{"id":7187,"date":"2015-12-16T14:08:16","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T19:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/?p=7187"},"modified":"2015-12-16T14:08:16","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T19:08:16","slug":"imagine-a-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/news\/imagine-a-place","title":{"rendered":"Imagine a Place&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;where students participate in World Cultural Studies that help them understand the global community and appreciate the differences among cultures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7190\" src=\"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5947-270x180.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5947\" width=\"270\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5947-270x180.jpg 270w, http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5947-540x360.jpg 540w, http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5947-200x133.jpg 200w, http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5947-125x83.jpg 125w, http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5947-60x40.jpg 60w, http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5947-85x57.jpg 85w, http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5947-80x53.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/>Five Oaks Academy parent, Missy Hammer, visited the Primary classes to share her knowledge about the traditions practiced during the\u00a0Jewish religious celebration of Hanukkah. \u00a0Students learned that Hanukkah spans over 8 days, \u00a0the types of food that are a part of the celebration, the symbolism of the\u00a0menorah, and the tradition of lighting a new branch of the menorah each night of Hanukkah. They also enjoyed learning \u00a0and singing the dreidel song.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7191 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5958-270x180.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5958\" width=\"270\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5958-270x180.jpg 270w, http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5958-540x360.jpg 540w, http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5958-200x133.jpg 200w, http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5958-125x83.jpg 125w, http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5958-60x40.jpg 60w, http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5958-85x57.jpg 85w, http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_5958-80x53.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Five Oaks is proud of the diversity within our community; 31 countries are represented within the\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">FOA student body. The expansive Montessori Cultural Curriculum is enhanced by\u00a0these special\u00a0presentations from our families who share their culture. These lessons give our students memorable experiences as well as open their minds to a global understanding of the world in which they live.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;where students participate in World Cultural Studies that help them understand the global community and appreciate the differences among cultures. Five Oaks Academy parent, Missy Hammer, visited the Primary classes to share her knowledge about the traditions practiced during the\u00a0Jewish religious celebration of Hanukkah. \u00a0Students learned that Hanukkah spans over 8 days, \u00a0the types of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":7188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7187"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}