India Week

I know what you are thinking, isn't every week India week, you live in India!!! It was "India Week" at school last week. The kids participated in and attended a vaiety of different cultural activities. The week began with an assembly featuring some young girls demonstrating some traditional Indian dances. Mid week we had another assembly where the students heard some traditional music, a tabla player. By the end of the day on Wednesday everyone in the school was walking around with one stiff hand covered in henna mehndi designs. The kids loved it and once the children were dismissed you could find some of us visiting our elementary art teacher to get ours "professionally" done! It turned out great and would you believe he completed this in a minute and a half.... really, we timed it! Thursday, we visited Docshina Chetra. We, I say we because I learned about India along with the children, learned about different parts of India, the different traditional houses found around India, arts and crafts made from different parts of India, made some clay pots on a pottery wheel with help and all around had a great day full of fun! The kids and I got to ride on a bullock cart ride! They loved it, not going to lie, so did I! One of the best parts of teaching elementary school is being able to get excited like a kid again and it's ok! By Friday everyone in the school was deck out in their finest Indian garb! The children looked absolutely adorable and everyone on staff looked beautiful! During the assembly each grade performed some type of dance/skit representative of India. The third gade performed a great dance they had been hard at work practicing for the 3 weeks prior! At lunch time the students and staff were all treated to delicious Indian food! It was quite an exhausting week but full of so many fun activities.