On Tuesday , 26 April 2016, we had the Reading Badge closing event. He hosted a youth writer Primoz Suhodolčan who has with his playful and funny, but according to him true stories, captivated us.

Our school has a saying Reading knows no boundaries! A very important role in the project have teachers who are reading aloud to the students and encourage them throughout the school year to love books.

Joint reading of books in the school library gives students opportunities to talk about the experience and their understanding of what they heard. Knowing that a positive and respectful attitude towards themselves and the people around them is inspired by stories, is truly a wonderful feeling.

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In the school year, 2015/2016 Elementary School Milka Šobar – Nataša participates in an international reading project Reading knows no borders, which takes place between the Slovenian and Croatian schools. The goal of the project is to get to know the Slovenian and Croatian youth literary works. In addition to reading, the project also involves some research: exploring the history, culture and sights of the town the children come from.

Our partners are the students of the Centar za odgoj i obrazovanje djece i mladeži from Karlovac who came to us on a two-day event with focus on books and reading. On Friday, 22^nd April 2016, we have welcomed them with a traditional Slovenian breakfast. After the meal a  short cultural program followed in which our students carried out a Preseren rap song Where, a short puppet show of a story the Mirror by Grigorja Viteza, a Croatian youth writer.

We also visited the Bela Krajina Museum in Metlika, where we learned more about Bela Krajina and its inhabitants over time. After another short show about how the coat of arms of the city of Metlika got its shape, we then said goodbye untill next year.

On Friday, 15^th April 2016, our students attended the 26th National Let’s sing, play and dance Chorus Show in Krško. This year, in the two days, the event hosted more than 800 performers, their mentors and companions.
The main theme of our performance was the poet France Prešeren and his song Where? in the rap version and the song O, Vrba, which was sang by the chorus and accompanied by a dance group. The children enjoyed their performance and later they hang out and danced with the rest of the performing students.

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On Thursday, 21^st April 2016, we joined the international event Book Night for the second time. Moreover, this time we invited students from our friend school in Karlovac. They accepted our invitation and we met in the morning in Vinica, at Oton Župančič birth house.
After lunch, students in special educational program 5, 6 have taken our guests on a stroll through the streets of Črnomelj, to show them the sights.

At 18.00 we joined the event Book Night in the public library in Črnomelj. There our students performed with a play Who Made Videk’s Shirt. Another group of students cooked some sweet porridge, for everyone to enjoy.
After we all returned to school there was a delicious dinner prepared by our students and the teachers. Later, everyone was waiting for the evening show, which was held in the multipurpose room under the title Another piece of the story, please … We were are captivated by the words and by the dance movements of a dancer Jernej Kozan.

In the late evening hours, on a proposal from the event organizer Book Night, we symbolically lit the lights of our school. The world is changing as it wakes up with a book in its hand, and another thought Let reading turn the lamp of the future,  our 13 pupils, 6 pupils from Karlovac and 6 teachers, finally went to sleep.
Although it only lasted one day and one night, we are all looking forward to the next year’s event.

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