket njöt.

Magazine Factory

Don´t forget that you can follow all the countries work att the website Magazine Factory.

Glöm inte att ni kan följa alla ländernas arbete på Internetsidan Magazine Factory.

Long time...

It has been such a long time since we updated this page. So here is a summary of what has been done. Before the Christmas holiday we watched and listened to all the lovely songs we got from the other countries. We also worked with the texts and pictures about how they celebrate christmas in Holland. And we recieved a lot of nice christmas cards!

After the Christmasbreak the classes started to work with the material about the other countries´historic personality.

In two weeks one teacher, two Comenius assistens and two pupils will leave for Slovenia. They will stay for a whole week and we wish them a nice trip. Meanwhile the classes at school will start working with the personality for the second semester. This time the topic is music and we will work with Roxette. It will be fun!


Det var längeseden vi uppdaterade den här sidan, så här kommer en liten summering av vad som hänt sen sist. Före jullovet tittade vi och lyssnade på alla de fina julsångerna vi fått från de andra länderna. Vi satte oss också in i Hollands fina arbete om sitt julfirande. Och vi fick en massa fina julkort!

Efter jullovet började klasserna arbeta med materialet om de andra ländernas historiska personlighet.

Om två veckor kommer en lärare, två Comeniusassistenter och två elever åka till Slovenien. De kommer att stanna en hel vecka och vi önskar dem en trevlig resa. Under tiden kommer vi att börja arbeta med andra terminens personlighet. Ämnet för denna terminen är musik och vi kommer att göra ett arbete om Roxette. Det ska bli roligt!

Pictures from Italy!

Yvonne and Neco outside the school in Avezzano.

Yvonne och Neco utanför skolan i Avezzano.

The children had made a welcome-sign for us.

Barnen hade gjort en välkomstskylt till oss.

The Comenius-corner

Comenius-hörnan

Here are we presenting Sweden and Örkelljunga to our colleagues.

Här presenterar vi Sverige och Örkelljunga för våra kollegor.

The parents had prepared a lot of cakes and cookies for us.

Föräldrarna hade gjort en massa kakor till oss.

This is the hotel where we stayed in Avezzano...

Det här är hotellet som vi bodde på i Avezzano
...and this is the view from our room.

...och det här är utsikten från vårt rum.

Genius!

In Italy we diceded that this nice figure should be the mascot for our project. We named the mascot Genius. It is created by the Polish school and they are going to send one mascot to each participating school. Beringskolan is looking forward to the arrival of Genius.

I Italien bestämde vi att den här fina figuren ska vara maskot för vårt projekt. Vi döpte den till Genius. Den är gjord av vår partnerskola i Polen och de kommer att skicka en maskot till varje deltagande skola. Beringskolan ser fram emot Genius ankomst.

The first mobility is over!

It was a great week in Italy. We had great food, a lot of sweets and cakes. We saw a fantastic dancing performance created by the children at the school where we spent most of our time during the stay. We learned about the history of Avezzano and did some sightseeing. And! We met new friends and the whole project became a lot more distinct.

Now we are working with the next part of the project; to create christmascards and to record swedish christmas songs for the other countries. Yesterday we choose which songs to record and next week we will be practising.

Första resan är avklarad. Det var en härlig vecka i Italien. Vi fick god mat, massor med sötsaker och kakor. Vi fick se en fantastisk dansshow av eleverna från skolan där vi tillbringade det mesta av våra dagar under vistelsen. Vi fick lära oss om Avezzanos historia och åkte på lite sightseeing. Och! Vi fick nya vänner och hela projektet blev mer konkret och tydligt.

Nu jobbar vi med nästa del av projektet; att göra julkort och spela in svenska julsånger till de andra länderna. Igår bestämde vi vilka sånger vi ska spela in och nästa vecka kommer vi att öva.

Italy, here we come!

This week the kids are on educational holiday and I´m getting things done in the office. This sunday we are leaving for the first meeting with the other participating countries in this project. It´s going to be really exciting. It will be fun to hear what the others are doing this first semester and to get faces to the people we´re gonna work with the next two years.

Den här veckan har barnen lov och jag får saker gjorda på kontoret. På söndag åker vi iväg på den första träffen med de andra deltagande länderna i det här projektet. Det ska bli så spännande. Det ska bli roligt att höra vad de andra gör den här första terminen och få ansikten på de människor vi kommer att jobba med de kommande två åren.

Lovisa
Librarian/bibliotekarie

Kända snapphanar - famous snapphanar

Simon Andersen
Simon Andersen was kapten among the snapphanes and he had a farm in Åkra in the western Vrams parish, Kristianstad County. He had the biggest friskyttekompanies during the Scanian War. Swedish soldiers encircled him in his yard. He probably escaped to Denmark. 1680 Simon was seen as baptism witness north of Copenhagen.

Lille Mads
Lille Mads was born in Rødding parish. In February 1677 his company, of 600 men, attacked Swedish troops on the ice in the middle of Finjasjön. In 1678 helped Lille Mads the Danish soldiers to do a raid in Ystad. Sven “Banketröja "Erlandsson tracked the men to Sövde windmill. After half hour of battle the Scanians drew back. They took four men and one of them was little Mads.

Store Truede
Store Truede lived for one year in a cave in the woods near the farm Burn Knoll, south from the lake Immeln. All farmers in the whole district promised the Swedes to keep the area clean from snapping males and therefore they sent out patrols to locate every Snapphane that they would kill. One of the patrols discovered Store Truede who sat on a stone outside his cave, and they shot him to death. The day after they carved a cross in the stone which, according to tradition must be seen on this day. The stone is now located in the south curve of the old road between Arkelstorp and Hjärsås. There are many legends about Store Truede, and one of them said that it was a tailor in Hjärsås who cheated him, and shot him at this place. It is said that his Friends carved a cross into the stone where he fell.

Bengt Månsson

Bengt Månsson came from Faralt and was a leader of Skåne Fagerhults snapphanes. He was executed in Ljungby. Today there is a statue of him in Skåne Fagerhult.

Loshultskuppen

For this first part of the project we have divided the children in the fifth grade in 8 groups. Each group is working with a particular topic connected to snapphanar. Two of the groups have made a movie about Loshultskuppen, a famous fight, which took place in Loshult (you can see Loshult on the Scania-map here) in the very north part of Scania.

Inför den första delen av projektet har vi delat in eleverna i skolår fem i åtta grupper. Varje grupp jobbar med ett speciellt ämne med anknytning till snapphanar. Två av grupperna har gjort en film om Loshultskuppen, ett berömt slag, som ägde rum i Loshult (ni kan se Loshult på Skånekartan här) i norra delen av Skåne.

The farmers house

The farmers house

Farmer's house was very simple. In the middle of the house was a room called “stuga” cottage, which was often the only room in the house that was heated because the other rooms where often missing fireplace. The cottage was where the family most was and where they could cook and sleep.

In the cottage the family could almost do everything. The farmer was sleeping here with his family, and this is where they did their chores in the evenings and during the day. The cottage also served as a kitchen because of the fireplace.

The furnishing of the house was often benches and beds along the walls. A sort of wall fixed bench called kistbänk, was where they often kept clothes. The few furnitures that were loose were tables and chests. A chest was counted as a personal belonging, which the farmers took away if they moved.
It happened also in the colder seasons of the year, that the farmers took the smaller animals such as chickens, geese, pigs, etc. into the house. They tried to divide the cottage in two parts so that the animals stayed in a confined space.


Böndernas hus

Böndernas hus var mycket enkla. Mitt i huset fanns ett rum som kallades stuga. Det var ofta det enda rummet i huset som var varmt eftersom de andra rummen saknade eldstäder. Stugan var där familjerna var mest och där de kunde laga mat och sova.

I stugan kunde familjerna göra nästan allting. Bönderna sov här med sina familjer och det var här de utförde sina sysslor på kvällarna och under dagarna. Stugan fungerade också som kök på grund av att eldstaden fanns här.

Möblerna i huset var ofta bänkar och sängar som var fast i väggarna. En sorts väggfast bänk som kallades kistbänk var där de hade sina kläder. De få möbler som var lösa, var bord och kistor. En kista räknades som en personlig tillhörighet som bönderna tog med sig om de flyttade.

Under de kallare tiderna på året hände det att bönderna tog in de mindre djuren, till exempel kycklingar, gäss och grisar i huset. Man försökte då dela stugan i två delar så att djuren höll sig på ett begränsat utrymme.