2.Fortune telling with shoes
Firstly we have to collect the left shoes of the young women or girls. We place them in a line from the wall to the door. The girl whose left shoe is the first behind the door will marry soon.
3.Fortune telling for boys – the magic heart
We need some pins and a paper in the shape of big heart with the names of the girls. Each boy puts a pin on the heart. The name he pins is the name of his future wife.
4.Fortune telling with wax.
The wax and the paper key are the things we need to predict the future. We pour some hot wax on cold water through the key. From the shape of the wax we can foretell who will be a girlfriend or boyfriend of the person.
Every year we have the fortune telling for our school. Can you believe that last year our head teacher Mrs. Teresa Kamińska foretold us that in 2015 we will travel a lot of times to other countries to represent our school and meet new fantastic people. This fortune telling came true !!!!
After shows and fortune telling we have the disco. We love funny and entertaining disco contests e.g. the contest with frisbees. In the contests we pass two frisbees in opposite directions. When the music stops, the students, who have frisbees, have to dance together. We have a lot of fun then! Another contest is dancing with the balloons tied to the feet. This student, who is dancing the longest time with the balloons is the winner of the contest.
We love St. Andrew’s Day in our school. Do you have such funny and magic holidays in your school? What is the St. Andrew's Day in your school, how do you organize it?
Unfortunately we have to say goodbye now
but we hope that we will meet soon.
Kind regards from the students of Publiczna Szkoła Podstawowa im. Marii Konopnickiej w Olkowicach. Thank you !!!
By: Weronika Fołtyn, Emilia Rąbkowska, Aleksandra Radecka, Klaudia Tulo, Zuzanna Majewska, 5th grade
CHRISTMAS IN POLAND
Christmas is a time of magic, joy and beauty.
In Poland Christmas is the most ceremonial holiday. The whole family takes part in the cultivation of tradition through e.g. the decoration of the Christmas tree. The tradition is from pagan times. It was the symbol of safety, prosperity, health and happiness. The tree should be decorated on Christmas Eve in the morning. When the first star is in the sky, after fasting all day, the whole family sits down to Christmas supper.
12 traditional dishes should
be on the table:
-Pierogi
-dried fruit compote
-carp
-mushrooms
-red borsch with uszka
-herrings
-poppy seed cake
Before the supper we usually break a wafer with the family. It’s a custom known only in Poland. Each person from the family is supposed to take a small part of the wafer from the second person, break the wafer with the second person as well wish the second person Merry Christmas.
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