Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Sunday, December 25, 2011
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Monday, December 19, 2011
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Irish Music
The music soundtrack is "The Great Defector" by Irish band Bell X1,
the video features discriptions of irish bands that are popular in Ireland
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
St Lucy's Day
December 13th is celebrated as Saint Lucy day. Here's what Paola - a teacher from Italy has written about it:Today in many countries of Europe it is celebrated Saint Lucy the patroness of the blinds, in fact in the northern countries like Sweden it's the light feast. Even in the extremely southern part of EU in Sicily it's an important festival. On this day we celebrate rites in churches and we eat neither bread nor pasta, but just rice or corn. We cook a lot of special dishes on this occasion: rice balls or "arancini" made of rice, minced meat, peas, cheese and corn with ricotta cream or chocolate cream, very delicious. I'd like to know if in your country you celebrate it for example in Norway, Anita could tell us how this festival is celebrated in her country.
This photo shows some "arancine".
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Our school: ITIS Vittorio Emanuele III, Palermo, Italy
Enjoy this video about our school and get to know us a little bit better....
Monday, December 12, 2011
Monday, December 5, 2011
Friday, December 2, 2011
Hello Ireland!
We are students from Estonia. We have reviewed your presentation about the area you live in. It was very interesting and we enjoyed reading it. However, it left us some questions that we would like you to answer
..So quite a lot questions.. :)
We're looking forward to getting your answers in this blog. You can also answer them as a comment
THANK YOU FOR THE ANSWERS:-)
- Do you like wearing the uniform in your school? * They're ok. It's good that we don't have to spend time in the morning deciding what to wear and there is no competition between students over clothes. It's also easy when we go on school trips to find each other.
- How long are your summer holidays? *Unless you're doing either your Junior/ Leaving Certificate exams you get holidays from the start of June till the end of August.
- How many people are there in one class? * Class sizes differ depending on the number of students in your year group. For example, there are160 students in our year and we have been divided into six classes of around 25 students.
- Can you dance Irish dances like the Riverdance? * No unfortunately not!There are many students doing Irish dancing in our school. Our school held a Feis (fesh); an Irish dancing competition in October where many of the schools' dancers won trophies and medals. The dancers in Riverdance are the best in Ireland and go on tour all over the world.
- What do you think about your school motto? *We like our school motto. It reminds us when we are taking part in sports or other activities that we are stronger as a team rather than as individuals.
- Do you like your school? *Yes. We have a very modern school and we are lucky with the facilities and support that we have. The teachers are nice and are very good at what they teach.
- How many injuries does a normal hurlingplayer get? *Some hurling players tend to be very accident- prone and can get some type of injury in almost every match. Most injuries would be to either the players hands and legs. Very rarely is a player seriously injured.
- Do you have any school bands? *There are three main rock bands in our school; Mr. Sands (they have a link on YouTube),Suitable for vegetarians and Animal Beats. We also have a school choir and a traditional Irish music group.
- What are your physical education lessons like? * The P.E. teachers in our school follow a programme during the year so we get to do a lot of different activities. We do badminton, basketball, rounders, soccer, dancing, aerobics, horseriding, hurling, gymnastics and rugby :). Some of the girls in our class enjoy p.e. but others don't like sports at all!
- How many people in your school play hurling? * There are around 30 girls on the camogie (female version of hurling)squad at school. The guys in our school are a lot more interested in playing and they are divided into Senior and Junior teams.
- Are there more boys or girls in your school? *It's mainly even
- At what age do kids start the school there? *Kids start primary school when they are 5 and we start secondary school around the age of 13 :).
..So quite a lot questions.. :)
We're looking forward to getting your answers in this blog. You can also answer them as a comment
About social networking/web2.0 from Limerick, Ireland
We are Holly, Megan, Zara, Jane and Samantha from Limerick Ireland. We have completed a presentation on Social Networking for this etwinning project as this is something we are interested in and use a lot.
Click on the link posted below to access it.
Please feel free to leave a comment as we would like to hear what you think about it.
We are now working on an introduction video like the Italians.
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