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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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!
Hands-on learning to learn what our hands feel? That’s the goal! In this session, we taught the children about textures of all kinds and the organs used to identify them.
Who said learning can’t be fun? This week, we dove mouth-first into the literacy-rich world of taste, and each made our own pizzas
In Week 5, we explored the sense of smell through reading, vocabulary and writing practice, and a fun free painting session!
