celebrating la castanyada in vall de palau!
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Comenius: 2014/2015
2nd Comenius year
Activity: Discovering food and dances!
La Castanyada!
Do you remember?It’s our Autumn Festival!
We eat panallets, chestnuts and sweet potatoes!
Panallets Castanyes/chestnuts Moniatos/ Sweet Potatoes
La Castanyera!La Castanyera is the character of this festival. She is an old lady
that lives in the mountain. Remeber!! She visits us every year!
This year she had some new 6th grade helpers!
La Castanyera and the helpers!
Look at La Castanyera... She is wearing a
Chef hat!
Food festival!
In the morning we prepared a food festival with typical food and recipes from our students countries!
In our school there are students from other nationalities or families from other countries so we celebrated the World Food Festival!
Students prepared the food at home with their recipes!
At school they tried different food from the different countries! Parents and families were also invited at this festival!
La Castanyada party!
This year La Castanyera brought
us Chestnuts and we ate
chestnuts! They were delicious!
We also danced a typical dance!
La rumba Catalana!
La Castanyada party!
What is la Rumba Catalana?
Catalan Rumba is not flamenco, pop or rock
music. It is a way of living, sensing and
expressing feelings. This kind of music,
born in the heart of Barcelona during the
Sixties!
La Castanyada party!We learnt about Catalan Rumba in music lessons!
La Castanyada party!Rumba Catalana also has its master: Peret. Born in a gypsy
settlement near Barcelona, he made his debut at just twelve years old in the Tívoli Theatre along with his
cousin.
Peret played a different music with a unique sound that fused
mambo rhythms with unorthodox flamenco and used
the wood of the guitar as a percussion instrument. Most
importantly, he introduced the main trick of Catalan Rumba:
the “fan technique”, an unusual guitar strumming pattern that
incorporates percussion on the guitar body, making the most
of the instrument.
La Castanyada party!
We learnt and danced the Catalan Rumba!
Watch the video and dance with us!!
RUMBA CATALANA!
