Today, we did some brainstorming and THINKING … and this is what we came up with:
What does Global mean?
- Around the world
- World wide
What is a Citizen?
- A person
What is a GLOBAL Citizen?
- A person in the world
What is GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP?
- A person who is a part of the world and who shares it with everyone else
- A person who is a global change maker
- A person who works toward making the world a better place
There are lots of people who want to make the world a better place by creating organizations to help communities in need all over the globe. The Red Cross is one of those organizations. It has been helping people around the world for about one hundred thirty-nine years. They help by rescuing people, by rebuilding houses after disasters, and by sending food, medicine and blankets.
Justin Lebo is a boy who was ten when he first started building bikes and giving them away to kids who were less fortunate than he was. He would pick up old bikes from garage sales and he would clean them up and rebuild them. He did this all by himself … without an organization … but … his parents helped him, his neighbour shared his story with a newspaper … and then the news spread and the REST of the community started to help by donating their bikes to him!
An association called Free the Children tries to give kids in the world the chance to go to school instead of having to work. We discovered that some children around the world work in factories for hours and hours each day. In some of these factories, the children make rugs by hand. Some of these jobs are VERY dangerous. Did you know that the boy who started the Free the Children organization was only TWELVE years OLD? His name is Craig Kielburger. He started this organization after he had read an article about children who are forced to work instead of going to school.
This makes us think about Peru because the children there don’t HAVE a lot of play time. Not all kids in Q’enqo get to go to school, and even those that do have to come home and work very hard along-side their families. We are lucky because we get to ENJOY being a child where WE live. We only discovered this information about the children in Q’enqo because of a guest speaker. That made us wonder about what ELSE we didn’t know about Q’enqo and its culture. Strangely … THAT’S when Mrs. Renton asked us about …
Icebergs … this is what we know:
- Big
- Sharp
- Destroy things like the Titanic
- You can find them in the northern and southern parts of the world
- Icy
- Cold
- Break off and make smaller ones
- 70 % of them is … UNDER water …. THANK you, Damian, for this … PERFECT fact! THAT means that MOST of an ice berg is BELOW the water.
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