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From grain till loaf of bread

Comenius partners visit to Portugal

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Lithuania

LATVIA Plants and berries for dyeing and painting

This is the Project work of class 6 .

At the beginning students discussed what plants, seeds or berries could be used for dyeing and painting. All together came to an agreement to use blueberry jam, cherry juice, carrot juice, onionskin, beat roots, coffee beans and mix of herbal teas.

All colours liquid students tried on the paper and educed that they are not so bright as synthetical paint. After that students started to dye wool using salt and vinegar as a mordant.  After dyeing wool was rinsed in warm water and dried

     Project work was interesting for children and they decided  to do it again in summer and autumn.

Painted paper and wool were presented at the end of the Project week in February.

The painted yarn.

colored:

blueberry jam

 beet juice

onionskin

cherry juice

oregano tea

Canadian goldenrod

LATVIA "Agricultural calendar of myths and tales"

 

 

Romania -material and immaterial patrimony

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Myths of Kulautuva, Lithuania

The legend about The Stone of Jonučiai Princess

About this stone there is a legend that in ancient times lived the king of Žemaičiai in Kulautuva. Once the land was attacked by cruel enemies. They were burning farmhouses, killing people and robbing their property. All women and men, even children, went to defend their land against the enemies. Just the princess of Jonučiai with her beloved boy secretly ran away and hid in the forest.

When the king learnt about that, he became very angry and started to ask his powerful gods by saying:

-The daughter who does not appreciate her country is unhappy. By the name of the gods I forsake her and curse her forever. The Mighty Thunder, punish her!

At the same time in the forest next to the spring of Narėpai was standing the princess and she turned into the stone. She stayed there reminding that everybody has to protect their country.

This stone is also amazing, because people who sometimes walk in the forest clearly can see that The Stone of the Princess is really there. But sometimes the stone disappears and it is impossible to find it.

The Stream of Narėpai

Photos from Germany (May and June)

 People: Best Friends (Marie Bütterhoff)

 People: Crazy (Marie Tenbeitel)

 Landscape: Rain (Marie Tenbeitel)

 Light and texture: Girl in Sun ( Marie Tenbeitel)

 Light and texture: Windmill (Ramona Nattebrede)

Landscape: Rye (Ramona Nattebrede)

Myths Lithuania

Origin of the name Kulautuva

 

Local residents link the name of the town with the word beetle (lith. kultuvė). It is said that in ancient times there were no permanent residents in Kulautuva, just from the neighbouring villages were coming women to wash their clothes next to the Nemunas River. They were beating the beetles so loudly that the sound was spreading widely. Even the people who lived on the other side of the Nemunas River heard it. They used to say: “The beetles are washing the clothes again”. From that came the name of the settlement – Kulautuva.

 




The sculpture “Kultuvė” (eng. “Beetle”) close to Kulautuva region (the author – Ž.Karkauskas

Some of the researchers think that the name of the town came from the surname of the noblemen – Kolotauskai - who lived there in the 18^th –the beginning of the 19^th centuries.

The others think that the name of the settlement came from a Lithuanian verb „kūlauti“ which means to catch fishes under the ice beating them with the poles.

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