世界好奇妙 一起去看看 Let's Go! See Our Wonderful World

Multicultural International Day

回顾着一届届走来，每一年，中山幼儿园开展的主题活动皆围绕在「自己和世界」的多元对话，去年，我们便以一场国潮活动，带领孩子从不同侧面一窥中华五千年文化之美，掀起孩子对中华文化的好奇与热爱。

Lookback to the past few years, Zhongshan had always applied the theme “Me and the world” to stimulate the awareness of multiculturalism. Last year, we used a Chinese trend activity to lead children to see the beauty of 5,000 years of Chinese culture from different aspects and to arouse their curiosity and love for Chinese culture.

今年，我们把主题定为「世界好奇妙，一起去看看」，旨在将世界各地好玩的摆在孩子面前，和他们一同探索其中趣味。前期，老师们有意识地每个班级选择两个国家为主线，透过布置不同的学习内容，给小朋友一些经验铺垫，在个别化时间，和小朋友做了代表不同国家的特色建筑手工作品，并在舞台上展示。

Thisyear, we set the topic as "The World is Wonderful, Let's Go See It Together", aiming to bring the fun of the world to the children and explore the fun with them. Firstly, the teachers consciously chose two countries as the main line for each class, and gave the children some experience by setting up different learning contents about the countries. Then during the learning center time, the teachers made handicraft works with the children representing different countries' characteristics and displayed them on the stage.

活动当天，老师们在中山的网球场布置起园游会，设立许多代表各国特色的美食、手工及游戏摊位，内容特别丰富有趣，如印度飞饼、意大利面、法国面包等美食摊位；和趣味足球、曲棍球及三子棋等游戏摊位；及纸片飞机DIY、花卉种植、纸盘项链手工摊位等等。我们希望透过游戏帮助小朋友了解不同国家的异文化风情，打开小朋友的视野，也让孩子在初步认识原来世界的许多不同可以如此美妙。

On the day of the event, the teachers set up a garden fair at the tennis court in Zhongshan, with many food, craft and game booths representing different countries. The content was particularly rich and interesting, such as Indian pizza, pasta, French bread and other food booths; and fun soccer, field hockey and chess game booths; and paper airplane DIY, flower planting, paper plate necklace craft booths and so on. We hope that through the games, we can help children understand the different cultures of different countries, to open their horizons, but also to let children in the initial understanding of the many differences in the world can be so wonderful.

于此，早上入园，小朋友在老师的引导下领过护照后，便可在摊位游戏环节往不同的国家游玩。这一天，小朋友们身装不同国家的服装，走在红毯上特别有风范，再次点亮中山的多元风彩。虽然孩子们可能还没办法具体地说出这些服装对不同种族或国家人们的文化意义，但文化本来是一群人共同生活的经验与习惯，多元文化日的活动正正打开中山希望藉由反问自己每年庆祝的重要节日与食物、穿着特殊服装等背后的涵义，再次确认自我的文化内涵，以及察觉个人文化差异。

In the morning, the children were guided by their teachers to receive their passports and then they could play in different countries during the booth game time. On this day, children dressed in costumes from different countries and cultures to walk a fashion show, once again, had lighten up the diversity of Zhongshan. Although the children may not have been able to tell the cultural significance of these costumes to people of different races or countries, culture is inherently built up through a group of people living together, and the Multicultural Day event was an opportunity for Zhongshan to reaffirm its cultural identity and be aware of personal cultural differences by asking itself the meaning behind the important holidays and foods it celebrates each year, and the special costumes it wears.

这些多元的文化元素及材料，一直渗透在人类的生活中，我们只是试着借由这次的活动，让孩子从「看见」自己与他人的差异，「听见」他人不同的声音，理解他人行为背后的文化脉络，并且在日常生活中落实尊重他人的行为，因为「异」 与「同」是并存于这个世界上的必然现象。

These diverse cultural elements and materials have always permeated our life. We just wanted to let children "see" the differences between themselves and others, "hear" the different voices of others, understand the cultural context behind the behavior of others. Andeventually, we hope that the children will implement respectful behavior in daily life through this multicultural fair, because "difference" and "sameness" are inevitable phenomena that coexist in this world.