CEIP César Manrique Cabrera celebrated the carnival this Friday with an artistic event where they combined music, dance, theater and environmental education in which 500 members of the educational community participated.
The public school of Tahíche presented a new way of celebrating carnival in an educational center. With the show "S.O.S. The Earth", the playful educational proposal followed the idea of learning through enjoyment and fun, making the carnival celebration compatible with learning and creating environmental awareness. As the director of the center, Leonor Hernández, pointed out, "with this experience the educational potential of carnival has been developed, the implementation of a global cooperative work project for the entire center".
Through an original story by the deputy director and music teacher, Antonio Monzón Suárez, the various ecological problems that threaten planet Earth were staged. The story began with the meeting of Mother and Father Earth in front of an island full of garbage, Lanzarote. The island was presented in the center of the space where the show was held, the primary school sports court, crowded in its surroundings by dozens of relatives. They request the help of the Guardian Angels of the Earth, formed by a group of six teachers who, worried, request the help of the boys and girls of the school. This is how they arrive to the sound of specific music for each level and with their own dance. The 3-year-old kindergarten students, dressed as the sea with marine animals. Next, the 4-year-old kindergarten students paraded, dressed as trees with fire and stuffed animals that simulated injured animals. Then it was the turn for the 5-year-old kindergarten students, dressed with the two faces of the Earth, joy and sadness.
The Guardian Angels reappeared on the scene and happily saw how the help of the children improved the situation. That is why more help is requested. And that's how the Dragon of Garbage arrived, accompanied by the center's batucada, to swallow all the waste from the island. Relatives of the students collaborated in setting the cloth dragon in motion. At that moment, the island of Lanzarote disappeared from the scene. In its place, a giant model of planet Earth full of garbage occupied the central scene. The story continued demanding more collaboration from the minors. It was then the turn for the first grade students, dressed as continents, who, seeing themselves powerless in the face of the planet's situation, receive help from some very special superheroes, the second grade students, dressed as environmental guardians.
The story advances presenting more positive aspects of human behavior on nature. That is why the third grade students arrived dressed as electric cars, the fourth grade students as solar panels, the fifth as wind turbines and the sixth as recycling containers. The agility and dynamism in the movement of the students to enter and leave the scene resulted in an artistic product, visually and acoustically, very attractive with sounds of nature and a selection of children's and youth songs with lyrics very sensitive to caring for the environment.
