By Nazario Rodriguez Jr.
Horizon news staff

It was just one of the regular days in school at Ngermid Head Start as head teacher Valeria Rengulbai explained.
"Every week there is a new theme for them and at the end of the week, we do things like this," she said as the kids perform about the subject or theme that they learned the past days.
But last week’s theme was a special one for the students that on Friday March 30, Rengulbai has invited journalists to see what the children’s have.
"This week theme is about culture," she said.
Clad in different traditional costumes or dresses, the students (age three to five years old) were excited to meet an unfamiliar visitor though as if they were already expecting for a pictorial.
The head teacher further explained that there are five different nationalities among the 29 students (17 for morning session and 12 for afternoon) with two assistant teachers namely Cynthia Tengoll and Warang Rumong, at the Ngermid Head Start including Palauan, American, Yapese, Japanese and Filipino.
The costumes include the traditional Palauan cheriute and usaker, Chong dlki and Uai, the famous kimono from Japan, the barong tagalog and saya from the Philippines and the two-piece swimsuit wore by an American girl.
Native foods from those five countries were also served for the students and at the same time explained to them what those foods were all about.
During the whole week, the students learned about each country’s lifestyles and many other things that are considered unique to them.
Rengulbai said that this kind of activity would help the students to be conscious about their own culture and to be proud of it.
"Now they know that they are unique in their own culture," she said.
Five different cultures, conservative or liberated, ancient or modern, the theme of the week that was for the students at Ngermid served its own purpose – education.
Here are some of the pictures during that special day in school for the kids.