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The day started with the
principal, playing the part of a flight attendant, making an
announcement to the students. She wished them a safe voyage
around the world.
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Students were welcomed on board
their flight. They were told to fasten their seatbelts and
secure their tray tables. Then the inflight movie
(PowerPoint presentation) started. The movie featured
information about the continent of their
destination.
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After they arrived at
their destination, students were encouraged to join in two
activities. One was either music or movement-based and the
other was a craft related to the continent.
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In Australia, students
used glitter glue to mark the equator and the continent
"Down Under."
 
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In Antarctica one of the
PE teachers got into the act by narrating an exploration of
the land. Students walked like penguins and made food chains
representative of those in Antarctica.
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In South America, students took
butterflies on a migration from North America all the way to
the South American rainforest. Then a parent explained how
to fold an origami frog.
Students also labeled the
layers of the rainforest and placed animals and their
pictures in the proper layer. Teachers even got in on the
act.
  
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When they arrived in North
America, students created a Powhatan canoe and were later
given a bag of unpopped popcorn which had an explanation of
how to pop the corn and how the Native Americans used
popcorn.
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In Asia, students joined hands to
become the lion in a Chinese New Year
parade.
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Then they created Chinese
lanterns.
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Once in Europe, students
constructed a mobile with important facts about Rome, Greece
and European explorers. They also sang a song about ancient
Rome and Greece.
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In Africa, they made name scroll
necklaces, writing their names in hieroglyphics and rolling
them up onto yarn.
 
They sang the King Tut Rap.
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After visiting each continent,
the passport was stamped.
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Each child had their own
"carry on luggage" made by a parent.
 
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