March 24th Meeting

19 students attended our meeting this week. We wrapped up our H20 walk for life service learning project. Did the initial glue work for our dream catchers wrapped up our time working on our North American cultural research project.

H2O for Life Walk is a Success

Over 30 students took part in the H2O Walk for Life today. We walked to raise awareness and money to help a school in Guatemala improve access to clean water. The students hiked 6km carrying 6 liters of water to gain empathy for children around the world who must make such treks daily to provide water for their families.

The students did an outstanding job today. They helped others, challenged themselves and represented well for our schools. One woman not involved in the walk summed it up when she came over to the kids and said, "I think your wonderful."

This was a combined effort of the Middle School International Club, High School International Club and High School Spanish Club.

Here are various images of the day. Note the smiles.

March 17th Meeting

18 students had a busy meeting finalizing our H20 walk for life plan. We viewed a slide show about the school in Guatemala and answered many student questions. We're excited to work with the High School International Club and Spanish club on this project.

Starting our dream catcher project was the next order of business. We read the Dakota story of the dream catchers origins. One interesting point was that the webbing in the Dakota story caught the good letting the bad pass through. Ms. Hallin shared that in the Ojibwa version the webbing catches the bad and lets the good go through. We were interested to see that culturally the same object was viewed differently.

Our snacks for the day came from Mexico. We had cookies, pumpkin seeds and salty, spicy tamarind fruit snacks.

Our final activity was to move forward on our cultures of North America project.

March 10th Meeting

21 students and Ms. Collopy, one of our Geography teachers, attended our meeting this week. Our first order of business was to pass out pledge sheet for our H2O Walk for Life event comming up on March 22nd. We are teaming with the High School International Club to raise both funds and awareness around access to clean water. The funds we raise will go to support the Guatemalan school pictured below.


Next we agreed on a design for our club T-Shirt. It will be a blue shirt printed with a green Earth map. The top of the shirt will say IGH International Club. "We are the World" will be printed under the map. Students will use puff paint to mark places on the globe that they have connections to.

At snack time the students enjoyed a Somali cake and cookies from Italy. The leaders were impressed that the students could predict that an African store would sell Italian cookies because of past colonialism.

Our final activity engaged the students in a dialog about race. Students learned that humans come in a continuum of colors instead of black, red, yellow and white. We also introduced the concept of race as a social construct.






Our next meeting will be March 17th. Our goal is to finalize our h2O for life plans, start T-shirt orders and work on our North American cultures research starting with a dream catcher making activity. See you there.

March 10th Meetings Agenda.

We have another exciting day planned. First, we will work to finalize our involvement in H2o for Life. Our event day for this is March 22nd. Second, we will be coming up with our club t-shirt design for the year. Later, we will be doing a hand painting activity that looks at race. We will also be working on our North American culture project. And, snacks, did I mention snacks will be of international origin.

We hope to see everyone there. New students are welcome too!