One of the fun-nest things about conducting turtle camps is that you will never know what to expect from the students.
I was quite surprised to learn, in one of the earlier camps, that there are Year 5 and 6 students who actually can’t read or write. Nevermind the fact that only a handful of them could read the two simple English poems during the camp, some students don’t even remember their father’s name! Some students couldn’t spell their names correctly, and I have a feeling some others don’t even know why we were there, in their school, in the first place!
But despite all those “surprising findings”, there were also a handful of students who were clearly above the others. Like those students who produced the following posters:
The poster above shows a little boy holding a hatchling on his right hand, and cuddling a juvenile turtle with his left hand. The wordings actually read “I 
Penyu & Tuntung”, which I thought was very creative. The drawing is very sharp, and the colours very attractive. Can you see the turtle hatchling emerging from the egg??
The second poster, I believe, was drawn very meticulously. The students remembered very clearly that leatherback turtles feed on jellyfish, green turtles on sea grasses and hawksbill turtles on sponges. Seriously, these are only 11 and 12 year old students!
The third poster shows the threats that our turtles are facing — a turtle is trapped in a fisherman’s net, a turtle is consuming a plastic bag, which it mistakes as a jellyfish, and there are rubbish on the sea floor.
Next up, I’ve got pictures of beautiful sea creatures that the students made from plasticine!
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Very, very nice artwork
Kids have better visions and creativity than us…
And these can send a big message to the community
There is no boundary when it comes to the imagination of young children. It’s happy to see that the group learns to show their appreciation towards the nature. =)
I’m so eager to see more artwork, especially the plasticine work…
These are actually quite good!
When I first saw the title, I thought you’d be highly critical, like: http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=irule
Hehe! Still, very nice, thanks for sharing!
Ohhh… green turtles eat seaweed … hehe.. didn’t know that… paiseh.
“http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=irule”
This dude is SICK~!
What the hell is his problem anyway?
Way to go to instill awareness in kids when they are still young, Pelf! Great posters they are! Thank you for sharing!
Plastron - yeah, that guy is a mess, but remember his whole site is done in satire. I don’t think he’s serious in any of his posts.