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the 4th grade A is 10-11 years old and says:
My culture and traditions
In Romania, the winter feasts start on 24th December and finish on 7th December. Their central events occur during the Christmas Days, New Year and Epiphany.
A very beautiful custom performed by children individually on New Year's Day is the "sorcova". This is a small branch or stick decorated with coloured artificial flowers, called "sorcova" with which they touch rhythmically and lightly their elders, while congratulating them on the occasion and wishing them a long life and a Happy New Year:
Sorcova, the merry sorcova/Long may you live/Long may you flourish/ Like apple trees/ Like pear trees/ In midsummer/ Like the rich autumn/ Overflowing with abundance/ Hard as steel/ Fast as an arrow/ For many years to come/ Happy New Year!
Here is the text in Romanian, too.
Sorcova, vesela/ Sa traiti/ Sa-mbatraniti/ Ca un mar/ Ca un par/ Ca un fir de trandafir/ Tare ca piatra/ Iute ca sageata/ Tare ca fieru'/ Iute ca otelu'/ La anu' si la multi ani!
Things I like:
Firstly, we like our rich repertoire of customs, traditions and beliefs.
Secondly, we like the variety of our folk costumes.
Thirdly, we also like our folk music and dances.
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