Thanks to BCS Communications student intern Cayden Rejzer (senior, A.C. Reynolds High) for this article and photos!
🌍 ✈️ 📘 Johnston Elementary celebrated the regions of the world by hosting a school multicultural night before Winter Break. Using different food elements, crafts, and research projects, these elementary school students spent several days learning and preparing their classrooms to explore whole new worlds.
When asked about the importance of this night for these kids, 4th grade teacher Tonya Burleson said, “It’s a great way for them to be able to see themselves in other cultures and also see their own culture represented.”
Going through each of the classrooms, you could see the hard work that these children put into creating an experience that provides tastes of different cultures. Children would walk in, get their travel sheets signed by that county’s teacher, and learn about what life would be like with the goal of traveling to every location.
Mrs. Burleson then spoke about what these students did during school to prepare their classrooms for others, speaking about how 4th graders are now “learning how to use technology in the right way to research facts about the country that they’re working on, and they also have artwork that they do as well.”
The event proved its worth by getting the children interested in the wider world. In their classrooms some students prepared possible trips that they mapped out for themselves to travel there in the future and fully capture everything that a new environment would bring.
