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EESTI ELU neljapäeval, 9. aprillil 2020 — Thursday, April 9, 2020
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KID’S CORNER: ESTONIAN-THEMED ACTIVITIES FOR FAMILIES TO TRY AT HOME
(PART 1)
VINCENT TEETSOV Welcome to the Lastenurk (Kid’s Corner)! We know that there are many households across Canada with children at home at the moment. Your children may be utilizing e-learning tools at home, but what about hands-on cultural education? Here are three fun Estonian-themed activities that you can do with your kids: 1) Famous Landmarks Colouring Activity Pikk Herman. St. Olaf’s Church. You can probably think of a few different famous Esto nian landmarks off the top of your head. Now, you and your kids can get to know them even better through their design, shape, and colours. First, find an image online that you want to colour in. Generally speaking, the simpler and more defined the lines are in the image, the better quality the final product will be. Once you download the image you like to your comput er’s desktop, visit scrapcoloring. com and select “Color your photos and drawings” from the top menu (http://scrapcoloring. com/convert-images-to-color ing-pages). On this page, click “choose file.” Select the image you downloaded and click “Submit.” The website will up load the image and convert it into a black and white drawing. Once the black and white drawing appears, go ahead and click the icon of the printer in the bottom left corner of the web page. If you want to colour in a way that accurately rep resents the original image, you might want to print out the original as a reference. Other wise, colour with any wacky colours you like and see who makes the coolest picture. Some Estonian landmarks you can colour include: • Hermann Castle in Narva • Kõpu Lighthouse in Hiiumaa • Tartu Raekoda (Tartu Town Hall) This is much better than kids getting bored and drawing on the walls! 2) Make a Tissue Box Kannel (Estonian Harp) The kannel is an Estonian stringed instrument with close parallels to the Finnish kantele and other regional variations of
Arvo Pärt receives distinguished honor from Spanish foundation ERR, March 2020 Estonian composer Arvo Pärt has been announced as the winner of the BBVA Foun dation Frontiers of Know ledge Award in Music and Opera. Due to the public health cri sis caused by the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, the inter national committee deciding the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Music and
zithers. While chromatic zithers became more common through out the 20th century, the ori ginal kannel usually had five strings. Which is convenient for you, because you can replicate the sound with a tissue box and some rubber bands. You will need: • An empty tissue box • Five long rubber bands, to fit around the tissue box lengthwise • pencils, erasers, and other small objects, to slide under the rubber bands and create tension • tape, to hold the ob jects in place • a digital tuner, piano/key board, or other tuned instru ment, to find the right notes First, take a tissue box and wrap five long rubber bands across the length of the box. Make sure that the rubber bands cross over the hole of the box so that sound can reverberate inside. You can even try to tune the kannel by taking pencils, erasers, and other small objects and se curing them with tape under neath the rubber bands, either on the front of the box or on the sides. This helps you change the pitch of each string. There are numerous possible tunings, but you could try the following: D – E – F# - G – A. You can use a piano/keyboard, digital tuner, or an already tuned guitar to find these notes. Below is a diagram to help you find them on a piano. Be careful when adjusting the rubber bands, so as not to snap them! 3) Estonian “Mad Libs” Create your own Estonian language word replacement game with these Estonian words: Verbs 1. jooksma = to run 2. ujuma = to swim 3. keetma = to cook/boil
Opera assessed the 31 nominees by remote means, and resolved to bestow the award in this twelfth edition on Pärt “for cul tivating an original language, which has led to the creation of a unique sound world; a fresh approach to spiritual music, especially in his choral oeuvre, that reduces the musical ma terial to the essence.” On hearing of the award, Pärt – who was nominated by the director of the Pau Casals Foundation, Jordi Pardo – declared himself “delighted and grateful.” The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards are an international award pro
4. kraapima = to scrape/scratch 5. heegeldama = to crochet 6. aevastama = to sneeze 7. põrgatama = to bounce 8. libisema = to slip/slide Adjectives 1. erutatud = excited 2. loid = sluggish/slow 3. soolane = salty 4. terav = sharp/pointy 5. kivine = rocky 6. sügelev = itchy 7. veniv = stretchy/elastic 8. kolmnurkne = triangular Nouns 1. homaar = lobster 2. lõug = chin 3. sõnaraamat = dictionary 4. söögitool = high chair 5. võrkpall = volleyball 6. dirigent = conductor 7. hambaork = toothpick 8. pilvelõhkuja = skyscraper How to play: Write down three to four paragraphs (in either Estonian or English) about what you do when you’re out running errands, when you’re sightseeing, or another interesting activity that involves travelling around and meeting people. Your paragraphs need to include eight verbs, eight adjec tives, and eight nouns. Once the first player writes down their story paragraphs, they have to erase those eight verbs, eight adjectives, and eight nouns from the paragraphs they wrote. All the other players have to copy down the paragraphs, mi nus the erased words, and then use the above list of Estonian words to fill in the blanks. These words can be conjugated and adjusted to different forms accordingly, and this is a good chance to practice Estonian grammar. Whoever can put the correct word types into the blank spaces and make the funniest story wins. Stay tuned for the next installment of family activities here in the Lastenurk!
gramme recognizing significant contributions in the areas of scientific research and cultural creation. There are eight award cate gories: basic science, biology and biomedicine, climate change, ecology and conservation biolo gy, information and communi cations technologies, econo mics, finance and management, music and opera, humanities and social sciences. Each BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge laureate receives a commemorative art work, a diploma and a cash prize of 400,000 euros per cate gory.
The above diagram was edited from the original, created by “Tlogmer”, and is used through a Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 license. Numbering and indicating dots were added.
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been forced to close down – at great personal and financial cost. People are finding loop holes and taking advantage of them. Two specific retail outlets being placed in the essential category make one wonder. The provincial alcohol monopoly LCBO remains open because officials are concerned about those who cannot survive without their daily bottle. And many, even working from home welcome the ease that a drink brings during very stressful times. Well, OK, perhaps. But Dollarama? Just because they have a few food items on their shelves? Really? Churchillian statesmanship
can hardly be expected. Leader ship however is. The Brits knew well that the social fabric de pends on the individual. Thus it is up to each and every one of us to practice common sense and follow the example of the British. It is a common goal that we have. COVID-19 will be around for some time, no one can say for how long. The likelihood of each and every one of us coming into contact with the virus is almost a cer tainty. None of us is immortal, some may have better resis tance. Sad to say, Darwin’s sur vival of the fittest applies. If we continue in our spoiled First World expectation way, this pandemic will have more vic tims in a world that has been changed forever. TÕNU NAELAPEA
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