{"id":12661,"date":"2015-04-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/glaesilegar-hatidir-4-bekkja\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T08:58:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T08:58:27","slug":"glorious-celebrations-of-the-four-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/glaesilegar-hatidir-4-bekkja\/","title":{"rendered":"Glorious 4th-grade celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April is the time when spring greets us, and it is safe to say that for the younger pupils in the primary schools, the first signs of spring appear at the finals of the Little Reading Competition.\u00a0 Each morning, classrooms and halls in the primary schools fill up with enthusiastic parents and other well-wishers, who have gathered to listen to Year 4 pupils recite texts and poems and play musical instruments with artistry.\u00a0 These are harvest festivals, as the project begins annually on the Day of the Icelandic Language in November, at the same time as the Grand Reading Competition for Year 7 is formally launched, a project which concluded in March.<\/p>\n<p>The finals of the Little Speech Competition in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur are being held for the 15th time this spring. The project began five years ago and is slowly and quietly spreading across the country, with 60 schools taking part this year.<\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Litla_upp_2015.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Read aloud at the closing ceremony\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1000px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1000\/497;\" \/>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apr\u00edlm\u00e1nu\u00f0ur er s\u00e1 t\u00edmi sem vori\u00f0 heilsar okkur og er \u00f3h\u00e6tt segja a\u00f0 vorbo\u00f0inn hj\u00e1 yngri nemendum \u00ed grunnsk\u00f3lunum birtist \u00ed lokah\u00e1t\u00ed\u00f0um Litlu upplestrarkeppninnar.&#160; \u00c1 hverjum morgni fyllast stofur og salir grunnsk\u00f3lanna af \u00e1hugas\u00f6mum foreldrum og \u00f6\u00f0rum g\u00f3\u00f0um gestum sem eru m\u00e6ttir til a\u00f0 hlusta \u00e1 nemendur \u00ed fj\u00f3r\u00f0a bekk flytja texta og lj\u00f3\u00f0 og [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12661"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}