🪅🎨🩷 Charles T. Koontz Intermediate School students had a colorful learning experience last week as they learned about world religions.
As a way of appreciating and understanding the Hindu holiday called Holi, DeLana Parker’s sixth grade social studies students threw and covered each other with colored powder as they scampered around the school’s playground. The hands-on cultural experience helped kids understand the tradition in a way they couldn’t by simply reading about it.
“They learn what the colors mean to practitioners and why they do it,” she said. “And, it fits into our curriculum of studying major world belief systems and how they have progressed civilizations. So we try to do a lot of activities like this, because I want to make sure that they remember what we learn.”
Sixth graders Carson and Axel both said they had a great time getting messy with the powders.
“It was really fun and colorful,” Carson said. “I like throwing the colors and getting colored on.”
“It was a good experience,” Axel added. “We learned about it in class, but now I think I get why people do it.”