By Alicia Platt
Tuesday was Earth Day in the US, so I took the chance to explain the occasion to the kids at El Bichito! I taught them that this holiday is about celebrating nature, taking care of the environment, remembering to clean up garbage, and do our recycling, etc. I chose five words in English to learn (sun-sol, Earth-Tierra, forest-bosque, river-rio, and lake-lago), and got great participation as we tried to learn them. Then, whoever participated in English got to color a nature page I printed out, and as you can see, they did so beautifully!
I'm trying to get the kids here to appreciate nature and think about taking care of their environment more, as simply throwing garbage wherever is a huge problem here in Peru and El Bichito. To help with this I've also put a garbage can in the main room of El Bichito and hope to see them using it more and more in the weeks to come!
