HAMPSTEAD — Hampstead Central School fourth-graders are preparing to take their audience on a trip around the world Friday.

"It's A Small World" is a multicultural celebration integrating technology, music and art. Stops will include Japan, Alaska, Russia, Africa and the Caribbean.

All five fourth-grade classes studied these very diverse cultures. Art teacher Michael Terrile, music teacher Cindi Verrill, and technology and Ventures teachers Ryan Mahoney and Cindy Slye applied their specialties to each place, bringing the audience with them on their journey of exploration through the integration of art, music and technology.

In art class, the students made posters and sets for each of the five cultural stops. Verrill said she used songs, dancing and rhythm to allow the students to come up with creative patterns for each of the five very different cultures.

"It is really pretty cool," she said.

Slye worked with the students to make things representative of each culture — fans from Japan, African spoons, sea glass from the Caribbean and a button-blanket shawl from Alaska.

Verrill said she believes this is the best show the fourth-graders have ever put together.

The presentation is at 9:15 a.m. Friday.

"We hope lots of parents and friends will come and see 'It's a Small World,'" Verrill said. "There has been a lot of learning taking place while working on this presentation through these different disciplines. I just read somewhere recently — and this is a shining example of it — that learning is experience; everything else is just information."