Comenius letter 8th grade November/December

  Dear friends,

 We have been anxiously waiting the winter holiday!

  Our last two months passed thinking of winter days. It started to snow a few days ago, but we are already enjoying ourselves playing outside.

   November and December were very busy because we had to study for our semestrial Math, Geography or History and Romanian exams. We have already had our exams which were difficult, especially the Math one and we also had other tests.

   On the 1^st of December we celebrated the National Day of Romania and on this occasion we made a History project and we sang songs with the school chorus.

   Last week we went to our county library where we watched a movie called “Morning around the World’’. In this movie was presented one life day of a child from United States of America, Senegal, Cambodia and Finland. After we saw the movie, we realized that we should be very grateful for what we have because other kids like those from Senegal and Cambodia have much less than us.

    During the winter holiday most of us will go to our grandparents and we all want to enjoy the snow by skiing, snowboarding and ice skating. We can’t wait for Christmas because it’s our favorite holiday.

    We hope that you will enjoy Winter as much as we are and we wish you MERRY CHRISTMAS and we hope that you will get many presents. A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Christine, our colleague  on the left, is going to Finland and she’ll embrace you for us!

   Best wishes,

    Your 8^thA grade friends from

Romania.

Comenius letter 7th grade November/December

Dear Comenius friends ,

             We are happy we can tell you our experiences in the past two months. At the beginning of November a national contest called "EuroJunior" took place in our school,. The contest consisted of questions from all the subjects we are studying this year. We can't wait for the results.

At the middle of the month, we organized a trip to Turda and Alba Iulia. They are two very important towns in Romania.  In Turda we visited the salt mine “Salina”. It was built in 1271 and miners took salt from it for a long time.  Nowadays it was arranged as a wonderful tourist attraction.  It is said that it’s unique in Europe but it was opened for the public only a few month ago. If you come and visit us once, we’ll take you there to see it. If you can imagine… we went down 11 floors under the ground, in the mine, by a modern elevator. There was a large hall with lots of places for children to play, for adults to relax. And… there was a big carousel, too! We got on it and from the top of it we could admire the beautiful walls of the salt mine that looked like a very fine lace made of salt. At 125 meters under the ground there was a lake with boats on it. Many people go there to cure and relax.

After that , we visited the Ramet Monastery, one of the oldest Orthodox monastery in Romania. Then we went to Alba Iulia a historical town in Transylvania., the place where the King and Queen of Romania were enthroned in the big cathedral especially built for this event. We looked around it for 20 minutes and then we went around the city , visited the most important buildings like the Church or the Mayor's Hall. We came back home late at night after a 600 km trip. We were tired but very happy and thanked our class teacher, Antoaneta Boje for the idea of this trip.

At the beginning of December, it started to snow , but it only lasted two days and the weather got worse. It rained a lot and got cold and then snowed a lot. The thermometer went down to -21degrees. (like in Finland).

One day before we got our winter holiday we celebrated The 10^th Anniversary of our English lab. We gathered three generations of students and parents (around 100 people) that learned in this room and were taught and ruled by our teacher DIRI (Antoaneta Boje) . We presented together with our parents some of the attractions that could tempt a tourist to choose Romania as a desired country to be visited : food, drinks, museums, natural attractions, resorts, etc. DIRI  had some surprises for all of us : dancers, singers that presented us wonderful artistic moments. But…the sweetest moment was at the end, the Anniversary cake made of three big chocolate hearts, one for each generation and another cake with the image of the classroom 10 years ago!!!

Now, we wish you a wonderful holiday, MERRY CHRISTMAS and A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Dan is our colleague going to Finland and bringing to you the kisses from us .

              Best wishes,

                                   
            The 7thA  grade  Romanian friends

Comenius letter 8th grade September/October

Dear Comenius friends,

We are very happy to write you again after such a long time.

We had a wonderful summer holiday. We visited different countries from Europe: Cristina and Paul visited Portugal, Alex visited Spain , Ioana and Iulia visited Italy,   Mara visited Austria and Denisa visited Hungary.

Some of use visited touristic attractions from our country: the Black Sea, the Bran Castle, and the Houses of Parliament in Bucharest.

We had a great time, but we couldn`t wait to see our colleagues again.

The first school day was on the 13-th of September. In the morning the first graders were presented to all the other students from this school. We welcomed them with flowers and applause .We received our books and we met again our teachers.

We are so sad because this is our last year in the ,,Octavian  Goga” School.

Once we started the school we participated at new interesting projects. One of the projects was `The Anticommunist Resistance Tour`. The project consisted in a conference

about  the ,,Holocaust”.

There is a traditional festival in our city: `The Chestnut Feast`. It is celebrated in late September-early October, when chestnuts in the area are matured. This festival lasts three days. There are several concerts and on the last day, fireworks.

`The Chestnut Feast` is a symbol for Baia Mare.

This weekend our English teacher organized a trip in Deva town. During this trip we visited the ` Octavian Goga` School from Deva, our “twin sister” where we met children of our age and we spent a wonderful time together.

Our teachers are preparing us for the National Exams which will take place in our school in the last days of  June.

We are also planning the party which will be held at the ending of the 8-th grade.

How did you spend your holiday? We hope your holiday was as great as ours and we are looking forward to see you again.

Best regards,

Your 8^th A grade friends from Romania.

Comenius letter 7th grade September/October

Our dearest Comenius friends,

We’re happy to be a part of this Comenius Project and we’re pleased to share our activities with you.

In Romania school was over on the 13^th of June. The holiday was nice, but it ended very quickly..

Some of us spent their holiday at their grandparents’ house or at the seaside.

On the 13^th of September we had our 1^st school day.

 An important festival for our town is “Sărbătoarea Castanelor” (The Chestnut Feast). It took place on the 24^th- 26^th of September. The town was full of stores on the street. On the 25^th of September we also had a National Project, “Let’s do it, Romania!”, a call for the Romanians  to clean the whole country. Hundreds of students from most of the schools in Baia Mare were organized in groups and got to their “territories” for cleaning. Our school had a large area on a hill and a valley down it, near Baia Mare. The weather was wonderful, so we enjoyed a lot this outdoor activity. At the end we were tired but proud of our work.

 On the same day, out town’s soccer team won 3-0 at home and climbed to the 1st place in our league.

On the 15^th and 16^th October we paid a tour trip of Transylvania. We went to Arad and Deva where we visited the cities.  In Deva we met our friends from the school that has the same name with ours and visited the town together. We climbed to the Deva fortress by the cable, the single one like this in Romania. It was an exciting experience!!! We also went to a medieval castle named “Castelul Corvinilor” (The Corvins’ Castle) in Hunedoara where we met some of the “knights” of the castle.

Now, we’ve already started to work on the project but we lost our project class because of the crises. So, our English teacher has  a lot of work to do.

We are eagerly waiting to hear about you!

Best wishes,

Your 7^th A grade friends (Antoaneta Boje –form master)