Indian Display
Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Adi’s Mum and Dad are from India. 
They speak English and Bengali. They came to our class to tell us really interesting things aboutIndia…….
....Adi’s Dad had a great presentation to show us. He showed us the Indian flag and map, and told us that it would take us 8 hours to fly to India by aeroplane. He showed us photographs of the Himalayan mountains in the north, the desert in the west, the sea and beaches of the south, and the lovely bay and sea of the east. We saw pictures of peacocks, a tiger, lotus flower, cricket, Taj Mahal, traditional food, clothes, festivals, art andarchitecture, travel, and a really interesting piece from an Indian film. It was all so interesting.
They speak English and Bengali. They came to our class to tell us really interesting things aboutIndia…….....Adi’s Dad had a great presentation to show us. He showed us the Indian flag and map, and told us that it would take us 8 hours to fly to India by aeroplane. He showed us photographs of the Himalayan mountains in the north, the desert in the west, the sea and beaches of the south, and the lovely bay and sea of the east. We saw pictures of peacocks, a tiger, lotus flower, cricket, Taj Mahal, traditional food, clothes, festivals, art andarchitecture, travel, and a really interesting piece from an Indian film. It was all so interesting.
Adi’s Mum showed us her everyday clothes, and also how to wear a sari. We were really surprised at how much material is in each sari. We saw Indian jewellery (it was lovely), spices, and home decorations. Adi and his mum and dad showed us how they say their prayers in Bengali, and they also let us try some traditional snacks. They were salty rather than sweet. They weredelicious. Thanks so much to Alok and Tanu for letting us experience India in such an interesting and fun way.
Jordan’s mum Anita came to tell us all about Germany today. She lived there for 8 years. She brought lots of toys, ornaments and clothes to show us.
Anita had a lovely jigsaw of Europe to show us the countries we are hearing about at the moment. We looked at lovely nutcracker dolls, German jellies and all sorts of Easter decorations. We learned some German words too, and saw the map and flag of Germany. It was all so interesting.
dates (which we tried eating — they were delicious)
and a traditional Algerian guitar. Mustapha sang us two Algerian songs. He is a great singer. We really enjoyed hearing all about Algeria today. 
Today her mum Joanna came to visit our class to tell us all about Poland.
Joanna showed us the flag of Poland, and she taught us how to say Hello and Goodbye in Polish. She had a lot of lovely pictures of Polish scenery, winter in Poland (snow angels, bonfires, ice sculptures), Christmas in Poland (wafers, food, Santa), Easter in Poland (Easter eggs, baskets, hare hunts), handcrafts, pottery, traditional costumes and dancing, paper cut outs, Knights and Castles. 
A big Thank you to Marta and her mum for such a wonderful presentation, and for telling us so much about Poland. We had a great time, and we learned a lot. Now we all hope to visitPoland some day.
Hau sang us a Vietnamese children’s song, with her daughters Lisa and Laura. It was so different from the English and Irish songs that we know.
She showed us prawn crackers and let us taste them and she taught us some Vietnamese sayings and numbers. Vietnamese is very hard. Thank you so much Hau.
He goes there on his holidays and knows lots about the Ukraine. Today his mum came to our class to tell us a little about his country.
We learned lots and lots about the Ukraine from Iryna. She showed us a map, the flag and symbol of her country, and also some money. She taught us some Ukrainian words and letters and showed us the alphabet. 
Ms. Tierney was in Uganda last summer. She had a wonderful time. Now our school is twinned with the school she taught at last summer. Ms. Tierney brought pictures, videos and lovely things from Uganda. She showed them to us today. She let us try on the grass skirts and the Ugandan shawls. We even tried playing the Ugandan drum
Ms. Tierney's friend Emer came to talk to us about our twinned school in Uganda. Her talk was very interesting too.
