SALISBURY — A four-part Rowan Creek Week event, aimed at teaching children, kindergarten through fifth graders, about water, was held last week at the Rowan Public Library Headquarters. Seven children gathered for this event, which began with a time of yoga led by library assistant Duane Deberry. After getting their mats, he shared several rules of yoga – smiles and most importantly he said, “don’t forget to breathe.
” After running them through the different poses, Deberry congratulated them for being willing to try and open to learning. The group then moved to the storytime room where they listened to Amanda Decker read the book, “Water Princess,” written by fashion model Georgie Badiel. The book, Decker said, is a true story of Badeil’s childhood and her having to walk hours to get water with the other women in her family.
The book shares her dream of bringing clean drinking water to her African village. She grew up and became a model and writer and has established an organization which tackles the issue of having clean water in her West African homeland. Decker asked questions throughout the reading, challenging them to think about ideas presented in the book and explained that there are also areas in the United States that do not have good clean water and posed the question of what could be done to have good water.
The group then moved where stations were set up for a hands-on activity teaching them how to clean up water. They were given bins and various t.
