The project “the place to be..... to live in Harmony ” will include children from kindergarden, preprimary school. Using folktales from different countries from Europe focuse on early cultural awakening and will offer good opportunities to enhance and widen their knowledge about the world they live in. We are 6 partners, France, Latvia, Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania with or without European project experiences. The children, through the project, will develop their understanding of world easier. Tales are very important features of many cultures, explaining how the world is and humankind assumed their present form.They are real sources to learn about friendship, helping each other, getting in touch and working together, moral values, respect for the person and for nature. They are used to convey from values to cultural life of people, to establish behavioural models and to teach. Folk tales, traditional stories are part of our cultural heritage in all countries.The tales depict characters struggling with difficulties in which the child recognizes those he or she experiences particularly in the family. The young reader identifies with the hero who overcomes all the trials he encounters. Thus the tale helps him to analyze the situations in which he is involved and brings him hope, courage and comfort. The children will see that the best way to live is to live together without social distinction, disability, ... Through this project they will study new cultures and traditions and present their own. Each institution will select a typical folk tale from their community and send it to the other partners A character in the form of a doll, will be the conducting wire to arrive at the final book. It will travel to and visit the children in the partner countries. They will be the thread of the quest for the ideal village / city throughout the project. Texts of folk tales will be translated in English, sent or bring to the project partners, and each institution will translate the folk tale into its native language. During their current work, teachers will share experience on the methods they use at work with folklore tales. This experience will serve to provide a variety of methodology for working with a folklore story. Children will learn to know and to research about their own cultural heritage (cultural artefacts, house models, tolerance figures, music, dance...), work on cultural elements of partner countries, reflecting and being in direct contact with other cultures. Introduction and comparison of lifestyle in the community, traditions,..., visits to excavation areas/local museums reflecting on the history of their culture. Main objectives : * learn about culture of partner countries (through the tale, music, dance, recipe, ) * to allow all the children whatever their social level, handicap .... to acquire a european literary culture * Raise interest about cultural heritages in EU and develop directed inquiry and researches * Develop open/tolerant attitudes towards others in EU * Realize a digital book to make a common tale where's mascots and cultural heritage appear through a quest (tradional houses, find a city name, ...) * Grow herbs at the school garden and share them with the partners to be used for the cooking of partner's typical dishes and realize an Ebook recipes * Participate in a cooperative activity, the theatricalization of the tale * Cards game (action verb, characters, places, ...) to create as many stories as you want, work on language skills. A two-year planning was carried out. Some of our results will be tangible such as : * the Web site : project website will be recording all project materials and activities, so the visual and content quality check, number of website visitors from each partner country will be used as evaluative tools. * Regular questionnaires (checking inclusion, integration, comments) and evaluation form * After meeting report will give an indication of progress and/or difficulties * Puppet mascot with photo album in each mobility ( to carry out different cultures to our pupils) * We will promote our results by reports in local and regional media. And some results are intangibles, such as the evolution of the cultural knowledge of each child and each adult. Feedbacks gathered from parents and wider community via open days, exhibitions and other project displays will be other resources for evaluation. Once the project finished , the tale cards game can be used in any school in any country because it will be adaptable with the images you want, and so children will be able to create their own story.
The project "the place to be..... to live in Harmony" included children from school and kindergarten. We have used folk tales from different countries in Europe so that we can focus on early cultural awakening and provide good opportunities to improve and expand their knowledge about the world they live in. There are 6 partners in this project: Latvia, Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, France. The children, through this project, have developed a better understanding of the world. Traditional tales/stories are a feature in many cultures, they are part of the cultural heritage, they explain how the world and humanity work. They are real sources for learning about friendship, mutual aid, getting in touch with others, working together, moral values, respect for people and nature. Traditional tales/stories have been used to bring values to people's cultural life, to establish role models and to teach. They portray characters grappling with difficulties in which the child recognizes himself. The young reader identifies with the hero who overcomes all the trials he encounters. Thus the tale helps him to analyze the situations in which he is involved and brings him hope, courage and comfort. Children will see that the best way to live is to live together without social distinction, disability, ... Through this project, they studied new cultures and traditions and presented their own. Each establishment selected a traditional tale/story from their community and shared it with the other partners. A mascot was the common thread throughout the project to arrive at the final book of the quest for the ideal village/city. It traveled to some partner countries and thus visited the children. The texts were of course translated into English, sent or brought to the project partners, and each institution translated the story into its mother tongue. During the project, the teachers shared their experience on the methods they used via photos. The children learned to know and research about their own cultural heritage through visits (local museums.... reflecting the history of their culture when possible, cf COVID) reflecting the history of their culture (characteristics of the houses, associating the story of the partner with a story of home, figure of tolerance, dance, music....) and also to work on the cultural elements of the partner countries : - Presentation and comparison of the way of life of the community, traditions,... Achievement of the main objectives, we have: * discovered the culture of the partner countries (through storytelling, music, dance, recipes, etc.) * acquired a European literary culture * Raised interest in cultural heritage in the EU through research * Developed open/tolerant attitudes towards others in the EU * Produced a digital book where the stories invented by each school/kindergarden are grouped and where mascots and cultural heritage appear through a quest * Grown herbs in the school garden and made a recipe e-book * Participated in a cooperative activity, the dramatization of a tale * created a plan to invent as many stories as you want, and thus worked on language skills. Some of our results are tangible such as : * the website and Etwinning: where all project documents and activities can be found * the blog of some schools * Regular questionnaires (verification inclusion, integration, comments) * Report after mobility or zoom meeting which gave an indication of progress and/or difficulties * Video film after the few mobilities carried out * Dissemination of our results through reports in the local and regional media, to parents and the educational community. And some results are intangible, such as the evolution of the cultural knowledge of each child and each adult. Once the project is finished, the plan for inventing tales/stories can be used in any school in any country because it can be adapted with the pictures you want. All results and final products are available on the Erasmus+ project platform. http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/projects/ Our joint Website and Twinspace project will be operational for a few years. Common products such as e-book, plan to create stories,...., documents prepared by students will be stored in each school library and can be use by other teacher.