Purpose

To familiarize children, from an early age, with an authentic Romanian environment, where they can speak, feel and think in Romanian.

Objectives

• Enrichment of active and passive vocabulary in Romanian, based on experience and activities/relationships with other children.
• Development of harmonious bonds between children, empathy and socialization with other children or Romanian speakers, through participation in group activities and games, both as a speaker and as a listener.
• To experience positive emotional states in their relationships with others, to show friendship, tolerance, harmony, while learning self-control within the group.

Benefits

• The activities are conducted in Romanian and follow, as far as possible, the calendar of traditional events and celebrations.
• The children explore their environment and develop their self-awareness by belonging to the Romanian identity, which is an addition to the Dutch or other origin.
• Communication is very important, that's why we take into account the particularities of each child and adapt to their individual needs, by reading/rehearsing stories or poems, listening to songs appropriate to the topic we are discussing.
• During the workshop, children participate in various activities to develop basic motor skills (walking, running, rolling, jumping) or fine motor skills (playing with fingers, holding pencils/colours, drawing, cutting, modelling with modelling clay, grasping and manipulating objects) that help them express their emotions and develop harmoniously.

The parents/carers of the children will remain in the classroom for the duration of the workshop and will be involved with them in the activities taking place.

Dance movements or animal imitations will be the attraction of each workshop, which will contribute to a cheerful atmosphere in which children actively participate.

Working methods

• Play is the basic way in which all learning activities are implemented in this workshop.
• In a playful way, the youngsters interact with each other and with the adults in the classroom, which gives them self-confidence.
• As teaching materials, the following will be used: worksheets and worksheets, plasticine, coloured pencils, story/poem books, illustrations, videos, CDs, DVDs, toys that the school has.

Guiding themes

• Who am I?
• My family
• Human body
• Seasons - lessons dedicated to each season
• Nature and its joys
• My friends
• Visiting the zoo/animal farm (real/imagined discussions about such a visit)
• My passions
• My favourite sport
• Dance is my life
• Little Chef
• Marking of various religious or national holidays (Christmas, Easter, Romania's National Day, "Mărțișorul", Mother's Day, Children's Day, Romanian Cheese Day)

The themes will be adapted according to children's age and interests. There may also be suggested lessons based on children's preferences or inspired by events taking place at a particular time of year.

In some workshops, we can have special guests who will add dynamism to the meeting and from whom we will learn new things.

Objectives:

• familiarization with the Romanian language and culture, presenting a rich educational and cultural program, using playful and creative working methods. Thus, contact is made with stories, popular mythology, songs, games, customs and Romanian traditions;
• promotion, learning and deepening of the Romanian language, culture and spiritual values;
• fostering a sense of belonging to a culture and community in the context of belonging to and contact with other cultures.

Benefits:

• development of oral and written communication skills in Romanian;
• creating the basic automatisms and structures of the Romanian language;
• learning Romanian songs and poems;
• acquiring knowledge of Romanian geography, history, traditions and customs.

Working methods:

During the courses, various themes of everyday life and Romanian culture will be dealt with in a playful way, and the methods vary according to the children's ages and their preparation.

Through didactic play, conversation, reading, explanation and role-playing, Romanian language and culture will be learned easily and with pleasure.

Teaching materials will include worksheets and worksheets, stories, illustrations, videos, CDs, DVDs.

Indicative themes:

• discover new friends and places;
• the magic of autumn (autumn paths, autumn basket, flowers, fragrance, colour);
• me and my world (body, senses, family);
• museum and art;
• winter in pictures and words (playing outside, winter and the living creatures);
• traditions and customs around the winter holidays.

Objectives:

• personal development through theatre
• socio-emotional development of pre-teens.

Benefits:

• exploring new dimensions, new roles and more appropriate ways of responding.
• They speak Romanian which strengthens their cultural and national identity.
• They have control over how they play a role and train their sense of power.

Working methods:

Improvisation games, cooperative games, role play, techniques
and character building, movement and interaction games, movement and interaction games, movement and
of voice.

Objectives:

• acquiring basic knowledge of the Romanian language;
• familiarisation with the pronunciation of the specific sounds of the Romanian language;
• developing the ability to understand simple contexts;
• developing the ability to respond appropriately to different situations presented during lessons;
• assimilation of a basic vocabulary.

Methods:

The communicative method is mainly used, and the most used language will be Romanian. If necessary, explanations can also be given in English, French or Dutch. Each lesson will be accompanied by cultural information.

Benefits:

• pronunciation;
• vocabulary and basic knowledge.