today I want to tell you about my experience teaching my son Diego about patriotic symbols. Something that is extremely important and requires our attention as parents is that our children recognize themselves as part of a culture and can have a historical memory that makes them feel that they have a country of origin or one that they have adopted in the case of migration. My son is in 5 years old and this year they are teaching them the patriotic symbols, I was amazed because I did not remember that this was learned when he was so
young.
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In order to help him, since he has more questions than I imagined, I decided to do some research on how to teach the patriotic symbols in an entertaining way, adapted to his age but faithful to reality. The first thing I got were some cards with drawings of the heroes of independence that are made for children to color and have small fragments of the history of our country, he liked this activity very much.
Para poder ayudarlo, pues tiene más preguntas de las que me imaginaba decidí investigar un poco de cómo enseñar los símbolos patrios de forma entretenida, adaptada a su edad pero que fuese fiel a la realidad. Lo primero que conseguí fueron unas cartillas de dibujos con los próceres de la independencia que están hechas para que los niños los coloreen y tienen pequeños fragmentos de la historia de nuestro país, esta actividad le gustó mucho.
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As the primers worked, I decided to look for the patriotic symbols on the internet, that is, their drawings so that he could color them and while he was coloring I explained to him what the drawing meant because he could not use the colors he wanted but in the case of our flag it had to be the colors that it has, at first that bothered him a little not being able to use all the colors, but then he understood when I showed him our flag. So we did with the coat of arms, the national tree and the national bird, the latter two being her favorites. This helped us, because he already recognizes the colors of the different symbols, he knows which is the national bird and we have even been able to see it near our house. He still confuses the national tree with all the big trees with yellow flowers, but later on he will be able to distinguish it.
Cómo las cartillas funcionaron, decidí buscar los símbolos patrios en internet es decir sus dibujos para que el los pudiera colorear y mientras coloreaba yo le explicaba lo que significaba el dibujo porque no podía usar los colores que él quisiera sino que debían ser en el caso de nuestra bandera los colores que ella tiene, al principio eso le molestó un poco el no poder usar todos los colores, pero luego comprendió cuando le mostré nuestra bandera. Así hicimos con el escudo, el árbol nacional y el ave nacional estos dos últimos sus favoritos. Esto nos ayudó, pues ya reconoce los colores de los diferentes símbolos, sabe cuál es el ave nacional y hasta la hemos logrado ver cerca de nuestra casa. El árbol nacional aun lo confunde con todos los arboles grandes de flores amarillas pero más adelante se lo sabrá distinguir.
We got to the part of the national anthem, at school the children make the formation honor the flag and sing the national anthem every morning before entering their classrooms, in homeschooling we are told that as parents we should encourage the value and respect for the national symbols and make the children learn the anthem, we are still practicing this work because our anthem is a bit long with complicated words, Diego asks for each of them and the meaning of the phrases and some are still far from understanding them because they are metaphors. With the anthem we have had to sing it from the moment we wake up, during meals, while we go for a walk, we have been singing the national anthem for a week now and it is our song of the week ha ha ha but we have managed to get Diego and Isabella, the youngest one, to sing it. Learning about patriotic symbols with my son has reminded me how important it is to feel part of a country, to recognize yourself as a citizen and especially to know that you have a legacy and a historical memory. It is beautiful to remember, learn and grow with my children.
Llegamos a la parte del himno nacional, en la escuela los niños hacen la formación rinden honores a la bandera y cantan el himno nacional todas las mañanas antes de entrar a sus salones, en la educación en casa se nos indica que como padres debemos fomentar el valor y respeto por los símbolos patrios y hacer que los niños se aprendan el himno, está labor aun la estamos practicando pues nuestro himno es un poco largo con palabras complicadas, Diego pregunta por cada una de ellas y el significado de las frases y algunas por ser metáforas aún están lejos de su comprensión. Con el himno nos ha tocado cantarlo desde que nos levantamos, durante las comidas, mientras vamos de paseo ya llevamos una semana que el himno nacional es nuestra canción de la semana ja ja ja pero hemos logrado que tanto Diego e Isabella la más pequeña también ya conozca y lo cante. Aprender de los símbolos patrios con mi hijo me ha recordado lo importante que es sentirse parte de un país, reconocerte como ciudadano y especialmente saber que tienes un legado y una memoria histórica. Es hermoso recordar, aprender y crecer con mis hijos.