Jean-Paul in Sweden

Hi!
I have been in Sweden for three weeks now. It was very hot and sunny when I arrived. The picture of me is from a school race just before we started to run. It was a tough race and it was sweaty to wear a knitted cardigan but I was happy anyway because it's fun here in Sweden.
Today, June 11 is the last day for the pupils in school and tomorrow their summer break begins. I am going to join the class in the church this afternoon with Elisabeth and Saila, their teachers. It's very common to gather in the church when we finish the school year in June. I hope you will have a good summer and see you all in August!
Jean-Paul

relay race

Here is a picture of the relay race. It was interesting and fun because in this school each level has a theme. The 6° level (12 year old students) have to choose the name of an artist or composer for their class name. They have chose "Coco Chanel, Louis Arstrong, Monet, Raphael, Bach". The 5° level (13 year old students) have to choose an author " A. Christie, J. London, J.K. Rowling". The 4° level (14 year old students) the name of mathematician, "Papin, Diaz, Thales, Bonacci". The 3° level (15 year old students) the name of a Nobel Peace Price winner "Dalai Lama, Ghandi, Rigoberta Manchu, Korczak, Aung San Suu Kyi". So each class has a certain color and the relay stick has to do with the class name. For example Coco Chanel had a bottle of water with N° 5 written on it, Dalai Lama had a bambou stick, Louis Armstrong had a musical note. So it was fun and original.
By the way I ran two laps, it took me a long time. I was exhausted in the end! If you look at the picture closed I am at the far left hand side. Can you see me????

lunch time

After playing basketball and cheering my class, we were starving. Lunch time was fun. We all had lunch together as a team. We had French bread (of course) the baguette is really yummy! We had potatoe chips, chicken paté, a tomatoe, a hard boiled egg, cheese (viva la French cheese!) cookies, a bottle of water (no wine!) and bananas from Martinique. Do you know where Martinique is?? It is an island in the Caribbean and it belongs to France. The bananas were delicious, I enjoyed them alot. After such a big lunch I was ready for a "sieste" but wait we had a big relay race to prepare ...

A little exercise

While my team was playing basketball, I was doing a little exercise, warming up a little. Unfortunately there were no football (soccer) matches I'm a pretty good goalie, I would have blocked those balls. Oh well!

Sports Day in France with pictures

Hi, Just wanted to fill you in with pictures of Sports Day in France. This part won't be long.

Like I said I love loud music, couldn't be any closer. Just like Jean-Paul I love rock 'n roll, we have a lot in common.

Nelly's Sports Day in France

Hi, everybody I had a nice time in France! A few days before I left I participated in " Sports Day". It was fun. On Thurdsay May seventh, I went to school at 8 am, we gathered and walked to the stadium. The 6° and 4° years students played basketball and the 5° and 3° year students played volleyball. I stayed with the 4° Diaz class and they played basketball. I encouraged them a lot. During the tournaments there was a lot of music and snacks. I love loud music, it wasn't pretty bad . .. Here you can see me enjoying myself. We had lunch together, then in the afternoon there was an enourmous relay race. We had to run: for fifty minutes each class had to run the most amount of laps around the track. The class which ran with the most - won the relay race. I only managed to do two laps because I have short legs, at the end I was exhausted.
Then we walked back to our school and we listened to a concert by the school chorale, then anouther group played rock and roll music which was fantastic! It was a great day.

Drill!

One activity her in Sweden is drilling. In class 6C two girls drill. And they have drilled for six years. They train once a week. The drill pole is made of steel and has a red band. When it is the May 1st eveybody in Slottbrons Drill goes out and drill in our home village, Slottsbron. I think it was really funny and it is at good hobby!

Bye bye

The sport day

Today there was a big sport day on the school. We had a lot of fun, but now I'm very tired of the activities. Before I'm going to sleep, I want to show you a few pictures...

Here I'm catching the frisbees. See how many frisbees I've catched!

When I was going back and forward on the tyre,
I had a funny feeling in my stomach :-)

I'm jumping on the trampoline. Whiiiiiiiiiii!

In the afternoon we were playing baseball. In Belgium, they love to play baseball! My group was the purple team. It was really difficult to hit the little ball, but I tried and tried and tried...

And I made 5 points!

Time for sunbading, just like my friend Reddy the Teddy did in Sweden :-)

Bye, bye!

The childeren who take care of me...

I am staying with the childeren of the sixth year, in the class 6A. Their teacher is miss Gwendoline. There is also another sixth year: 6D. Their teacher is mister Miguel. In both classes there are 20 pupils of 11-12 years old. They learn different things like: maths, Dutch, French, WO, music, drawing, dansing, ... . In June, the pupils say goodbye to the primary school, because they will have to go to the secondary school. There they will learn new things, make new friend, have a lot of teachers, ... . But during the last months in the sixth year, they will have a lot of fun!

Jean-Paul in the 5th year...

Friday I was on a visit in the 5th school year. Their teachers are miss Nele and miss Valérie. The pupils are approximately 10-11 years. They still go to the park, and they will get a large surprise on the end of the school year. The teachers of the 5th school year like to teach. The children are very polite against the teachers in the class. The teachers find it busy to go on a lot of trips, because they sit with 25 students in one classroom!

Floor ball

Hiya!

Today I went home with a boy in the class and watched his floorballstick and balls. But I was to shy to be on the picture. Floorball is very popular in Grums. There are usually about 20 players in a team. Most got 2 practices a week and a match on weekends.When you play theres 2 forwards, 1 center, 2 backs and 1 goalkeeper from each teams.Most invites about 16 players to a match, That way you got 3 chains ( 5 in each ) and one goalkeeper that plays all the time. And sometimes you bring 2 goalkeepers.

Horse riding

Hello , Today I was in the stable. When I was in the stable I take care of the horse. I clear the dung out and feed the horse. It dont smell so good when I clear the dung out. But I get big muscles when I work in the stable. I ride Maretto who's father was a great jumping horse. Befor I was riding I was asleep in the hay.

Kind Regards

Reddy The Teddy!

Jean-Paul in the 4th year…

There are two classes of the 4th year: 4A and 4D.
In 4A there are 18 students and 2 teachers, they are called miss Audry and miss Annick.
In 4D there are 19 students and 1 teacher, he is called mister Erwin.
In the 4th grade the age of students is normally nine up to ten years old.
They learn to make calculations, numbers up to 100 000, decimal numbers, triangles, squares,…
They also learn all kinds of words (verbs, nouns, vocabulary, grammar,…).
It was really interesting!

Jean-Paul in the 3th year…

Today I went on a visit with teacher Claudine and teacher Nina, who give lesson in the 3th school year. The pupils learn to make calculations up to 1000. The children are 8 up to 9 years old. Maths, Dutch, W.O., music, drawing, … are the professions in the 3rd year. With miss Claudine are sitting 17 students and with teacher Nina 18 students.

Jean-Paul in the second year…

The second year is on the second floor of our school. Mister Jochen and miss Wendy give the lessons. In each class are 19 children and they are almost all between 7 and the 8 years. In the second year the pupils learn the tables of maths (1 x 4 = 4, 2 x 4 = 8, …). They also get dictations of words. In the afternoon they generally get worldorientation, but on Thursday and Friday they get drawing, singing, … .

Jean-Paul meets our school

We went with Jean-Paul on a tour in our school. Here you can read what he learned about our school…

Jean-Paul in the first year…
There are two classrooms in the first year: 1A and 1D. The teachers in the first year are miss Lily and miss Eva. 1A has 12 children and 1D has 16 children. Almost all the children are 6 years old, some children are 7 years old.
They learn - and + with the numbers 0 to 20. They also learn to read and write letters and words.
They find their teachers nicely and they love to do make drawings.

Football

Football is a big sport in Sweden.

They train two to three times a week and have one game every weekend.

The name of their team is Slottsbrons IF. It´s a good and strong team. They are 13-14 years old. They are a 93-96 team. The training I was on is this team. Two years ago they won their serie. They worked really hard this training. The football beside me is I think really big.

Handball cup

This weekend have been intense. Because I was on an handball cup in Färjelanda. It was very funny, but also tough to get up so early. I have followed the matches and pushed on my team HK Grums. I also followed to a disco on saturday evening.

It was 20º outside, so we were outside and sunbathe. This weekend have been so funny, so I hope I can follow to more cup's.

See you soon!

Reddy the Teddy

Reddy the Teddy in Sweden

Hello!

I have now reached Sweden and the pupils took me on a tour round the school in Grums. Look, how nice the weather was and the pupils took good care of me. I really like it here and this weekend I am going on a handballcup!

See you later and take care!

Reddy the Teddy

The Nelly and Jean Paul encounter!

Like I said I am pretty lucky because I met Nelly (sometimes there are advantages with being a little late . .. )

Here is a picture of both of us. I must admit it was a very exciting moment.

Nelly is on the left and I'm on the right. We kind of look alike don't we?

And the "bear fashion" is funny we almost have the same sweater and back - pack! I have to get in touch with my good friend Jean Paul Gautier a famous French designer see if he can do something.

Then the second picture is the KISS! Sorry it isn't in the picture but we were getting closer and closer ... . oooh là là as the Fench say . ..

I'll keep in touch !

Hasta la vista!

Jean Paul

A little bit about our school

Hi,

I just wanted you to see my classroom and tell you a little bit about our school.

Like I said it is called Aristide Bruant. The school has 350 students. We have a cafeteria and a library. We have a gymnasium too. We practise different sports: ping pong, circus and wrestling. Our school sujects are Arts, Math, French, English, German, Spanish, Sciences, Biology, Music, Sports, History and Geography and Latin. Hope I'm not forgetting anything. We begin school at 8:00 and finish at 5:00pm. Our timetable varies, sometimes we start at 9am and finish at 4pm it depends.

Now I'd like to tell you about our school building. It was built in 1887. It used to be a Teacher Training School. Then it was transformed into a Military Hospital from 1914 - 1916. Then it went back to a boy's school. In 1920 it became a school for girls and then the school was mixed in 1972.

OK that's all for now,

Jean Paul

Introducing: Jean Paul - the Frenchie Bear

Hello everybody!

Sorry for being a little late, but you know how the French are! Maybe Miss Saila remembers ...

Well my name is Jean Paul and I'm from Albi France. I'm from a Junior High School; College Aristide Bruant and I have a lot of "fans" in my class. I'm really excited about going to Belgium, I'm leaving tomorrow.

What can I say about myself??? I'm not too tall, rather good looking, I'm mostly brown, I play a red electric guitar and I love rock and roll. I have a beautful hand made sweater and a back-pack with my guitar in it. I never leave home without it! You know how it is, us musicians.

I am rather lucky because I met Nelly the other day. She is beautiful! I think it was love at first sight. I even gave her a little kiss. I'll try to send you pictures but I'm not that great with blogs, internet and things.

Wish me luck!

Jean Paul
Good bye France and HELLO Belgium and let the adventures begin!

Jättesten school

It is a highschool. There are twenty classes and 540 students that go to this school. The school was built in the 1950`s. On the school is a cafeteria where you can be on the breaks and play pingpong and billiards. And you can play games like cards, othello and other things. In the cafeteria you can bye icecreem, toast and russian pasty, and juice. In the library there is everything from babybooks to books about facts. It's also computers in there.

Nelly's new clothes

Today I got new clothes on the handcraft by some sweet girls. I was very happy!

I got a very nice bag and it has many colours, and I can have things in the bag.

I also got a warm sweater with a big S on it, which means Sweden and a pair of

nice jeans.

Tomorrow I am going to tell you about our school.

See you soon!

Reddy The Teddy

Hi! I'm Reddy The Teddy and my hometown is Ghent, Belgium. Tomorrow, I'm going on a holiday to Sweden. And in April I'm going to France! I'm really happy that I can travel this much and I'm looking forward to meet new people!

This is Nelly Bear from Sweden

Hi!

My name is Nelly Bear and I live in Grums, Sweden. I really

look forward to visiting France and Belgium because I never

been there.

About the project

The Teddy Bear project

Three participating schools, Jättestenskolan, Sweden, Collège Aristide Bruant, France and De Wijze Eik, Belgium get hold of a teddy bear (or any other stuffed animal), name him/her and take some portrait photographs in the local school environment. Each school writes a short presentation of the teddy on the project blog and some of the photos are added. As soon as possible, the teddy is sent to the next school in the list of schools and it’s time for his/her first assignment.

In the end of each month the teddy is sent along to the next in line and on the eTwinning platform the participating classes and you teachers can decide on the future topics. March - could be the month in which we present our schools through the eyes of the visiting teddy. April – the subjects are the pupils´ interests, their sparetime and for example what music they like. May - could be all about our home towns.

The main objectives of the project:
- To promote cultural awareness and knowledge across borders.
- Practice the English language in a meaningful situation.
- Prepare the students for a digital and global community.
- Have fun and hopefully create friendships between all participants.