We can’t believe we have already been through our fourth week in the classroom. We are getting more and more obsessed with the kids! Lately, all of the hardships and differences between the cultures in Ugandan schools and American schools have made us appreciate and take advantage of the individual interactions we have with the students. We are all getting to know distinct characteristics of each of our students, such as handwriting, a nose scrunch, attention seeking screaming/gesturing, laughs, who always goes for seconds during porridge break, siblings, and so much more. Our day begins as we pass the window by our school, only to hear chairs scraping, feet pounding, and voices yelling “Teach-ah, teach-ah” meeting us just at the threshold of the door. We can only hope that every day of our future careers starts and ends this way.
Appreciation. Something that we see on a daily basis in our classrooms. Steph and Mary gave each of the students in their classes a new pencil and they went crazy! They looked at those pencils like it was Christmas Day. They were beaming and their smiles were so contagious. We wish we could give them a new pencil every day!
We have been doing a lot of fun activities with our classes! Last week, Frannie taught spider lessons. The Top and Nursery class were read The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle and after had so much fun making spiders out of vibrant pipe cleaners! Steph taught lessons about caterpillars and butterflies. After reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle (you daaa man), her P2 class wrote sentences describing what the caterpillar ate each day and made their own colourful tissue paper butterflies. Mary taught a lesson on The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfeister. After, the students were taught the importance of sharing and then made their own rainbow fish. The walls are significantly brighter at Moreau Primary School!
Our favourite part of this week was our team teaching lessons. The three of us taught WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE. It was so adorable to see the students “gnash their terrible teeth”, and “roarrrrr their terrible roars”! Not that they needed it, but to bring out their wild sides even more, they each made their own “wild thing” mask. It was interesting to see the difference between the older students’ and the younger students’ work. It was great for all three of us to work with all of the students in the school!
Stay tuned to hear all about our safari adventure!
XOXO
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I have just now discovered your guys' blog sight! this is fabulous!!!! I especially enjoyed your description about how the students were so happy to get a new pencil...we had a similar thing in Honduras! The man that worked where we stayed (Don Jose) asked simply if we could give him one of the pencils that we were donating to the schools for his daughter because they are expensive. Who would have thought that ONE pencil could make someone so happy!...we ended up giving him a few pencils...one that was even purple and sparkly! haha
I hope you all are having a great time, and I can't wait to hear about it when you return! Be safe! Love, Meg
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