LITTLE ARGONAUTS 2nd issue 2012-2013

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Welcome again. We wish you Happy New Year, health and prosperity. This is the

second issue and you are going to read about our school, about the Choco Day we

organized at school, about the Train of Pelio and the interview of Mr. Arvanitis,

our news and activities . We hope you enjoy reading our newspaper.

6th Class of Primary School of Portaria N. Tsopotos 2nd issueJan. Feb. 2013

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Contents of issue On the issue...

My School

Choco Day

School News

Happy hours

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3

4

6 LETS MAKE PIES

A Greek tradi-

tional custom.

Last Thursday we

made pies in our

schoo l . Ada s

grandmother with

the help of the

teachers and the students of D class made cheese pies, spinach pies and milk pies.

The pies were very delicious and we ate them the following day at the carnival

party.

CARNIVAL PARTY

Last Friday we had a

school carnival party.

Our classmates came to

school wearing fancy

carnival costumes. We

listened to music and

danced. While the

boys were playing

football the girls were dancing the Gaitanaki in the schoolyard. Then we ate sau-sages, souvlakia and the fantastic pies the students and teachers had made the

previous day. It was the funniest party and we enjoyed so much!


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My school ...Page 2, little Argonauts, issue 2nd, Jan. Feb. 2013

My school is in Portaria and it is huge and very old. It was built in 1883 and it has been a school for 131

years. The name of my school is Nikolaos Tsopotos, because he was the man who gave his house to the

village to make it a school.

On the ground floor, there are three classrooms, a computer lab and a library. On the first floor there

are four classrooms, an Assembly Hall and a Maths and Science lab. There is a playground with a small

garden with herbs and big trees. There is a basketball court but there isn't a football field. There is a

statue of Nikolaos Tsopotos in the schoolyard. There is another small building. On the ground floor of

that building there is the dining room where we have lunch and the toilets. On the first floor there is the

teachers office, the headmaster's office and a small class with a projector.

I my School! Danai Tsagrasouli

Missing words . Find them.

There are teachers

My school is ..

Our head teacher is Mr ..

My school is in ...

There are .. classrooms

Ada Popoura, Fay Kounara

alotof,Hercules,seven,huge,Portaria


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Choco day ... Little Argonauts, 2nd issue, Jan. Feb. 2013, page 3

Choco-day was a very special day in our school. We

made chocolates, chocolate cakes and chocolate

mousse. All the classes were involved in the cooking

and tasting and nobody was bored. We melted choco-

late, caramelized hazelnuts, and used plums and wal-

nuts to make little chocolates. We also watched pres-

entations about the history of chocolate involving ge-

ography and culture. We also listened to songs about

chocolate and danced. We had a lot of fun. The fol-

lowing day students, teachers and parents were in-

vited to taste all the choco-delicacies made by the

little chefs. After going to church we cut the New

Year's Pie, we had soft drinks, we danced and played

in the school yard. These two days were fantastic.

Chocolate

Choco-

late is

a raw or processed food produced from the seed of the

tropical Theobroma cacao tree. Cacao has been cultivated

for at least three millennia in Mexico, Central America and

Northern South America. Chocolate played a special role in

both Maya and Aztec royal and religious events. The seeds

of the cacao tree have an intense bitter taste, and must be

fermented to develop the flavor. After fermentation, the

beans are dried, then cleaned, and then roasted, and the

shell is removed to produce cacao nibs. The nibs are then

ground to cocoa mass, pure chocolate in rough form. Much

of the chocolate consumed today is in the form of sweet

chocolate, combining cocoa solids, cocoa butter or other

fat, and sugar. Milk chocolate is sweet chocolate that addi-

tionally contains milk powder or condensed milk. White chocolate contains cocoa butter, sugar, and milk but

no cocoa solids. Chocolate has become one of the most popular food types and flavors in the world. Choco-

late chip cookies have become very common, and very popular, in most parts of Europe and North America.

Gifts of chocolate molded into different shapes have become traditional on certain holidays. Chocolate is

also used in cold and hot beverages, to produce chocolate milk and hot chocolate.


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Liravlos

Last week all the classes of our school visited

Iolkos Primary School and we watched the

music event Liravlos. There was a presen-

tation of ancient Greek musical instru-

ments. We saw and listened to 40 dif-

ferent musical instruments which were

used by ancient Greeks. The two musi-

cians were father and son. The father

played the instruments and the son sang

a lot of ancient Greek songs. They

also showed us how to make musical

instruments using simple things such

as straw, bones and hose. We were

really impressed by what we saw and we would like to

watch it again. It was so interesting!

Prince Lemon and the beautiful Onion

On Monday 28th January A class with the m u s i c

teacher Miss Artemis played the music fairytale

Prince Lemon and the b e a u -

tiful Onion in

their class-

room. The

story, which was

written by George

Sakelarides, is a

big poem that can

be sung. So the lit-

tle students have

learned to sing their

roles. They brought clothes and accessories from their homes and they made up their faces. They en-

joyed themselves very much and had a lot of fun.

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Students of E class take part in a very interesting project about the Train of Pelion. Mr Arvanitis was in-

vited by the teacher Miss A. Argyriou and the students to talk to them about the train. Mr. Arvanitis

showed them pictures of the train, of people who used to work for the railway, the passengers and the vil-

lages. He told them the history of the train and he pointed out how important it was for the transportation

and the development of the whole Pelion. It was the only means of transport 100 years ago. Then a discus-

sion followed and Mr Arvanitis answered to all the students questions. Finally he promised to accompany

the teacher and the students on a train trip to Milies.

Good morning Mr Arvanitis. What is your profession?

Well, good morning children. I used to be a hotel manager in the past and then I became a teacher in

order to help the tourism professionals. Tourists travel to other places to visit sights of histori-cal, religious, architectural and natural interest, meet other civilizations and customs and entertain

themselves. They have the need to sleep somewhere, eat, drink and be guided around. So there

must be people with knowledge and experience to serve the tourists. .

Why are you so interested in the

Train of Pelio?

Well, Im very interested in it, be-

cause this little train, that used

to connect Volos to Milies in Pelio,

is unique. There is no other train

like this in Greece. So there

must be an organization that in-

forms people how this train used

to work. I remind you this: medi-

cine was developed here in Pelio

by Centraure Herron since his

first student was Asklipeos. So

we can inform all visitors that

medicine started from here in

Pelio. Visitors can still travel

from Lehonia to Milies and enjoy

the nature and the view.

Thank you very much Mr Arvanitis

School News ... Little Argonauts, 2nd issue, Jan. Feb. 2013, page 5


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Happy hours..Page 6, Little Argon, 2nd issue, Jan. Feb. 2013

Colour the picture

Anna Vogiatzi, Angelos Vadalris, Angelos

Bourdakis, Christina Makrigianni, Vasia

Vasilakou, Vangelis Bilalis, Aris Zoulali,

Christos Giannaros, Apostolos Eftihidis,

Eftihia Kaltsogianni, Spiros Barbakos,

Panagiotis Kontopanagiotis, Konstantinos

Kontorizos, Sotiris Manos, Giannis Triana-

tafillou, Gabriel Ginari

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