Our next door neighbor, Lisa, and a friend of hers made these Philippine flag cookies for all of the 1st graders to take home after the fiesta. Ryan was all excited about his but told me he had eaten it on the bus-I was disappointed not to even get a little taste!
Volunteers getting ready for the fiesta
The children came in and sat down-they sang a song for us about planting and picking rice in Filipino and sang the national anthem-Ryan had told me about this and how they had learned in class to put their hand over their heart, stand up straight, look at the flag, and NO fidgeting was allowed!
These guys are Brent school janitors from around Baguio who did a native Ifuagao dance for us while playing drum pans-it was really neat to watch
The children used grass to make a bracelet
This is a model of a nepa hut behind Ryan-made from nepa grass. Ryan is playing sipa-bouncing a ball off his knee into the tub
All the first graders were divided into groups to rotate around the 4 game stations. They were jeepney, Rizal (a Philippine national hero), mango, and eagle-the Philippine national bird also.
This is a game called tinikling-you are supposed to jump between the bamboo poles in rythym but with many 1st graders all jumping at once, everyone just had a good time jumping back and forth over poles.
There was quite a delicious spread of foods for the children and parents to taste.
Ryan enjoying his part of the spread!
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