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#10 ....................... A Publication Of SchoolNet Global
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In This Issue
We learn about Christmas in Hungary and celebrate Christingle. Then, its off to Wales were we learn a little about the language, food and customs. Finally, we are introduced to sheep farming in Northern Ireland and cob cottages in Dorset.
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A Hungarian Christmas
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Click To Learn More About Hungarian Christmas
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We always celebrated Christmas on Christmas Eve because my Dad came from Hungary. My brother and I had to go to my Dad's on the day. If I cried, Dad told me the Angels would not come. Every evening when I came back home, Christmas had arrived.
My earliest wish was to have a Dolphin. I had to settle with a stuffed teddy bear called Boo Boo. He has bells in both ears and I still have him today. We used to spend Christmas Eve with our friends and open our Christmas presents. We used to find a stocking at the end of our bed. We used to always have a satsuma in our stocking. More
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Christingle
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Every Christmas we celebrate Christingle by going to church with an orange which is the christingle. Coming out of the orange is a candle and some sticks that have sweets on them. We light the candle at church.
Our modern Christingle consists of: an orange representing the world, a red ribbon tied round the orange, representing the blood of Jesus. fruits and sweets symbolize God's creation, and the candle represents Jesus, The light of the World. More
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Christmas Traditions
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My childminder told me all about her early childhood memories about Christmas.She told me that she ate turkey and all the trimmings.
She also had Christmas pudding after the turkey.She had Christmas traditions as well Her Mum wrapped up a old six pence and put it in the Christmas pudding.Her best toy was a doll which walked and talked.She had a pram for her first Christmas she remembers.She spent her first Christmas she remembers in Cheshire and spent it with her parents , brother , uncles , aunts and grandparents.She celebrated Christmas just the same as we do today. More
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Welsh-Cymraeg
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Welsh Flag
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In Wales we have our own language. It is called Welsh. Here are some phrases we use every day.
Bore da means Good morning
Prynhawn da... means... Good afternoon
Hwyl... means... Bye
Diolch.. means... Thank you
Sut y'ch chi?... means... How are you?
Croeso... means.... Welcome More
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Welsh Food
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Welsh Cawl Click on it! to get a recipe for
"Picau ar y maen"
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In Wales, we have our own traditional foods. Leeks, lamb and laverbread are some. Two thousand years ago, the people of Wales were Celts and their cooking methods were boiling in a cauldron over a fire and baking on a griddle. They had a simple diet and this has carried on until recent times. In those times, Welsh people cared for one another and shared food. Everyone kept a pig, and between November and March, they killed the pig and shared it with their friends. Most of the meals of the day were cooked in a cauldron over a fire. One of the main meals cooked in the cauldron was 'cawl' More
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The History of The Mari Lwyd
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The Mari Lwyd is a Welsh custom. The Mari Lwyd has been around for a very long time. They had to find a dead horse then cut the head off and they buried the head in lime for six months. Then they dug up the head, they cleaned the head, then they made eyes, ears and bell and string. They had some cloth and put it on the head and decorated it with bows, tinsel and ribbons. More
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SHEEP FARMING IN DROMARA
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In the ice age the ice created the hills for the sheep to graze on, These hills around Dromara [Hill or ridge of heifers] are called the drumlins.
As most people know, Northern Ireland is quite a cold country so it rains a lot. This provides us with plenty of grass to feed mainly sheep and cattle.
The sheep get sheared in May and the fleeces are taken to Muckamore/ Antrim and are used for wooly jumpers,coats etc. More
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Cob Cottages
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A Cob Cottage Verwood Dorset
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A hundred years ago a lot of the people in Verwood built themselves cob cottages to live in. This was how they built them. To make the cob walls they would use horse hair, cow dung, chalk and chopped heather. After the messy cob was all sticky they would get two wooden boards they would put the mixture in and wait until it dried. At the bottom the wall it was wide and when it got taller it got narrower. When the part of cob was dry they would take the wooden boards off and do it all over again. This is called rising. They left spaces for doors, windows and wooden frames. They left spaces for sunlight as it would be dark in the cottage. After the walls were high enough they would put the rafters on these would hold the thatch and straw. More
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