
WOW Around the World
Every class has started the term learning about a country and a festival that is celebrated in that country as part of our WOW start to the term. The children have learnt about artists, customs and food associated with this festival and the country. Some classes also learnt music and dances.
The fortnight culminated with a Cultural Festival where each class prepared a display showing what they had learnt and brought a dish from each country for other classes to try. This was all displayed in the dining room and each class had a turn reading about what the other classes had discovered and trying their wonderful food.
The festivals we learnt about were:
Diwali from India
Day of the dead from Mexico
Waitangi Day from New Zealand
Loy Krathong from Thailand
Carnival from Brazil
Panafest from Ghana
Venice carnival from Italy
La Tamborarda from Spain