1. REPUBLIC OF CROATIA Commenius project “Friendship of dances”

2. 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.

3. Basic info about Croatia o Declaration of Independence: 8th of October, 1991 o Population of Croatia: around 4,29 million oCapital city: Zagreb oOfficial language: Croatian o Demonym: Croat, Croatian o Currency: Kuna (HRK) o Anthem: Lijepa naša domovino (Our Beautiful Homeland)

4. 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.

5. 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&feat ure=related

6. The Kuna  The currency of Croatia is the Kuna.

7. Croatian Language  The Croatian language is based on a Southern Slavic language used in Bosnia, Herzegovina, and some parts of Italy.

8. Try to read these Croatian sentences Laku noć. – Good night. Dobar dan. – Good afternoon. Ne govorim hrvatski. – I cannot speak Croatian.

9. 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 Slavonija region. (Slatina is located in this region)  The is Middle Croatia (green).  The Kvarner region (blue/green).  The Istria region(red).

10. MAYBE YOU DIDN’T KNOW BUT...

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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.

14. INVENTORS - PARASHUTE Faust Vrancic (1551-1617) from Sibenik invented and constructed a parashute and also performed a first jump in order to test it.

15. Famous Croatian sportsmen Goran Ivanišević – tennis player Ivano Balić - handball Janica Kostelić - skiing Davor Šuker – football

16. NBA PLAYERS FROM CROATIA Drazen Petrovic Radja vs. Rodman Toni Kukoc Zan Tabak Basketball team from Split - several times European champions.

17. Traditional Croatian food

18. Our hometown Slatina

19. 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.

20. City Centre

21. Slatina’s main park and local musicians Town’s court

22. Museum

23. Lake Javorica in Slatina

24. Primary school Eugena Kumičića Slatina

25.  Our school has got 633 pupils in 37 departments and our regional schools, which are located in the villages near the main school, have 63 pupils in combined classes.  We also have 15 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 63.

26.  Pupils who attend our school are from age 7 to 14.  Our classes are organized in two shifts which change every week.

27. Our library

28. We like to prepare different school shows for our local community

30. Every year in October we bake and sell our traditional food

33. We are an eco-friendly school

34. Vegetarian Monday – vegetarian food served in school canteen

35. Our products made of recycled materials

37. St Nicholas in schoolChristmas train with Santa

38. Our pupils are good at sports

40. National champions in cross

41. Every year our pupils dress up as flowers to welcome spring

42. And here we are...we all work in our school. Hello

43. Teachers involved in this project  Božica Majhen – headmistress  Silvija Ma đ arić – coordinator (English teacher)  Kristina Premec – English teacher  Renata Grahovac – Primary teacher  Mira Brezovčan – Primary teacher  Gordana Maroević – Primary teacher  Vera Menčik – Primary teacher  Željka Novotni – Primary teacher  Spomenka Bošnjak –Primary teacher  Sanja Bujanić – Art teacher  Marijana Toplak – Croatian teacher  Nikola Marjanović – History and Geography teacher  Melita Schmitz - librarian

44. NICE TO MEET YOU! See you soon!