CENET Provides 2nd Annual Fun Day for Area Grade School
JACKSON, MO— CENET’s local program, Culture in the Community (CITC), recently finished a 12-day international education series at St. Paul Lutheran School; the culminating event was a Fun Day celebrating world cultures. This is the second year CITC has provided an educational series and Fun Day for St. Paul Lutheran School.
The event reached approximately 250 students, with the support of 25 parents and community volunteers. The students ranged from Pre-K to 8th grade, with 19 classes represented in total.
The international presenters for Fun Day included:
- Jose Andrés Miño, Ecuador: Jose performed songs & played guitar for the students. He also read a story to the younger students, which he accompanied with his guitar.
- Shvetha Gohn, India: Shvetha created henna art for the students.
- Ricardo Ashimi, Hugo Machida, and Enzo Kuba, Brazil: Ricardo, Hugo, and Enzo played soccer with the students and gave a presentation on their culture. They also shared samples of popular Brazilian soda and dessert: Guaraná & brigadeiro.
To celebrate an earlier CITC session on Myanmar, the students enjoyed a tribute to Water Festival, with the older students having a water balloon fight and the younger students playing a duck pond game. In Myanmar, the festival lasts several days– it marks the end of the school year and the beginning of summer. Playing with water is a feature of the festival—one that was enjoyed by the students at St. Paul.
A cooking exhibit was also available for the students to sample and help prepare world cuisines, as well as a craft area where students created Mexican yarn art called Huichol.
Students also won various prizes at Fun Day, which included gift cards to Wehrenberg Cape West 14 Cine, Chick-Fil-A, and passes to Lazy L Safari.
CENET looks forward to continuing the partnership between Culture in the Community and St. Paul Lutheran School. A gallery of photos from Fun Day may be viewed below:
Special thanks to area sponsors for donating supplies and prizes for Fun Day: MidAmerica Corporation, Lazy L Safari, Chick-Fil-A, Rental Land, Sam’s Club, Wal-Mart, Country Mart, and Popeyes Chicken. The support and generous donations helped make Fun Day a success.
Additional support and funding for the educational series at St. Paul Lutheran School came from the following local businesses and individual donors: Baer & Edington, Abe & Emily Funk, David & Tara McMullin, John & Taffy McMullin (John’s Pharmacy), Todd & Donna Ward, and Jackson Medical Center.
Thank you to all of our sponsors for supporting international education at St. Paul Lutheran School!
CENET strives to inspire a safer, more prosperous and compassionate world through international education and cultural exploration. For more news and updates about CENET, please visit our Facebook Page.