Exhibition...Almost over!!!

Abby's Exhibition project is almost over. Last week was the big public event, where the students presented their research through media (via slideshow, song, dance, skits, mime, etc) to an audience of parents, teachers, SPH students and students from other schools. The students did really well, and we were very impressed with the work that went into their presentations. After each one hour block of presentations, whether it was nutrition, natural disasters, education or pollution, all the students had another hour block to present from a small area where they had set up their posters, computers, hand outs, visuals. They were given a quota of needing to present to at least 3 parents and 3 teachers, as well as to some of the many students who funneled through. So many good comments came out of those classrooms by the adults!

Abby was in a group of 3 girls, and they rewrote a Jordin Sparks song (One Step at a Time) to talk about the need to educate others in nutrition. Here are the lyrics:

Hurry up, realize
That there are those poor in our eyes
Everything that they always wish for
Health, money, education
We gotta make that change

Want education but they don't have any school funds
Wondering how they're gonna get their education
And you know they can
If you lend a hand
Don't you know what their lives will be like
And you know that their school can change it
So in the world, they can fit
Waiting...

We live and we learn
To hold each others hand
To give what we earn
To change the people's lives
Through education
Of health, pollution, school and
Nutrition changed through our hands
We can make that change
Through education

Hurry up, realize
Every three minutes a child dies
All because health issues pass our eyes
Sicknesses, diseases, bad hygiene
Can effect their lives

Imagine and think where their next meal will come from
They're feeling weak, getting sick, they want nutrition
And you know they can
If you lend a hand
Don't you know what their lives will be like
And you know that their life's not easy
Hungry all day with thoughts so queasy
Waiting...

We live and we learn
To hold each others hand
To give what we earn
To change the people's lives
Through education
Of health, pollution, school and
Nutrition changed through our hands
We can make that change
Through education

When you're feeling sad and scornful
The poor should be mournful
Remember how they are struggling
The only way to help them
Is through education

To hold each others hand
To give what we earn
To change the people's lives
Through education
Of health, pollution, school and
Nutrition changed through our hands
We can make that change
Through education

We live and we learn
To hold each others hand
To give what we earn
To change the people's lives
Through education
Of health, pollution, school and
Nutrition changed through our hands
We can make that change
Through education

We are very proud of the work that Abby did. Now she has 2 weeks to do her Action Plan, where she and another girl from grade 6 will go into a slum area and teach a class of young school children about nutrition, in context to their situation of course.

Thanks for reading!