Premiere in Estonia

Puppet theatre of Sõmeru Põhikool had premiere "Jussikese 7 sõpra" in Sõmeru kindergarten on the 27th of May 2009. There was very warm audience and small children listened very carefully the story about Jussike, who went to Tallinn to discover big song and dance festival.

Estonian puppets and actors: Jussike and his friends

How to build a theatre

We started the second part of the project: building a theatre.

First step: studying previuos models to understand wich problems architects had to solve to let people watch and listen to plays.

Five groups did research about five historical periods:
Greek age and anphitheatres;
Roman age and Colosseum;
Elisabeth the First age and the Globe Theatre;
Renessaince age and the new ideas;
Barocchian age and La Pergola, our seventeen century's theatre.


















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Portugal

During this past week there has been an exhibition in our main school on our second Project Meeting which was held in Florence, in Italy. Everyone (teachers, students, school helpers) is able to see photos about the different schools we visited in Italy, our wonderful bicycles that took us from one school to another, the puppets that where offered by our partners from Lithuania and Italy and of course the three meetings we had where we discussed our project and presented some interesting stories. You can also see and touch the four puppets that every partner has. They are fantastic! Everyone admires them and say they are just lovely. Everyone wants to touch and play with them. There are also some magazines that were offered by our Turkish partners, one of them even has an article about our first Project Meeting in Portugal. Isn’t that nice! It’s really quite funny to see our students trying to read Turkish.

Exhibition in Estonia

There was project exhibition opened in Sõmeru Põhikool. We talk about wonderful project meeting in Florence through photos and show pictionary illustrations from all partners.

News from Portugal

At middle school the 5th and 6th Grades are busy working on the Project. First of all, the students had to learn how to research information on the internet and in encyclopaedia, books... in order to learn more about some important historical and cultural aspects of Portugal.

Then they had to travel around Portugal, from north to south, to discover all the interesting features that Johnny could talk about, like typical Portuguese dishes, historical and cultural monuments, musical instruments, folk dances, important towns and rivers …

Finally they planned Johnny’s trip around Portugal and have started writing out the different stories.

Teachers are also busy planning their lessons.

Meanwhile the 5th Grade (class A) and the 8th Grade (class…) exchanged information about their projects. The 5th Grade talked about Johnny’s trip around Portugal and all the information they learnt about the Portugal’s 18 provinces. The 8th Grade also talked about their project, which is quite different from theirs, and they even played out a play. Everyone had a very interesting time and information was exchange.

On the 5th April the main school held a teacher’s meeting (kindergarten and primary schools teachers) to inform about what was discussed and decided in the Project Meeting in Italy.

Portugal posting

From the 20th to 24th April three Portuguese teachers went to Florence for the Project Meeting which was very interesting and helpful. The partners from the different countries involved in this wonderful project had the opportunity to meet and get acquainted to each other and discuss the work done and to be done in the project. We visited a kindergarten and three schools which enabled us to learn more about the Italian Educational system and we could compare it with the other countries which are part of this project. We all learnt more about the Italian history and culture. Our knowledge was widened and enriched.
We would like to thank our Italian partners for the well organised Project Meeting and for making us feel so comfortable and welcomed. They were fabulous!