PROJECT PARTNERS

FRANCE

PORTUGAL

TURKEY

POLAND

ITALY

Çiğdem Kurku and Ceren & Alper.................................................Pages 4-8

Corinne Hoffert  and Denis, Douaa, Emily ,Ayia.........................Pages 9-12

Müjgan Tüzen and  Burak&Merve&Yunus&Beyza......................Pages 13-15

Şeyma ÇEÇEN with Firdevs , Semanur........................................Pages 16-17

Fatma KAYA and Nisa,Ömer Sude and,Sevval ..........................Pages 18-21

Turgut AYDIN and  Emel,Yağmur,Sevim.....................................Pages 22-25

Carole Fiani and La Salle Saint Nicolas Students..................Pages 26-36

Gülin AYDIN and  Melike ,Nur,Pınar.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Pages 37-40

Burcu Korkmaz with Özge & Birce Su....................................Pages 41-45

Jolanta  Hołownia with PLSP Supraśl students...................Pages 46-65

Gamze Güven with Yağmur and Sena....................................Pages 66-69

          WRITERS

                       TOOTH  WHEAT

                        CELEBRATION

After the guests arrive,an important elder of the family,someone experienced in tooth wheat cooks the cook wheat

After the wheat is cooked, a clean cloth is laid on the ground the baby is placed on ıt and a handful of cooked and cooled wheat is poured over ıt's head.The reason for this traditional celebration is; It is the belief that it ensures that the baby has a painless teething process and has healthy teeth for life.

It all starts with the appearance of the baby's first tooth

The first person to notice the baby's tooth is the special participant of the party and must buy the baby a gift that he can keep for life

KOCAHASANLI ANATOLIAN HIGH SCHOOL CEREN&ALPER

Evergreens are small trees that cary essential oil. It's leaves are plump,oval,shiny and leathery. Sepals and petals in five parts. It's leaves are fleshy white or pink in color and fragrant.

Fruits are yellow and orange ,multi-eyed and fleshy and winter fruits. Fruits are sour in taste and rich in vitamin C. They contain %3 oil

         CITRUS CELEBRATION

-To promote our citrus product locally, nationally and internationally. 

  CITRUS CELEBRATION IN MERSİN

The fruits of these plants are used as food,as well as essential oils that are used to give fragrance and flavor in perfumery ,from fruit peels leaves or flowers. Citrus is also used in deodorant and eye cream mixtures

Cultures are cultivated in almost all countries whose homeland is China and India but which have a temperate climate today. Agriculture in the northeast and southwest of the southern . Mediterranean region of  Turkey is grown   

  KOCAHASANLI ANATOLIAN HIGH SCHOOL CEREN & ALPER

In this family we have been using the same artificial Xmas tree for more than 20 years . So we do not cut trees and we reuse what we have .

LEGT Condorcet Belfort  

Home made decorations with cork 

The decorations of the city of Belfort are made with led bulbs , so they do not consume too much electricity

In my family , we do not eat any veal any more and no foie gras (stuffed goose liver) because it harms the animals 

 Emily LEGT Condorcet

DOMESTIC GOODS WEEK OF TURKEY

(12-18 NOVEMBER)

Domestic good week is a traditional celebration in Turkish primary schools. The aim of the celebration is to teach the students to use domestic products.We celebrate this week since 1946.

Teachers, parents and children prepare some home made Turkish food, bring some fruits ,nuts, pop corns ,cookies ...to the school and  they eat them together. Students read poems,sing songs,put on colorful clothes ....

Keçiören Social Sciences High School Merve & Burak & Yunus

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS 

Keçiören Social Sciences High School Merve & Beyza

Snow isn't clear in particular area, which makes snowboarding fun. You can ride on horses and go on the horse tour in the snow

ELMADAĞ SKIING CELEBRATIONS

It is a ski resort located on the northern slope of Elmadağ, about 17 kilometers southeast of Ankara. 

The municipality allows young people and children to have fun having barbecues, snowboarding and horse riding. Everyone should see this heaven on earth.

Moreover,The municipality enables people to use public transportation reaching there, which reduces traffic jam and air pollution as people use one vehicle not their private cars.

                          HACIBAYRAM VELİ ANATOLIAN HIGH SCHOOL 

                         Şeyma Çeçen with Firdevs

New year Celebration is a good opportunity for people to spend time with their family and friends.But it  includes  wasteful meals and gifts.To avoid this, we use cardboard gift boxes.We don't use disposable materials at home.We make our decoritions using reusable materials.We use an artificial tree .We don't cut down trees.

    NEW YEAR CELEBRATION

We don't throw away the ornaments and the tree.Decorations and the fashion are the same every year.So we reuse them over and over.

Nevsehir Cemil Meric Social Sciences High School / Nisa and Ömer

SNOW FESTIVAL IN TURKEY

Every year in Kayseri, Turkey snow festival is held in winter months. Erciyes Mountain which is an inactive volcano is one of the  best winter sport resorts.

Statues are made from snow and people take pictures in front of them. People skii and sledge down the mountain.

After skiing down the slopes of Erciyes mountain, people either have barbeque on snow or go to the cafes to eat sausage and bread. 

Erciyes mountain is always covered with snow and ice.However,because of global warming, the amount of snow on its caps has started to decrease. In the future we will probably miss the days that we spent on its slopes.

Nevsehir Cemil Meriç Social Sciences High School  /  ,Sevval and Sude

Camel wrestling is an ancient village tradition and tournament in the Aegean Region of Turkey. Camel wrestling has certain rules, and is usually held during winter as a winter festival.

Camel Wrestling is thought that this sport has its origins in the nomadic tribes who depended on camels for their livelihood. It is mostly popular in the Aegean region, where contests are held in the winter months from December to March.

Turgut Aydın-Koçarlı Anatolian High School with EmelC.,YağmurÖ.,SevimCT.,

Olive Festival in Kuşadası

The Aegean province of Kuşadası hosts the Olive Festival on Nov 3 and 4. The Kuşadası Municipality Chamber Orchestra performs the 2,000-year-old Seikilos epitaph, one of the oldest music examples in the world, on Nov 4 at the Öküz Mehmed Paşa Caravanserai.

Turgut Aydın-Koçarlı Anatolian High School EmelC.,YağmurÖ.,SevimCT.,

 Winter and Celebrations

Getting ready ...

La Salle Saint Nicolas 

Class 2PMS

Nature is beautiful and amazing. We need to take care of it with TLC (tender, love, and care).

Christmas 

La Salle Saint Nicolas Issy

Mateusz K. 2PMS

Gingerbread - a hard, dark brown dough made from a mixture of wheat and rye flour, milk, eggs, caramelized sugar, honey, heavily seasoned with spices, mainly cinnamon and ginger, and sometimes also cloves, coriander, cardamom, nutmeg, anise, star anise herb.

Mateusz K. 2PMS

Gingerbread cookies are unusual because they have many functions. First of all, they serve as a snack. They were usually eaten after the main meal for dessert. Gingerbread dough does not spoil easily and can be stored for a long time, so it was taken on expeditions, it could be used as bread for a pilgrim or as a biscuit for a knight or soldier.

Quentin L. 2PMS

Fatima G.S. 2PMS

The Christmas tree is there for decoration.

The Christmas tree makes people happy.

Even if it is cold and there is snow, the thick coat of the horse keeps him warm. Animals are part of nature and life on land.

Winter Celebrations

Alexis S. 2PMS

Enzo Z. 2PMS

It is a Jewish Holiday, Hanukkah. Every day for a week you have to light  a candle. It looks like Christmas except that for the  week you get one gift a day.

Arthur V. 2PMS

In my first picture you can see a decorated natural pine tree In my second picture you can see a matryoshka, painted for Christmas.

It is a Christmas tradition. It is a traditional object for Russian Christmas. I’m orthodox and of Russian origin.

Côme L. 2PMS

A Christmas tree is used to symbolize the magic of Christmas during the winter. It is where gifts are placed and around it on  December 25th  families celebrate Christmas like mine. And who spend a good time with each other despite Covid 19.

“Dervish” – literally meaning “doorway” – is a common term for an initiate of Sufism who is considered as a bridge between the spiritual and material worlds, while the act of whirling is the climax of the Sema ceremonies. The Mevlevi Sema Ceremony of Turkey is recognised by UNESCO as one of the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.

 The Turkish city of Konya hosts one of the most exquisite ceremonies of spirituality with the mesmerising beauty of the Whirling Dervishes honouring Mevlana, the great Sufi mystic.

Thousands of people gather to commemorate the life and teachings of the 13 century Persian poet and Sufi mystic Rumi – also known as Mevlana (“our master”). The unity of being is the central tenet in the transcendental teachings of this Islamic philosopher who believed that dance and music led to a higher consciousness, which in turn helped to discover divine love. The festival therefore is full of Sufi dance and music ceremonies – called Sema – performed by Mevleni or followers of Rumi.

Gülin Aydın,KOÇARLI ANATOLIAN HIGH SCHOOL,AYDIN,Students:Melike,Nur,Pınar

Datça Almond Blossom Festival

The Datça Almond Blossom Festival takes place every year around the time when native almond trees blossom, which will be Feb. 7-9 .

Located on the Aegean coast of Turkey, the festival offers almond treats, concerts and dancing as well as gorgeous views.

Gülin Aydın,KOÇARLI ANATOLIAN HIGH SCHOOL,AYDIN,Students:Melike,Nur,Pınar

HIGHLAND FESTIVAL

 Acelle Plateau Festivals take place in 35-40 km from Akyazı /Sakarya. Davlumbaz Plateau is the located in the province of Sakarya. It is located in the west of Sülüklü Lake, where festivities are held.Festivals are held  every year in the last and first week of July.

During this festivals traditional instruments are played and people perform traditional dances. There are no hotels, motels or any accommodation for the guests.They all spend the night in tents.There are apperoximately between 200 and 250 tents.

Burcu KORKMAZ with Özge & Birce Su/ Akyazı Eyyup Genc Science High  School

We should invest more to save and protect the environment.This will help us to understand the value of the funtions of eco-system ,protect diversity and contribute sustainable energy.

Pumpkin is a fiber-rich fruit. Contains mineral elements such as potassium, phosphorus, magnesium. It is often seen as a pumpkin dessert in Turkish cuisine. Pumpkin has so many benefits. Some of these help protect the liver, support blood pressure, help protect eye health because it is a powerful source of vitamin A.

PUMPKIN FESTIVAL

*In the pumpkin festival held in Sakarya, many aktivities such as pumpkin photo exhibitions, folk dance show, children's workshops, pumpkin dessert contest were organized.

*In these festivals, seeds are distributed to the participants and participants can grow their own pumpkins by sowing these seeds. People sowing these seeds contributes to nature and sustainable development.

Burcu KORKMAZ with Özge & Birce Su/ Akyazı Eyyup Genc Science High  School

PLSP in Supraśl, Poland 

AUTHORS:

Urszula A.

Oliwia B.

Monika B.

Katarzyna D

Matylda D.

Zuzanna J.

Ina K.

Julia K.

Daria L.

Zofia P.

Wiktor S.

Magdalena W.

Our school  Christmas interior decoration is made of natural materials like wood, straw, misletoe. We also use energy saving led lights.

Considering that me and my family spend Christmas alone, we try to find alternatives for a traditional dinner with the intentions of being eco-friendly. We often resolve in ordering a set of sushi. By doing so, we are not only supporting a small business, which is important especially during quarantine, but also avoiding throwing away lots of unfinished food, like we would have done if we took part in making 12 separate dishes (what is a tradition, practiced especially within polish families). However, some families might want to stick to the idea of a conventional meal – so what should they do? The answer is really simple. They should make portion sizes that will surely be finished or skip out on making a dish or two. A great solution would be also giving warm meals to less-fortunate people, who can’t afford it. ULa

                        CHRISTMAS HEADRESS

In Christmas time houses, besides Christmas tree, lights and other ornaments, are also decorated in headdresses.

The natural versions are made of green twigs of conifers in a circle which are the symbol of life and Christ’s Birth and Resurrection. There is also a candle inside of this wreath. The whole ‘construction’ can be decorated with cones, Italian nuts or dried fruits - the most common are oranges.   

The very fact that you can create something like this out of natural materials makes it a good thing to sell before Christmas. The collected money can be intended for pre-holiday fundraisings taking care of poor and homeless people.

Even after the holiday season as we start to clean all of the decorations the handmade headdress takes its part in sustainable development. When we clean the headdress made of twigs and cones, we can return them to forest so they will decompose or we can use branches as kindling in wood stove. Nothing will be wasted. 

Oliwia

The Christmas Carolers take the Star with them.                                                      

The star alludes to the Star of Bethlehem, 

that the Three Kings saw.   

The photo shows an example of a Star made artificially, 

but the star can also be made of straw.    

Christmas traditions vary by region. In Poland, we have our traditional elements related to Christmas.     

One of them is Christmas Carolers. They are people who go around houses 

to sing Christmas carols together, and in Poland it is also a form of nativity play.

Etymology of Boxing day 

There are a lot of stories about etymology of “Boxing Day” One of them says that on December 26th the church gave away the boxes to distribute them to wider community and help the poorest. That’s a paradox to our century because on that day we join the masses to purchase plenty of unnecessary goods just because they are cheap. Days like this encourage customers to make quick decisions that they may often regret.

Negative aspects 

Every year, millions of plastic gift bags are used and end up in the bin. Instead, it is worth investing in manila packaging. It may not be decorated with printed patterns, but even such manila can be decorated with stamps or simply drawings.  

We will also pay much less for it, and what is more beneficial for the environment – we can return such manila to waste paper for recycling. I think each of us should take advantage of any opportunities to care for the environment, even for such a small thing that we do not think about every day.    Matylda

Burning coal in the furnace

December is this cold time in the year, where the heating period is continuing. Vision of Christmas is usually associated with a Christmas tree, family, presents and warm chimneys. In a few years we are starting to see causes of the burning coal

in the furnaces. In many cities it is forbidden, but people still do it. Burning coal by single-family houses is one of the main reasons of the air-polluting. It's important yo be interested in the subject of the klimat health, because it's all about our common good.       Zuzanna

Julia

Many years ago, my father and I made a small nativity scene ourselves, made of natural materials such as wood, straw or reed for the roof. It has been with us for as long as I can remember and it lasts longer than any other decoration we’ve ever had.                  Daria 

NATIVITY SCENE

Zofia

Christmas Cleaning

People start the preparation even a few days before the Christmas. In my family a big part of preparation is cleaning. Because of the climate change and carrying about the nature we decided to do some cleaning stuff in the ecological style. There are a lot of methods to help our planet. 

First and I think very crucial things is that we must to save some stuff. We use lots of water; we could easily reduce that quantity. Another thing is the paper towel, we use them but it is not really good for environment. Instead, we could use multiple-use towel. 

We can prepare some  eco cleaning products ourselves, as well. In the internet  there are tons of information about it. It's easy and cheap to be made. For example, we can clean up window with vinegar and an old newspaper! 

A huge number of detergents have bad and destructive influence on our mother planet. It’s because of chemical and toxic composition of those stuff. In our times we have extreme choice of ecological products. They are composed from natural  inggredients  and they are non-toxic. We can have dish liquid, window cleaner, carpet cleaner, furniture polish and much more of these. Wiktor

I will be talking about Christmast presents. I want to encourage you to buy things that are hand-made and being sold in small businesses. I think that supporting craftmen is very important, especially now, when we are in pandemic, and those people can’t sell their things on markets. Craftmen are making things they sell by their own hands, and most of them are using the best products.  

I would like to focus on one particular shop. It is a Polish soap shop, called 4szpaki, (4Starlings), run by a small group of people that have passion for making cosmetics out of only natural components. You can buy there not only bar soap, but also liquid soap which is sold in glass bottles, shampoo in bar, conditioner in bar, bath bombs, oils and serums, peelings, hydrolates, candles and deodorant. Everything they sell is packed in paper or glass, so it reduces waste. Their products smell beautifully, sometimes it’s hard to remember that it’s not food.  

Magdalena

'Bocuk Night' in Edirne

People, wearing costumes, celebrate traditional 'Bocuk Night' in the Camlica Village of Kesan district of Edirne, Turkey on January 18. Bocuk Night, an evening in which locals paint their faces in scary make-up to spook community residents in honor of a family of ghosts, is a medieval tradition in Balkans. 

While Bocuk is the word used in Thrace to represent the coldest, longest and harshest night in winter, this ritual is in a sense one aimed at increasing the community's power of resistance against the harsh climate conditions. A ritual affiliated with the Balkan culture that has been passed on from medieval times to today's generation, there are a number of superstitions that are pertinent to the traditions played out on this very special evening

Pumpkin's dessert is served on Bocuk Night.

According to legends surrounding Bocuk Night, if water freezes overnight then nature that year will be bountiful. This superstition is practiced by placing water on a piece of wood and if it is frozen by the morning, then it is believed that the members of the household are sure to have a healthy, resilient and powerful year.

EDİRNE AKMERCAN ANATOLIAN RELIGIOUS HIGH SCHOOL

            GAMZE GÜVEN WITH YAĞMUR AND SENA

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