Friday, October 16, 2009

South American Fiesta - TOG Style

Tonight was our South American Fiesta for our Tapestry of Grace unit celebration.  Each class chose a country then made a display of that country.  It was interesting to see how each class represented their country in different ways.


H's class had Venezuela.  She wrote a report about different aspects of the country.


B's class had Ecuador.  They also had a guest speaker at their table who moved to the US a few years ago from Ecuador.


This is my sweet class each week.  We did Bolivia.  My co-teachers handled the food while I took care of the display board.  I let the students color pictures of fruit, plants and animals found in Bolivia.  We also had a map and interesting facts about the country.  I was also able to use some scarves and other items from the country.  They were very proud of their table!


This is the fruit my co-teachers had on our table.  I love the look on E and C's faces.  "You want me to EAT that!?"  They actually did try most of it and liked it!


I helped coordinate this unit celebration.  (Notice I said "helped".)  We had a list of questions for the students to answer in a Scavenger Hunt.  Dad is helping B find answers at this table about Brazil.  Every child who answered all the questions got a piece of candy and their name in "the jar".  Two winners were drawn from "the jar" for a gift certificate.

It was a fun evening showing what we have learned so far this year.  We are in the mid-1800's now.  Lots of fun stuff ahead...

1 comment:

Beth said...

Thanks for posting these pictures! We were sad to miss the Unit Celebration again, but Volleyball Tournament and Unit 1 Celebration are probably going to coincide every year, I think. Jason was very glad that he got to stay with the Nemitzes, though, and he had a great time. And winning the drawing for the Palsies' gift card was definitely a big bonus! Thank you for the part you played in making it happen. :-)