Learning with the reindeer

Hi german friends, and Happy New Year!! My class are in the beginning of a big project called "Learning with the reindeer". This is a cooporation between my class and some extern experts. Our partners are: Nortura (a big butcher firm located in our neighbour municipality), Dag Inge and the climatpark/mountian museum, Bjørn Andreas Ovesen (a proffessional cook/cheff at Spiterstulen Mountian Hotel), the Reindeer center in Dovre and Vågå reindeer rangers. This is a pilot project and is estimated to end in spring 2013. If this is a success, it will involve all 6. grades in Vågå, and it will be an anual happening. This is what we have done so far: I have made a presentation/information of the project and sent it to our partners and the school leaders (such as Hanne and her boss). Me and the partners together with the principal at my school had a meeting desember the 13. Here we discussed activities and agreed about some dates. During this autumn i have teached my pupils a lot about reindeers from stoneage to present day. January the 12. Dag Inge came and had a fantastic powerpoint presentation about reindeer in my class. At january the 19. two butchers from Nortura will come and visit my class. They bring a whole reindeer with them, and they will learn us how to cut and seperate the different parts of a reindeer. We can keep all the meat of the reindeer as we want! The pupils have to try to cut and slice the meat. Friday the 20. Bjørn Andreas (the cheff) will spend the whole day with my class. First he will help us preparate a meal with reindeer meat for the whole school to eat. After that he will help us to salt a reindeer tight, a tounge and a heart. He will also help us make some proviant of the meat that we will bring with us and eat the week after when we are going on a trip in the mountian where we will spend the night in a cabin. This is what we have done/planned to do so far. In addition we are also going to: 1. Visit the butcher firm and see how they work. 2. Visit the climatepark and the icetunnel. 3. Visit the mountian museum. 4. Visit and observe the reindeer rangers when they collect and butcher the reindeers in the mountian. 5. Visit the reindeer center in the mountian of Dovre. Two of this visits/trips will involve spending the night outdoor in tents. Thats all for now folks! Im looking forward to your visit, and really looking forward to visit your beautifull country again!! PS! I will update and load lots of pictures when i have learned to do so!! FRODE