This blog contains materials about the way people celebrate Xmas in Europe.
We publish an Italian Christmas nursery rhyme
A MEZZANOTTE
La notte di Natale
è nato un bel bambino,
bianco, rosso
e tutto ricciolino.
La neve cadeva
cadeva giù dal cielo,
Maria col suo velo
copriva Gesù
Maria lavava
Giuseppe stendeva
il Bimbo piangeva
“Sta zitto mio figlio
che adesso ti piglio
del latte ti do ;
ma pane non ho!
La neve cadeva ,
cadeva giù dal cielo
Maria col suo velo
copriva Gesù
The title [...]
Hi everybody!
Here is our first postcard but we are preparing something else for you.
A big hug in a sunny day
Jacopo
Hello all!
We are the Transition year students of Loreto College, Cavan.
There are 28 girls in the class aged between 15-17.
Transition Year is an optional year between the Junior Certificate and Leaving Certificate Courses. The Transition Year Programme promotes the personal, social, vocational and educational development of students and prepares them for their role as autonomous, [...]
Here are our postcards we vitually send you wissing you all a GREAT Christamas 2008!!
Ameni Lazaar, 14.
Maria Rita, 13
Paride, 14 and Daniele, 16
Hello! My name is Catalina, I am in the 5th form at Humoreni School, Romania.
I went to my grandmother and asked her how people celebrated Christmas during the Second World War. My grandmother told me: “We could not celebrate Christmas in those times because there were lots of soldiers walking from house to house. You [...]
SANTA CLAUS HAS LOST A BOOT
Look!!! It’s Santa’s boot.
But it’s strange!
Oh…it isn’t a real boot, it’s a pizza!!!!
Hello Friends,
this is a very strange Italian pizza. A Christmas pizza .
But it’s very easy. You can do it without your mum’s help
Ingredients
For 2 pizzas:
1 frozen pizza dough
tomace sauce
200g grated Emmental cheese
tomato slices
1 tin corn
baking paper
How to [...]
Hi from Florina and Adrian,
a Romenian girl and a Polish boy. This is our first Xmas holiday in Italy. We moved to Italy this year and we are in class toghether: I BT with Mrs. Anastasia Ciavattella our English teacher.
This will be a different Christmas, with different traditions and maybe different people. However we’re [...]
I’m Ludovica and these are the words of a sweet CHRISTMAS Carol we use to sing at xmas time. It is a traditional Italian song: Bianco Natale.
This song is the Italian version of White Christmas.
Bianco Natale
Col bianco tuo candor, neve
sai dar gioia ad ogni cuor,
è Natale ancora
la grande festa
che sa [...]
Hello, we are three year5 boys, Daniel who is ten years old, Matthew who is nine years old and Georgie who is nine aswell. We are looking forward to be getting comments from you!
Hello we are 4 year 5 girls called Jordan, Ebony, Tia and Charlotte. We are aged 9 to 10. We are from JFK primary school in England. We have made some chrismas cards and recorded a song called Away in a Manger. For christmas we put up a chrismas tree.
We would like to know what [...]
