Farewell Flashmeeting

Today Greece, Poland and England met on Flashmeeting to say goodbye. Wales joined us for a time - we are sorry Wales that you had trouble with your sound, but it was nice to see you for a while.

World Environment Day - Poster for Water Saving

We can drink only 3% of the water on Earth! so we have to be very careful how we use it!!! Here, the children from Greece give you some advice for water saving!

Celebrating the 5 years of eTwinning in Greece!

We had a great time...made drawings...composed a song with our partners...made a birthday cake...had balloons....Happy Birthday eTwinning!We all love you!!!

International Theatre Day (27/3/2010)1st part

As International day of Theatre was the same day with Earth hour, we decided to write an environmental script!
Greece started the story:

"MESSAGE IN THE BOTTLE"

Narrator: Once upon a time there was a fish, which was called Aris!
Aris: I’m a small small fish with many many colors and have many loving friends! Let them introduce themselves!
Hippocampus: My name is Goulielmos and I like seaweed and hide myself among them!
Octapus: I am Thrasybulus and I am usually hiding in the rocks. I like eating candies with shrimp and swordfish flavor!
Crab: My name is Mitsos and I like tap dancing!
Sea turtle: I’m Ophelia and I adore eating jelly-fish! Yummy!!!
Cuttlefish: Hi guys! I’m Hermione and imagine how much I like lollypops with fish flavor!!
Seal: My name is Aglaia and I like to swim in the blue sea and sit on the rocks the sunny days!
Dolphin: Hello, I’m Lilika and I like diving so much!!
Shark: Hello to all I’m Fontas , don’t be afraid of me I’m kind-hearted and like so much watch cartoons and eat pop-corn!!
Altogether: But we all have something, we all like playing hide and seek!!!
(They decide by abebablom, (do you know what is this game?) who is going to tell the numbers until the others will go and hide themselves. Fontas, the shark is going to do it!
Aris is hiding behind some rubbish, cans and banana leaves; Ophelia is hiding in a plastic bag and all the others behind shells and rocks.
Fondas opens his eyes and starts searching . He finds Goulielmos, Thrasyvoulos, Mitsos, Hermione, Aglaia, Lilika . While he is trying to find the other two he listens a scream. It’s Ophelia who can’t breathe in the plastic bag.
Ophelia: Help!!!Help!!!I can’t breathe, please help me!!!
Fondas: Don’t move I will cut the bag with my strong teeth!
Ophelia: Thank you Fondas, you saved my life!!!
Before having time to tell anything else, another scream interrupts them.
Aris: Help me I can’t swim…I’m bleeding! My tail was cut by an aluminum can!!
Seal: Let me help you my dear. I will put you a water-proof bandage!!Now you are ok!
All sea creatures didn’t like what happened!
Dolphin: We have to do something…Our sea is not as blue and clean as it was!
Crab: People throw all kind of rubbish..so dangerous for us!!
Hippocampus: Our life is miserable here nowadays!!!A solution should be found and make people understand that we can’t live any more in a dirty sea!
Octapus: We can write a message to the people tell them what’s going on…
Cuttlefish: I can help you with that!
Aris the fish: So let’s write this:
Stop throwing rubbish at the sea
Fix your ships so you don’t have petrol leaks
Come and clean the sea, if you don’t come soon
We will all die!!!
What do you think ?Is that ok?
Altogether: Yeeees, it’s great!!!
Shark: Let’s put it in this empty bottle…nice! Who is going to take it to the people?
Crab: I will do it, don’t worry people will take the message soon!!
So the crab went to the seaside to give the message in the bottle …..


Poland cintinued the story:
He left the bottle by the sea shore among a pile of stones and went back into the ocean depths.
There came a day when John and Judy, a couple of 7 year-old twins, went to the beach. They wanted to find something exceptional what could be called a sea treasure, as it was their homework task at school.
John: Imagine, Judy, what would happen if we found a pirate crate with a treasure map and full of gold coins! we would have not only got the best mark, but we could also be very rich!
Judy: Oh, John! Don`t be silly! Pirates are in fairy tales only! Let`s better search for pearl among these shells. It would be great to have some for a necklace…
John: Pearls? That could say a woman only, ha ha!
N: John and Judy were arguing with each other about the treasure they could find, when suddenly they saw something shining among stones.
John: Gold!
N: shouted John
Judy: Pearls!
N: squealed Judy
John and Judy: It`s mine!
N: They run quickly towards the place but… there was only a bottle lying in a sand
John: Oh, no! It`s only rubbish!
N: And John kicked the bottle with anger
Judy: Look, John! But there is a message inside!
N: That was the way Judy and John found an SOS message from sea creatures.
they read it slowly and carefully:
“Stop throwing rubbish at the sea
Fix your ships so you don’t have petrol leaks
Come and clean the sea, if you don’t come soon
We will all die!!!”

Judy: Sea creatures need our help, John! Let`s inform others!
N: An hour later a family meeting was announced and rescue plan was formed. firstly, the family decided to immediately clean rubbish from the beach. there came Mum and Dad, all possible uncles, aunties and cousins. Everyone did one`s best, but they couldn’t do everything…
John: I`m exhausted! So many rubbish to clean! Is that a beach or a rubbish bin for some people?
Judy: It`s not enough what we did, John. I think we should tee the message to our friends at school. They can send it forward to others and so forth…
John: Sure, we will!
N: The next day at school twins showed a bottle message to the teacher and friends. They came up with many great ideas:
Student 1: Let`s make a poster for fishermen and sailors. They have to fix their ships to avoid petrol leaks!
Student2: We can write letter to sailors to help them understand that sea creatures die cause of rubbish they throw to the sea!
Student3: What about going to the radio or a newspaper agency? We can announce a Day of Beach for cleaning!
Teacher: Let`s do all of this together! at least the sea and its creations are the most important treasure we all search for!
N: Imagine that everything was possible to be done when children, parents, families, teachers and friends were working together! They moved almost the whole world for the sea world!
One evening, straight before a sleep, John and Judy were lying in their beds and discussing:
Judy: Do you think that our sea friends feel better nowadays?
John: I hope so, Judy! I am sleepy! Sleep well!
Judy: Good night, John! Have a nice dreams!

N: Indeed, both Judy and John had a beautiful dream that night. They dreamed sea creatures – fish, crabs, seahorses, octopuses and seals – playing hide and seek among multi-coloured anthozoans. There came a shark even, whispered” thank you”and waved with his flipper…
but… Was it a dream only? How do YOU think?

THE END

...it continues

Happy Easter! Καλό Πάσχα!!

Χριστός Ανέστη! Christ is Risen! (this is a wish we say in Greece) Hope you all have a great Easter!!!

(Epitaphios: Great Friday, the day that Christ died, we decorate the place where Chist's body was put and we go around the church with this and the cross chanting the dirge)



Happy Easter with our easter bunnies!!

Earth Hour

On Saturday 27th March 2010, people all over the world switched off their lights for one hour to protest about climate change. This is our presentation of our Earth Hour with photos from Greece, Poland and the UK.

International Day of Disabled people-Ημέρα ατόμων με ειδικές ικανότητες

On 3rd of December we celebrated the International Day of Disabled people. We thought what we can do that day apart from feeling very lucky and thankful that we can all see-listen-speak and walk around. We decided to make a gift to all the children that cannot hear or see. We played the very famous storybook "The very hungry caterpillar"by Eric Carle by making sounds, so children who can't see will hear it. We also made signs with words and drawings so children who cannot hear could see our story!!Hope they will enjoy it!!




Here you can see a photo of children preparing the play:

Just to have fun!!

Michael wanted to share his drawing with you...so we decided to make it a puzzle so you can enjoy making it!!


In the same way, we send a drawing of Danai for the girls!Hope you like it too!Kisses

The Birth of Christ in Greece!

We din't have our play before Christmas as we were planning, because of many children absenses. We decided with our children to play the birth of Christ, twice, in order to understand better the Christmas spirit! Anna, gave us the idea and decided to make a greek version of the Birth of Christ!

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Καλά Χριστούγεννα-Ευτυχισμένο το Νέο Έτος...

...this means: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!! Hope you all have an excellent time. We made a presentation to show you our Christmas preparations at school in Greece. You can hear the greek carols for Christmas and New Year's Eve!!
Many hugs and kisses!!

Thank you Romania!

Before Christmas, we received a parcel from Romania. Thank you for the chocolates and the drawings our friends!!Have a Merry Christmas!

International Saving Day in Greece

OUR MONEY BANK FOR THE CHILDREN IN NEED

The World Savings Day was established on 31 of October during the 1st International Savings Bank Congress (World Society of Savings Banks) in Milano/Italy. The Italian Professor Ravizza declared this day the "International Saving Day" on the last day of the congress.
Representatives of 29 countries wanted to bring to mind the thought of saving to the worldwide public and its relevance to the economy and the individual. The World Savings Day is usually held on October 31st except in countries where this day is a public holiday, since the idea is for the banks to be open, so that the people are able to transfer their savings into their account.
In Greece, we made piggy banks for and one for the school!!In school we decided to gather money for helping children in need. We hope our partners will follow our idea and we ALL help other children!!

Celebrating International Food Day in Greece (16 October)

World Food Day was proclaimed in 1979 by the Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). It marks the date of the founding of FAO in 1945. The aim of the Day is to heighten public awareness of the world food problem and strengthen solidarity in the struggle against hunger, malnutrition and poverty. In 1980, the General Assembly endorsed observance of the Day in consideration of the fact that "food is a requisite for human survival and well-being and a fundamental human necessity" Here in Greece, we are known for our grapes!We make tasty wines but use the must to make different products. The International Food day,we decided to make cookies with must, we call them moustokouloura and are really tasty and healthy! You can hear a traditional children song which is called "Platho koulourakia" which means make cookies!

The parcel from Wales in Greece!

At last, we received the second parcel. we were very curious to see what our friends from Wales sent us!We really enjoyed the songs in the dvd and the book with your photos!Thank you very much!

Receiving the parcels from Poland, Italy and Hungary

We received a heavy and beautiful surprise from our friends in Italy! A nice and really interesting parcel from Poland! And a surprise from Hungary! Grazie-Dziękuję-
Köszönöm

Parcel from Greece in Polish kindergarten

We would like to give thanks to all our friends from Greece for such exceptional parcel.
We didn`t eat everything that day! We will organize an international buffet soon!

Dziękujemy!

Our Parcel from Greece

This is the flag of Greece. We know that Greece is Groeg in Welsh.

Cherlissa picked out the olives.

Savannah and Blake thought the vanilla smelt very sweet.

We liked looking at the postcards. We know some special places in Greece now.

All theese goodies!!!
Diolch yn fawr! (Thank you very much!)

Greece receives the parcel from England!

The children from Greece received today the parcel from England. Thank you very much for the nice things you have sent us!!Hope you receive our parcel soon!

International Post Day(9th October) in Greece

World Post Day is celebrated each year on 9 October, the anniversary of the establishment of the Universal Postal Union in 1874 in the Swiss Capital, Bern. It was declared World Post Day by the UPU Congress held in Tokyo, Japan in 1969. Since then, countries across the world participate annually in the celebrations. The Posts in many countries use the event to introduce or promote new postal products and services.

 Here in Greece, we prepared nice parcels with photos,cards and traditional products! We sent them to our new friends and we hope they enjoy all these!!Bye!!!

International Day of Peace in Greece (21 September)

The International Day of Peace was established in 1981 by the United Nations as an annual observance of global non-violence and ceasefire. Every year, people in all parts of the world honour peace in various ways on 21 September.
In Greece we made a poster to celebrate Peace to celebrate our collaboration with our new European friends!! We want peace, we don't like war!