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Fiesta Day! Ole!
Haywood Elementary students enjoyed Fiesta Day May
5 in the gym at school with dancing, displays of Hispanic items,
words and songs. Among the information on display, students
learned that Mexico’s favorite sports are soccer, bullfights,
baseball, and rodeos. They also learned that the country mines
silver, sulfur, lead, zinc, and gold. Corn is the country’s major
crop, but they also export vanilla and cacao (chocolate). Haywood
Elementary has 540 students, six percent of them are Hispanic.
This group of students led the others in the traditional Mexican
Hat Dance.
This quartet of Hispanic students performed for their classmates
the “Las Perlitas,” (the pearls), a traditional courting dance of
Mexico.
Haywood
Elementary students prepare for Mexican Fiesta Day
After the completion of the Terra Nova tests, Haywood Elementary
students enjoyed a celebration day Friday, April 28, with an ice
cream treat, and are now preparing in all of their classes for the
school-wide May 4 Mexican Fiesta Day. Students in Mrs. Dawn
Lovelace’s library classes are learning about the Mexican culture
and traditions through United Learning or Streaming, which is a
company the school subscribes to that provides them Internet
access to all kinds of learning tools and videos about almost any
subject. Here they are watching a video about Cinco de Mayo,
(Spanish for "Fifth of May"), which is a national holiday in
Mexico commemorating the Mexican Army’s defeat of French forces on
May 5, 1862, in the Battle of Puebla.
In library classes, students will also read books about Mexico,
and several took this photo opportunity to wear sombreros, a
Mexican hat. The word sombrero is taken from the Spanish word
“sombrar” which means to shade.
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Art students in Mrs.
Mary Marcantel’s classes at Haywood Elementary are also preparing
for the special day by making decorations for their classrooms.
The first-grade students are making “Papil Picado,” (which means
paper pierced) for their decorations, and second-grade students
are making “Ojo de Dios,” (Eye of God in Spanish) which are made
of craft sticks and yarn.
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