Wheat ear day 2011 - Pancake race

Dear pupils and colleagues,
last year we began celebrating the Wheat Ear Day with a class (former 7th A) and we liked it so much that we have decided to repeat the celebration this year.You all can have a look at some info and photos from last year in this very same blog:http://teacheranaamaro.blogspot.com/2010/05/dia-da-espiga-wheat-ear-day.html.

 

The afternoon began in Parque Verde in Condeixa-a-Nova, on the 1st June 2011. We arrived, prepared the snacks and the drinks and then began the presentation of an English tradition: Pancake Day and Pancake Race. The pupils read some cards with the explanation of this historical tradition while the audience listened to it carefully.

Then the pupils, dressed properly, spend a few moments training for the race, trying to toss the pancakes up in the air. The pancakes were real, baked by me in the very same morning. Everything was prepared accordingly because we wanted to make it as closer to the real tradition as possible.

Then the pancake race began! Up your marks, ready, set, go!!!! There were two races: one for the girls and one for the boys.

At the end there was the traditional kiss from the bell-ringer.

And these were our winers!



After the race there was still time to sing a song, read somes poems, play a football match and have lunch.

It was a wonderful afternoon.One we are sure we will repeat next year.