Virtual trip to Poland

POSTCARDS FROM TURKEY ARRIVED - THANK YOU!

Dear friends,
We would like to thank you very much for your beautiful postcards.
xoxo :)
Greetings from Poland

Meet Our Tale Characters

Water Nymph Duru - Duru means "pure" in Turkish so we chose this name for our character and used the Tugçe Nur Çağlar's face because of her beauty
Old Dwarf of the Forest - he is a lovely and helpful character.
He helps Pan with his brother for rescueing Gani from Witch's castle.
White Eagle - is the symbol of freedom and nobility, it saves our characters from Witch's Castle. It is also the Symbol one of the most prestigious football teams of Turkey called Beşiktaş -BJK
Pan is a joyful character like as Yunus Emre Köse
Gani -is characterized by Eray Öztürk. we chose him because he is tall and strong like an hero.He is also a modest boy.
Wise Owl - is characterized by Osman Uğurli, look at his eyes you will understand the reason :)
Wise Lion * Lion is characterized by Muhammet Arpacı.We used Muhammet's face because he is famous for his wise and strange sayings.

POLAND - celebrating the third of May

The Constitution of May 3, 1791 is generally regarded as Europe's first and the world's second modern codified national constitution, following the 1788 ratification of the United States Constitution. The May 3rd Constitution was designed to redress long-standing political defects of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and its traditional system of "Golden Liberty". The Constitution introduced political equality between townspeople and nobility (szlachta) and placed the peasants under the protection of the government.

This is how we celebrated this event this year.

A letter from Poland

Dear Friends!!!

I’m Daria. I’m 13 years old. I’ve got long, brown, curly hair and green eyes. I’ve got a sister Kamila. She is 10. I like animals and I’ve got a dog, a hamster and fish. I’m interested in music and dance. I play the guitar. I dance in the folklore group called “Bielsko”.
This year we were in Turkey in Istambul taking part in “The International Pendik Children Festival”. We represented Poland on this festival. We danced our national dances as: Polonaise, Cracow Dance, Kuyavian and others. People liked our performance very much :) . I lived in Turkey for a week and Turkish family hosted me. Turkish people are very nice and hospitable. We visted Turkish school, too. We became friends with a girl whose name’s Sude.

Istambul is a big and beautiful city. One day we had a chance to go and see The Topkapi Palace and The Miniature Park.
I liked it very much.
In Poland I live in Bielsko-Biała. It is a beautiful city situated in the mountains Beskidy.There are a lot of architecture monuments in Bielsko-Biała for example Castle of Sulkowski.Best wishes DARIA :)

"Everything is possible in the dreams" - creating stories

Here is one of the stories that Polish students have created using their imagination.

DRAGONS

WORLD OF FANTASY
European Dragons

In European folklore, a dragon is a legendary creature.
The dragon is typically depicted as a huge fire-breathing, scaly and horned dinosaur-like creature, with leathery wings, with four legs and a long muscular tail. It is sometimes shown with feathered wings, crests, fiery manes, and various exotic colorations. Iconically it has at last combined the Chinese dragon with the western one. Asian dragons are long serpent like creatures which possess the scales of a carp, horns of a deer, feet of an eagle, the body of a snake, a feathery mane, large eyes, and can be holding a pearl to control lightning. They usually have no wings. Imperial dragons had five claws (for a king), or four for a prince, or three for courtiers of a lower ranking. The dragons were bringers of rain and lived in and governed bodies of water (e.g lakes, rivers, oceans, or seas). Asian dragons were benevolent, but bossy . In Western folklore, dragons are usually portrayed as evil, with exceptions mainly in modern fiction.
Many modern stories represent dragons as creatures who can talk, associated with powerful magic.

The most famous Polish dragon is the Wawel Dragon or Smok Wawelski. It supposedly terrorized ancient Kraków and lived in caves on the Vistula river bank below the Vawel castle. According to lore based on the Book of Daniel, it was killed by a boy who offered it a sheepskin filled with sulphur and tar. After devouring it, the dragon became so thirsty that it finally exploded after drinking too much water. A metal sculpture of the Wawel Dragon is a well-known tourist sight in Kraków. It is very stylised but, to the amusement of children, noisily breathes fire every few minutes. The Wawel dragon also features on many items of Kraków tourist merchandise.

Other dragon-like creatures in Polish folklore include the Basilisk, in Polish – Bazyliszek - living in cellars of Warsaw.

Here are some dragons drawn by students of 32 Primary School of Bielsko-Biała