Friends and Flags 2002

Friends and Flags 2002

English For Ever School - Santa Branca - Brazil

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	Hello partners participating on the Friends and Flags Mystery Place Treasure Hunt Contest! We´re glad you´re visiting our website! Hope you enjoy learning a little more about us, our community and country! FRIENDS AND FLAGS WORK GALLERY Partners from Groups 5 and 18, please, click here to see our weekly updates. We´re so happy to be working on this wonderful project for the third time. Thanks to Karen! The students have been working a lot at school and also at home in order to make creative packages to our partners. We are in Group 5 and Group 18 and we´ll be using this page for constant updates and pictures of our work. We named each group of students working on F&F with a Brazilian Folklorical Character. Below are the participating groups for this year.

	Group 5 Ms. Janet Barnstable Percy Julian School Illinois - USA Partners: Boto´s Group According to the legend, the Botos (purpoises) that live in the Amazon river have a special enchantment, especially when night time starts. They become tall, strong, handsome men looking for pretty women to have a date. They go to parties where they dance, drink and flirt, acting like a normal guy. Before morning comes, they go back to the rivers, as their enchantment only lasts during nightime and become botos again. CLICK HERE TO READ OUR INTRODUCTIONS Ms. Erika Lukito´s class Notsuharu High School Japan Partners: Curupira´s Group Caipora is a Brazilian mith known by the indians since the country´s discovery. Indians and Jesuits used to call him Caiçara, the forests and hunts protector. It´s figure is of a red- haired dwarf, with green fur and green teeth. As a protector of the nature and the animals he punishes the nature destroyers and the hunters. He´s very strong and powerful. His feet are turned backwards to disguise the hunters. It´s also know by the name Curupira. CLICK HERE TO READ OUR INTRODUCTIONS Ms. Ita Lavie Aran Junio High School Israel Partneres: Saci Pererê´s Group Saci Perere is a folklorical character that makes a very loud noise when he whistles. He is very naughty and loves playing tricks in the forests during thedark nights. It has only one leg and due to his color, extremely black, at night people can only see his red "cap" and the spark of his pipe. Saci is always in a hurry and as soon as he arrives in the forest more tricks he plays and more samba he dances. He jumps and swings from the branches while holding his "cap" not to lose his magic power. He plays with the the forest and farm animals. Saci tangles horses manes! Then, Saci runs away laughing at looking for more tricks to play. CLICK HERE TO READ OUR INTRODUCTIONS Here are some of the students that represent Saci Pererê´s Group.		Group 18 Mr. Jeremiah Rush Chapin High School Texas USA Cuca´s Group Cuca is a kind of a witch that looks like a big, green alligator and is constantly doing bad things with its witchery such as scaring children and playing tricks on them. There´s a popular lullaby in Brazil that says, Sleep little baby or Cuca will come by which we should say here is not scary to children at all! Cuca became a character of our popular children author Monteiro Lobato, and in the picture above you can see Cuca with Aunt Nastácia, a good hearted old lady on a popular children TV series called Sítio do Pica Pau Amarelo (Yellow Woodpecker´s Ranch). The series is popular again with different actors and actresses and it´s most Brazilian children a favorite. CLICK HERE TO READ OUR INTRODUCTIONS Ms. Irina Koptelova Secondary School #664 Vostochny Russia Partners: Iara´s Group Iara is half fish and half woman. This is another common legend from the Amazon region. According to researchers, this legend started among the indians and became part of the life from the people who live in the villages nearby, where most of the people who live there are indian descendants, or very much connected to the indian culture. The legend says that the men used to be attracted by the incredible beauty of Iara, a gorgeous indian woman, with long black hair and a scultural body singing magical songs she would take the men deep into the river water where her kingdom could be found. Besides her enchanting voice and her beauty, by coming out of the water she would take the human form of a pretty woman. CLICK HERE TO READ OUR INTRODUCTIONS		Friends and Flags 2001 - 2002 Here you can see some nice work we received from our 2001 - 2002 partners Money from Belarus Characters and money from Romania Books from the USA and Canada