Learning with the reindeer

Hi all! We have had a super start on our project.














January the 12. Dag Inge came and showed us a fantastic powerpoint about reindeers. We learned a lot about the life syclus of the reindeers, and we learned about hunting methodes from the end of the iceage to precent day. We also learned about reindeers all around the world and how the reindeers moved north together with the ice. Dag Inge also showed us two videos.




January the 19.

Two Butchers from Nortura Otta visited us at our school. They had a whole reindeer with them. They thought us how to slice the meat. We learned the name of all the parts of the reindeer. The pupils stayed focused the whole day. They touched and studied all the meat parts, and they listened and learned a lot from the two butchers. The pupils learned a lot (so did I), and they had a great day. The butchers finished the day by cooking a great meal for us of some of the meat. We where given all the meat to use it the next day when a cheff is coming to stay with us the whole day.

January the 20.
Cheff Bjørn Andreas Ovesen (BAO) came to visit. He had made two recipies for us to cook this day. He went throgh the recipies together with the pupils. He also had with him a cheff hat to each pupil. That was very popular. The first recipe was a reindeer casseroll. We finished it at 11. o´clock, and was ready to serve it to the whole school. It was delicious! The second recipe was salting of a reindeer tight and two reindeer hearts. The pupils loved both of these days! In spring time we will visit Nortura Otta to see how they work. We will also visit The climate park and the mountian museum. Bjørn Andreas will also come back and visit us in the spring. Next week, from thursday to friday, me and my class will stay two days in the mountian. We will sleep in a cabin. On this trip we will go skiing a lot. We will try to find the reindeers wich we know are in the area. We will have a lot of reindeer meat with us to cook, both on the open fire and in the cabins owen. We will go "nightskiing". The second day we will learn a lot about horses. We will ride both on horseback and in an open sleigh. I will write about that trip as well.



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