Yesterday, at the Kebl Grape Museum in Svečina, children from the Pinkygarten in Ratsch, Austria, and children from the Svečin kindergarten met.Pika Radmilovič, the head of the project for cross-border connection of children from neighbouring municipalities on both sides of the state border, also organized a pleasant meeting yesterday, at which the children sang songs in Slovene and German.
The purpose of the meeting was mainly to socialize children and families, the program began with performances of children from kindergartens and schools who sang and danced together, and then they watched the performance of the magician together and enjoyed various animations and workshops.
Pika Radmilović, who leads the project, said that the collaboration with an Austrian school and kindergarten started 15 years ago: And in Svečina we had already taught German, in kindergarten and in school. In Austria we started at the initiative of the mayor, who actually wanted the children in kindergarten to start learning the language. That's how it started. Yes, once a week before work I came here, and it was quite difficult, because there were no books, at least at that time, to teach children German or Slovenian, even in kindergarten. German was already developing, but Slovenian in kindergarten was absolutely not, so there was a huge need for translations, but adaptation, She also said that it was a wonderful work, the children responded wonderfully, the motivation was always very fast, but the results were very encouraging, but after we started to visit the kindergarten, most children were happy to return to their own language, and of course, because when we started to visit the kindergarten, most children were happy to return to their own language. Av
Learning a second language through play
This time, at the Kebl Museum in Vinograd, both Slovenian and Austrian children performed, sang in both languages, danced and socialized: If we are talking about children in Austria considering that I now have a regular job and I am with them all day long the children know the difference with whom they talk, and they always greet me in Slovenian, they also say goodbye in Slovenian and also, say, if we are out in the lawn, they say: Look little, picapolonica. So they use words that we learn when we learn Slovenian. It's not actually teaching, we play, we sing, we learn maths. And then they actually use it in everyday life. But it's interesting to me when parents tell me that they sit in the car with a child, but a girl lives with them all day long, and then they see the child and say: Mommy, what does that mean?! and then Mommy says: Mommy, what does that mean?!
Grateful for the support of parents and encouragement of children
Pika Radmilović is grateful to the parents who support the children and the project. If the parents support this and if the parents also come to visit, for example to Svečina, when we have events, if they take the children to Maribor, after all, somewhere in Slovenia, not only to Croatia or Italy, which is a trend, I think it is a big step made because then they also notice that the children in Slovenia say thank you in Slovenian or say thank you, they say please. A little older they already know how to order a drink or ice cream, and this fascinates the parents, that this occurs quite spontaneously, which makes us all very happy.
And it's the same with the Slovenian children on this side of the border, in Szczecin, where they learn German terms, so that ultimately the children on one side of the border and the children on the other side of the border can understand each other better in terms of language, but otherwise they have already found that they are similar, they have similar desires and that ultimately they can be friends, even though one lives in Slovenia and the other in Austria.
Children Are Great Teachers to Adults
The mayor of the municipality of Kungota, Tamara Šnofl, praised the project that connects two neighbouring countries, i.e. neighbouring Austria and Slovenia: I am glad that this has been implemented for several years in our branch school in Svečina, where they cooperate very well here with the neighbouring congregation on the Austrian side, with the group of mountaineers and also with primary school children. Under the leadership of Pike Radmilovič, this project is a beautiful demonstration that borders are actually only in the head and on the map, that we should not know the border in the heart. She added: Often adults can learn from children. This has also been proven today when Austrian children sang Slovenian songs.
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