DC’s Head start Program readies pre-elem children to ‘face the world’

The children are never to be forgotten in the Office of Extension Services—Dinalupihan Campus.
With the aim of providing holistic development to adopted barangays in Dinalupihan, the OES Dinalupihan conducted a breakthrough Headstart Program to children ages 3-6 of Barangay Sapang Balas and Barangay San Simon in the said town.
The said program envisioned children who have increased selfcare/independent skills, increased social skills, acquired basic creative arts skills, increased language skills, acquired pre-academic skills, acquired knowledge on community helpers and workplace.
University extensionist and Project Leaders Dr. Celia M. Lapid and Mrs. Noraida G. Bardemorilla discussed basic lessons on hygiene and grooming skills. There were also activities on structured and guided play, singing, dancing, poem reciting, storytelling, television viewing and basic oral communication. Literacy skills like basic skills in reading, writing, letters and numbers were also included. To top the activities, field trips to church, market, supermarket, hospital, municipal hall, and the BPSU—Dinalupihan Campus were likewise conducted.
Campus Student Council officers, who donated Php 10,000 for the project, took part in the said activities as part of their community immersion activities.
The said program was launched last April 8, 2008 in both barangays but the closing activites were held on separate days: May 22 for Sapang Balas and May 23 in San Simon.
Dr. Elizabeth Joson, who attended both the launching and closing ceremonies was highly elated with the responses of the parents on the activity given. She said that the communities would like to have the project implemented again in their barangays next summer.
OES Dinalupihan is chaired by Dr. Perla Estrella.