Jingumae International Exchange School celebrated this year’s International Children’s Day by inviting students, teachers, parents, and visitors to travel around the world with them in one day!
JIES students and teachers worked very hard to transform their rooms into continents, and organize and lead activities and games to help people learn more about places and cultures from around the world. Students from other schools and visitors enjoyed these booths, joined in treasure hunting in Antarctica, painted various animals of Africa, played European children’s games, decorated boomerangs in Australia, listened to South American songs, enjoyed an ice hockey board game from Canada, panned for gold in the USA, and played different children’s games from South Korea, Turkey, Japan, Israel, and the Philippines. This only begins to touch on the variety of experiences that the children and their families were invited to participate in.
Not only the students, but also the JIES parents were active in cooking traditional foods from around the world. Everybody had a chance to try new flavours from other countries. Parents also volunteered in the continent booths to help lead activities.
This year, students who visited a certain number of booths received prizes such as free food, including Turkish ice cream. Some of them were also lucky enough to get big presents in the raffle. Everybody was eager to taste the Turkish ice cream. — KENAN ULU
