Our Hobbies

Hobbies Poll.

             the number of people who have a hobby

8/13 and 10/15 (5th grade and 8th grade)

What hobbies are they?

-Riding, playing a guitar, volleyball, ice hockey , downhill skiing, athletics, drama, visual arts, scouts, beach volley, cooking club, volunteer firefighters, jazz dance & ballet.

Is the hobby summer or winter or both?

- Many hobbies are both.

Why did you choose your hobby?

- I don’t know.

-It’s awesome.

- He likes music that’s why he started to play the guitar so young.

-It’s fun.

-It’s interesting.

-ballet because It makes you flexible.

Made by Anni & Susku

Finnish Festivals .

Finnish Festivals .

New Year’s Day

is a public holiday, celebrated on 1 January, on the first day of the year.

In Finland, on New Year's Day  a New Year's speech is held by the President.

Good Friday is the Friday before Easter.

Easter  in Finland

Children wear a witch costume or another character

Children go from door to door and say trick-or-treat something like that .. 

Easter Monday

It’s a day off.

First of May

Drink Drank Drunk – day

It’s the students’ celebration.

There are a lot of balloons and streamers.

Made by Anni & Susku 

OUR SCHOOL

Interview:

What is best in our school?

-Friends, vending machine for drinks, recess, school library and that you can study in peace in the classroom.

And what is bad?

-The toilets are very small and the locks are broken. Our school is small, messy and sometimes it's smelly, but mostly it's ok. Our school cafeteria  is a little bit boring, but the food is sometimes good. Gym is nice and comfortable, but it's too small.

Else about our school

Our school food is free and we enjoy it at 10:30 - 11:50am. The school starts at 8am, 9am or 10am depending on our own timetable, and ends at 12pm, 1pm, 2pm or 3pm. Our timetable changes every month. Each lesson lasts 60minutes but recess takes 10-15minutes of our time, so the lessons last 45minutes.  

The school has two "sides", elementary school and junior high school, in the elementary school we only have 5 and 6 grades. The elementary school and the junior high school separate each other with the color of the floor. Elementary school has light orange and the junior high school has light blue.

We also have a small Senior high school and in the picture you see a small light blue corridor and it belongs to the senior high school and also in the same time it starts the junior high school side

Other pictures of our school

 Elementary school

corridor where staff rooms are.

By. Silja, Cilla, Emmi and Aleksantra(:

Finnish hobbies

Hobbies in Finland

Here in Finland we have a lot of different hobbies that we can do.

At winter when there is cold and snowy and lakes are frozen we can play ice-hockey and go to skiing. You can play videogames, watch TV and listen to music and do all that kind of stuff in the house.

At summer you can do a lot of things that you can’t do at winter. You can play football with you’r friends, ride a horse practice for Rally Finland in Jyväskylä, play Finnish baseball, tennis, volleyball and all that kind of thinks.

Finnish baseball is different than USA:s baseball. Ball thrown to the air and passer moves out of the way and player hits the ball hard as he can.  

Finnish baseball is our national sport and it is played in Sweden, Japan, Estonia, Australia, Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Finnish festivals

                     Finnish festivals

Midsummer eve:

Light and midsummer’s party. In Finland it’s rare that the sun doesn’t set at all. That's what happens at Midsummer. The night is like a day and it’s the most beautiful day of the year in Finland. At midsummer people clean their houses, light bonfire to the safe place and go to sauna and get drunk for all night long.

Independence Day:

it’s the national day of Finland.  We celebrate it on the sixth of December. It’s a flag day in Finland. Then we use to put two blue and white candles on the window sill. Our president organizes big parties and he invites all important people to celebrate together. You can see the full parties on the TV. We have one movie tradition in Finland, too, we watch a movie called The Unknown Soldier.

Christmas:

On Christmas day we take candles to the cemetery. On Christmas eve Santa comes from Lapland with reindeer and gifts. We open our gifts at the night, eat good food , sing and dance and also the sauna is the best part of Christmas. Some people go to church to worship and sing more. 

Mouhijärvi

Mouhijärvi is a small village in Finland. There is not very much to do here, but this place is okey to live in if you don't like big cities. There aren't a lot of shops, but some little grocery stores. If you want to go shopping in department stores you have to go to Tampere, which is not too far  (about 45 km).

Some pics of Mouhijärvi...

Welcome to Mouhijärvi

Our youth club

This is one of our little shops

Mouhijärvi graffiti

Our library