Flying Around the Junior School

Year 1 & 2 children are currently learning about NZ, what it means to be a NZer and all the different cultures that make up a 'Kiwi' today. To do this we wanted to explore some of these NZ Cultures that make up our country and our school community. So each of the Year 1 & 2 teachers selected a country/ ethnicity reflected in our community to share with the children. The children then created their own 'passports' and prepared to 'fly around the junior school'.

Over four Thursday afternoons the children will visit 9 different destinations and receive a stamp in their passport for each one. As you can imagine this has been extremely exciting!! The children have already 'travelled' to 4 countries and participated in dance, song, art, learning greetings/counting etc and looking at native dress and artefact's.

Attached to this post is an example of children visiting one destination- China. Here they looked at dress, lanterns, books, posters, watched a traditional Chinese dance, learnt about the flag, capital city and greeting and attempted to use chopsticks!