The Beginnings of a Culture Quest

My students and I have been very busy. We have been learning about Ireland and about the difference between culture and religion.

Did you know that a religion is simply the way a group of people choose to worship God? We found out that many people, us included, confuse religion and culture. Now we know. We learned about Israel at this website: http://www.israelemb.org/kids/ . We found out that Jewish is both a culture and a religion. This site helped us understand that.

We know a culture is the way a group of people celebrate traditions, dress, and speak. We know that cultures have their own foods and ways to dress and many have their very own languages. Ms. Dooley is having some of us write e-pals in Ireland and we are going to be writing soon. Some of us all ready wrote letters waiting for the e-pals to begin. We are very excited and cannot wait to write to people. Tomorrow I will post some of the students letters which will soon be e-paled to students waiting in Ireland to answer the questions the children came up with.