Reading week is traditionally a week where university students across the country have the week off to catch up with school work, prepare for exams or just have a mid-term break. But many students take this opportunity to connect with their community by volunteering for various projects and activities! For the past 3 days our class, along with 9 other classes at Waverley, participated in a variety of multicultural activities led by an enthusiastic group of 40+ young volunteers from UBC! We were so fortunate to have them join us to share some of their stories and cultures with us.
Here are just a few of the activities...
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| Learning songs in Mandarin! |
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| Listening to stories and drawing about them. |
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and mochi
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| We looked on the map to see where some of these foods are from. |
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| We had a mystery bag with various fruits and vegetable in them. "Can you tell what it is?" |
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| We tried calligraphy. |
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| We learned a bit about India and henna painting. Then we made designs on our own "hands". |
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| We did origami - here is a rat! |
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| We learned about the Filipino star. |
And we learned some board games which originated from different countries...
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| This is a version of Chinese checkers. The leaders told us that this game originated in Germany! |
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| This is a version of "connect four". Our leaders said this is a game that came from America. |
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| Ludo is a game from India |
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| This is snakes and ladders. It too came to us from India. |
We also made and played a Korean game called Ddakji and we smelled and tasted tea from around the world!
After each activity we took some time to reflect and write about what we did. Then at the end of the 3 days, we had an assembly to celebrate our learning! It was a great week for all.
Thank you to all our UBC volunteers!
