On 13th November 2021, children from Meadows Academy and other well-wishing donors celebrated World Kindness Day, pooling together stashes of storybooks, clothes, toys, and food items in large quantities for the beneficiaries of Uhuru Walk. Some of them even joined our weekly classes to spend time with the children as mini-volunteering teachers. While reading books and completing worksheets together, the…
Expressing the ‘Why?’ in ‘I Feel’ | English Literacy Classes
Over the last two weeks, our lessons were driven by the understanding that children from disadvantaged backgrounds are substantially more vulnerable when they struggle to identify, articulate, and validate their emotions. In these lessons we taught the expression of ‘why?’ in relation to personal feelings and facilitated deeper emotional curiosity in the children through classroom assessments, games and fun play.
If You’re Feeling and You Know It… | English Literacy Classes
Learning about the language of emotions has been one of our most engaging classes yet, for both our thoughtful students and our playful Volunteering Teachers. In this lesson, we focused on equipping our learners with the invaluable tools of articulating their emotions in English. How many different emotions can you spot in their work and on their faces?
Feeling our Feelings | English Literacy Classes
We excitedly handed over our class this week to our sponsors, licensed Counseling Psychologist Amaechi Nduka-Agwu and Child and Youth Counselor Rehema Busch, for an Emotional Mindfulness Session. Children from disadvantaged backgrounds have fewer opportunities to explore, let alone regulate, their emotions. Understanding emotional expression, as skilfully directed by Amaechi and Rehema, provided them with the opportunity to better understand…
Make a Meal | English Literacy Classes
Learning about nutrition encompasses more than just knowing what is healthy and unhealthy. This week, we built our plates with a healthy mix of foods from all food groups and learned the advantages of eating foods from each food group. The children also role-played as chefs building fruit and vegetable salads, giving them a practical opportunity to engage with lesson…
Get Moving for Some Exercise & Hygiene | English Literacy Classes
This week, we learned over twenty new action verbs for various exercises, and explored the influence of exercise on more sophisticated body organs. Big smiles whizzed by the camera as we incorporated fun games and work-outs into our class. You should know – most of our students are Simba FC fans and take kicking practice very seriously!
Revision Weeks | English Literacy Classes
Revision weeks give the children a chance to exercise their recognition and recall memory. To kick this off, our Volunteering Teacher’s created and executed a lesson of competitions and team-focused tests – a fun way to revise learned content! At the end of our two-week revision, the children took home colouring storybooks, juice boxes and biscuits.
Think outside the Earth | English Literacy Classes
This week, we designed rockets, fastened our astronaut uniforms and set far into space to meet our home planet Earth’s friends in the solar system. As we taught them how to describe different planets, we learned that their favourites were Mercury because “it’s so fast”, Saturn because “of the rings” or Jupiter because “it’s very fat”!
Where in the World? | English Literacy Classes
Knowing the world beyond us is vital for widened opportunities as we grow. Taking this first step of awareness into globalization and identity, our lesson this week introduced the children to where they are in the world; and the planet they call their world.
No Place like Home | English Literacy Classes
Designing flipbooks and stepping into our inner architect’s shoes, this week we reflected on our homes. We also shared laughs on midnight snacking stories from the children, and how treehouses were no fit place for a human to live – unless you meant to be eaten by a wild animal!