Using information about the hollidays celebrated in every country from the Erasmus Team, our children designed calendars for the next year. Here are our calendars to remind the most important events.
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Using information about the hollidays celebrated in every country from the Erasmus Team, our children designed calendars for the next year. Here are our calendars to remind the most important events.
Even if Halloween is an american event, our children enjoy to celebrate it every year. The children use to wear strange costumes and to scarry everybody. They also like to bring at school pumpkins with happy or ugly faces. We learn at school about the meaning of this celebration for other people. We have a similar celebration named Saint Andrew but we celebrate it on 30 of November.
5th October represents the day for celebrating education and the teachers. We have a different schedule with activities wich involves the children and also the teachers. With this ocasion, we mark the importance of education for every child. Education creates great personalities !
Every year, we celebrate The Children s Day (1 st of June). We like very much this special day, because we play different games at school, we have drawing competitions, we sing and dance...It is a very beautiful celabration because the teachers become children again.
Our children created postcards with national traditional costumes from the countries involved in the Erasmus Project. Here are 6 postcards representing Poland, Estonia, Spain, Italy, Greece and Romania :) We hope you like it.
And here are other postcards with wishes for our parteners...
The children from our Erasmus team created brochures with the local customs. Here are some of the leaflets showing romanian traditions.
On 15 January we celebrate the birthday of our national poet, Mihai Eminescu. Our local Literature teacher, Georgiana Craciunoiu organized a competition with drawings inspired by the themes of the poetries created by Eminescu. The best creations were exposed on our school s walls, to be seen by everybody. The children recieved diplomas for their activity. Also, their were involved in a competition organized with the other schools from Prahova district and they won the 4th price. With this ocasion we want to congratulate them.
25 October is a very important day for the romanians because we celebrate the Romanian Army. In the honour of the romanian soldiers who defetead the country during the past, the History teacher remainded to the pupils the local soldiers who died in The First World War and during The Second World War.
The children from the romanian Erasmus Team want to present you their research on the local customs. Our school celebrate every year these traditions. We celebrate Christmas in December, Dragobete - the romanian love s day (24 February), Martisorul - 1 of March, Mother s Day - 8 of March, Easter and Childrens Day - 1 of June. We are happy to show you some pictures from these events :)
By Lorena Matei
I would like to give you the recipe of a traditional Romanian dish: polenta (mamaliga). It used to be consumed on a daily basis at the countryside and it replaced bread. Today polenta is an excellent side dish for sarmale (sufeed cabbage rolls) or stews.
You will need:
- 4 cups of water
- 1 pound ground cornmeal
- 1 teaspoon of salt
How to prepare it: Bring to boil the water in a large pot with the salt, then simmer and pour with a steady stream the cornmeal. Stir constantly for about 20 minutes with a wooden spoon. The cooked mamaliga should be thick enough to stay in place on a wooden plate
Every time there is a celebration in our school (National Day, Christmas, Easter) we proudly wear a traditional costume
Our Romanian cuisine contains a few different types of dishes, which are sometimes included under a generic term; for example, the category "ciroba" includes a wide range of soups with a characteristic sour taste. These may be meat and vegetable soups, tripe and calf foot soups, or fish soups, all of which are soured bylemon juice, sauerkraut juice,vinegar, orborș(traditionally made from bran).
One of the most common meals is the mămăligă, a type of polenta, served on its own or as an accompaniment. Pork is the main meat used in Romanian cuisine, but also beefis consumed and a good lamb or fish dish is never to be refused.
Before Christmas, a pig is traditionally sacrificed by every rural family. A variety of foods for Christmas are prepared from the slaughtered pig, such as:
The Christmas meal is sweetened with the traditional cozonac, a sweet bread made from nuts, poppy seeds, or rahat (Turkish delight).
At Easter, lamb is served: the main dishes are borș de miel (lamb sour soup), roast lamb, and drob de miel – a Romanian-style lamb haggis made from minced offal (heart, liver, lungs), lamb meat and spring onions with spices, wrapped in a caul and roasted. The traditional Easter cake is pască, a pie made from yeast dough with a sweet cottage cheese filling at the center.
Romanian pancakes, called clătite, are thin (like the French crêpe) and can be prepared with savory or sweet fillings: ground meat, cheese, or jam. Different recipes are prepared depending on the season or the occasion.