Thursday: On Thursday we did an activity about the Faces of Africa.
Friday: On Friday we did an activity of the different facts about Africa.
On Thursday Mr. Minkus had a slideshow of 22 different faces. He told us that we had to guess by the look of their faces if they were born in Africa or not. I thought that it was hard to do this because Africa is huge, and their are many different colors of skin there. Also, not everyone who looks African was born there. There is a Dutch area in South Africa, so a lady had white skin, but was born in Africa. I learned from this that you cannot tell where someone was born just from their race. We did another activity by having to write down what we thought of when we heard the word Africa. Mr. Minkus put all the words together and we got to see which one comes up the most. Some of the words were, people, Africa, adoption, poor, food, and water. It was cool to see what everyone in the class thought of Africa.
On Friday we all got a card from a deck. Mr. Lowe would say for example, all cards from 1-8 stand. Then he would say a fact like, the people standing are the ones without access to water and the people sitting have access to water. This made me realize that there is a lot of stuff we don’t know about Africa. We need to find out more about the rest of the world and not just know about our comfort zone.