"The legend about Lech, Czech and Rus" is the book we are working on this time. It is about the beginnings of the Polish country. More you can find in the summary. Your task is to make posters for the book and bring five with you.
Long, long ago, in the first centuries of our era (around the same time when Barbarian tribes invaded Europe from the east and the Roman Empire had already perished) a great group of people known as the Slavs, occupied huge areas between two rivers the Dnieper and the Oder.
For many years they had been content in their villages, but the families grew larger and they needed more room to live.
Three brothers Lech, Czech and Rus decided to travel in different directions to search for new homes. They rode their horses over mountains and rivers, through forests and wild country. There was no one to be found anywhere, not a town or tiny village.
Behind them peasants led the cattle, women and children went on the carts. They were exhausted and searched for the place where they could settle with their people. After a long journey they stopped at the lake, on a beautiful large meadow. It was a sunny summer evening. The three brothers decided to have a rest under an old oak tree.
Suddenly the brothers heard some noise. Lech raised his head and saw a white eagle that was flying to its nest.
"Here is where we will stay!" declared Lech. "Here is our new home, and we will call this place GNIEZNO ..." (the eagle's nest).
He and his people built many houses and it became the centre of his territory. They called themselves Polonians, which means "People of the Field". They made a banner with a white eagle on a red field and and it became the national emblem of Poland. Gniezno, in turn, became later the first historical capital of Poland.
Meanwhile, Czech and Rus also settled in places they liked with their parts of the tribe. From these two brothers came the two peoples that neighbour Poland. The Czechs to the south and the Russians to the East.
If you ever happen to visit a certain part of Wielkopolska (Grand Poland), you will find, in a forest, three grand old trees given the names Lech, Czech and Rus, to honour the heroic brothers who planted the seeds of three proud Slavic peoples.
Polish first graders and "The legend about Lech, Czech and Rus". All photos.
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