International Cultural and Environmental Awareness Promoted
The culminating activity of SRBCL for the semester last October 28, Wednesday was a day of exhibits, film showing, games and activities that promoted awareness of international cultures and the importance of the environment.
The children were treated to a display of dioramas depicting the different features of the world’s continents and some chosen countries. A collection of dolls wearing international costumes was also part of the exhibit.
To enhance the pupils’ learning on the environment the preschoolers watched a film on one the world’s more lovable endangered animals, the panda. The movie, “Panda” chronicled the tedious and painstaking transfer of two pandas from the protected wilds of China to a zoo in the United States. On the other hand, the grade school pupils watched one of the award-winning documentary films prepared by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), “Planet Earth.” The film tackled the importance of caring for the environment and the animal species that we now have. It showed and discussed in graphic detail the delicate situation existing in animal habitats worldwide.
To round off the experience and to inject a dose of fun in the activity, most of the grade school pupils enjoyed a game or two of Bingo. The pupils gamely participated in the fund-raising activity of the Grade VI class, the proceeds of which will contribute to their Science project fund. The two winners for the black-out Bingo games were Queenie Chelzea Estrada and Angela Aguinaldo.
For the activity, the pupils were encouraged to wear costumes or souvenir shirts from different parts of the world or shirt with environmental slogans on them.
