Our lessons last forty-five minutes. After the lesson there is a fifteen minute break.
Usually breaks are for talking and hanging out with friends.
We have one lunch break during the school day. That lasts about half an hour.
In the corridors there are chairs and tables where you can do your homework. (You should do them at home ;) )
At our school there is also a little canteen where you can drink coffee, cocoa, tea, et cetera.
(Juulia)
Saturday, May 23, 2009
My school
Maininki is a very nice school. The teachers are friendly and helpful. They really know what they’re talking about. We have many different cultures in our school. I really like that because it helps to understand different people. We have lots of subjects and classes.
Here in Maininki we have a free lunch. We don’t have uniforms.
If someone bullies another pupil, teachers try to stop that as soon as possible. We have very clear rules in our school.
School days are quite long in secondary school. Luckily we have a snack at two o’clock.
(Iina)
Here in Maininki we have a free lunch. We don’t have uniforms.
If someone bullies another pupil, teachers try to stop that as soon as possible. We have very clear rules in our school.
School days are quite long in secondary school. Luckily we have a snack at two o’clock.
(Iina)
Lessons (Maininki)
Lessons are 45 minutes but, sometimes lessons are 60 minutes because students can be behave badly.
We write and work in groups during the lessons. And sometimes we watch videos and DVDs.
(Juhani)
We write and work in groups during the lessons. And sometimes we watch videos and DVDs.
(Juhani)
Maininki school
At Maininki school there are people from different cultures. They come from around the world, but most of us are Finnish of course. It's fun and interesting to get to know different cultures from different kinds of people.
Here in Finland school days can be very different. Sometimes we come to school at eight o'clock and occasionally even at twelve o'clock. School days usually end between one and four o'clock.
Languages that we study here in Maininki school are Finnish, English and Swedish. Optional languages in our school are French and those languages that the immigrants study, like Chinese, Vietnamese, Russian and Kurdish. The others subjects that we study are math, history, biology, physics and chemistry, home economics, P.E, art, craft and some other subjects too.
The lessons are 45 minutes long. Breaks are 15 minutes and they are between every lesson. The lunch break is 30 minutes, once a day. The lunch is free and good.
(Saara)
Here in Finland school days can be very different. Sometimes we come to school at eight o'clock and occasionally even at twelve o'clock. School days usually end between one and four o'clock.
Languages that we study here in Maininki school are Finnish, English and Swedish. Optional languages in our school are French and those languages that the immigrants study, like Chinese, Vietnamese, Russian and Kurdish. The others subjects that we study are math, history, biology, physics and chemistry, home economics, P.E, art, craft and some other subjects too.
The lessons are 45 minutes long. Breaks are 15 minutes and they are between every lesson. The lunch break is 30 minutes, once a day. The lunch is free and good.
(Saara)
My school's teachers (Maininki)
Our school's teachers are very good at teaching. They are well trained. Every teacher has her/his own way of teaching pupils and they have their own classrooms. In secondary school the teachers teach only one or two subjects. They are funny and relaxed sometimes and sometimes they make their own tests. Our teachers have good sense of humor. There are about fifty teachers in our school. Fifteen of them are men and the others are women. Four of the teachers teach English. Two of them also teach Swedish. The teachers like their pupils.
By Leila, Sini and Kai-Ling
By Leila, Sini and Kai-Ling
Maininki school lunch
Our lunch time is 11.45 or 10.45. Our school cafeteria is called ‘Merimajakka’.
In the school cafeteria there is always a big line before us, and that is very irritating.
Pasta and mincemeat are really good with ketchup but we don’t usually have that.
We seldom have tortillas. We never have good fillings for it.
Salmon is good and we also have it in this school.
Usually we have pork pot. It tastes very bad.
School’s soups are not really good but we always have fruits at the same time.
At Xmas we have special food. Usually it is fish, ham and casseroles.
(Jere)
In the school cafeteria there is always a big line before us, and that is very irritating.
Pasta and mincemeat are really good with ketchup but we don’t usually have that.
We seldom have tortillas. We never have good fillings for it.
Salmon is good and we also have it in this school.
Usually we have pork pot. It tastes very bad.
School’s soups are not really good but we always have fruits at the same time.
At Xmas we have special food. Usually it is fish, ham and casseroles.
(Jere)
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Excursion to the lake
today, me and my pupils from grade 7 made a long distance walk (6km each direction) to the lake in Oerel. Somebody counted the steps - approximately more than 6500 footsteps in each direction.
We had a look at possible animal population the day before - in the internet and of course in our book. At first it seemed as if there were no more animals in the lake. We prepared a special means of watching under water. So we were able to take a lot of 'underwater images' - Elisa and Fabian made a filmclip which will be posted via youtube soon. Today I am very pleased to show some of our pictures. When our way back was nearly at its end - a couple of boys saw a snake directly on the way. - But the little one wasn't dangerous. Greetings Jürgen
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Singing in the Rain day
A couple of weeks ago, the younger children in our school had a "Singing in the Rain" day. They all had to wear their wellies and some children brought their umbrellas! It didnt rain...they wished it had of been raining! They watchedn a clip from the Singing in the Rain (the film) and learned the famous song!
Enjoy our pictures..
Ruth
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Breakfast, Lunch and COMPETITION
Above you see again some pictrues from our Guiding tour at Umweltpyramide
Some pictures how Dörte helped us - not to starve ....in between first pics of our bicycletour and finally the breakfasttable at Jürgen's house.
Two pictures show a part of our barbeque party and ---- as we all help each other in any situation: Sari and Marja fixing the new electronic drumset in our Comenius room. So everything is ready for the big Comenius Workshop in February!!!!
And kids all over the world: Take the chance to win in our competition: Europe surches the super talent / writing own song lyrics, singing, performing.... !!!!! Contact your Comenius coordinating teacher an win !!!!
Join our website: http://myspace.com/maininki and enjoy music, videos and pictures as well! Jürgen
Friday, May 8, 2009
pictures from our guiding tour - Umweltpyramide.
measure of rain - in comparison to the rainforrest in Afrika
watching a house with an unnatural garden - and how it should change to be a more worthy one for the environment and our climate.
Butterly "friendly" environment could be so easy.
How does it feel if you can't see anything -
The Third Mobility / Germany / Hauptschule Bremervörde
One helps the other without any extra labour. 
Here we are! The third mobility is over and we have had a lot of work to do. Great - yes it was a great week. I will write down a small summary, so that everybody can enjoy it.
On Monday we collected Ruth from the airport in Bremen. During my lessons a text message from Sari reached me: .... We are on the way to Bremen. But that was false. Sari, Marja and Jenni took a wrong train - so they didn't reach Bremervörde at lunchtime - they travelled some hours more, to reach Bremervörde finally.
We had a walk through the towncentre and then a dinner at Waldschänke - a restaurant next to our school.
On Tuesday - we started at about 9.00 h with a guiding tour at school. At 10.00 h our assebly began - and we all were really nerveous, because 330 pupils were there, too. (teachers as well)
After the assebly we offered to join our lessons - in subjects such as: musik, english and religion.
The lunchbreak took place in our 'Café Pause` and Dörte with her pupils had prepared Wiener Schnitzel for all of us.
Afterward we wanted to visit a lake - the Oereler See, but it rained so much, that we changed the programm. I called my friend Markus, and we made a guiding tour at "Umweltpyramide Bremervörde" - I recommend the photos, because they all tell you more than words.
Sari, Jenni, Marja and Ruth also went shopping on their on during their individual breaks and they found many nice things at the "1€ shop"
In the evening we had a barbeque party at Jürgen's house.
On Wednesday, we met at school again and worked very busy on the Comenius Planning. We compared the former application form, with those two former partners from Sweden and read it very carefully and marked all former tasks
from the swedish partners, we are able to work at.
We discussed a lot of things and wrote them down.
After our lunchbreak we went to Oerel and recorded a video guiding around the collapsing lake. This guiding tour with "finnish reading german" information
will be posted at youtube. You will find a link for it soon.
Wednesday afternoon, we visited a beautiful town, which is called Stade. Afterwards we had a look at "Altes Land" where thousands of apple trees and cherry trees did their job.
On Thursday, we met again at school, in order to work on our first report.
Sari and Marja went to a place, which is called "Café Dunkel" a restaurant in which you are absolutely not able to see anything. The waitress guides you to your place and offers you some softdrinks. She (a blind person) tells about herself and how it feels to be blind - during the darkness.
Jenni and Ruth visited a primary school at Hesedorf / a village next to Bremervörde.
After a short break we met each other at Ruth's hotel. There we rented some bicyles, because 'we wanted' to do a bicycle tour (not a race) with almost all stuff from Hauptschule Bremervörde.
At last the bicycle tour got longer than expected, because one teacher missed the road, we all should have taken (a kind of shortcut) Being aware that the trip gets longer than expected, we drove a little bit faster and ..... nearly lost some people. / Sorry for that once more!
At 18.00 h we all had a dinner at "Tivolis" Restaurant in Bremervörde - all having esparagus with Wienerschnitzel and Schinken, Sauce Hollandaise and potato creations.
Back home - the luggage had to be packed up, because everybody had to be carried to Bremen once again. Early in the morning we got up and drove to Bremen Central Station - for the Finns and to Bremen Airport for Ruth.
So - enjoy the photos - Jürgen.
Here we are! The third mobility is over and we have had a lot of work to do. Great - yes it was a great week. I will write down a small summary, so that everybody can enjoy it.
On Monday we collected Ruth from the airport in Bremen. During my lessons a text message from Sari reached me: .... We are on the way to Bremen. But that was false. Sari, Marja and Jenni took a wrong train - so they didn't reach Bremervörde at lunchtime - they travelled some hours more, to reach Bremervörde finally.
We had a walk through the towncentre and then a dinner at Waldschänke - a restaurant next to our school.
On Tuesday - we started at about 9.00 h with a guiding tour at school. At 10.00 h our assebly began - and we all were really nerveous, because 330 pupils were there, too. (teachers as well)
After the assebly we offered to join our lessons - in subjects such as: musik, english and religion.
The lunchbreak took place in our 'Café Pause` and Dörte with her pupils had prepared Wiener Schnitzel for all of us.
Afterward we wanted to visit a lake - the Oereler See, but it rained so much, that we changed the programm. I called my friend Markus, and we made a guiding tour at "Umweltpyramide Bremervörde" - I recommend the photos, because they all tell you more than words.
Sari, Jenni, Marja and Ruth also went shopping on their on during their individual breaks and they found many nice things at the "1€ shop"
In the evening we had a barbeque party at Jürgen's house.
On Wednesday, we met at school again and worked very busy on the Comenius Planning. We compared the former application form, with those two former partners from Sweden and read it very carefully and marked all former tasks
from the swedish partners, we are able to work at.
We discussed a lot of things and wrote them down.
After our lunchbreak we went to Oerel and recorded a video guiding around the collapsing lake. This guiding tour with "finnish reading german" information
will be posted at youtube. You will find a link for it soon.
Wednesday afternoon, we visited a beautiful town, which is called Stade. Afterwards we had a look at "Altes Land" where thousands of apple trees and cherry trees did their job.
On Thursday, we met again at school, in order to work on our first report.
Sari and Marja went to a place, which is called "Café Dunkel" a restaurant in which you are absolutely not able to see anything. The waitress guides you to your place and offers you some softdrinks. She (a blind person) tells about herself and how it feels to be blind - during the darkness.
Jenni and Ruth visited a primary school at Hesedorf / a village next to Bremervörde.
After a short break we met each other at Ruth's hotel. There we rented some bicyles, because 'we wanted' to do a bicycle tour (not a race) with almost all stuff from Hauptschule Bremervörde.
At last the bicycle tour got longer than expected, because one teacher missed the road, we all should have taken (a kind of shortcut) Being aware that the trip gets longer than expected, we drove a little bit faster and ..... nearly lost some people. / Sorry for that once more!
At 18.00 h we all had a dinner at "Tivolis" Restaurant in Bremervörde - all having esparagus with Wienerschnitzel and Schinken, Sauce Hollandaise and potato creations.
Back home - the luggage had to be packed up, because everybody had to be carried to Bremen once again. Early in the morning we got up and drove to Bremen Central Station - for the Finns and to Bremen Airport for Ruth.
So - enjoy the photos - Jürgen.
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