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Southbank Kensington Grade 2-5 students participated in this month's Home Languages Town Meeting. The theme was Winter Celebrations (or Summer for those below the equator). All groups began by creating Wordle word clouds depicting the words they associate with their celebration. It was a wonderful opportunity for children to share vocabulary and also negotiate the importance of different words in their home languages. It was quite interesting to compare the final Wordles and notice the similarities and differences between the many languages and cultures here at Southbank.

So many of our groups also used the opportunity to make holiday decorations and crafts. We had three-dimensional poems in the North American group, perhaps a record setting holiday chain from the German group and some beautiful Chinese writing from the Cantonese and Mandarin just to name a few.

As usual we were very impressed with the commitment, enthusiasm and creativity of everyone involved.

By Selena Lynn, EAL Teacher