What do children want most? We let them tell us on this annual Dia de los Niños. They want songs – especially the traditional ones they’ve been singing as a school community since they started here. They want games – trampoline, twister, spider web, gunny sack races, carry-egg-on-spoon, musical chairs (Monteverde-style, where we keep taking away chairs but not children, so they have to get more and more co-operative), face-painting. And they want ice-cream.
But we made them work for it. After the assemblea sing-along, multi-age groups were each handed a gunny-sack full of odd costumes and props and given 20 minutes to come up with a skit. They were of course fun, funny and cute, with the exception of one rather dark portrayal of the death of the Pink Panther…
Thank you to all the parents for providing snacks, volunteering, and for sharing your magical children with us. They deserve a day to be celebrated. And thank you to Marvin and Rise for these photos to share the fun with you.
