This Day in History
This Day in History (1994): School Intercession Activities
Intersession month at Aramco schools provides a great opportunity to get the children outside in the good weather.
From the May 18, 1994, edition of The Arabian Sun
Intersession month at the Saudi Aramco Schools, brought another round of activities for students that were fun and educational at the same time.
There were all kinds of sports, like softball, archery, bike riding, kickball, soccer, and tennis, to get the children outside and take advantage of the nice weather. There were fine arts offerings — Knit a Pet Snake, Paper Crafts, Embroidery, Stir-fry Cooking, the Galloping Gourmet, Drawing, Jewelry Making, Stars on Stage and Folk Music — to stimulate the children’s creativity.
To tickle their brains — Chess, Board Games, Puzzle of the Pendulum, Computer Games in Math, and Mystery Puzzles — were available. And to challenge them intellectually, there were activities with a more academic bent — Digging into Dinosaurs, Spiders, Science of Sound in Flame, French Exploratory, China for Children, Japan for Juniors and, of course, tutoring for students needing some extra help. For the children it all added up to Likeable Learning with a capital “L.”
Caption for top photo: In ‘Udhailiyah, students tried their hand at robin Hood’s favorite sport, archery.
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1974 — Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.
1969 — Apollo program: Apollo 10 is launched
1953 — Jacqueline Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier
1927 — After being founded for 20 years, the Nationalist government approves Tongji University to be among the first national universities of the Republic of China
