Year 7 and Year 8 celebrate the Mexican celebration

The Thursday and the Friday after the October break, the air was filled with festivity, excitement, and joy as Year 7 and Year 8 celebrated the Mexican celebration known as “Día De Muertos” or “Day Of The Day”. It was a Spanish and art project. The project days were 2nd to 3rd November. It was by Mrs. Harms and Mrs. Dr. Sánchez. Día de Muertos is largely observed and celebrated in Mexico and regions with large Mexican populations.
Day of the Dead combines the ancient Aztec custom of celebrating ancestors with All Souls' Day, a holiday that Spanish invaders brought to México starting in the early 1500s.

The holiday, which is celebrated mostly in Mexico on November 1st and 2nd, is like a family reunion—except dead ancestors are the guests of honour. The people put up pictures of their dead loved ones on the altar and put up their favourite foods.
The Year 7 and 8 were split three groups and were rotating activities. The activities were decorating masks, which Mrs. Harms had made of all of Year 7 and 8 the weeks following up to the project, making the piñata, and making the flowers with Dr. Sanchez. On the last block, we
watched about half of the movie ‘Coco’.

On Friday, Year 7 continued decorating their masks, and Year 8 made ‘Pan de Muerto’, (Bread of the Dead) or a typical sweet bread baked on Día de Muertos with Mrs. Dr. Sanchez and a Mexican mother of one of the Year 8 students. Then the groups switched. Lastly, Year 7 and 8, decorate the altar with all their handiwork. It was truly a festive project and event. I am sure that most of the students of Year 7 and Year 8 had a fun time.