Solar lesson Feimaņu in primary school

The sun in Latvian folklore, folk songs and sun symbols, ethnographic jewellery – these knowledge and skills OF Feimaņu primary school students were taught by young people from the High School of Arts and Design of Rezekne and the High School of Ivanova Rezekne. Three creative workshops were active in the school: ancient jewellery, musical workshop and painting.

The pupils prepared ancient archaeological jewellery - rings and bracelets, learned to curb metal and create ornaments. The singing and music creative class had to mention the continuation of the Latvian folk songs on the sun, and there was an opportunity to play the People's music instruments. The school director, Prince Drikes, acknowledged that the school young people liked to be involved in the process of working, practice, familiarisation with less familiar musical instruments and uncommonly heard the names of people. And in the painting, it is one of his own suns that will form one large sun from all children's works.
Elvie and Vladimir liked the singing of the sun, “to write.” To tighten. The sun. I found a song about the sun. Inese Pavule, a music pedagogy, observed that the activity was appropriate for age because of the children from the first to the ninth class. In schools for many children, the Latvian language is not born, but they learned the songs of the people, the tools knocked, sang. It's an age when they do it and want to do it. But he knew little about the sun. The people's songs must be explained, because students do not know many words, do not understand which we, adults, know. For example, velēt. But i think they learned it, which is the project's biggest plus. We did not do one task, we realized that it was complicated. For example, explain phraseological expressions. Without the sun, or from the sun to the sun. Maybe another age would be. Time passed very quickly. We had something to do more than an hour. It was good that the tasks were both simple and complex. And they could do it, and they were pleased with it.
The creative partnership project includes the activities of the Rēzekne cultural education school youth organized as well as the children of Rezekne, Gaigalavas, Sakstagala and Stoļerovas primary school children – joint creative workshops in metallic art, clay, textile, co-created sun drawings and sun songs.
The theme of the sun is one of the most deeper in both Latvian traditional music and the symbols and drawings of ethnographic characters. The most popular colour in the sun is red and yellow. The sun also teaches fairness and mercy – it shines equally to everyone. The sun is songs and toy latgalically. The sun is also told by fairy tales – a movement that calls for positive, solar thermal waking in itself and others.
The project will generate interest through work, inviting its participants to know the sun itself, its significance. Since the project activity in schools will start in autumn – at a time when the sun remains less – it will be searched in accessories and woken up in the final event before Christmas.
The project is supported by the creative partnership projects of the Ministry of Culture.
Inara Groce