Our students and advisory teachers worked very hard to put together an "International Day" program for the school this past Thursday. The day began in the theater, with performances detailing Kuwait's past and present, cultural dances from various countries, and a parade of flags that introduced the nations that would be featured throughout the middle school building. From the theater, "borders" opened up and visitors got to explore different classrooms with each one representing a different country. The classrooms were full of information and experiences that made you feel as though you were truly visiting that place. It was AWESOME. AWESOME! Here are some pictures:
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| This slide popped up during the short play about Kuwait. I found it to be HILARIOUS.... |
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| SOUTH AFRICA (designed and decorated by one of my grade 6 classes)!!!! In this room there was a photo booth with safari animals, a bulletin board of colourful masks, and signs reminding you to "please not feed the animals" as you journeyed throughout the room. |
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| JAPAN!!!!!! Just imagine the excitement in this room when students discovered that they could give sumo wrestling a real try! |
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| BRAZIL!!!!!!!! (Or party central!) The hype of this room was generated by the fact that Brazil will be hosting this year's FIFA World Cup! Our students are soccer crazy, too, which made it a bopping attraction :) |
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| SPAIN!!!!! The grade 8's did a SUPERB job on the artwork in this room. It was unique from the other classes with giant murals made of tissue paper. I LOVED IT. Also, they had a really great dance performance at the start of the day...which continued throughout the day.....in the hallways....of every grade level. Ha! Oh grade 8's ;) |
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| KOREA!!!!! I was a supervisor for the "Korea" students and so I spent half of my day in this country. We had a blast together - listening to Gangnam Style on repeat, as well as some popular K-POP artists (like 21!). As for this picture, you're looking at some ROCKIN' Korean anime created by one of my hardest working students. He RULES! |
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| HAWAII!!! (Not so much a country....but fun enough that they allowed it to be somewhat considered so?). This room was certainly a fan favourite. They had a tiki hut serving mocktails, a "hula girl" face-in-hole photo opp, and a Ben and Jerry's icecream stand! What's not to love?! |
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| MEXICO!!!!!! Where we tried on sombreros and indulged in some guac... |
Following classroom tours, all visitors got to indulge in an international buffet organized by the members of each country's food committee. We had sushi and machboos and fresh fruit and zebra cupcakes and.........what didn't we have?! The kids did an outstanding job!
I wish I could share more pictures of the day, like ones of my students
in their amazing costumes. Alas, I have this thing against posting pictures
of students on the blog and so you have to believe that this day
was TEN TIMES better than anything represented in my short blurb here. Days like these ones are the days that make school the best invention ever. It might have been a little more hectic than usual (ha!), but the students were engaged, excited, proud, and learning (something, at least!).
WAY TO GO, MIDDLE SCHOOL!!!!!!! Now it's time for you to travel FOR REAL. (Although I'm not sure you'll have as much fun as you did on this whirlwind day of travel....)
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