Indian Cultural Day By: Madison C

Indian culture day is an amazing day that Leading Edge celebrates. There’s food, henna, dances and so much more. It’s an amazing day. Indian culture is mostly for 6th graders but 8th graders and some parents come too. Each Expressions class competes in a competition to see which class dances the best to the music (Jai-Ho) and Mrs. Meindl thinks 5th period Expressions will win. She was right, the 5th period dance was awesome!!

People got their henna done when they came to me and my friends bazaar station. People got to look at stations while it was their classes turn. There were a lot of cool bazaars, chess, fashion, Divali lamps, jewelry, Indus Vally artifacts and more. Everyone did a good job on their bazaar projects.



We got to go outside and do chalk where we drew our top two Rangoli designs. Then we went and drew them on our concrete squares. Everyone’s chalk design looked amazing! I have a lot of fun doing this with my group!


Taiko! Taiko did so good they were outstanding! I really enjoyed watching taiko with my friends. People were dancing to the music taiko was playing. I really enjoyed the drumming, they always do their best. After watching the performance there was Food... and a lot of people went and got Indian food.



I really enjoyed Indian Cultural Day! It was so fun I really had a good time. I will remember this day for a long time.

India Day Bazaar by Manteg and Noah

On the day of the bazaar. people are going to make booths with projects. There will be one hands on activity and information. It will be on wednesday of next week. It is a school event. Anyone can come to the India Day Bazaar.During the Indian bazaar we will have a slide show that we are presenting with one item. The slide show will have a little information about the topic we are researching. For our bazaar, we are researching about ancient Indian chess.Because Alex me and meant it like to play chess a lot. Other groups might be doing stuff related to ancient India. Some groups might be cooking food for the Hands-On activity. It will be located in the Leading Edge area by the MPR.

World Problem Research Project by Zain and Tavio

Our world project research is a world wide project that 4th to 6th graders make . So kids in Science/tech decided on a topic, did research, and created a couple slides about a worldwide problem . If you get third place you get $1,000. And second place gets $5,000 and first place gets $10,000 and a trip to Washington D.C . And did I mention that the money prize is not split into the people in the group, it is each?

My world project research was about world hunger . I learned a lot about it and it was extremely sad . I learned that every one out of seven people are hungry . And that a person is pronounced dead of hunger every second. I hope I can help find a solution to end world hunger. I also hope that soon no child will ever be pronounced dead of hunger and will never go to bed hungry.

Expressions by Sanika

I really like my Expressions classes and the art projects we do. One of my favorites was the “Apples 4 Ways”. We used different art materials to finish each apple drawing. I loved using the hot tray that melted wax on the paper. The Modigliani self-portrait was also one of my favorites. I liked how we tilted the head on the long necks. I have 7th period Expressions and I like doing art at the end of the day. I love art because it gives me a chance to relax and to be creative. We are studying India right now and we did a silhouette project of Indian animals. I put in an elephant, a kangaroo, and a bear. We also are doing weaving projects.