Celebrating Our World

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1 Celebrating Our World Jasmine A. Kight College of Education, Grand Canyon University ECE-465 Professor Mulder September 17, 2023

2 Celebrating Our World Dear Parents and Community Leaders, Hello and my name is Jasmine Kight and I teach Kindergarten within Alice Drive Elementary school. In my classroom, I want to make sure that I have a diverse and cultural background for all my students. We have been studying and learning about different countries all over the world, how people speak different languages, the utensils that they use to eat food may be different from the way we eat, their food, music, the way they celebrate holidays, the way they dress, etc. With that being said, we know people are different even within our community. The other teachers and I here at the school would like to start an Around the World community project. In order to make this successful, we are going to need the help from our amazing community. At the event if you have a different culture and would like to set up a booth to display so students can see, please do so. We want our students to be able to see the diverse backgrounds and different cultures around the world with their own eyes because as we know everyone is unique and special. There are so many books that we have read within our classroom about how people come from different cultures and that even though they have come from different cultures we have similarities, too. In our world, our diversity makes us stronger and even if some are different, we are all beautiful and unique. We want our students to be able to thrive within their education and learn hands-on different cultures around the world. Different examples that can be placed within your booth that would help engage students could be different foods for them to taste test for something that could be traditional within your culture. Another example would be different read aloud that engages and pull the students into

3 the book to learn more about the culture. Finally, the last example would be the different clothing that was worn during that time, if allowed, having students have pretend play is a great way for students to be engaged, any music from your culture for the students to hear and of course anything with a beat they are going to dance to. To make this event even more exciting, we have thrown together like a “Around the World” hunt to where the students must go around looking for clues to fill in the answers on their paper. This will give our young learners the opportunity to explore and connect with the world through personal experiences from you. With that being said, the generosity of our community members and leaders who have graciously donated prizes for our sweet students who finish, turn in their paper with all answers correct will be entered into a drawing for a prize. Without you, this event could not be possible or even successful. "It takes a village to raise a child is a proverb that means that an entire community of people must provide for and interact positively with children for those children to experience and grow in a safe and healthy environment” (Wikipedia Contributors, 2023). Words cannot describe my appreciation for each and every one of you. Respectfully, Jasmine Kight References Wikipedia Contributors. (2023). It takes a village. Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_takes_a_village

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4 ACTIVITY 1: A great time to do a fun activity with students to be able to explore cultures, customs, holidays, and traditions around the holidays. Holidays bring so much joy, laughter, and fun. First and foremost, in order to travel the world, we need to have students get a travel ticket. The students are able to visit the country through google earth and be able to keep their plane ticket for that country that we visited. If we are traveling internationally, we will create passports for the students in which they have a booklet of the states that they can color and date when we have visited that country. To bring the excitement to students, you can turn off the lights and play a video on YouTube of a plane taking off just so they can get that experience of flying. Before each country is visited, a read aloud is done, or we provide information on that country on the promethean board for them to see. With a diverse population we are able to have families involved to cook traditional homemade foods, share clothing, share personal experiences so students can make connections. ACTIVITY 2: Within this activity, we can call this Cultural Arts Musical Style. Students can listen to songs in different languages that are spoken throughout different countries in the world. Teachers can also incorporate dance move pictures on the promethean board of different dance moves to follow. Students love to dance with anything that has a beat, and every student tells their own story by expressing themselves through dance. They can have a chance to perform this dance move within their dot on the floor or have their own performance in front of the room “on stage” for the class to see them break a move. There are so many different ways to incorporate different culture assessment activities within a teacher’s lesson plan to encourage students to learn other cultural events. Making board games for students to play to be able to learn about different

5 landmarks, countries flags and geography around the world. Another simple activity yet fun to be able to teach the kids about traditional art of India, the Middle East and different parts of Africa for hundreds of years is the use of henna. Students can make up their own henna drawings. I would first get a signed note from the parents making sure that they are okay with a henna drawing going on their child. This way as an educator, we have our bases covered and no disgruntled parents. Students will get to have an idea of how hennas were a tradition of art within their country and culture.

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