Theme 3 – Traditions
What traditions do my family follow? A theme on our roots in more detail such as holidays, feast days/festivities, stories/tales, dances and songs.
Activities: Storyboards, presentations, moving images, choreography, digital walls, blog
Presentation about summer carnival by year 7 students (UK)
Presentation about fireworks day by year 7 students (UK)
Measuring Time - Chinese Story, read by yr7 studnets (UK)
Humpty Dumpty - traditional nursery rhyme, read by yr7 students (UK)
"Humpty Dumpty" rhyme, read and paited by students (Germany)
A Mongolian Fairy Tale retold by a year 6 student.
The legend about the Mermaid as a Polish year 7 student recalls it.
Midsummer Eve and Midsummer Day in Sweden. Apart from Christmas probably the most imortant and loved tradition in the country - if you live abroad you celebrate it, too. The eve is always on one of the last Fridays in June. This year on the 19th of June.
Swedish Traditional dances. The Dance Studio at Hässelbygårdsskolan in May 2015.
fyra dansstilar from carmela perä on Vimeo.
Swedish traditions. A video performance at the school theatre the Prisma at Hässelbygårdsskolan. See below.
Berlin students made a performance with two Turkish shadow puppets – known in Turkey as Karagöz and Hacivat Shadow Theatre – A Turkish Storytelling Tradition:
German students read traditional stories and drew some pictures:
They learn about Handicrafts and they are creative themselves: