LOGO COMPETITION

The Erasmus+ project logo competition was announced at our school in September. The pupils created a logo which represented the topic of our project “Small explorers in a magic world of the European folk culture”. In October the jury of the project team chose the best of the logos. Sude ARABACI from the 7th grade became the winner.

EUROPEAN FOLK COSTUMES

There was the partner countries' folk costume show organized for pupils among 7th classes within the project "Small explorers in a magical world of the European Folk Culture" in the Conference Hall of our school. All the pupils in the project team were so willing to take part in this activity not only to wear and show the folk costumes but also to find out and bring similiar costumes for the show. They were really so creative in order to acquire the costumes of the partners.They shared each other‟s clothes for costumes. They enjoyed a lot while wearing and showing their costumes. Moreover, they learned partners‟ costumes very well. While their photos were being taken, they had a chance to watch thier friends show as well.They all wore in different kinds of colourful, beautiful folk costumes from our six partners and also our folk costume which belongs to the Black Sea Region and they presented them in a very professional way. The teachers and their parents were involved in this show very activiely

CUMALIKIZIK OPEN –AIR MUSEUM

Cumalıkızık, which has come to the present as one of the magnificent village locations of Ottoman‟s rural architecture, is a 700-year old foundation village and was established at the southern booms of Uludağ. Cumalıkızık is an important cultural heritage; the houses, which are the samples of authentic civil architecture style, have become integrated with the natural street configuration and monumental structures. Cumalıkızık and its houses that people can still live inside was accepted by Unesco as one of the most important cultural heritage center in 2014 and awarded for the best preservation. It is in UNESCO‟s World History Heritage Candidate List with their natural and cultural values as an open air museum. The villages, which were at the booms of Uludağ and got stuck in canyons, were called as “Kızık” at Ottoman time. It is said that, people, who were from the other “Kızık” villages, used to come together in this village after Friday Prayers, for this reason, the village took name of Cumalıkızık (Friday Kızık). From “Kızık” villages only Cumalıkızık could come until today. However ,the other villages could not protect their authentic configuration apart from Cumalıkızık. Cumalıkızık was established on the area of ten hectares, approximately; there are 270 houses in the village and 60 of them are still livable. Quantity of officially registered structures is 133; two of them are memorial structures (mosque and bath), and 128 of them are the samples of civil architectures. Besides, there are two memorial planes, located at the village arena, and a fountain, located in the east of the mosque, in the village. Mosque, village, coffeehouse and big plane triplet, which are seen in Ottoman locations, are also seen in the centre of Cumalıkızık Village. The structures, which are comprised natural street configuration by topographer, were designed according to characteristic specialities of the region. Therefore, all civil architecture samples are different from each other. This difference enriches the village configuration. There is a small burrow channel in the middle part of the flat-

stoned narrow streets. The water flows from these channels on rainy days. This is the part of the authentic structures of the village. Acclivitous surface, which is in the middle of the stonedground street, provides to protect the houses from rain water and it is used for canalizing the water from the top, functionally.

This water mechanism, which is used for garden watering, enables to keep the village cool in the summers. This water usage gives relief to the human psychology and ecological balance is ensured in lifecycle as a gain. There are very narrow streets in the village such that two people cannot be walked side to side. The streets have not any specified plan. Those are suitable for village‟s acclivitous land so, some of the streets are some kind of blind streets. Famous “Cumalıkızık Houses” are made from rubble stone, wooden and adobe. The houses, which has alcoves and cage at the top floors, were built in such a way that inside cannot be seen from outside. Hammered iron handles and knockers, which open to cool stoned atriums and have two -winged walnut doors, are interesting. The entrance of the houses is at the part, which called “life”, and this area is used mostly. Agricultural products are stocked up and garnered, firing stuff is kept and the weddings are held in this place. There are ovens, which are at the inner court beyond the “life” part; brad, cake and pastries are cooked in these ovens. Cumalıkızık houses have kitchens, toilets, barns, coops, cookers and ovens at their ground floors; one floor is separated for the winters. There are bedrooms, living rooms, bathes and cookers in this part. Cumalıkızık houses have three floors and the second floor is separated for the summers. The roofs are covered with old-fashioned roof tiles. The roofs are generally with four slopes or doubled slopes. The eaves are quite out warded. Rubble

stones, wood and adobe are used for the construction of Cumalıkızık houses. Adobe and mud plastering can be seen on the walls. The houses are usually yellow, purple and blue coloured.

CUMALIKIZIK ETHNOGRAPHY MUSEUM

Cumalıkızık Ethnography Museum , which was opened in 1992, are in the village arena. There are different kinds of stuff, which are dating from 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries and were handed out by the villagers, in Ethnography Museum. There is a charter that Orhangazi gave to the village, in the museum. The horse drawn carriages, mortar tone, drinking basins, grape basins are displayed in the garden of the museum. Households stuff, kitchen equipments, lighting and heating equipments and saddles and big buckhorn (Dating from the deer flocks lived around Uludağ) are displayed inside of the museum.

ORGANIZING SCHOOL COMPETITION "GUESS THE FOLK COSTUME"

Organizing school competition "Guess the folk costume" „‟Guess the folk costumes‟‟ competetion was organized among the 7thgrade students in the Erasmus+ project team at 50.Yıl General Refet Bele Secondary School.First of all, our pupils drew the costumes of each country ; Polish , Portuguese, Italian,Croatian, Lithuanian , Spanish and Turkish. Their paintings were hung on the corner of „‟ Small explorers in a magic world of European folk culture‟‟.Then we announced the date of the competetion.The member of the project team came together with their teachers , Mr Ayhan AYDIN and Mrs Aynur ATEŞ AYDIN.All the countries‟ folk costumes painted by the students before , were showed on the smart board.The question was ‟‟ Guess the folk costume ?‟‟ They gave answers and the correct answers were counted after showing each country‟s folk costume .At the end of showing 15 pictures , we counted the correct answers. Finally ,three students gave an equal number of correct answers and shared first place happily .So,we had three winners .

MASCOT COMPETITION The Erasmus+ project mascot competition was announced at our school in January. The pupils created a mascot which represented the topic of our project “Small explorers in a magic world of the European folk culture” . In the last week , first we chose the best mascot among our students in the project team .The jury of the project team chose the best of the mascots. Begüm TANGAL from the 7th grade became the winner . The Best Mascot in our school is Begüm TANGAL’S:

GETTING KNOWLEGDE ABOUT ETHNOGRAPHY MUSEUM AND ITS PRESENTATION In our school there was a presentation prepared by Mr. Ayhan AYDIN, one of the teachers at our school.Mr Ayhan AYDIN gave information about the ethnography museum because we haven‟t been able to find any ethnographers in Kartal. Besides this , there isn‟t an ethnography museum not only in Kartal but also in İstanbul.Because of this big problem we faced with , we arranged the visit to the ethnography museum in Bursa , Cumalıkızık which is 200 km far away from İstanbul.So, there aren‟t any ethnographers to come to our school and give us a lecture about it. Mr Ayhan AYDIN gave many details and very important information to our pupils by showing many photos which were taken in Cumalıkızık Ethnography Museum by our students. The pupils were able to watch it during almost one hour. He showed many photos of some historical cottages, food, household equipment, agriculture equipment, toys , some information about traditions , daily life style and so on. It was a very informative , educative and also interesting historical lesson for all the students who participated this lecture.

WORKSHOP OF POTTERY-FOLKCRAFT Two different groups from the 7th grade students participated in the folkcraft lesson.First of all, the pupils were informed about making some objects using clay .Mrs Aynur ATEŞ AYDIN and Mr Ayhan AYDIN gave information about potteries.Some of the kitchen utensils were drawn on the board while explaining the materials and the history of the clay from past to present.The pupils were really excited and eager to make different kinds of objects using

clay.They made mostly kitchen utensils like pots , frying pans , cups, trays, bowls, flowerspots, etc. and some of them made the figures of butterflies, rabbits , flowers, bears as well.They learned how to give shape to the clay by the help of water.After this really enjoyable and informative workshop , they let them dry and start to wait for them to be ready for painting or polishing.By the help of this workshop , they had a chance to understand how people in the past made their daily equipment , utensils and so on using clay.This was a very useful expeirence for our pupils.