Food is the tastiest part of culture. Park Avenue School first-graders in Marianne Scofield’s class gather around Port Chester School District Director of Bilingual Programs Felipe Orozco as he gives a guacamole-making demonstration. A vast array of cultural activities swept the whole school for Global Citizen Day on Tuesday, June 11, a celebration aligning with the One World curriculum encouraging students to share their family heritages. Sarah Wolpoff|Westmore News
To teach children about famous Mexican figures, Lluvia Mendez, a class mom in Adriana DiGiacomo’s second-grade dual language class, reads students a kids’ book about artist Frida Kahlo. Parents were invited to visit classrooms during Global Citizen Day to share customs and facts about their personal heritage.
Decked out in her Peru sports jersey, Zoey Chavez, a kindergartener in Jessica DiGiorgi’s class, takes her Peruvian flag drawing seriously.
Global Citizen Day is about celebrating diversity in student heritage, and first-grader Eve West Zywottek has three nationalities to show off! The first-grader proudly holds up three passports in her name—from Germany, the United States and Brazil.
Second-grader Daniel Yanez sits with his mother Claudia Romero as she lectures about Mexican culture to Maureen Mott’s class with a physical collage of clothing, hay, fans and miniature, handcrafted pre-Hispanic palm leaves imprinted with colorful patterns.
Surrounded by kindergarteners raising a vast variety of drawn flags, teacher Jessica DiGiorgi (left) and event organizers Heidi Marroquin and Jennifer Carriero-Dominguez pose for a photo.
With a red, white and blue dress along with matching sunglasses, kindergartener Arianna Chuco came to school to represent the U.S.A. She holds up her drawing of the American flag that she made in Jessica DiGiorgi’s class.
