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Galloway Community Charter School Celebrates International Day

The school honors other cultures by showing off the students' most recent projects.

The has been celebrating International Day since the school opened its doors, but for the first time, students throughout the school were given the opportunity to see what their fellow students have been up to for the first 10 weeks of the school year.

GCCS splits its year into four "focuses," including International, Environmental, Technology and Arts and Humanities. Each focus lasts for 10 weeks, and encompasses all courses at the school, GCCS Assistant Director Jessica Fisher said during the school's celebration on Monday night, Oct. 24.

The focuses are the same in every grade, every year.

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"Kindergarteners will start with transportation, and then first graders will build on that by exploring who their ancestors were and why they came here," said Fisher, referencing the International focus. " ... The older students go to 'majors' where they get to pick a specific theme and study it more deeply."

She said that having a day to show off their projects gives the students at the school something to look forward to.

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"They know they'll be working on a project at the end that's a culmination of everything they've learned," Fisher said. "And it's something different each time."

This year's activities included a Jeopardy game, in which students answered questions about international history; a game in which students went online and found their homes on Google Maps and played a matching game with maps of the United States; and the chance to play "international games" with physical education teacher Dave Farmer.

Students also received a passport, visited "Grand Central Station" at the school's cafeteria, wrote postcards to students in other classes, and visited a "souvenir stand" in one of the classrooms.

The school wanted to give students and parents the experience of going on an actual international journey.

Check out Galloway Patch's photo gallery from the event. In the attached video, Foster is playing a game whose title translates into "Eating Snake Tails," which originated in Thailand, as well as a dodgeball game from India.


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