Origami in a kindergarten in Zawiercie

On 26^th of January Agnieszka and Łukasz with their friends were in a kindergarten, where they played with children. They participate in a program called “Read me, my friend”, where students visit some places with children, they read them books and play with them. Our group was dressed up in colourful costumes and prepared a story about a dog named Norek. Squirrel Luna (her real name is Anna) read it and later Agnieszka, who was a cat Neko, asked a few questions about that story and performed a multimedia quiz about dogs. Children were delighted with their colorful guests.

One of the games was led by Łukasz. It was very easy origami for small children: a dog’s head. Łukasz explained everything to children and the rest of our group helped them make their origami. You can look at some photos and see how it looked like.

Greetings from Zawiercie :)

Agnieszka's Bento - Zawiercie

Bento is a meal eaten at school or work. To make your bento you can use rice, fish, meat, vegetables and everything what you want in small portions. In Japan you can buy all these ingredients in many places like: shops, petrol stations and supermarkets. This meal is packed into small boxes. 

I made my bento with fish sticks, carrots, sandwiches with jam and hot dogs which look like octopus.

wrote by Agnieszka

What is a bonsai? - information from Zawiercie

Bonsai is an art. It’s the art of shaping trees by their proper care. Bonsai comes from China, where it’s called Pensai. The Japanese borrowed the methods of breeding  from the Chinese and improved it. Chinese trees are different from Japanese ones. The Japanese trees are carefully shaped in contrast to Chinese plants, which look old-fashioned.

There are many species of bonsai. Cultivating a perfect bonsai tree requires many years of dedication and work. It is quite common that the tree is handed down from one generation to another. The tree is never finished. It is a living plant, which requires constant care.

The most important requirement when shaping bonsai is patience. The Creator (or the artist) of bonsai must remember about regular care (watering, fertilizing, cutting, wiring). A suitable pot is also important. It must be properly selected flat vessel.

My brother used to have a bonsai tree. I also wanted to have a tree of my own, but I was too young then. After a few years I found some old pots and I started shaping my own bonsai. It is not easy, but I do not give up. This is how my tree looks now:

wrote by Emil

Emil's drawing

Poland and Japan in history - wrote by Klaudia

Open publication - Free publishing - More history

Japanese garden by Emil

Japanese Gardens appeared very long time ago. They were very important elements in Japanese art. The oldest garden comes from the period of Heian. In Japanese Art there is always a connection between natural beauty and being close to it. When the garden is going to be formed in Japanese style, we  must remember about an old proverb saying: „Learn from the nature but never copy it ”.

There are two main styles, which are divided into several smaller ones. The first one is called Tsukiyama. It is a classical and a very popular form of a garden. You can see there hills that symbolize mountains, lakes, seas and rivers. The plants in the gardens are green. The colours and the flowers define the climate and an accent. The second style of the garden is called Karesansuj. It is a very dry style which can be also named as a desert. There are a few plants there and if they are there, they are planted in the shape of dwarf trees. The indispensible part of the garden is sand and grave. Bigger and brighter spots of the sand mean water, lake and etc. A lot of three - dimensional effects are used there. Small and dark objects for example: stones are put at the back and are big, bright things are in front of the garden. The most effective paths are formed with single stones. Stones are the most important things in the gardens. They symbolize durability and immutability of the nature. Water is a significant element in Japanese garden. Water symbolizes live and motion in the garden. Tearing rivers symbolize men and shyness and quiet rivers symbolize women.

Later Japanese Gardens became typical ones which were used for meditation. We can see there tearooms, where we can drink some tea and be close to the nature. In XIV-XVI century gardens became more harmonious. Then, the sliding door were the indispensable element in the garden. Some time later, new tearooms can be seen in the gardens. When the gardens develop, the area becomes bigger. You can see can the sculptures of Konficjusz, Dragon, Budda and many more. The buildings which are near the garden are very harmoniously matched for them. Everything that is located in a Japanese Garden is asymmetric and irregular.

Some of the Japanese styles were used in European gardens. After some time, old Japanese models came back to the splendour and displaced those which were derived from Europe.

wrote by Emil

Cosplay

Hello everyone :)

This is something for you.

https://sites.google.com/site/etwinningzs7/home/prace-uczniow

Regards from Poland

A Japanese calendar in Zawiercie

Hello Everybody !!!

we started to make pages of our common calendar. Agnieszka made a "November" site in a school library. She used a free computer program - GIMP. 

Agnieszka often realizes her ideas in a school library.

"What to choose...?"

We hope you will add your works soon too :-) 

Greetings from Poland !

Our wall magazine - Zawiercie

Dear Friends :-)

in our library we have a new plaque on the wall. It's our place to make a wall magazine about our activities. Now we have all the information about our project there and it looks very interesting ! We hope you will like it, like we do :-)

Our wall magazine: "Larks in a library"

:-)