Tales first-hands from other lands

As part of our fourth grade Social Studies curriculum, Team Gibbas students learned about how different groups of people immigrated to the United States and contributed to the present day culture of the United States.  Students learned that people come to the United States for different reasons, experience different challenges, and contribute to American society in different ways.  To enhance our study of immigration we invited Team Gibbas family members that were first generation immigrants to visit our classroom and to share their first hand experiences on what it was like growing up in a different country and immigrating to the United States.

Thank you so much to the Team Gibbas family members that came into the classroom to teach us about immigrating from India, Australia, Ireland, and El Salvador!  We learned so much from you!

Akash's mother taught us about immigrating from India.

Maddie's dad taught us about immigrating from Australia.

Christian's mom taught us about immigrating from Ireland.

She even taught us how to do an Irish step dance!

Zach (a.k.a. Michael Jackson)'s grandmother taught us about immigrating from El Salvador.