Happy New Year

Happy New Year !

We have -21 and lots of snow.

mid winter

The sun sets at 2 o`clock pm the 21st of December.

Hello!
I hope everybody had a great summer!

No Racoons in Finland! I was wrong!
The "wild" Swedish Racoons are not coming from Finland they are coming from Germany through Denmark to southern Sweden.

Per Lindberg, Leksands Gymnasium, Sweden.

Bird watching in Finland during one of our excursions

Among other birds we saw this "Tjäder" female, latin name Tetrao urogallus.

Swedes in Finland may -09

Big canoe to Finland!

The Leksand students and teachers visited the Finnish partnerschool 20th-22nd of May 2009. We were all very well received and had a wonderful time near the Baltic Sea, here at "Nedergård" where we stayed.

The students from Leksand saw birds and other animals that they had never seen before.

The teachers: Susanne from Leksand, Saija and Sari from Kirkkonummi, Per from Leksand.

Vegetation studies

The students from Leksand walked out into the Baltic Sea and found Fucus vesiculosis and Myoma baltica.

Saija is watching migrating birds.

An aerial view over Leksand and the lake. You can see the ice hockey stadium and the church and our school. The fish that were caught Monday the 2nd of March were lake (Lota lota), siklöja (Coregonus albula), Nors (Osmerus eperlanus) and Abborre (Perca fluviatilis).

Water chemistry: pH 6,7, alcalinity 0,12 mekv/l, calcium 8 mg/l, colour 40, conductivity 4 mS/m.

Final meeting at the Leksand gymnasium

Kirkkonummi and Cosenza visiting the Leksand gymnasium.

This is how lake Siljan looks during summer time. Our visitors from Finland and Italy have seen our nature during winter time.

Excursion out on lake Siljan. March 2 2009.
Netfishing and the taking of water samples.

Outdoor Science at Leksand gymnasium. Visitors from Kirkkonummi (Finland) and Cosenza (Italy).

Visit from Finland

We have just had a visit from our finnish Comenius "outdoor science" friends. They visited the Leksand gymnasium and enjoyed an outdoor lesson on the ice of lake Siljan. They also saw the Granberg ski area, the bird lake Limsjön and mingled with the staff and personnel of the Leksand school. Pictures of the event will be on this blog in a few days. During March a school from Cosenza, Italy, will be visiting. At the same time students from Finland will also take part of the Comenius Outdoor Scince program.

Good skating, Lake Siljan. January 2009