Fun & Games

This morning was our two hour English lesson with one of the grade five classes. We switched our home schooling schedule up a bit so that we could go to the school in the morning. Naiyana was meeting with someone in her office when we stopped by and sent us along to the class saying that she would be there shortly....

After some songs and warm up activities a messenger came saying that there was some other emergency that Naiyana had to attend to. So we ended up teaching the class on our own! There were a few rowdy boys, but for the most part the kids were pretty good. I think they aren't used to speaking English so much. We had speaking practice by dividing the class in two and each of us took half and interviewed them about favourite seasons, animals, sports, etc. We also taught some new songs, and sang some that they already knew. We played a game. We even got around to doing a quiz and doing some work from their workbooks.

On our way back to the house to get to our own work, we bumped into another teacher. She invited us back later in the afternoon to interact with her students. We got through most of our studies and returned to the school. Two classes had been combined for one reason or another and so they were playing in the field instead of doing English class. We chatted with some of the kids, and then began to play.

They wanted us to sing and dance, so Nadim started up the "Chicken Dance". The kids thought that was pretty fun, especially as our "music" (Nadim and I tried to get the tune going) got faster and faster and the hand movements, arm flapping, and bum wiggles got faster too. Roya drew hopscotch and the kids had fun playing that too.

CM