How do you teach someone from a different country about your culture?

Team Gibbas students are so fortunate to have the opportunity to learn from and learn with a classroom of fourth graders in Finland!  We have been given an amazing opportunity through JDO Foundation to collaborate with a classroom from a different country for an entire school year! Our class has been partnered with a school in Liminka, Finland at the Ojanperan Koulu School.

Ojanperan Koulu School website

In September we exchanged slideshows introducing ourselves to one another.  Our next task was to try to teach each other about our culture.  Team Gibbas students decided to create a slideshow about the things we like to do in the fall as a way of introducing our culture to Finland.  Embedded in the slideshow you will see videos with anecdotal stories about the things we love about fall in Massachusetts.  We are looking forward to receiving our slideshow from Finland and learning about the things that are Finland friends do in the fall!