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How do we move from home to Meadows Academy? How do we travel from one city to the next? Does an airplane carry the same thing that a garbage truck would? Better yet, can it cover the same distance? This week’s lesson was all about answering these, and many more questions! Using expert Early Learning…

Xpress Rent a Car is one of our longest standing supporters. By that virtue, they were the first to kickstart our Sponsor Teach-A-Skill Project with a beautifully handled lesson. Mr. Jawad and Mr. Audiwaas (Xpress Rent a Car’s manager and head mechanic respectively) practically guided the children in an exploration of the parts of a…

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the team of VT’s and children at Uhuru Walk English Literacy Classes. It was our last class of the year 2021! We decorated our very own Christmas tree with handmade ornaments and spied for festival items around us in a game of I-Spy. The younger ones played with snow,…

Wrapping up our month of classes on Emotions was a bustling, laughter-filled and energetic lesson. In this lesson, we worked with the children to understand and practice various strategies of emotional regulation.

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…

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…

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…