Primary One- Vera (:

At the “classroom setting” exhibit, we learnt about baby sign language, which I thought was very interesting because now I know what my baby sister, now 5-ish, was trying to tell us in the earlier stages of her life.

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The setting is in a classroom and I think this is so as it talks about early childhood education and it applies to children. The white woman just conveyed what she was trying to say through her expression and body language. I think the producer did this because he wanted the message to be seen and read instead of heard. This would make the content more obvious and also, there would not be a need for sound, which brings us to the point of the silent video. This increased the tension in air as we tried to watch the video closely. This makes us feel as if we are really communicating with a baby as young babies are not able to talk. I think that they got a child to sign the language as the age gap between she a baby is smaller and the parents are able to get a feel of what it is like having a young child communicate with them in sign language.
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The background music is lively and cheerful when describing children and lightens the atmosphere. I think that the mother is teaching her daughter these words form the newspaper as she would like to expand her daughter these words from the newspaper as she would like to expand her daughter’s vocabulary at a young age so that her foundation is already built up. She also uses facial expressions when teaching different words to her baby to convey different meanings. It helps the child to learn better when there are emotions involved.

The Tables
Though the pictures on the desks flashed so fast, I could make out multiple pictures on the table I was sitting at about natural disasters, injury and death. The vandalism on the tables also speaks of topics along similar lines. What I feel is so significant is that the pictures of the tragedy flash and change so fast right in front of us, just like how the world is in tragedy and in a devastating state and deaths and wars are occurring in so many different places, just like how there are so many different pictures. Similar to how the pictures flash before us quickly, the world is changing right before our very eyes ever so quickly, with wars and natural disasters happening so often and frequent, and like how the pictures change all the time.

At every table, there is a different theme (eg. War, food, globalisation) and I think each table represented a different aspect of the world and they situated it in a classroom to show how the issues of the world boil down to the classroom and how the teachings in the classroom matter and that’s why the video was talking about early childhood. It shows how the foundation in a child is very important and it could even determine the fate of the world. Our babies are our future of the world.

Similarly, the babies on the tables were holding crosses and ticks to show the link between education and early childhood. Some tables are stacked higher than the others and this shows the relation to some aspects in the world being more significant than the others.