TUESDAY, 10th DECEMBER 2024
AT 8 a.m. PUPILS START ARRIVING AND AFTER TAKING OF THEIR COATS AND SHOES, THEY DECIDE IN WHICH SPACE OF THE FOLLOWING THEY WANT TO BE:
TODAY THERE WAS A SPECIFIC SPACE: THE PLASTICINE. THEY PREPARED IT IN A NATURAL WAY USING: SALT, FLOUR, OIL, BICARBONATE AND FOOD COLOURING.
KIDS KNOW THAT THEY CANNOT EAT IT, BUT IF THEY DO IT, THEY AVOID IT BECAUSE THE DOUGH IS TOO SALTY.
PLAYGROUND TIME IN A FREEZING DAY (-2ºC)
"RUGBRØD"
AT 9:30 a.m., TASTING TYPICAL DANISH BREAD.
5-6 YEAR-OLD KIDS
0-GRADERS IS THE TRANSITION COURSE BETWEEN KINDERGARTEN AND PRIMARY SCHOOL, SO PUPILS ARE JUST LEARNING TO GET USED TO BE AT SCHOOL: WAKING UP, CERTAIN ROUTINES, RULES, AND FOLLOWING SHORT INSTRUCTIONS.
TODAY, KIDS LEARNT HOW TO COOK A TYPICAL UGANDA OMELETTE.
FIRSTLY, THEY PREPARED THE BREAD AND BEAT THE EGGS .
THEN, THEY COOKED THE DOUGH IN A FRYING PAN.
AFTERWARDS, THEY COOKED THE OMELLETTE ADDING SOME TOPPING: CHEESE, HAM AND TOMATO.
FINALLY, THEY ATE THE UGANDA OMELLETTE THEY HAVE COOKED.
WHILE THEY WERE WAITING FOR ALL THEIR CLASSMATES TO FINISH THEIR OWN OMELETTE, SOME KIDS COULD DRAW.
TIME FOR THE PLAYGROUND IN A COOL DAY.
WE ATE THE DANISH CHRISTMAS FOOD “FLÆSKESTEG” (ROASTED PORK WITH CARAMELIZED POTATOES AND CRUNCHES) THAT 6 GRADERS PREPARED.
THEN WE ATE A TYPICAL DANISH DESSERT “RISALMANDE” (RICE BOILED WITH MILK, CREAM, ALMOND PIECES AND RED FRUITS JAM AS TOPPING) THAT IS EATEN ON CHRISTMAS EVE. THE PERSON WHO FINDS AN ENTIRE ALMOND INSIDE RECEIVES A GIFT.
I EXPLAINED THEM THAT WE EAT ‘TORTELL DE REIS’ ON THE WISE MEN DAY AND ALSO A PERSON FINDS A BEAN INSIDE IT, BUT INSTEAD OF HAVING A GIFT, HE OR SHE HAS TO PAY FOR THE "TORTELL". HOWEVER, S/HE CAN ALSO FIND A KING.THEN S/HE PUTS ON A CROWN AND BECAMES THE KING OR QUEEN OF THE DAY.
UNFORTUNATELY, I DIDN'T FIND THE ALMOND.
I COULD ALSO PARTICIPATE IN A PE LESSON.
I LEARNED HOW TO PLAY DANISH HANDBALL AND ALSO "HØVDINGEBOLD", A GAME SIMILAR TO OUR “MATA CONILLS”.
PARTICIPATING IN MUSIC CLASS. KIDS DID A REHEARSAL OF A SONG FOR SAINT LUCIA’S DAY. THEY CELEBRATE IT ON 13th DECEMBER.
SCORE OF THE SONG SANTA LUCIA
NAME OF INSTRUMENTS IN DANISH.
CJELDUR, THE NAUGHTY ELF, DOES A MISCHIEF EVERY DAY. TODAY HE HAS WRAPPED THE CHRISTMAS TREE WITH FILM PAPER. WHAT WILL HAPPEN TOMORROW? WHO KNOWS? KIDS SET A TRAP. COULD THEY CATCH HIM TOMORROW?
Pupils learn to cook, because it's one of the basic needs of life. Example: they cooked a traditional Christmas meal. They have got three differrent spaces along the school.
All the community is concerned about reusing materials for an Arts and Crafts purpose.
VOR FRUE KIRKE -
CHURCH OF OUR LADY
THIS CHURCH WAS BUILT IN 1877-1878.
IT IS BUILT OF RED BRICK AND HAS A COPPER ROOF.
IT WAS DESIGNED BY THE ARCHITECT JEGNUDZMANN.