JLS has an international focus that comes into everything they do. I love how they encourage families to share their heritage with the students at the school, and it broadens the kids' view of the world. They are never in a tiny bubble of "my family, my city," everything is stretched to the bigger view. Our heritage, where we come from, and how we fit into the world with everything we do.
When we arrived at school we walked under a gateway inviting us to "Travel the World" and were handed passports to stamp at every country we visited.
Elijah's class packed their suitcases and boarded a plane to Spain. He told me that he got to try churros while studying Spain. I didn't hear much else about Spain, but it sounds like they had a fun trip.
Shelly's class studied the Philippines. We had a nice chat about that last week when she told me about the Chocolate Hills. What a strange feature of the landscape there! After we visited her classroom's display she told me which part of the information she had researched. Unfortunately, she was then absent for two days and didn't have a chance to update the display before Thursday night's event. So the population density of the Philippines wasn't exactly accurate. But it was still a very nice presentation, and E stamped another country on his passport.
Elijah had talked about looking forward to trying new foods, but when we made our way to the gym, the line was extremely long for the food samples and we decided to go out for dinner instead. I told him we'd get something new from the grocery store the next time we went shopping, and that settled it. We were all hungry and ready to go.
Eli and Shelly get to experience the typical elementary school stuff at JLS, but as we left the school on Thursday night, I told them how incredibly fortunate we are to have a treasure like JLS in our community. What a wonderful place for them to learn and grow.
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