vineri, 3 august 2012
luni, 30 iulie 2012
Romanian Huge Designer ’’ Suitcase’’-the final dissemination
Hello friends !
We
mixed in this “suitcase”:
* ideas for you ....
* stories …
*
some little guidebook…
* only a few good tips to follow ...
* lots of English to learn …
* lots of
pictures…
and
a huge piece of Creativity and Friendship.
a huge piece of Creativity and Friendship.
TAKE IT WITH YOU, IT WILL BE USEFUL!
WARNING!
This “suitcase” with English is primarily for Huge Designers.
It may be taken at school, on trips in the country, but especially those from abroad. It contains only useful things.
If you cannot carry it alone, ask for help from a friend ! It is best used for trips from 2010-2012 (more or less imaginary)… in Turkey, Poland, Bulgaria and...Romania. But you can use it after … anywhere ... anytime ...is for life, is forever!
This Comenius project (including its
photos, videos, blog and site) is authorized for all who are interested in
learning something about it (parents, grandparents, sisters and brothers, other
relatives, neighbors, all schoolmates and teachers, friends). Exhibition and
dissemination is for free and it not be punished by the law!
AND DO NOT FORGET TO LEARN AND DESIGN SOMETHING NEW EVERY DAY!
A two-three years ago, teacher Eda (our
friend from Turkey) said:
„When Gardner placed mind of frames in
the pictures of mind, learners believed intelligence was single and fixed, were
ready for journeys into this among dimensions with their unique potentials and
secret capacities. Our story was written during these journeys into this
dimension by today’s small discoverers. Before we begin our projects, we
recognized eachother's cultures and lives as a means of communication, by using
letters, postcards and e-mails together with partners of our project. And we
shared this result which we got from this partnership with our partners by
using presentations.
Because we found out interesting
things, we decided to continue our
journey with our new passengers by sharing these activities at jounerys which
we're going to do to their worlds. „
So…..we were ready to start!
Musicals were presented on our traditional joint show
on
Ø Turkey project
meeting – inspired by „The Sound of Music”- „ An effective teacher”
Ø Romanian project
meeting- inspired by „The Aristocats” – „Teaching
and learning can be fun…”
Ø Poland project meeting – inspired by „ Mary Poppins ” - „Living your childhood can be fun…”
Ø Poland project meeting – inspired by „ Mary Poppins ” - „Living your childhood can be fun…”
Students from 6,7,8 grade took part at these musicals:
singing, dancing, reciting ,
playing puppets.
On the project site we
presented some dramas as:
Ø
„E-the food additives”- a story about the need
to eat healthy
Ø
„The
salt in bred”-a traditional Romanian story
Ø „The meal must
go on!”- a story about the Thanskgiving Day meal
The 3rd graders and the 7th graders have
played those roles after they have
created lines, have desined costumes and sets. All was recorded and added
to the project site.
Ø „The
Nightingale legend”-a romanian folk legend
Ø „Fram, the
polar bear”
were two other dramas played by the 3rd graders
in front of the other colleagues and excited relatives, with easy lines created by them and with
colorful costumes made by their moms.
Also for our project
meetings, students guided by their teachers prepared presentations about our country, town, school:
Ø
Our school
Ø
Brasov-city story
Ø
Codlea –my city
Ø
Who we are?
Ø
Stephen the Great
Ø
Portrait of Romania
Ø
A small tour of Romania
Ø
Romania-our country
Ø
Romanian folk costumes and
dances
Ø
Wild animals from our
country
All are videos
designed from children perspective. The movies were presented and applaused at
the project meetings and added to the project site.
We
have done some activities based on celebrations.Huge
Designers is a large group of students from different countries. Through these
activities we wanted to show them the way we celebrate Christmas ,Easter and
the March Fests: the 1st March Day, Women Day and Martyrs Day.
We
also celebrated Thanksgiving Day.Throught this activity our students were
thought to be thankfull for everything they have.It is not a Romanian fest but
we love to learn about other customs.
We designed Zoo models….2nd, 3rd and 4th grade students made the models, some in the school with their class teachers, some on their own and brought to the classroom to present in English. Students performance was recorded and then shown to them as a feedback. The zoo signs and models were made using paper by Origami and Tangram technique, flour, balloons, nuts and peanuts, clay. Some of them were used to made farms or Zoo, some to decorate the classrooms or the halls of the school. Some of them used ICT and presented all their work on the site.
3rd graders celebrate a day devoted to animals, they have brought their pets at school and dressed like favorite pet they designed animals using paper bags and colourful papers.
Then we designed Street /City models .The first step was to make a big city model with class teacher. Then the model was used by an English teacher in her English classes. Besides some other students made small models on their own, brought them to school and presented in lesson on a relevant topic. Some of the models are still exhibited in the classrooms and teachers can use them to explain several topics or just for decoration.Thousand of pictures were made! It was an interesting topic for all students.
Next step: design Traffic signs. Students learned that traffic signs or road signs are signs erected at the side of roads to provide information to road users. With traffic volumes increasing over the last eight decades, many countries have adopted pictorial signs or otherwise simplified and standardized their signs to facilitate international travel where language differences would create barriers, and in general to help enhance traffic safety. Such pictorial signs use symbols in place of words and are usually based on international protocols. Such signs were first developed in Europe, and have been adopted by most countries to varying degrees. 2nd graders made traffic signs, lights and zebra crossing with their class teacher. Then they were provided with short traffic dialogues then learned by heart. When they were ready, their short scenes were recorded and shown to them as a feedback. 3rd graders made street models with traffic signs. They illustrated by these their road to school or to home and learned many English words about this topic.7th graders made a movie about Pedestrian safety Rules and Cycling Rules, added to the project site. Cycling is fun. Most children like to hop on their bikes and ride into the woods. But sometimes, they also meet with unexpected accidents while crossing a busy traffic signal or a congested street intersection. Therefore, it is the responsibility of parents to teach safety rules to children before allowing them to use their bicycles.
Because we are real artists, we designed Puppets and muppets. There were made many different varieties of puppets, and they were made of a wide range of materials, depending on their form and intended use. Students create extremely complex puppets or very simple in their construction, depending by age, skills, ideas…. As Oscar Wilde wrote, "There are many advantages in puppets. They never argue. They have no crude views about art. They have no private lives.” But certainly they are very interesting and fun made and played!
So…..1,2,3 graders made hand or glove puppets controlled by one hand which occupies the interior of the puppet, made it using paper bags, gloves,socks, for „Fram, the polar bear”.3,4 graders made puppets on wood-spoon or using balloons for „Snow Queen”, „Good girl/bad girl” and „Wizard from Oz”.4th graders made muppets for the musical „Living your childhood can be fun ”, using balloons and papier mache technique. 4th graders made muppets for the musical „Living your childhood can be fun ”, using balloons and papier mache technique.3rd graders made finger puppets for „Aleodor the Emperor”. 3rd graders made shadow puppets - a cut-out figure held between a source of light and a translucent screen.3rd grade students wrote funny short dialogues and staged them using paper puppets. The scenes were recorded many times till the sentences were correct! It was difficult but very interesting and exciting! 3,4 graders designed marionettes or "string puppets"- suspended and controlled by a number of strings attached to the head, back, hands (to control the arms) and just above the knee (to control the legs). Students made these marionettes for a drama -”Nightingale legend” -using woolen yarn, for „Fruits stories” using flour and clay and for the musical presented in Poland, using pappier- mache technique, balloons and colorful paper.
So…..1,2,3 graders made hand or glove puppets controlled by one hand which occupies the interior of the puppet, made it using paper bags, gloves,socks, for „Fram, the polar bear”.3,4 graders made puppets on wood-spoon or using balloons for „Snow Queen”, „Good girl/bad girl” and „Wizard from Oz”.4th graders made muppets for the musical „Living your childhood can be fun ”, using balloons and papier mache technique. 4th graders made muppets for the musical „Living your childhood can be fun ”, using balloons and papier mache technique.3rd graders made finger puppets for „Aleodor the Emperor”. 3rd graders made shadow puppets - a cut-out figure held between a source of light and a translucent screen.3rd grade students wrote funny short dialogues and staged them using paper puppets. The scenes were recorded many times till the sentences were correct! It was difficult but very interesting and exciting! 3,4 graders designed marionettes or "string puppets"- suspended and controlled by a number of strings attached to the head, back, hands (to control the arms) and just above the knee (to control the legs). Students made these marionettes for a drama -”Nightingale legend” -using woolen yarn, for „Fruits stories” using flour and clay and for the musical presented in Poland, using pappier- mache technique, balloons and colorful paper.
Next step was to
designed masks. A mask is an article
normally worn on the face, typically for protection, disguise, performance or
entertainment. Masks have been used since antiquity for both ceremonial and
practical purposes. We used these for carnival and for other school performances.
2,3,4 graders made animal masks using paper, cardboard, canvas, colorful
pencils, scissors, glue, stick, rope, a lot of creativity and they had fun! Of
course, they used English too ! Very nice performances were presented as „Fram
and Rajah-Circus day”, „Nightingale legend” and some of the masks were presented
on the site, using ICT.
It is a tradition of our school community to greet the school day every spring. This year 3rd graders made this in a foreign language too. This time we celebrated this joyous season dressed up so springfully....making flowers costumes from recycled materials and designed Time flowers-flower mind-maps using colourful paper, with different topics as: Irregular verbes in English, English Past Tense, Save the nature!, How to be effective in school….
5,6,7 graders made Flashcards- a set of cards bearing
information, as words or numbers, on either or both sides, used in classroom
drills or in private study. One writes a question on a card and an answer
overleaf. Flashcards have vocabulary, historical dates, crafts , clothes and
other subjects that can be learned via a
question and answer format. Students used flashcards to widely used as a learning drill to aid
memorization by way of spaced repetition.
We wrote and received many interesting
and funny letters. It was an exchange part of our project. Polish,
Turkish and Romanian students exchanged letters and little projects on their
culture and surroundings. The 2,3 graders exhibited the works received from
their Poland peers and the 5,6,7 graders the letters from their Turkish peers
and presented them during a Comenius Week in our School.
All the
participants on the first project meeting in Turkey, students and
teachers , made an e-magazine about
their experiences there, named „Kapadokya moments”, and Turkish students
translate this for their school. After the project meetings on Poland and
Bulgarie, Romanian team made e-magazines too, „Gdansk moment” and „Schumen
moment”, uploaded on our site.
Other e-magazines are „Christmas time”,
„Who we are-amazing nature and history”, „Anime silhouettes”,”My favourites
characters-Harry Potter”, „My hobbies” ,„Our values”, „Our partners”, „Comic
book”, „Traditional Romanian recipes”, „Little poems”, „Environmental
knowledge-home hygiene”, „Romania from ancestor until today –a little history
lesson”, „Our partners”. Some e-magazines are team work , some were made by
students themselves. The topics were chosed by students depending on their
interests and hobbies. All these e-magazines were added on project site and you
are welcome to browse them!
Some
students made brochures with various
topics as eco-problems or presentation of the school or town, using ICT , MSPublisher for example.
Another exchange part
was about magazines.
The sixth graders made magazines devoted to topics as
music, fashion, sports. They sent their works to their peer and received
Turkish projects. Turkish magazine were very interesting!
3rd grade students learned about clothes hanging their favourites pieces
on the classroom. They explained in English why and have been introduced to
their classmates favourites clothes. Then they have designed and coloured
different clothes on worksheets and named all the clothes found there.
7,8 graders made a
fashion parade. They learned that is very difficult to be a model and to
presente in English fabulos clothes.
After that, 3rd graders
made their luggage, ready to go! They have chose a place to go, they looked for
information about that country as continent, capital, interesting towns from
there, what we could visit in that place, how is the weather at different times
of year. So…..with all these in the „English
suitcase”, students travelled around the world, learning about seasons and
suitable clothing, how to prepare a suitcase for travel , what is a „must
have” when they are tourists, what places they must visit
in a lifetime and how to behave in different places, depending on the culture
and local customs. In front of the class simple sentences related to this topic
were spoken and written and we all were excited about the trip!
The other lesson had a
complex topic, our common values, and was more an interactive workshop, because
students and teachers have worked together: presentation of the partners
customs, stories, puzzles, crosswords, songs…..
A few students decide to compose poems, dialogues and sketches or to
design crosswords and it was a huge
surprise for them when their results were outstanding and apreciated by peers
and teachers.
Some of students wrote stories, some illustrated these by
drawings. It was difficult but interesting and funny to discover that we can be
poets or comic-writers.... real authors
!
Because one of our
project goal is to improve the ICT skills, students learned to design web pages. Colourful, with many interesting topics, these
webpages made in the first place as word format, show to the other interests,
hobbies, skills, creativity.
Then students have
improved their work skills in cyberspace and created personal blogs where they posted impressions
about various topics. They learned how to design a blog, how to use all
functions and tools of a blog, how should communicate with other in this way.
The Romanian
team designed a project blog and a project website in English and
Romanian too.These were created in order to fulfill another project requirement, namely
creating website. Not only is it to present project's output but also to
encourage students to create their own websites . The project blog is another chance for the project team to
express themselves. It is supposed to give inspiration to students interested
in creating their own blogs. We chose to post the materials bilingual,
English-Romanian, for all parents and students and everyone who is interested
about our project , to enable reading about the project activities even if they
do not speak English, and …why not…..to „awaken” their interest in learning
English!
Two years ago our journey began with a „suitcase” full of dreams, desires,interests,curiosities, questions, plans for the future…With every imagined and undertaken activity , with every result, we have filled more that „suitcase”. We have put there computer skills working with an improved English, many new knowledge in various fields, huge discoveries about ourselves, many amazing memories, friends for life…
We have a little bit of our journey then we carefully place this „suitcase” in place of honor, not so hidden so that we can use whenever we need!
We are proud of what we created .
We are fulfilled as
HUGE DESIGNERS.
ROMANIAN TEAM
sâmbătă, 30 iunie 2012
duminică, 20 mai 2012
The "Huge Designers" fourth project meeting Tsarkvitsa, Schumen-Bulgaria 7 to 9 May 2012
Here we are, at the last project
meeting hosted by our partner school in the village Tsarkvitsa, Schumen region,
Bulgaria. From School No. 2 Codlea, Brasov-Romania attended three teachers. We
reunited the project team in Bulgaria and our hosts were very welcoming
and eager to integrate us for three days in the small school from the forests,
in whose yard we saw playful squirrels and daily walker hedgehogs who had their
place among children. With traditional bread and salt we have welcomed by students,
accompanied by shy , curiously, interestedly , friendly smiles. We were introduced in the school life Monday, early
in the morning, making us forget the 40 kilometers in the school bus, the
teachers go daily to meet their students.
The first day continued with a
school visit, with the presentations of the teachers and students, with
questions and answers about the education system and of course about writing with
Kiril letters. Since the school was being staged in the final assessments for the
fourth grade, we talk about common issues and differences in assessment in
partner countries. We talked about school dropout situation in schools located
in areas of risk or disadvantaged school population. Only students from the
partners present at this meeting of the project were five Turkish students who
were integrated immediately and have made many friends, Tsarkvitsa being a Turkish community.
The principal of the school, Mrs.
Daniela Doikova, submitted the story of
the school from the beginning until now, familiarizing ourselves with the
personality of Hristo Botev, patron of the school, the school's cultural
rituals and with specific problems of
this community but also all the projects the school has developed over time,
results being visible.
Next....a visit to the Huge Designers-Comenius exhibition, on which
occasion we admired all Bulgarian students' work and we remembered moments and
joint achievements of these two project years.
We watched with interest the English
sketch about close friendship of colours in a rainbow , the importance of each
one and the contribution made to wholeness and beauty of the rainbow , a metaphor
of 'The Same But Different ". Children made puzzles on this issue. As usual, we had project meeting anthem, this time, Bulgarian students have
taught us the song "Heal the World", by Michael Jackson. We were
impressed with the great voice of the students in this school.
Meeting with local authorities ended
the first day experience. Hall Kozlevo is ascribed seven villages, including
Tsarkvitsa. The mayor revealed many problems in common education, but also
talked about the action taken to support school activities. Comenius project
was considered the most important school project in the area, with real
benefits for teachers participating in enriching experience regarding teaching
and for students, as European citizens. The local authorities appreciated that,
through this project, school and community Tsarkvitsa have become more visible
both in the region and at national and European level.
The second day was dedicated to
Bulgaria tourism knowledge. I visited Balchik, residence of Queen Marie of
Romania, feeling us and the wonderful Royal Botanic Garden, discovering the
history and biology in both English and another from the Black Sea. It was a
further lesson in history at Bran Castle in Romania. Then I visited Varna, with
its imposing cathedral, with souvenirs and antiques fairs that fill alleys all
parks. We stopped at the aquarium for unforgettable moments, remains impressed
by the intelligence of dolphins, their ability to communicate and work in team
... a great lesson for us! We do not know which of us was impressed: student or
teacher? Certainly adults enjoyed as a child every moment of the show.
On our way we could admire
cultivated fields, green „ocean” present even in cities, the bloom acacias and we could fill our souls with the glycines
smell enshrouded us everywhere.
Because we were staying in Schumen,
city known since the Thracians time, the
Neolithic, then known as the most important fortified city in the United
Bulgarian Middle Ages, located 20 miles south of Pliska and Veliki Preslav, the
two medieval capitals of the Bulgarian State to more than 300 years, we followed the course
of history by visiting Madara-Reservation and Archaeological and Historical
Complex National Memorial "Founders of the Bulgarian State". Madara
reserve is where life sprang from the stone back in the Neolithic, where today
you can see traces of Thracian sanctuaries, the ruins of pagan temples and Christian
churches from the ninth century, and the monasteries hidden in stone from the
sixteenth century. There is also a stone carving of a horseman, dating from the
eighth century, one of its kind in Europe, which is why Madara Horseman is the
symbol of Bulgaria in 2008 and is included in UNESCO as having inestimable
value. Memorial Complex "Founders Bulgarian State" was built to
commemorate 1300 years since the founding of the Bulgarian state, opened a
museum in 1981. It is a history in stone sculpture and triptych talking about
the Bulgarian state leaders and their rules. Here you can watch historical
documentaries, and guides can talk for hours about the history of these places.
The great monument can be seen from 30 miles away, complementing the plateau of
the Schumen Natural Park.
The third day of the project
meeting meant teachers conference and workshops
where students worked together, a show with traditional Bulgarian music and
dance and planting friendship trees in the school yard of Tsarkvista. Teachers participating in the
meeting presented a draft summary of projects in each school, and discussed the
strengths and difficulties encountered in implementing the project. Was as
final evaluation of the project. Opened a joint account for Picasa album for
uploading photos section, consideration will be given to Romania. Coordinators
discussed the final products , were distributed last tasks between partner
schools, were set last terms to compile
reports, dissemination, uploading materials to project sites, etc.. Each
partner country presented the project book.Turkey and Poland will finalize the
joint project book , Bulgaria will take care of compiling material on internal
assessments of the project and Romania will achieve final DVD project about the
4 meetings and DVD with the shooting made during the two years of development.
Meanwhile, students have worked
together in the workshop "Writing and drawing on board", illustrating
the project findings in terms of children involved.
The show attracted the entire
community, it was another occasion for
celebration. Traditional dances from all ethnographic regions of Bulgaria held
the audience breathless and have reddened hands from stormy applause. Vocal
soloists of school impressed again with
the beauty of music and vocal qualities. The traditional dances that are very
popular in Bulgaria, amazed us with the Bulgarian,
Turkish and Greek blended influences .
Were presented themed parades and dances that students bring to school on all
anniversary events. The audience asked for encores.
In order to remain a sign of our
passing through those places, a sign of our friendship and cooperation as
"huge designers," we planted trees in the schoolyard, puting on their
roots Bulgarian, Turkish, Polish and Romanian soil brought with pride by each
participant country.
Instead of goodbye before leaving
Tsarkvista, we released dozens of
colorful balloons in the air to carry on our friendship, our common memories,
these two years in the Comenius world
as HUGE DESIGNERS....
Mihaela Dan
Project coordinator
School No 2
Codlea-Romania
Proiectul
„Huge Designers”
A IV-a
intalnire de proiect-Tsarkvitsa, Schumen-Bulgaria
07-09 Mai 2012
Iata-ne ajunsi si la ultima
intalnire de proiect gazduita de scoala noastra partenera din satul Tsarkvitsa,
regiunea Schumen, Bulgaria. Din partea
Scolii Generale Nr 2 Codlea, Brasov-Romania au participat trei cadre didactice. Am reintalnit echipa de
proiect din Bulgaria , foarte primitoare si dornica sa ne integreze trei zile
in scoala mica, dintre paduri, in a carei curte am zarit zilnic veverite
jucause si arici plimbareti care isi aveau locul lor binestiut printre copii.
Painea si sarea cu care ne-au intampinat elevii, insotite de zambetele timide,
curioase dar prietenoase, ne-au introdus in viata acestei scoli luni, dis-de
–dimineata, facandu-ne sa uitam de cei 40 km parcursi catre scoala cu
microbuzul care ii duce zilnic pe profesori la intalnirea cu elevii lor.
Prima zi a continuat cu vizitarea
scolii, cu prezentarea cadrelor didactice si a elevilor, cu intrebari si
raspunsuri despre sistemul de educatie si bineinteles despre scrierea cu litere
kirilice. Deoarece tocmai se desfasurau in scoala evaluarile finale pentru cls
a IV-a, s-a discutat si despre aspectele comune si diferentele in evaluare in
tarile partenere. S-a discutat si despre
situatia abandonului scolar in scolile aflate in zone de risc sau cu populatie
scolara dezavantajata. Singurii elevi din scolile partenere prezenti la aceasta
intalnire de proiect au fost cei cinci elevi turci, care s-au integrat imediat
si si-au facut multi prieteni , Tsarkvitsa fiind o comunitate turca.
Directorul scolii, doamna Daniela
Doikova, a prezentat pe larg povestea scolii, de la infiintare si pana in
prezent, familiarizandu-ne cu personalitatea lui Hristo Botev-patronul
spiritual al scolii, cu ritualurile culturale ale scolii, cu problemele
specifice acestei comunitati dar si cu
toate proiectele pe care scoala le-a desfasurat de-a lungul timpului,
rezultatele fiind vizibile.
A urmat vizitarea expozitiei Huge
Designers-Comenius, prilej cu care am admirat cu totii munca elevilor bulgari
si ne-am reamintit momentele si realizarile comune din acesti doi ani de
proiect.
Am urmarit cu interes sceneta in
limba engleza despre prietenia culorilor stranse intr-un curcubeu, despre
importanta fiecareia in parte si despre aportul adus la intregirea si
frumusetea curcubeului, metafora a sintagmei „Different but the same” . Copiii
au confectionat si puzzle-uri pe aceasta tema.Ca de obicei, am avut si la
aceasta intalnire de proiect un imn-de aceasta data, elevii bulgari ne-au
invatat melodia „Heal the world”, a regretatului Michael Jackson. Am fost
impresionati de calitatile vocale deosebite ale elevilor din aceasta scoala.
Intalnirea cu autoritatile locale a
incheiat experienta acestei zile. Primaria Kozlevo are arondate sapte sate,
printre care si Tsarkvitsa. Primarul a dezvaluit multe dintre problemele
educatiei in comuna, dar a vorbit si despre actiunile intreprinse pentru
sustinerea activitatii scolilor. Proiectul Comenius a fost considerat cel mai
important proiect desfasurat de o scoala din zona, cu reale beneficii pentru
profesorii participanti in ceea ce priveste imbogatirea experientei didactice,
cat si pentru elevi, ca cetateni europeni.S-a apreciat de catre autoritatile
locale ca , prin intermediul acestui proiect , scoala si comunitatea din
Tsarkvitsa au devenit mai vizibile atat in regiune cat si la nivel national si
european.
A doua zi a fost dedicata
cunoasterii Bulgariei turistice. Am vizitat Balcicul, resedinta Reginei Maria a
Romaniei, simtindu-ne si noi regali in minunata Gradina Botanica,
descoperind atat istoria si biologia in
limba engleza, cat si o alta fata a Marii Negre. A fost ca o continuare a
lectiei de istorie de la castelul Bran, din Romania si am fost intrebati de
colegii nostri despre alte aspecte istorice legate de Regina Maria. Apoi am
vizitat Varna, cu catedrala ei impunatoare, cu targurile de suveniruri si
antichitati ce umplu aleile tuturor parcurilor. Ne-am oprit la delfinariu
pentru clipe de neuitat, ramanand impresionati de inteligenta delfinilor, de
capacitatea acestora de a comunica si de a lucra in echipa… o adevarata lectie
pentru noi! Nu stim sigur care dintre noi
a fost mai impresionat: elevul sau profesorul? Cu siguranta adultii s-au
bucurat ca in copilarie de fiecare moment al spectacolului.
Pe drum am putut admira campurile
cultivate, oceanul de verdeata prezent
chiar si in orase, salcamii infloriti si ne-am putut umple sufletele cu mirosul
glicinelor ce ne invaluia de pretutindeni.
Deoarece am fost cazati in Schumen,
oras cunoscut inca de pe vremea tracilor, din Neolitic, apoi cunoscut ca cel
mai important oras fortificat din Regatul Bulgar in Evul Mediu, aflat la 20
kilometri distanta de Pliska si Veliki Preslav, cele doua capitale ale Statului Bulgar medieval pentru mai mult de
300 de ani, am urmat cursul istoriei vizitand Madara-Rezervatia Arheologica si
Istorica Nationala si Complexul Memorial „Founders of the Bulgarian State”.
Rezervatia Madara este locul unde viata a izvorat din piatra, demult, in
Neolitic, unde azi se pot vedea urme ale sanctuarelor trace, ale templelor
pagane dar si ruine ale bisericilor crestine din sec. IX, si ale manastirilor
ascunse in piatra din sec XIV. Tot aici se gaseste o sculptura in piatra a unui
calaret, datand din sec VIII, singura de acest gen din Europa, fapt pentru care
Madara Horseman este simbolul Bulgariei din 2008 si este inscris in patrimoniul
UNESCO ca avand o inestimabila valoare. Complexul memorial „Fondatorii statului
Bulgar” a fost construit pentru a aniversa 1300 de ani de la fondarea statului
bulgar, deschis ca muzeu in 1981. Este o istorie in piatra care vorbeste prin sculpturi si
triptice despre conducatorii statului bulgar si legiferarile acestora. Tot aici
se pot urmari documentare istorice, iar ghidul poate vorbi doritorilor ore in
sir despre istoria acestor locuri. Maretul monument se poate observa de la 30
km distanta, incununand platoul Parcului Natural Schumen.
A treia zi a intalnirii de proiect a
insemnat conferinta profesorilor, atelier comun de lucru al elevilor, un
spectacol cu muzica si dansuri traditionale bulgaresti si plantarea copaceilor
prieteniei in curtea scolii din Tsarkvista. Cadrele didactice participante la
intalnirea de proiect au prezentat un rezumat al proiectului desfasurat in
fiecare scoala, s-au discutat punctele tari si greutatile intampinate in
implementarea proiectului. S-a realizat astfel evaluarea finala a proiectului.
S-a deschis un cont comun pentru un album Picassa, pentru incarcarea
fotografiilor pe sectiuni, cont ce va fi administrat de Romania.Coordonatorii
proiectului au discutat despre produsele finale, s-au impartit ultimele sarcini
intre scolile partenere, s-au fixat ultimele termene pentru realizarea
rapoartelor, diseminarilor, incarcarea materialelor pe site-urile proiectului,
etc. Fiecare tara partenera a prezentat cartea proiectului.Turcia si Polonia
vor definitiva cartea comuna a proiectului, Bulgaria se va ocupa de compilarea
materialelor privind evaluarile interne ale proiectului, iar Romania va
definitiva realizarea dvd-ului despre cele 4 intalniri de proiect si a dvd-ului cu filmarile
realizate de fiecare scoala partenera de-a lungul activitatilor din cei doi ani
de derulare.
In acest timp, elevii au lucrat
impreuna in atelierul „Writing and drawing on board”, ilustrand concluziile
proiectului din punctul de vedere al copiilor implicati.
Spectacolul a atras intreaga
comunitate, fiind inca un prilej de sarbatoare. Dansurile traditionale din
toate zonele etnografice ale Bulgariei au tinut audienta cu sufletul la gura si
au inrosit palmele de la aplauzele furtunoase. Solistii vocali ai scolii au
impresionat din nou prin calitatile vocale si prin frumusetea muzicii populare
in care s-au impletit influentele bulgaresti cu cele turcesti si grecesti.
Ne-au fost prezentate parade si dansuri tematice pe care elevii scolii le
prezinta la toate evenimentele aniversare. S-au cerut nenumarate bis-uri …..
Pentru ca sa ramana un semn al
trecerii noastre prin acele locuri, un semn al colaborarii si al prieteniei
noastre ca si „huge designers”, am plantat copacei in curtea scolii, punand la
radacina lor pamant bulgaresc, turcesc, polonez si romanesc, pamant pe care
fiecare participant l-a adus cu mandrie din tara lui.
In loc de ramas bun, inainte de a
pleca din Tsarkvista, am dat drumul in aer zecilor de baloane multicolore care
sa poarte mai departe prietenia noastra, amintirile noastre comune, acesti doi
ani petrecuti in lumea proiectelor Comenius, ca HUGE DESIGNERS….
Mihaela Dan
Coordonator proiect
Scoala Generala Nr 2 Codlea
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