Brainstorming News Issue no.2, November 2009 - ‘Anatol Ghermanschi’ School, Brasov
Welcome
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Traditional Activities with Rodica Vanca and Students from Grade 2A
ey everyone! How was your summer? Did
you have fun? I heard some of you did! Some of you went outside Romania, in Turkey or in Greece, great countries to enjoy the summer. You had great weather and all in Romania too. You went to the seaside with family or friends. Some of you visited or revisited some places in Transylvania. No matter where you went and what you did there is one sure thing – you had FUN! But now we’re all back to school, back to learning. We are excited about being back to school because we can see our old friends and we can enjoy new great moments with them. On the other hand we don’t like it because we have to learn to get good marks and then learn again. But that is OK, because we will do a great job, as usual.
So I, Ioana Vaduva, and my very good friends and also class-mates, Teodora Matei, Lavinia Nica, Cristina Batranu, Robert Cernea and Razvan Idomir, the same old team wants to introduce you to the latest number of Brainstorming News, which is a better one. We also want to welcome you back to school and wish you a very good year, full of success. Oh, and don’t forget, HAVE FUN! Brainstorming News Staff
Rodica Vanca and her students from Grade 2A in the School Library.
For this number of the magazine I chose to write about one of our teachers. Her name is Rodica Vanca and is the teacher of Grade 2D.
When I asked her the reason why she chose to do a “Going Back to the Rural Lifestyle” she answered that ‘It is an optional project, prefered by both children and parents, which offers them a way to encounter cultural inheritance’. I asked her what she likes about the project and she replied: ‘As a teacher, I know that through this activity I extol the richness and the beauties of the country, the oldness and the national unity, all men’s hard work and one nation’s aspirations.This project urges young generations through loving the Romanian traditions.’
Rodica Vanca sustained another project with students from our school in collaboration with others from some villages around Brasov, having as main objective ‘The Preservation and Promotion of Romanian customs and traditions’. The aim of the project was for the kids to understand the significance of the global folklore, to recognize folkloric information, to know and to be able to describe the folkloric local traditions and habits and to be able to work with an ethnographic map. Part of the project involved recognizing the traditional costumes and learning to dance traditional dances.
She did all of those things because ‘most of the kids don’t have grandparents in the country side anymore. Most of them have never been in a village and, therefore, they don’t know any kind of traditions’, she said. This teacher chose this project and that’s the reason she does all kind of folkloric activities, so that she can make the younger generation understand the importance of their past culture. All of the students from grade 2A and three other students from outside Brasov are taking part in this project. I believe that the teacher Rodica Vanca is a great person who loves and respects her country and its traditions and wants to maintain these feelings through all the activities she does with her students. by Ioana Vaduva