George Jr. D.

Flores

Grade 9-

SLHT in P.E

B. Exercises
Exercise 1: My Understanding of Festivals

Name of Festival Place of Origin Description Type of Festival

(you are familiar with) (Religious/Secular)
1. Sinulog Festival Cebu City The Sinulog Festival is a Religious Festival
traditional celebration in
Cebu City held every third
Sunday of January to honor
the Santo Niño (Child Jesus).
... The word
“Sinulog” means “graceful
dance”, wherein it all
started in 1980 with a
simple dance that
represents the “sulog” (or
current) of a river in Cebu.
2. Bangus Festival Dagupan, Pangasinan The Bangus Festival is Secular Festival
an annual celebration in
Dagupan to promote the
city's milkfish aquacultur
e industry.
3. Dinagyang Festival Iloilo City Dinagyang Festival in Religious Festival
Iloilo is an important event
in the Philippines just like
other festivals.
The festival is held to
show reverence of Santo
Niño as well as to mark
the arrival of Malay
immigrants.
4. Panegbenga Baguio City Panagbenga is an annual Secular Festival
Festival flower festival celebrated
every February which
takes place in Baguio
City, Philippines. The term
“Panagbenga” comes
from a Kankanaey
term meaning “season of
blooming”.
This festival reflects the
history, traditions and
values of Baguio and the
Cordilleras.
5. Ati-Atihan Festival Kalibo, Aklan The Ati-Atihan Festival is a Religious Festival
Philippine festival held
annually in January in honor
 of the Santo Niño in several
towns of the province of
Aklan, Panay Island. The
biggest celebration is held
during the third Sunday of
January in the town of
Kalibo, the province’s
capital. 

EFFECTS OF FESTIVAL DANCING

Yourself Family Community
1. It reduces my stress and 
1. It helps connect with our love 1. Improvement of
anxiety and improves my ones. social demeanor and
emotional health in a positive development of camaraderie
way. to the community.

2. It helps me to be physically 2. It strengthen the bond of the 2. Demonstration of

healthy and active. family. respect toward culture,
traditions, or customs of
a certain community.
3. It helps me to interact with 4. It gives reflection of unity of
other people and be socially 3. It created unforgettable the people in a certain
active. memories within the family. place.

Exercise 2. To Deepen My Understanding

1. We celebrate festivals to remember people associated with them. On festivals, friends, family, and relatives
gather together and celebrate with joy and happiness. Festivals bring people closer to each other and make
social bonds. We celebrate festivals to follow our tradition and religion in society.
2. Dance, in any form helps in enhancing one's fitness. Dance steps may lead to physical exercise of a person,
which helps a person to stay fit. It can improve our physical as well as mental health. According to a research,
music helps to fresh one's mind and reduces tension. So, music as well as dance helps us to stay fit. So combined
with a music a dance, a festival dance surely help us improves our overall health.
3. Festival dances develop the value of unity in community fitness, they bring people together, all in a jovial mood,
during this time, people get to interact and share more thereby creating bonds which is in itself unity, this
fosters peace among the community members since they identify with each other thereby.

C. Assessment/Application/Outputs

1. H. Isabela – Secular
2. E. Dagupan City – Secular

3. I. Kalibo, Aklan – Religious

4. D. Cebu City – Religious

5. F. Iba, Zambales – Secular

6. G. Iloilo City – Religious

7. B. Baguio City – Secular

8. J. Santiago City, Isabela – Religious

9. A. Bacolod City - Secular

10. K. South Cotabato - Secular