KNOWLEDGE FAIR

 THE SIERRA SUR KNOWLEDGE FAIR

Every year Sierra Sur holds a knowledge fair in which several other surrounding schools in Osuna are invited to. The fair consists of a room full of students from Sierra Sur at their own booths where they demonstrate the projects that they have been working on in class for the fair relating to the class content. So for example, the music class typically will perform a musical number for the visiting students of the other schools and the science class will often demonstrate some sort of experiment they have tested or hypothesized. The knowledge fair also makes use of recyclable materials to exhibit their projects to show others how easy it is to create such projects themselves with leftover materials at home. At the end of the fair, which lasts two days, there is a big runway show where students walk down the red carpet in their own  fashion outfits made of recycled materials. 

This page is dedicated to allowing the auxiliares to share their personal experiences with the fair as well as share general information about the fair and the people that were involved the year that they were in attendance.

THE SIERRA SUR KNOWLEDGE FAIR OF 2023

There were very many booths at the knowledge fair, but the one that I got the privilege of helping out was the math booth for the students in 3 ESO. Since the fair was all about recycling material and relating it to class content, the math projects we started working on for the booths consisted of making math pyramids out of milk cartons and forming origami figures to teach the kids. I was helping the students who were in the origami groups to come up with origami figures and write out the instructions for it in Spanish. Later on, these groups would translate their instructions to English to incorporate the bilingual aspect into the booth.

I worked with the students from 3A, 3B, 3C, and 3D on figuring out what origami figures they could
teach and how to describe each step. Examples of some of the origami figures they chose to teach were a fortune teller, a Chinese balloon, a crane, a jumping frog, a heart, a boat, a duck, and a butterfly. It was truly so cool to see them work on this project because I could tell they were putting their best foot forward to make sure everything looked good for the fair and that they were prepared for the kids to come by and show them how to fold whatever origami they wanted to. They were given some colorful construction paper to make the models that would be displayed out on the table, and soon enough it was fair time!

Our booth did pretty well and there were lots of eager kids that wanted to learn how to make something fun that they could take home and show their parents. I think honestly there might have been too many options for the kids to choose from—each kid wanted to try a different figure and there were only 3 or 4 math students that could teach something at a time. I also think the English aspect was a cool idea, but it just didn't work out very well with the kids coming by because many of them were in primary school and only knew "hello" in English. Despite this, it was clear that the math students did whatever they could to try and incorporate English even if they had to tell the kids right after what they were saying.

Eventually all of the kids had gone through and looked at all of the booths, so it was officially runway time. I was particularly excited for this one because Yoly had told me earlier in the day that she would be making a surprise appearance in the runway show due to the fact that one of the students could not make it in the end to make the appearance herself. I had no idea what to expect at all, but once I got back to the room where the runway was taking place, I spotted Yoly in the girls bathroom with a bunch of others helping her get ready. A bunch of my students were also waiting around the bathroom and in the hallway waiting for their turn on the carpet, and all of them had such creative and clever recycled outfits. I was truly impressed. I had seen some of them with these outfits in hand before, but at the time I had no idea what it was for. I snuck into the bathroom finally to get a full look at Yoly's outfit and I was genuinely blown away. Her outfit was made of purple paper, crinkled and folded in a way that looked like it could have actually been designed by some fancy designer for the runway. She also had this blue veil made out of the hole-y bags that are used to hold  oranges at the grocery store that was pinned up by a crown of blue flowers. She was applying red lipstick in the mirror while making sure she didn't rip the dress. I was lucky enough to have been able to capture it on camera because I absolutely love this picture.

Once everyone was ready, a few students from 4C started reading out descriptions in English of the outfits that each person was wearing as they came out on the runway and displayed their beautiful outfits. I was honestly shocked once they started describing the outfits in English, I just did not expect that when they started and that made me even happier that they were finding a way to incorporate English. I managed to get the majority of the runway show on video too which was nice. Overall, finishing out the knowledge fair with that spectacular runway was a great end to the week and I thoroughly enjoyed looking at everyone's creations. Especially knowing how much hard work went into it.

Here's the link to watch the video I took of the runway show, check it out if you're interested :)

                        Knowledge fair runway show video

THE SIERRA SUR KNOWLEDGE FAIR OF 2024