Students from dr. Ljudevita Pivka Ptuj- Slovenia school, wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy new Year

On December 11th, together with our partners, we organized a video meeting where students sent Christmas and New Year greetings. For us, this was the first video meeting at all. The students were very curious and at the same time very excited. Unfortunately, we did not hear some of our partners' performances because of some tehnical problems :-( .

PARTNER SCHOOLS AND KINDERGARTNERS ARE INTRODUCED

KINDERGARTEN BRATA GRIMM SHUMEN- BULGARIA

BLUE FLOWER KINDERGARTEN - BUCHAREST - ROMUNIA

SAN FERNANDO - SPAIN

DR. LJUDEVITA PIVKA PTUJ- SLOVENIA

ALPENDORADA - PORTUGAL

Students from Portugal are making Christmas Cards for partners

Students from Portugal are making Christmas cards to send to our partners wishing them a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year or as they say in portuguese 

"Feliz Natal e Bom Ano Novo"

Students from class EB1 de Gandra, in Alpendorada 

 

 Students from class EB1, Co Cruzeiro, in Alpendorada 

WE GOT A WINNER OF LOGO COMPETITION

RESULT OF VOTING

The winner is

 BULGARIA, Detska gradina BRATA GRIM

CONGRATULATION

LOGO NUMBER 1  SLOVENIA     - 269 points

4 points                                                                                37 responses

3 points                                                                            31 responses

0 points                                                                                26 responses

2 points                                                                                14 responses

Question left blank                                                          3 responses

LOGO NUMBER 2 PORTUGAL  – 204 points

2 points                                                                               34 responses

0 points                                                                               34 responses

3 points                                                                               24 responses

4 points                                                                               16 responses

Question left blank                                                           3 responses

 LOGO NUMBER 3 BULGARIA  – 300 points

4 point                                                                                 51 responses

3 points                                                                               22 responses

0 points                                                                               20 responses

2 points                                                                               15 responses

question left blank                                                               3 responses

LOGO NUMBER 4  SPAIN     – 203 points

2 points                                                                                 50 responses

0 points                                                                                 28 responses

3 points                                                                                 17 responses

4 points                                                                                 13 responses

Question left blank                                                             3 responses

What are the objectives we would like to achieve?

The aim is to acquaint students with the main aspects of active citizenship related to their rights and freedoms and community obligations. Raise their respect for them and the surroundings, the environment and the virtual environment, to make them actively think through discovering problems and ideas and activities to solve. The project will have several modules, such as: 
1. Local community and history, 
2. Tolerance and cultural diversity, 
3. Environment, 
4. Social citizenship / people with disabilities, 
5 e-activities /rules of work and living in the virtual space. 
In each module there will be interactive lessons to familiarize with the topic, search for problems around children, and try to provide solutions. For the tasks in each module, one partner is responsible. At the end of the project we will make a book "Guide to the Little Active Citizen" with all the ideas and activities of the children.
We will produce a glossary of words used, a small net- etiquette guidebook, an e-books and children's learning activities, an interactive map, and more. All will be in eTwinning. Main project objectives, corresponding to the European priorities:

• Improving and promoting new teaching and learning strategies leading to a better quality of preprimary and primary education with effective social inclusion
• increased sense of initiative and greater participation in public life
• improved provision and assessment of basic and transferable skills and competences, foreign language skills, local and foreign language communication, social and civic competences, cultural identity/key competences/,
• Exchange of cultural diversity and educational practices in schools, leading to improved skills and satisfaction from day-to-day work.

The project aims to encourage the use, development, experimentation and implementation of teaching strategies at pre-school and school-age with interdisciplinary learning leading to content acquisition and education of active citizenship skills and the opportunity to expand the cultural horizons of the communities and effectively socially turn on.

The project will serve as a training and learning tool for students at the following levels:
• raising awareness of multiculturalism
• Creating learning situations and spaces that bring joy to learning Teachers will acquire and develop new skills during the project:
• Improving knowledge about new strategies and approaches to teaching
familiarizing with the basics of participating countries' languages, improving project management skills and multicultural teamwork, communication skills in the working language and working with ICT.

With institutions and experts attracted to the project:
• Strengthening the links between different education, training, NGO and local authorities, national and international organizations; 
•enhancing the involvement of local and regional public authorities
such as education development, •awareness raising and a more active role in civil society at local level.

Motivation of our project

The children of the world are growing in an increasingly digitized world. Parents spend less and less time communicating with their children, often turning them into consumers rather than active and seeking people. That's because they respect their rights but fail to teach them responsibility. The time in front of the computer screen is useful, but also harmful enough if it does not meet health standards and security. Nature is often absent or short-lived in children's lives. The kindergarten and the school are trying to fill the space that is freed from the family and give the children maximum knowledge and skills useful for life.Today's curricula turn to the 21st century democratic values. Prospective citizens are expected to be respectful, sensitive to the environment in which they live, critical thinking,

creativity, skills for social participation, active and productive in society and a knowledge of their own rights and responsibilities. Educational programs aim to bring students information, abilities, attitudes and values in order to harmonize with society and to solve social problems as they grow up in discussions about the  project participants, it was found that in each of the educational systems and

programs used by partners have opportunities to integrate the educational content and these important elements of education for active citizenship. In addition, cooperation as an emphasis in modern European education policy is directly related to group learning skills and planning and organizing social initiatives. The project is based on the theories of experiential learning and aims to encourage teachers to integrate new, little-used learning strategies of integrated content that is not limited to these programs, but also includes key competencies for development, focusing on skills for active social inclusion, on communication in local and foreign languages and on cultural identity and  creativity. The project will promote problem-based learning, which is important for their subsequent qualitative socialization. Nature, smart use of ICT and cultural values enable the child to grow healthy, in harmony with the modern digital world, but also to learn the social skills of an active citizen. At the same time, modernize teaching and make the school/kindergarten a desirable place.

This minimizes the risk of dropping out. Led by all this, the partners in this project decided to join forces to develop successful practices and strategies for developing active citizenship skills through open learning and acquaintance with cultural values. In this way children will learn will develop key skills (social, digital, learning skills / will get acquainted with European values based on tolerance.

The way to knowledge passes through experience and adventure, we want to do. If we show the roots of children and learn to fly with creativity and imagination, they will succeed in communicating in local and foreing languages, cultural knowledge.