Tuesday, 24 February 2009

Crofter spends her holiday in Salla, Finland


Crofter, who was in Mr Purves' class a year ago and is now in primary 6, spent her February holiday week in Salla, Finland with her family. Usually, her family spend their winter holiday in Norway, but after learning a lot about Finland last year through the Healthy Passport project between Mr Purves and Mr Ikonen's classes, her family decided to go for their winter holidays to Finland this year!
She had a brilliant time there, and she kindly allowed us to use some photos from her holiday.
Here she is inside an igloo that she built.

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The reindeer


Crofter is seen here feeding the reindeer. They were really tame!


Another picture of Crofter with a reindeer.

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We stayed here


Crofter and her family stayed here, in a wooden cottage. Crofter said it was very warm inside, even though there was lots of snow outside.

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The ski area


Crofter and her family skied here in Salla. "I thought the skiing was very good, though it was always very cold!" said Crofter.

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The landscape


Crofter said it was very, very cold when she was in Salla. This shows the snowy landscape.

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A reindeer comes to breakfast!


Sometimes, there were reindeer which came right up to our house!

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Sunday, 8 February 2009

Winter view


This is the view from the window of Michael`s home. It is real winter in Kuvansi.

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Snow castle and Snow dragon


Michael has built a nice snow castle and a snow dragon.

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Snow dragon and Michael


Once upon the time there was a little boy called Michael. He knew children in Scotland like snow but they didn't have any. So Michael built a snow dragon and the dragon blew snow very hard. A big miracle happened. And now he has heard he managed to send snow to Scotland. As you see Michael is very happy and wishes a nice winter to everyone.Do you believe this story is true?

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Monday, 2 February 2009

School closes early!


Today we had some very heavy snow, with blizzard conditions for a while. As many of our children come to school by bus, from up in the hills, where conditions were worse, we had to close the school at lunchtime and send everyone home. This is the play area at the back of the school.

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Sledging!





Some of the children decided to come back to school after we closed today, with their sledges. Here they are using the hill at the back of the school.

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A snowy day






This was the view from the window of the classroom this afternoon. All the children had been sent home by now.

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