ICGS 5th Graders Share Stories of their Heritage

On Thursday, February 25th, fifth graders at Immaculate Conception Grade School in Elmhurst participated in a Heritage Fair. After researching their family tree and interviewing a relative, each student presented the story of that relative to an audience of their classmates, parents, and guests. Students told stories of immigration from countries like Poland, Panama, Ireland, Germany, Italy, and Mexico. Many of these ancestry stories involved poverty, military service, hardship, and resilience. Students dressed in ethnic colors and costumes and brought ethnic dishes to share at the fair. A mother of one of the 5th graders commented that her daughter interviewed her grandmother via Skype for two hours. She said that it was such a wonderful opportunity for her daughter to learn about her grandmother’s story in firsthand detail.