Songs, dances, games and food representing the cultures of people from around the world will be featured at Image Elementary School's Culture Day, Thursday, June 12. Culture Day is an annual event where students learn about and appreciate the diversity of all people.

Every homeroom class has chosen a country to feature. The students are creating decorations for their room appropriate to their chosen country. Parents and volunteers will help out in preparing ethnic or traditional food, music and other exhibits.

From 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on the 12th, students will receive "passports" to gain entry to "countries" throughout the school. In each class they will have the opportunity to taste the food and complete a craft and literacy piece.

Two assemblies will be held in the afternoon, one for kindergarten through second grade at 1:30 p.m., and a second for third, fourth and fifth grades at 2:30 p.m. Representatives from each "country" will march into the assemblies, present a flag made by the students, and say a welcome in their chosen language. Songs and dances will be performed, group songs sung, and cultural games played.

That evening, parents and others family members are invited to the school for a mini world tour.