On 13th of April, in the 2nd Primary school of Vrontados we started creating crafting for Easter. This day in the 4th class we crafted Easter bunnies. We started with the idea of recycling so for the body of the rabbit we used the roll tube of the toilette paper. […]
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In the 3rd Primary School of Vrontados we were very active with Easter crafting. In the first class we made some Easter bunnies out of toilet paper rolls, in the 3rd class we helped with a cute tower for Easter helpers out of Tetra-Pak and in the 5th and 6th […]
The 24th of March the Primary Schools of Vrontados celebrated the independence from Turkey. The actual national holiday is on 25th of March, but then the schools are closed, so they celebrated it the day before. In the 3rd Primary School of Vrontados the children from the 6th class had […]
On Friday from 9.00 to 11.00 in kindergarten was carnival party. It was joyful time. The days before we decorated classroom, so kindergarten was colorful and almost looked like real carnival in Brazil. Also during this week every day we prepared stuff for carnival. We made paper frogs, bats masks, […]
Last Friday, 11th of March we had the great opportunity to participate in the Carnival Party in both primary schools of Vrontados. In 2nd Primary school of Vrontados this day was very special, because the children came to the school with the costumes. We could see pirates, princesses, football players, […]
Last Thursday, 3rd of March 2016, in Greece has been celebrated Tsiknopempti is the Thursday during Carnival or the “Greek Mardi Gras” period which marks the begining of the last weekend that observant Greek Orthodox Church members can “legally” eat meat. It’s also called Smoke Thursday”, “Smoked Thursday”,”Barbecue Thursday” or […]
It’s February and Carnival season is coming up, in this context we made carnival masks with the children in the 2nd primary school of Vrontados. First with the children in 4th and 6th grade, later with the 1st,2nd and 5th grade. For the 1st grade, we made cat masks for […]
In january, the children of the primary and kindergarten school (marching with the flag) have been in the church with the teachers and, of course our amazing volunteers to assist the priest read and sing some textes. Then, the ladies with kindness offered some bread to everyone. Afterward, everybody came […]
It’s December and Christmas is coming. In the 3rd Primary School (AGIOS MARKOS) in Vrontados we are helping many teachers with Christmas preparations, crafting decoration for the christmas tree and helping the children to create customized decoration. We helped a teacher to craft reindeers by wine corks : we glued […]
Christmas is coming and the preparations in the second school of Vrontados are in full flood. Of course we help the teachers a lot and we crafted many different things for them. Amongst other things we did the whole decoration, the setting and the costumes for the Christmas play of […]
October 28th marks Greece’s participation in the Second World War, which brings forward many emotions among the Greeks, including national pride, unity and strength. On October 28, 1940, the former Prime Minister of Greece, Ionannis Mitaxas, said “NO,” or “Ochi” to Mussolinis ultimatum demanding an Axis invasion in Greece during […]
October 28th marks Greece’s participation in the Second World War, which brings forward many emotions among the Greeks, including national pride, unity and strength. On October 28, 1940, the former Prime Minister of Greece, Ionannis Mitaxas, said “NO,” or “Ochi” to Mussolinis ultimatum demanding an Axis invasion in Greece during […]