{"id":4627,"date":"2019-11-04T13:11:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T19:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thesummitprep.org\/2nd\/?p=4627"},"modified":"2019-11-04T13:11:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T19:11:39","slug":"the-day-of-the-dead-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thesummitprep.org\/2nd\/2019\/11\/04\/the-day-of-the-dead-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"The Day of the Dead Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/s3fs-public\/thumbnails\/image\/2018\/10\/28\/15\/AFP-1AD6AI-0.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for day of the dead pictures\" width=\"625\" height=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<b>Day of the Dead<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0is a\u00a0Mexican\u00a0holiday celebrated throughout Mexico, and by people of Mexican heritage elsewhere. The multi-day holiday focuses on gatherings of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and family members who have died, and help support their spiritual journey.<\/p>\n<p>The Summit participated in The Festival del Dia de los Muertos at Missouri State University.\u00a0 What a wonderful cultural experience!\u00a0 The students learned about traditions such as sugar skulls (Sugar skulls\u00a0 represent\u00a0a departed soul). The art reflects the folk art style of big happy smiles, colorful icing and sparkly tin and glittery adornments.\u00a0 They created papel picado, a decorative craft made out of paper cut into beautiful and elaborate designs.\u00a0 A favorite was making Mexican cempazuchitl flowers which are the traditional\u00a0flower\u00a0for Day of the\u00a0Dead.\u00a0They enjoyed delicious Mexican Pan do Muerto and visited the living alter that commemorated departed loved ones.\u00a0 Entertainment was even provided by Marimba Caliente Trio, Grupo Latinoamericano and Mariachi Nuevo Azteca.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4633 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thesummitprep.org\/2nd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/IMG_1141-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4641\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thesummitprep.org\/2nd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/IMG_1150-1-e1572894455667-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4640\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thesummitprep.org\/2nd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/IMG_1148-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4638\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thesummitprep.org\/2nd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/IMG_1147-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4637\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thesummitprep.org\/2nd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/IMG_1146-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4636\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thesummitprep.org\/2nd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/IMG_1145-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4634\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thesummitprep.org\/2nd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/IMG_1143-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4635 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thesummitprep.org\/2nd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/IMG_1144-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Day of the Dead\u00a0\u00a0is a\u00a0Mexican\u00a0holiday celebrated throughout Mexico, and by people of Mexican heritage elsewhere. 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The Summit participated in The Festival del Dia de los Muertos at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Day of the Dead Festival - 2nd Grade Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thesummitprep.org\/2nd\/2019\/11\/04\/the-day-of-the-dead-festival\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Day of the Dead Festival - 2nd Grade Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The\u00a0Day of the Dead\u00a0\u00a0is a\u00a0Mexican\u00a0holiday celebrated throughout Mexico, and by people of Mexican heritage elsewhere. 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