Monday, July 12, 2010

estaciones

Summer classes started again today for the Makarios school. The kids go through four stations, visiting each teacher.

Kim, with help from the kiddos, did a couple of science experiments. The first was using baking soda and vinegar to make a balloon blow up, and the second was making quicksand with water and cornmeal, I believe. They thought it was so cool, and really so did I because I had never seen that before.Robin talked about the letter "o," and played word games with the kids. Later she spoke of different images on the computer and had them identify the colors they saw.

Johan, Benjamin's brother, taught Bible; first showing them a video about Moses as a child, then later reading and discussing what happened with Moses as an adult.

Ashley had the students make a pizza by coloring toppings and cutting and pasting them to a paper plate.

Really so much more took place, I just saw glimpses of each as I walked around. It was really neat to see how hard they are working to teach these kids; they really care for them so much. Everything was so organized, and functioned so well. They even have been hiring more local staff to help out in the classrooms.

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