BULGARIAN ARTIST - Four seasons pictures

Bulgarian artist HRISTO TSOLEV was born on 5^th April 1947 in Sopot. 

He was a teacher of Art and previous mayor of Sopot. 

This year he has an anniversary  - 70 years old.

His last exhibition contained 24 pictures of local landscapes and fountains. 

There were 10 woodcarvings with Zodiac signs too.

He was a spesial guest at school! Students from 2nd grade were very glad to see him!

 On the picture: Mr Hristo Tsolev and Mrs Bojkova - teacher from our school.

  Four seasons pictures

 On the next picture: The chapel "St. Nicholas" over the town of Sopot, 

which the artist Hristo Tzolev himself built and painting.

Portugal weather data
October - November - December

December in Oust-Marest

 

Temperatures (°C) at 9 am (blue cross) and 2 pm (red cross)

 Millimeters of rain in December : it rained a lot !

Health in Oust-Marest : November and December

Pupils Art inspired by Pablo Picasso

....SUN, RAIN, WIND, SNOW.....inspired by Pablo Picasso

Pupils Art inspired by Claude Monet

Alfons Mucha - Painter

"Art exists only to communicate a spiritual message." Alfons Mucha

                Alfons Mucha ( 24 July 1860 – 14 July 1939) was a Czechoslovak Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist. Drawing had been his main hobby since childhood. After gymnasium, he worked mainly  as a decorative painter of theatrical scenery also in Vienna. Later, he studied in Munich. Then he moved to Paris and contiue his studies at Académie Julian and Académie Colarossi.

                He worked at producing magazine and advertising illustrations. Sarah Bernhardt, the most famous actress in Paris, needed a new advertising poster. She was satisfied with Muchas´s work an signed wit him six years contract.In 1897 he had his first solo exhibition in Paris. His first decorative panels are called The Four Seasons. Mucha designed postage stamps and banknotes for the newly established Czechoslovak Republic in 1918. After the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939, he was arrested by Gestapo. Although he was allowed to return home, he died in Prague in 1939 on pneumonia.

                Mucha spent many years on his fine art Masterpiece The Slavic Epic, which is a series of twenty monumental canvases (the largest measuring over 6 by 8 metres) depicting the history of the Slav people and civilisation.

 THE FOUR SEASONS

Wishes "The Trees of Wishes"

We wish you all health, love and prosperity.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

  The teachers and the students of Primary School in Verdikoussa

Questionnaire_meeting_Larissa(Greece)

 The students of the 5th and 6th grade( 20 in total) answered the following questionnaire  based on their own experience:

   -How often do you use computer for meteorological needs during a week?

    Only ten of them replied that they have just one thermometer at home to check occasionally the weather temperature. 

   -How many European flags can you recognize?

    Students were shown photos of different European flags and were asked to tell to which countries they belonged to..they were all eager to reply and enthusiastic about this activity;especially,the 5th graders took the initiative and drew on their notebooks flags of the countries they knew,or could remember. Furthermore,with the help of their English teacher,and based on their English schoolbook, the students of the 5th grade had to find the nationalities of certain European countries. In addtion to that,they were given flag sketches for them to draw and since we're close to Christmas holidays,we had the idea of hanging them on the wall in the shape of a christmas tree.

-How many words can you say in foreign languages?

     The answers here were varied, since many students are being taught foreign languages, both at school (English and French) and through tuition classes at home. Also, some students (about 10%) have Albanian or Romanian origin so, they replied eagerly.

-Have you got any friends in foreign countries?

 The students from both grades replied negatively, but a couple of them mentioned that they have relatives abroad, with whom they often communicate through the Internet or cell phones.

-How often do you check temperature and pressure during the week?

 Once again, there were negative answers...they referred that it is something their parents do, and again, not very often...



 

 

José Sobral de Almada-Negreiros (1893-1970)

José Sobral de Almada Negreiros (São Tomé e Príncipe, April 7, 1893 - Lisbon, June 15, 1970) was a Portuguese artist. In 1915, along with Fernando Pessoa and Mário de Sá-Carneiro, publishes poems and texts in the Orpheu artistic magazine, which would introduce modernist literature and art in Portugal. This same year Almada Negreiros writes the famous Manifesto Anti-Dantas e por extenso, a humorous attack against a more traditionalist and bourgeois older generation. In 1917, with the scope of introducing to the Portuguese public the Futuristic aesthetics, publishes, together with Santa-Rita Pintor, the Portugal Futurista magazine, writing the Ultimatum Futurista, às gerações portuguezas do século XX ("Futurist ultimatum to the Portuguese generations of the 20th century"). Between the years 1918-20 Almada lives in Paris. In 1920 he returns to Lisbon and in 1925 he produces two paintings for one of the most famous cafés in Lisbon, A Brasileira. In 1927 he goes to Madrid, returning to Portugal only in 1932. In 1933 he married painter Sarah Afonso (1899 – 1983) and they have a son, named José Afonso de Almada Negreiros. Almada Negreiros always called himself a futurist artist, inspired by Marinetti and other modern artists, however his style is wider, and its hardly defined into a category. His work as visual artist extends to tapestry, printmaking, theater and ballet scenography. An important part of his artistic production is literary. He wrote novels, poems, playwrights, essays and manifests that were, in his lifetime, published in books, magazines, newspapers or even low cost booklets and flyers.

GLOBAL WARMING_continue research...(Greece)

The little journalists searched and found...

The students  talk about global warming, the greenhouse effect, what causes them and their consequences to peoples' health.

Just like little journalists, they got informed through scientific magazines and newspaper articles. They gathered information and answers like the ones that follow:

1. Although it may not have directly been perceived or realized by people, climate change and global warming have already started, creating enough problems and increasing the severity of weather phenomena.

2. According to a research carried out  by Berkeley University in California, the Earth's temperature has been increased by 1,5 Celsius degrees, since the late 19th century. 

3. The largest part of global warming started in the 1960s, which is shown on this map and it reveals the most vulnerable areas in our planet. Actually, few areas, closer to Antarctic, have frozen more since the 1960s, whereas, some parts of the Arctic have warmed up, up to 15 degrees.

4. The natural cycle of climate explains why the increase of temperature has occurred unevenly and spasmodically. During the last half century, it has coincided with increαse in carbon dioxide emissions from our rapidly industrialised world.

5. Floods are usual in November because this month is one of the rainiest months throughout the year. Some of their features though, like tension, allows us to to connect these phenomena with climate change.

6. Our students, because of the floods that have lately taken place in Greece, and more particularly in Mandra (photo), which resulted in many people losing their lives and their belongings, they got troubled, talked about it and connected this phenomenon with climate change.

Conclusion: the challenge our scientists have to face for the next half century, is to find a way to stop carbon dioxide emissions, and therefore, climate change.