On Thursday our school celebrated "Harvest". Every year at about this time we have a worship service at the St. Peter's Anglican Church to thank God for his bountiful gifts. The children come to school with a decorated shoebox. Inside they put food that the priest will distribute to the poor. All of the primary schools in Belize follow this tradition but not necessarily on the same day. As the children file into the church we always sing "Bringing in the Sheaves". They place their boxes behind the kneeling rail in the front.
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| The harvest baskets. |
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| This is the lower school and middle school worship. |
The priest leads the children in a special liturgy. Then each class comes forward and does a presentation. Some classes say a poem and others sing a song. This year the Infant 1 class where I "interpret", sang and signed the song: "Praise Him, Praise Him All Ye Little Children, God is Love." in ASL. It was precious. Unfortunately Morine and her sister did not come that day, but you can see all of the hearing children signing the song by clicking on this link:
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| Infant 2 (6 and 7 year olds) sang a song. |
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| The upper school followed a liturgy for worship. |
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| Standard 5 said a clever poem with the letters in the word "HARVEST". |
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| Standard 6 said Psalm 100 from memory. This is Sulmi signing it. |
Traditions like this do so much to give kids roots.
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