Yesterday, we celebrated Earth Day. Allow me to say that I can't be more proud on how we educate the kindergarteners on saving Mother Earth. At first, most if not all of the kids didn't know what Earth day is and what does it mean of "Saving the Earth". I started by making a connection between nature/environment and the children. How? Since this month our Science unit is GROWTH which includes plants and animals, it's a perfect time to link the lessons to EARTH DAY. When going outside, we called their attention to the plants, how green the grass is, the shade trees give and sounds of the birds. We also transformed our small balcony into a beautiful garden filled with flowers of different colors. Children brought potted plants from home which they water every morning. From then on, children are excited to step inside our classroom and ready to have their hands on the watering can. Their faces show the happiness that lingers in doing something significant to nature. Through this experience, they realized the joy and beauty plants give and how important water is to us, to the animals and to the plants. You can hear them say that they must not waste water. They realized that saving water is important and have given them much awareness to use water wisely.
We collected empty milk cans and other things which we can reuse and recycle. We made them into drums and costumes for our parade. We also made posters for our campaign. Best of all, we made an Earth Day commercial. It was a fine preparation for the day of event.
On the day, we started with a parade led by our models wearing recyclable materials and followed by other kids holding their posters and beating their cans shouting "SAVE THE EARTH!" After our parade, we assemble and had a mini fashion show. We concluded the day by a teachers' skit on how to make our Earth a better and cleaner place. Thanks Captain Planet for saving Gaia:)
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