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REPUBLIC OF CROATIA
Comenius partnership “Friendship of dances”
Location of Croatia in Europe
Croatia is located in Central and Southeast Europe, bordering Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the southeast, Montenegro
to the southeast, the Adriatic Sea to the southwest and Slovenia to the northwest.
Basic info about Croatia
o Declaration of Independence: 8th of October, 1991o Population of Croatia: around 4,29 milliono Capital city: Zagreb o Official language: Croatiano Demonym: Croat, Croatiano Currency: Kuna (HRK)o Anthem: Lijepa naša
domovino(Our Beautiful Homeland)
CROATIAN NATIONAL FLAG
Croatian National flag is a red-white-blue tricolor with the historic Croatian chequered coat of arms (25 red and white fields) and stylized crown with five smaller shields featuring coats of arms.
coat of arms
Croatian national flag
CROATIAN ANTHEM
The Croatian anthem Lijepa naša (Our Beautiful Homeland) was written in 1835 (Antun Mihanović ) and set to music in
1846 (Josip Runjanin).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjqgLZ7fZY4&feature=related
The Kuna
The currency of Croatia is the Kuna.
Croatian Language
The Croatian language is based on a Southern Slavic language used in Bosnia, Herzegovina, and some parts of Italy.
Croatian alphabet
Try to read these Croatian sentences
Laku noć. – Good night.
Dobar dan. – Good afternoon.
Ne govorim hrvatski. – I cannot speak Croatian.
Regions of Croatia There are eight zones
that Croatia can be split into.
There are the Dalmatian regions (purple, tan, blue, and light purple).
The Mountain region. The Slavonia region.
(Slatina is located in this region)
The is Middle Croatia (green).
The Kvarner region (blue/green).
The Istria region(red).
MAYBE YOU DIDN’T KNOW BUT...
DALMATIAN DOG–NATIVE CROATIAN
101 DALMATIAN
Dalmatia - the coastal part of Croatia
Recognized as Croatian autochthonous breed (FCI-153)
Croatian Mascot - 2000 Olympic games Sydney
CROATIA - HOMELAND OF CRAVATS
Every day worn by the 600 million men around the world.
French - la Cravate German- die Krawatte English – Cravat Italian - Cravatta Spanish - Corbata Portuguese - Gravata Irish - Carabhat Swedish - Kravatt Finnish - Kravatti Flemish - Krawaat Polish - Krawat Ukrainian - Kravatka Hungarian – Kravat Croatian - Kravata
Nikola Tesla - inventor of the light bulb
INVENTORS - PEN
Slavoljub Eduard Penkala (1871-1922) from Zagreb invented a mechanical ball pen which is bearing his name and now it is in everyday use.
INVENTORS - PARASHUTE
Faust Vrancic (1551-1617) from Sibenik invented and constructed a parashute and also performed a first jump in order to test it.
Famous Croatian sportsmen
Goran Ivanišević – tennis playerIvano Balić - handballJanica Kostelić - skiingDavor Šuker – football
NBA PLAYERS FROM CROATIA
Drazen Petrovic
Radja vs. Rodman
Toni Kukoc
Zan Tabak
Basketball team from Split - several times European champions.
Traditional Croatian food
Our hometown Slatina
•Slatina is a small town which is in the east of Croatia (Slavonija region) and its population is around 12 000. •We have two main primary schools, two high schools and two kindergardens.
City Centre
Slatina’s main park and local musicians Town’s court
Museum
Lake Javorica in Slatina
Primary school Eugena KumičićaSlatina
Our school has got 542 pupils in 29 departments and our regional schools, which are located in the villages near the main school, have 67 pupils in combined classes.
We also have 16 children in classes with special needs and are divided into 3 classes depending on pupils age.
Total number of teachers,
pedagogical staff and administration is 84.
Pupils who attend our school are from age 7 to 14.
Our classes are organized in two shifts which change every week.
Our library
We like to prepare different school shows for our local community
Every year in October we bake and sell our traditional food
We are an eco-friendly school
Vegetarian Monday – vegetarian food served in school canteen
Our products made of recycled materials
St Nicholas in schoolChristmas train with Santa
Our pupils are good at sports
National champions incross
Every year our pupils dress up as flowers to welcome spring
And here we are... Hello
Teachers involved in this project
Božica Majhen – headmistress
Silvija Mađarić – coordinator English teacher
Kristina Premec – English teacher
Renata Grahovac – class teacher
Mira Brezovčan – class teacher
Gordana Maroević – class teacher
Vera Menčik – class teacher
Željka Novotni – class teacher
Spomenka Bošnjak –class teacher
Sanja Bujanić – Art teacher Marijana Toplak – Croatian
teacher Nikola Marjanović – History
and Geography teacher Melita Schmitz - librarian
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
Osnovna škola Eugena Kumičića, Slatina