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| Iceland Monitor
| Thu 11 Feb 2016
| 12.15 GMT
Playschool children welcome Syrian refugee child with a peace song in Arabic
"Let the whole earth become a unity," sing the little children at Urriðaholt playschool. Screenshot:Börnogtónlist.net
<p>Children at the Urriðaholt playschool in Kópavogur learned a beautiful song of peace in both Arabic and Icelandic to welcome a new pupil, a refugee from Syria who arrived in Iceland in January. </p><p>The song is about "all being raindrops in the same ocean, all being leaves, in the same tree," and the children learned the arabic version in less than a week. </p><p>See a video of the children performing the song here below. </p>