First letter from Portugal

Barcelinhos, 22nd March 2010

Dear Friends
How are you? Are your studies ok? Are you having fun?
In our school we have many activities.
The Carnival party was on the 12thFebruary. It was very cool. The students’ room looked like a disco. It had lights and smoke. Everybody was wearing fancy dresses.
On the 24th February three students of our class (José Filipe, Pedro and Hugo Lopes) participated in the regional running championship with three hundred students of other schools. Hugo was in the 57th place.
Last Friday we had a Poetry Night Session for the student’s, teachers and families at school. It was a huge party with more than 300 people. The poetry was in Portuguese, English and French. During the break, there was tea and cokes.
Next Wednesday we are going to celebrate Students‘Day at school with sports, an English spelling contest and other activities.
Now the end of the 2nd Term is coming. We are very tired because we had many tests and evaluations.
Easter Holidays are from the 27th March till the 11th April.
Our part of the blog is ready to be pasted. We are going to compete with Finland and Romania.
What are your favourite activities at school? Do you celebrate Easter?
All the best for now.
Your Portuguese partners.

Second letter from Portugal

Barcelinhos, 18th May 2010

Dear Comenius partners
How are you? We are fine and having a good time.
We have already entered spring. The weather is warm and the sun has appeared at last. We had a lot of rain this year but now it’s very hot and sunny.
At Easter, we make cakes, cookies and boiled eggs. We decorate the table with food. We also eat almonds. The priest visits the houses with Jesus in the cross. We kiss the cross with our family and friends.
We are in the 3rd term now.
On the 24th March, there were no classes and we celebrated Students’ day. There was a song contest and a spelling test. José Luis won the spelling test. We had lunch with our teachers in the classrooms. There was also a volleyball match and we won. We are the fifth grade champions in out school.
On the 16th April we had a trip to a pedagogical farm. There were a lot of farm animals like horses, donkeys, ponies, sheep, pigs, geese, ducks, chicken, peacocks, turkeys and rabbits. All the farm products are biological, it means without any chemicals. In the farm there are gardens, a kitchen garden, hot houses and many fields. We cleaned the ponies and then had a ride.
We had three days holiday: the 25th April, which is the day of Liberty; the 1st May, which is Labour day; the 3rd May, which is the town holiday – the day of the crosses. Then the Pope came to Portugal and we didn’t have classes on the 13th May.
On the 17th June there will be a song contest in our school. In our class, some students are going to sing.
Our summer holidays start on the 18th June.
We also changed one hour forward on March, 28 but we are still one hour less then in Spain, Italy and Holland and two hours less for the other countries.
We have some extra curricular activities at school like indoor football, computers, story time, environment club (PROSEPE) and BTT.
Hugo and Catarina went to Madrid and they loved it and meeting you all especially Angel and Berta who were their hosts.
Now, we wish you all very nice holidays and hope to be in touch with you next school year.
Goodbye and take care.

Your Portuguese partners