Newsletter number 2December 2009

Welcome to this our second newsletter. Since the first one there have been two meetings, one in Iceland and one in Hungary. Everyone enjoyed the opportunity to get together and to discuss a variety of topics. Everyone is now looking forward to the next meeting in France in February 2010 and then to Wales .

Contents;

Hungary……………………………………………..……….pages 3 - 8

Iceland……………………………………………..……….pages 9 - 14

Italy………………………………………………..……….pages 15 - 19

Spain……………………………………………………….pages 20 - 25

France…………………………………………………….pages 26 - 31

Wales…………………………………………………….…pages 32 - 37

There are 2 teams. Both teams choose a captain. They stand behind the basic lines opposite the enemy group. The players and the captain try to help each other. After deciding which group starts, the first player throws the ball at one of the players of the other group. The player, who is thrown out, must go behind the basic line next to his/her captain. Both the captain and the players can aim at the enemies. If the ball doesn’t hit a player- another player can continue the game. If the ball is out, it means it is the captain’s turn.

Rules: -if the ball hits the player, he/she must go behind the basic line

-if you catch the ball, you are not out-if the ball bounces on the ground, you are not out- the players must not step over the lines

Egyik kedvenc testnevelés órai játékunk a “Seregfogyasztó”, avagy “Tűzharc”.

Szeretnénk ezt a játékot partnereinkkel is megismertetni, ezért küldi a 3. A osztály a szabályt és néhány fotót.

One of our favourite games in P.E lessons is: SHOOT-OUT

There are 12-30 players.Need: a ball (plastic, rubber)

Place: like in the drawing

According to our sport survey, cycling is the most popular sport

among the students in Botev school.

OUTSIDE ACTIVITIES:Sport in Botev School

In old times dancing was the primary source of recreation for village people. Line-, circle-, jumping dances,solo men, women and children's dances can be all found among our folkdances.Folk dances can teach us how to use our body in harmony with the music. We often use utensils (sticks, bottles or cushions).We can learn how to handle the tools and take care of each other. You can see a girls's circle dance in the photos and you can learn it if you visit our blog:www.sidebysidehun.blogspot.com

Folk costumes in Hungary

Yard games/Udvari játékok

Instructions:Children stand in a circle with hands at their

backs. One child walks outside the circle with a handkerchief in her hand trying to flap the

others' hands or shoulders. At the end of the song she/he drops the hanky behind a fellow and

starts to run. The person picks the hanky and tries to catch the runner, who dropped the

hanky before, if he can't, the runner will take his/her place and he/she will be the next person

to walk around.

"I am taking fire, can't you see" / Tüzet viszek

Hajdan évenként egyszer, nagyszombaton szítottak új tüzet. A szentelt tűz maradványának különféle praktikákban nagy szerepet tulajdonítottak, például kivitték a szántóföldre, szőlőbe, hogy a termést ne érje jégverés, hogy a föld termékeny legyen. E hagyományt őrzi ez a játékdal is.

In old days people only made fire at Easter. The ashes of the saint fire had great importance in different practices, they took them to the field or vineyard for example to have protection against hailstorms or to ensure the soil's fertility. This song with the following game is in tribute to making fires in those days...

Video: www.egryovi.blogspot.com

Ingredients (for 4 persons):600 g beef sheen or shoulder in cubes2 tablespoons oil2 medium chopped onions, 2 cloves of garlic1-2 diced carrots, 1 diced parsnip1-2 celery leaves2 medium tomatoes, peeled and chopped, 2 fresh green peppers2-3 potatoes, sliced1 tablespoon Hungarian paprika powder1 teaspoon caraway seed1 bayleafblack pepper and salt water

Instruction:Heat up the oil in a pot and braise the chopped onions in it until they get a golden brown colour.Sprinkle the onions with paprika powderAdd the beef cubes and and fry them for a while with little water.Add the chopped garlic, the caraway seed, some salt and ground black pepper, the bayleaf, pour water and let it simmer.When the meat is half-cooked, add the diced carrots,parsnip and the potatoes, the celery leaf and some more salt if necessary. When the vegetables and the meat are almost done, add the tomato cubes and the sliced green peppers. Let it cook for another few minutes. Bring the soup to the boil and add „ csipetke” dough, it needs about 5 minutes to get cooked. How to make the csipetke: beat up a small egg, add a pinch of salt and as much flour as you need to knead a stiff dough (you can add some water if necessary).Flatten the dough between your palms (1 cm thick) and pinch small,bean-sized pieces from it and add them to the boiling soup.

Hungarian paprika facts:-Paprika powder is produced by grinding the dried deep red paprika pods of the pepper plant (Capsicum annum L. is the botanical name) -It can be sweet, mildly hot and very hot,-The fresh red pepper is rich in vitamin C (150mg/100g paprika) and other important minerals.

Hungarian Goulash

Traditional Hungarian Recipes

Hungarian CuisineVaried, creative

dishes,rich flavourToo many fat

Not for people on dietToo much calory

Ingredients:1 kg flour20 g yeast15 g salt

250 g potatoes, boiled and riced100 ml warm water

Instruction:Dissolve the yeast in the warm water and mix in three tablespoons of the flour, leave it for a bit. Put the flour in a deep bowl. Add the potatoes and the yeast mixture and some warm salted water. Knead until the dough easily comes off the sides of the bowl.Cover and leave it in a warm place for at least one hour.Before putting it in the oven, slash the top with a sharp knife. Bake in a good hot oven for 50 minutes.

Typical Hungarian Bread

Stuffed paprika

500g minced meat1 small onion1 spoon fat100 g rice200 g tomato purée100 g flour10 pcs big green pepper2 pcs eggs1 clove of garliccelery leaf50 g celery

1 L bone soupsalt, paprika powder, pepper, sugar, majoram

Ingredients: Instruction:

Wash and clean the greenpepper. Put the minced meat in a bowl, add the half steamed rice and the whole eggs. Spice it with majoram, paprika powder, and with garlic. Mixed it and stuff the mixture into the greenpeppers.Make a roux on fat from flour, add the tomato purée and the bone soup to it. Mix it smooth and boil it. Salt it, add some sugar, the celery leaf, the clean celery and the onion. During the boiling put the stuffed paprikas into it. Cover it and cook it for aboout one hour. Serve it with cooked potato.

Ingredients:

1 qt. milk to boil6 eggs, separated

6 tbsp. sugar1 tsp. vanilla

1/2 c. cold milkBeat egg whites until stiff. Boil milk and add half of sugar. Drop tablespoonsful of egg whites into boiling milk. Turn on other side after a few seconds. Take

out boiled whites and place in a flat dish. Continue this until all whites are used. Put egg yolks and rest of sugar

in a bowl and beat well. Add cold milk. Add yolk mixture to boiling milk and cook for one minute. Add vanilla. Cool.

Pour this custard on top of egg fluffs. Serve cold.

The Hungarian Floating Islands or Madártej (as we call it in Hungarian, that means Bird's Milk) originally is Bourbon-vanilla custard in a chilled glass cup with whipped egg-whites dumplings floating on top.

Floating IslandMadártej

Another sweet thing fromHungary

Túró Rudi is the name of a chocolate bar popular in Hungary

since the 1960s. The chocolate bar is composed of a thin outer

coating of chocolate and an inner filling of túró/sweet cottage

cheese. "Rudi" comes from the Hungarian "rúd", rod. Rudi is also

a nickname for the male first name Rudolf in Hungary). All

children love Túró Rudi in Hungary.

If you are in Hugary, don’t forget to taste it.

Enjoy your meal!

Real News from Iceland

Gimli activitiesCat and Mouse

The children form a circle and pick one to be the mouse

and one to be the cat. The point of the game is that the cat

chases the mouse and the participants help the mouse by

blocking the cats entranceway into the circle by ducking

down and thereby closing the route into the circle We often take a walk in

our neighborhoodWe love our parachute

Sometimes we visit the town sport hall where

we always have a great time jumping and

running all over the place

Köttur og mús

(cat and mouse)

GIMLIWe bake our own birthday cake at school

Birthday Cake (without eggs and milk)

6 dl wheat 2 dl cocoa 3 dl sugar 1 tsp baking soda 1 tsp salt 1 tsp baking powder

1-2 tsp vanilla drops 1 dl cooking oil 6 dl water

Dry ingredients mixed into a bowl Liquid’s added and mixed

Baked at 180° C for 20 minutes in an oven

Afmæli = Birthaday Vinir = Friends Blaðra = Balloon Gjafir = Presents

Njarðvíkurskóli Our outdoor facilities

Indoor facilities

We had very nice presents from a former student of Njarðvíkurskóli

a billiard table and a soccer game

My favoriteChildren in 8th. and 3rd. class tell us “what is their most favorite food”

What do you usually have for breakfast?Honey nut cheerios (2)

Weetos, Boost,

Cheerios (3)Coca cola.

Cocoa puffs (2)toast

nothing (4)

What is your favorite drink?Dr. Pepper (3) Energy drink,

Cult energy drink (3)Monster Cool aid

Coca cola (3)Root bear

BurnPepsi

What is your favorite food?Fish in roman style

Smoked porkPizza (4)

Chicken saladLobster (2)

Icelandic lamb soup (2)Pasta (2)

HamburgerFish

8th. graders

13 years old

What do you usually have for breakfast?

Oat cereal Toast (2)

Cheerios (3)Lucky charms

CornflakesOatmealYogurt

What is your favorite drink?Cool aidWater(3)

Boost with fruits (2)Sprite (2)

Coca Cola (2)Milk

What is your favorite food?Hamburger (2)

Meat ballsRice pudding

Pizza (2)Fried fish (roman style)

PitaBoiled fish

2. and 3rd.graders

7- 8 years old

8th. graders

2. and 3rd. graders

During the school year children in Njarðvíkurskóli

participate in all kinds of sport activities

The Nordic school run or Norræna skólahlaupið The school athletic day or Íþróttadagur Njarðvíkurskóla Basketball

tournament or Körfuboltamót Football tournament or Fótboltamót Handball tournament or Handboltamót and

Skólahreysti or The Fitness competition for secondary students

Norræna skólahlaupið

Íþróttadagur

Njarðvíkurskóla

Musicin Njarðvíkurskóli

All young students in Njarðvíkurskóli take music classes

Here they are in a concert

Many older students also take music classes in Njarðvíkurskóli

We also get visits from professional musicians that play for us

That is sometimes really amazing

Real News from Italy

Hello everybody! We are children from nursery school. Together with our teachers and grandmothers we are making BREAD!!!

It is a great fun to mix flour, eggs, salt, yeast, water and then knead all together with our hands. Then with the mixture we make “panini”.

Bread: essential part of an Italian menu

Ecco i bambini della scuola materna alle prese con la preparazione del Pane.

Raccolti gli ingredienti,

i bambini hanno impastato la farina, poi con l’aiuto delle nonne, hanno fatto

delle belle e buone “rosette!!!!

Che divertimento!!!! Sporcarsi le mani

con la farina!!!

And finally…..here they are our fantastic and delicious rolls

( rosette)!!!!!!

Butter: essential ingredient in our Italian cuisine

This is a traditional afternoon break: bread, butter and sugar. Even our parents ate it!!!

Pane burro e zucchero ..la ricetta dei nonni che piace tanto ai bambini!!

Everyone wants to taste our butter. Does it taste good?

What a magic experiment!! Cream has become butter!!

From milk to cheese.Our grandmothers are teaching us how to make cheese. We are checking if milk is becoming thick.

Now we are putting some soft cheese into small tins. Then we have to wait for some days.

Finally our caciotta is ready. It tastes good!!!!

Che emozione!!! Siamo riusciti a fare il formaggio…

e che buono!!!

Are you ready with your muscles? Let’s beat with energy the bottle with the cream inside. What will it happen?

Pasta e fasioi (pasta and beans)

Pasta e fagioli is a

traditional meatless

Italian dish that is now

a frequent menu item

throughout the world.

The dish started as a

peasant dish, due to

cheaply available beans

and pasta. Today it can

be widely found, even in

restaurants.

It is made with borlotti

beans and some type of

small pasta such as

elbow macaroni. The

base is generally olive

oil, garlic, minced onion,

and spices.

Venetians use to eat it

during the Redentore

Night in July!!

It consists of a starter, main course: 2 dishes and a dessert.

DELICIOUS!!!!!!!

But what children and teenagers like most is pizza and especially pizza with chips and packed lunch!!!!

Pizza is a world-popular dish of Italian origin, it is made with an oven-baked, flat, generally round bread that is covered with tomatoes and mozzarella cheese. Other toppings are added according to region, culture, or personal preference.

If you want to know more about some Typical Venetian dishes, don’t forget to visit our blog!!!

A TYPICAL ITALIAN MENU

Guess what!!!! These are the Frenchdishes we ate during our school trip to Ouistreham.

YARD GAMES CAMPANON

TIRO ALLA FUNEWho is the strongest ????

GIROTONDO

We usually play many yard games during our break from school. These are only some examples.That is a track for bottle caps.

Quello che vedete è il gioco dei tappi. Vince chi riesce a lanciare il tappo più lontano.

We have great fun playing “campanon”, we like drawing squares, circles and numbers. You have to throw a stone and then….Jump on one foot…..Dopo aver disegnato il campanon con i gessetti colorati, ci siamo divertiti a giocare.

LE CONTEWe usually make a circle and

recite a rhyme when we want to select a person to

be “it”. These are some examples:

Here we are with our parents in a big circle while singing:Giro girotondocasca il mondocasca la terratutti giù per terra!!!!!!!!

Ambarabà ciccì coccòtre civette sul comòche facevano l'amore

con la figlia del dottore

il dottore si ammalòambarabà ciccì coccò.

Do re mi, Empoli Empoli, Cingoli CingoliLuglio agosto e poi poi poiBuone buone festebuone buone festenoi faremo flic floc flac.

A wonderful school trip to Ouistreham

These are some postcards from our trip to France. It was a wonderful experience to meet new friends and visit their school and some interesting places: St. Pierre and the Castle in Caen, Mont Saint Michel and Bayeux.

Here we are outside “Les Marines”, the youth hostel where we stayed for five days. Che divertimento lanciare in aria i nostri berretti rossi!!!!!! We are in the

lagoon to fish crabs, shrimps and other shell fish !!!Eccoci qui tutti impantanati nel fango…con le scarpe da ginnastica!!!!!!!! E i nostri amici francesi con gli stivali!!!!

What a rainy day!!! We are going to visit St. Pierre’s church in Caen.In questa giornata di pioggia, stiamo andando a visitare una chiesa, con delle bellissime vetrate colorate.

The teacher from our Nursery School “Girasole” is giving some little gifts to the French children.

This is “le Mont Saint Michel”: what a wonderful place! E’ stato bellissimo visitare questo posto suggestivo. E’ un’abbazia che assomiglia molto a un castello. Che camminata!! Ma ne è valsa veramente la pena per vedere un paesaggio mozzafiato!Ed eccoci qui pronti a ritornare a casa e a scuola!!!! Now we are ready to start our Junior Secondary School!!!!

EL TEJE (HOPSKOTCH)You throw a rock into box nr 1. Don´t let the rock touch the borders of the box.Jump into box nr. 2 on one foot. In that same position, jump through the boxes until you reach the end. You may then land on 2 feet once you reach the last box. Repeat this process on the way back and pick up the rock once you return to box one. The rock must now be thrown into box nr. 2 and the player must jump all the way through to the last box and then, all the way back to box nr 1. Repeat this process until 9 rounds have been completed. Whoever can complete all 9 rounds without error (touching a border or landing on 2 feet) wins !. If you commit an error, you are out and it´s the next players turn.

En este juego, se

hace un dibujo

con una tiza en la

acera, calle,

cancha... Se

utiliza un objeto

para lanzar a

modo de laja.

Real News from Spain

LA COMBA (JUMP ROPE)

Se juega con una cuerda. Dos jugadores

la agarran, uno por cada extremo, para

dar vueltas a la cuerda. Los demás se

colocan en fila para ir pasando a saltar

sin perder turno, una vez que empieza a

saltar el primero

You play with a rope. Someone grabs the rope at each end. The rope is then swung in circles as someone in the middle repeatedly jumps over it. You can have many people in a line jumping over the rope. Anyone who does not jump over the rope or trips on it, has to switch places with the person swinging the rope.

There are many songs that accompany this game with various rithms. Songs are sung together while the game goes on.

EL JUEGO DE LA SILLA(MUSICAL CHAIRS)

Se cuenta el número de

participantes y se ponen en el

centro de un gran círculo otras

tantas sillas, menos una, de

forma que en un momento dado

todos, menos uno, se puedan

sentar. Se pone música y todos

bailan

• To play this game you need chairs and music that can be played and stopped as you wish. You need as many chairs as you have people, minus one.

•Put the seats in a circle with the backs of the seats facing each other. The players need to be standing in front of the chairs. Meanwhile, one person control the music.

•When the music starts, players need to walk in circles around the chairs. When the music stops, each player must inmediately find a chair to seat in.One person will be left without a chair and this person is out. After each round, remove a chair.

•This repeat each time.The music stops and starts. The game goes on until 2 people compete for one chair. The last one remaining with a chair, wins !!

INGREDIENTS

2 cups olive oil.Four large potatoes (peel and cut into small pieces about 2mm thick).Salt to taste.One large onion thinly sliced.Four large eggs.

Heat the oil in medium flame, add potato pieces, and onion. COOK slowly, . DO NOT FRY!! Turn occasionally until potatoes are tender, but NOT brown

Beat eggs in a large bowlwith a fork. Salt to taste.Add potatoes to beaten eggs,pressing them so that eggscover them completely. Letsit for 15 minutes. Heat 2tbsps of the oil in largeskillet. Add potato-eggmixture, spreading quickly.Lower the heat to medium-high. Shake pan to preventsticking (crucial step!!) Whentortilla start to brown, put aplate on top skillet and flip tocook other side, addinganother tbsp of oil.

After cooking, the tortilla can be cut into pizza-like triangles to serve 4-6 people, or cut into squares to give a whole group a bite-sized toothpick sample.

SPANISH TORTILLA(from Claudio´s kitchen)

It´s super for parties or picnics, you can cook it the

previous day and eat it hot or cold

Este plato se come en todas las familias españolas. Combina bien

con el tomate, el pimiento…. Se puede tomar tal cual o en salsa y ,

sobre todo está más rica aún cuando se comparte con los amigos.

GAZPACHO ( from Ines´and Javier´s kitchen)

NATURAL, CHEAP, EASY TO MAKE AND VERY HEALTHY.

There might be as many recipes of gazpacho as families are in Spain.

Fruto de la sabiduría popular, este plato combina , como ningún otro, los sabores uniendo placer y salud. Importante utilizar materia prima de calidad

( básico aceite de oliva virgen extra).

Ripe tomatoes, at least1 kg. And water, as much as you like.

a clove of garlic

All is mixed until everything is

blended "homogeneously". Take a

spoonful and taste it. At this point

you can decide what is missing,

what is in excess, etc. You can

experiment with the recipe: some

people like the gazpacho very thick,

so they add a lot of bread, while

some others like it very liquidly, and

they add more water instead, or

less bread, whatever.

Salt and vinegar to taste

Cut some bread, half

of this, ( can be a

hard one) and soak it

in water.

You do not need to

peel the cucumber (1)

or the tomatoes or

remove the seeds from

Anything- add 1 pepper

too-

A glass of olive oil.

It is served like cold

soup and can

accompany on garrison

to own proper taste as

like for example:

Orange, ham , hard-

boiled egg ,bread -

peppers , onion …

1. Pour milk together with the lemon zest, salt and the cinnamon stick, into a large pot and add the rice when the milk starts boiling, once it boils again we’ll reduce heat to very low. We have to stir it with a wooden spoon, all the time, for about , at least, one hour.

2. Add the sugar and the butter and stir it ten minutes more.

3. Remove the cinnamon stick and lemon peel . Serve hot or cold, sprinkling the top with some ground cinnamon.

INGREDIENTS:

•Rice (150grs) (Short

Grain Rice)

•Milk (3 litres)

•Sugar (300grs)

•A pinch of Salt

•1 Lemon (or orange)

zest

•1 stick Cinnamon

/Ground cinnamon.

•Butter (125 grs)

ARROZ CON LECHE( from Marta´s kitchen)Tan básico como leche, arroz y azúcar. Mientras lo preparas se llena la casa de un olor a dulce hogar. Quizá sea el mejor alimento, después de la leche materna, claro.

Nursery school / Ecole Madame René COTY / 2 to 5 years old

The pupils from the Nursery school present two delicious dessert recipes : the « clafoutis » and the « marbled cake ».

Les élèves de l’Ecole Maternelle vous présentent deux savoureuses recettes de dessert faciles à réaliser : le clafoutis et le gâteau marbré.

Cook at 210°C for 30 minutes

You just have to mix the ingredients in a salad bowl, in the order of the list.

Then put in the oven at 180°C for 35 minutes.

Marbled cake

Dans un saladier, mélangez les ingrédients dans l’ordre et dans les quantités indiquées.

Puis placez au four à 180°C pendant 35 min.

Nursery school / Ecole Madame René COTY / 2 to 5 years old

BAKING POWDER

Primary school / Ecole Elémentaire Jean CHARCOT / 8 to 11 years old

LES CREVETTES AU CIDRE / CIDER SHRIMPS

Pour 4 personnes

500 gr de crevettes grises vivantes

50 cl de cidre brut

Gros sel de mer

1 feuille de laurier

1 brin de thym

Poivre noir

• Versez le cidre dans une grande sauteuse. Ajoutez 50 cl d’eau,1 poignée de gros sel, 1 cuillère à soupe de poivre, le laurier et le thym. Portez à ébullition.

• Jetez les crevettes dans le liquide bouillant et laissez cuire à découvert sur feu vif de 3 à 4 minutes en finissant à pleine ébullition.

• Egouttez les crevettes et servez-les chaudes, avec du pain de campagne et du beurre bien frais.

For 4

500 gr of shrimps

50 cl of cider

Sea salt

1 laurel leaf

Some thyme

Pepper

• Pour cider into a big shallow pan. Add 50 cl of water, some sea salt, 1 spoonful of pepper, laurel and thyme. Bring to the boil.

• Drop shrimps into the boiling liquid and let it cook, without covering , for 3 or 4 minutes.

• Then, drain off the liquid, and serve the shrimps while hot, with crusty bread and fresh butter.

CROQUE-MONSIEUR NORMAND / NORMAN « CROQUE-MONSIEUR »

Pour 6 personnes

. 1,5 kg de pommes

. 4 cuillères à soupe de calvados

. 120 gr de beurre

. 1 camembert

. 1 pain de mie

For 6

. 1.5KG of apples. 4 spoons of “calvados”

(strong norman apple alcohol). 120 gr of butter

. 1 “camembert”(famous norman cheese)

. 1 sliced loaf• Préchauffez le gril du four.

• Lavez les pommes, coupez-les en quatre, retirez cœur et pépins et émincez-les en fines lamelles.

• Versez le calvados dans un petit plat à four et mettez-y les pommes à macérer quelques minutes.

• Beurrez les tranches de pain de mie puis tartinez-en six de lamelles de camembert.

• Ajoutez une belle couche de lamelles de pommes se chevauchant et recouvrez les croques avec les 6 autres tartines beurrées.

• Passez-les sous le gril quelques minutes de chaque côté.

• Heat the grill of the oven.

• Wash apples, cut them in 4, take out pips and cut into fine slices.

• Pour Calvados in a small ovenproof dish and macerate apples for a few minutes.

• Butter 6 slices of the bread, add slices of camembert and a thick layer of apples to the dry side of bread.

• Cover with another buttered slice of bread, buttered side facing outwards.

•Toast each side for a few minutes under the grill.

Primary school / Ecole Elémentaire Jean CHARCOT / 8 to 11 years old

Primary school / Ecole Elémentaire Jean CHARCOT / 8 to 11 years old

The aim of the hopscotch game is to throw a flat stone on different squares of the game and to hop on each square to the end. However he must not hop on the square with the stone. On the return journey the player picks up the stone in order to give it to the next player. (The only squares on which the player is allowed to put both feet are the twin squares : 4 / 5 and 7 / 8, one foot in each square). When one of the players has thrown the stone on the right square (in increasing order) he can hop there and back on the game.If he misses :

• when throwing the stone out of the aimed square• or when the stone lands on the line of the aimed square

he has to go to the sky part and wait there until a player manages to reach him on his following turn. Then he can be “freed” (by following the player who has just freed him on his return journey) and take part in the game again.A player loses his turn when picking up the stone on one foot he loses balance and puts two feet on the game.

The squares go up to 8 plus a special half circle pattern (called the “sky”) on top of the game. Therefore there are 8 stages to the game. Then the game is over for the winner and the other players carry on.

The hopscotch gameLa marelle

This game is very popular in French school yards and it is played by both girls and boys.

A pattern is drawn on the ground with a piece of chalk (though nowadays many school yards have a hopscotch pattern already painted in the yard).

You also can see a video on our site : http://sidebysidefrance.blogspot.com/

The knuckle bones game / Les osseletsIt used to be a popular game in school yards. Then it almost disappeared. We’re trying to make it come back into fashion.There are 7 stages and it’s best played by no more than four players :

The one / The two / The three / The four / The Eiffel tower / The pancake / The final stage : the skull and cross bones

Explanation of the first four stages :Stage one : One of the knuckle bones is red and is called the “father”. The other knuckle bones are grey. The game is played with only one hand (right for the right handed and left for the left handed). The player throws the five knuckle bones on the ground, picks up the father, throws it in the air and while the father is in the air, he must pick up, with the same hand, one of the knuckle bones that’s on the ground and catch the father before it touches the ground. The player puts aside the knuckle bone he’s caught and does the same with the remaining knuckle bones, one after the other.

Primary school / Ecole Elémentaire Jean CHARCOT / 8 to 11 years old

The player continues playing until he makes a mistake (for example if he picks up two knuckle bones instead of one or if he fails to pick the grey knuckle up whilst the red one is in the air) he must hand the knuckle bones to the player next to him. When he is able to play again, he starts his game where

he left off.Stage two : It’s the same procedure as stage one . Except that he has to pick up the knuckle bones two by two. Stage three : This time the player has to pick up three knuckle bones and then the last remaining knuckle bone on the final throw.Stage four : The player has to pick up the four knuckle bones in one go.

The winner of the game is the one among the four players :• who has managed to succeed in the seven stages• and who has won the most points on the pan-cake stage (the sixth one).

More explanations and video on our site : http://sidebysidefrance.blogspot.com/Final stage : the skull

Colour Mixing in the Rain! / Cymysgu Lliwiau yn y Glaw!

Peintio Tu Allan / Painting Outside

Adeiladu Den / Den BuildingPalu yn y Pridd / Digging in

the Soil!

REAL news from WALES

The farmer wants a wifeAll the children stand in a large circle holding hands, a child is chosen to play the farmer and stands in the middle of the circle. The children in the outer circle then walk around the farmer singing“The farmer wants a wife, the farmer wants a wife, hey ho, dee hey dee, ho, the farmer wants a wife”, the farmer then chooses a wife from the outer circle to join him in the middle, they then hold hands creating an inner circle. The game continues, finishing once all the verses have been sung.

The song sung during the game:Verse 1The farmer wants a wife ,the farmer wants a wife, hey ho, dee, hey dee, ho, the farmer wants a wife Verse 2The wife wants a child, the wife wants a child, hey ho, dee hey dee ho, the wife wants a child.Verse 3The child wants a nurse, the child wants a nurse, hey ho, dee hey dee, ho, the child wants a nurseVerse 4The nurse wants a dog, the nurse wants a dog, hey ho, dee hey dee, ho, the nurse wants a dog.Verse 5The dog wants a bone, the dog wants a bone, hey ho, dee hey dee, ho, the dog wants a boneFinal verseEveryone eats the bone, everyone eats the bone, hey ho, dee hey dee, ho, everyone eats the bone.

Mae’r ffermwr eisiau gwraig

Mwynhewch!!!Enjoy!!!

Sut i wneud caws ar dost

Cymreig

How to make Welsh

cheese on toast

1) Slice the cucumber and tomato so they look presentable on the plate and add some lettuce leaves.

2) Put a slice of bread in the toaster and grate some Caerphilly cheese while you wait.

3) Spread the Caerphilly cheese evenly over the toast and place under a pre-heated grill until the cheese melts.

4) Place the cheese on toast on the plate before enjoying your starter!

Ingredients:

•2 Parsnips

•8 Potatoes

•6-8 Carrots

•1 Leek

Instructions:

1. Wash, peel and chop the vegetables.

2. Put them into a pan with cold water and 2 stock

cubes.

3. Boil for 1 hour.

“Cawl cennin" or leek cawl, can be made without meat but

using meat stock. In some areas cawl is often served with

bread and cheese, (the bread is usually half a baguette or a

piece of french bread). These are served separately on a plate.

The dish was traditionally cooked in an iron pot or cauldron

over the fire.

•2 Onions

•Water

•Stock cubes

•Shoulder of lamb (optional)

In Welsh dialect, to make a cawl of something is to mess it up!

Dawnsio Gwerin/Folk Dancing

Instructions for a traditional danceJac y Do

This dance is a long ways set for four or five couples. Partners stand facing each

other.

1. Partners all walk towards each other (4 steps) and then back (4 steps).

2. Walk towards partner and change sides passing right shoulders. (8 steps)

3. Repeat 1 and 2 back to original places.

4. Couple one at the head of the set slip stepto the bottom of the set and back.

5. Couple one cast out to the bottom the set make a bridge with their arms; the others follow then dance with partner under the bridge, progressing one place.

The Urdd National Eisteddfod promotes Welsh

dancing and attracts thousands of young people in dancing competitions every

year.

Mae Eisteddfod yr Urdd yn hybu dawnsio gwerin ac yn denu miloedd o bobl ifanc i

gystadlu pob blwyddyn.

Pice Bach – Welsh CakesIngredients225g/8oz self-raising flour, sieved110g/4oz (preferably Welsh) salted butter 1 egghandful of sultanas milk, if needed85g/4oz caster sugarextra butter, for greasing

Method1. Rub the fat into the sieved flour to make breadcrumbs. Add the sugar, dried fruit and then the egg. Mix to combine, then form a ball of dough, using a splash of milk if needed. 2. Roll out the pastry until it is a 5mm/¼in thick and cut into rounds with a 7.5-10cm/3-4in fluted cutter. 3. You now need a bakestone or a heavy iron griddle. Rub it with butter and wipe the excess away. Put it on to a direct heat and wait until it heats up, place the Welsh cakes on the griddle, turning once. They need about 2-3 minutes each side. 4. Remove from the pan and dust with caster sugar while still warm. Some people leave out the dried fruit, and split them when cool and sandwich them together with jam.