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Director of OneWorld Classrooms, Paul Hurteau, accepts check from students at the Saratoga Independent School in Saratoga Springs, NY, who raised $500 for their partner school in the Amazon Rain Forest by reading over 200,000 total book pages. |
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"Teaching students about the world is not a subject in itself, separate from other content areas, but should be an integral part of all subjects taught. We need to open global gateways and inspire students to explore beyond their national borders." Vivien Stewart, Becoming Citizens of the World, Educational Leadership
More Notable Quotes about global education and the role of the arts and technology rotate in the bottom section of each OneWorld Classrooms' informational Web site page. |
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Dear , In this Make a Difference bulletin, we recount how students in Saratoga Springs, NY have made a colorful difference at their OneWorld Classrooms partner school in the Amazon Rain Forest. We also welcome your class/school to travel online to the Amazon Rain Forest and other world regions using our FREE Travel & Learn Online content (look for your username/password reminder in the left-hand column) -- and we welcome you to interact with and/or make a difference at our Amazon partner schools. (Click here for more information.)
Our next bulletin will provide an overview and lesson ideas for OneWorld Classrooms' free multi-media exploration of Chinese culture, Cultural Profiles of Historic and Modern China.
Happy classroom trails!
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Reading for Rain Forest Friends
Sections of trilingual numbers and flower murals in classrooms at General Pintag Elementary School in Campana Cocha, Ecuador.
The classroom walls at the General Pintag Elementary School, along the Napo River in the small Amazon Kichwa village of Campana Cocha, Ecuador, just got a face lift. Gracias a their OneWorld Classrooms partner, the Saratoga Independent School, in Saratoga Springs, NY. General Pintag has participated in OneWorld Classrooms for the past three years, completing E-mail Q & A, art, photo and letter exchanges with US partner classes in New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, Connecticut and California. But, Saratoga Independent wanted to Make a Difference beyond an exchange.
Section of animal mural in classroom at General Pintag Elementary School in Campana Cocha, Ecuador.
So, its 60 K-6 students started to read. 200,000 pages later, they raised $500 for General Pintag through a Reach Out and Read fundraising campaign involving the whole school community.
Section of 'International Rights of Children' mural on outside classroom wall at General Pintag Elementary School in Campana Cocha, Ecuador.
Next, it was the General Pintag community's turn. Michael Severino, the local Peace Corps Volunteer, had received a $100 donation via OneWorld Classrooms from the Casa Grande High School in Petaluma, CA, the year before and used it to paint educational murals on one of the school's classroom's walls. This time, with a lot more paint in hand, Michael recruited students and parents from the whole community to paint the inside and outside walls of all of the school's classroom buildings. Each wall got a primary coat of paint and a mural that featured an important aspect of Kichwa culture, depicted a Kichwa legend or reinforced Math, English, Kichwa, Spanish, Social Studies or Geography lessons taught in that very classroom.
Now, students at General Pintag can figure out where in the world their US partner class is just by looking up at the mural of the world map painted on the wall of their classroom! Muchas gracias. Achka pagarachu. Thank you very much to the Saratoga Independent School, Michael Severino, General Pintag and all schools and individuals who have contributed to OneWorld Classrooms' Make a Difference program and shared their students' culture through our Classroom Connections program.
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Student in front of section of Kichwa legend mural on outside classroom wall at General Pintag Elementary School in Campana Cocha, Ecuador. |
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