English Literacy Classes

We spread our kitchen out in Meadows Academy’s creatively equipped facility – from ovens and stoves on one end of the playground to a pizza and cookie station on the other. Being a good chef …

Over two weeks, we discovered what it would be like to work as firefighters and firemen. Our team came up with innovative games like target-practice to practically demonstrate putting out a fire and planting carrots …

Stepping into the shoes of another person through imaginative play supports the development of creativity. This week, we developed a laughter-filled lesson about the roles of doctors and veterinarians in a functioning community. We do …

Uhuru Walk’s Team Leader and Mentor Sarah Suleman, has a passion for learning and teaching new information at a ‘conceptual’ level. Or shall we say, learning about the big ‘why’s’ of a topic. “Training our …

Transportation themes are the perfect time to teach spatial and temporal relations to children, as proven by Early Childhood Educators at Meadows Academy. These relations include learning the physical position of objects in relation to …

This week, our Volunteering Teachers applied Meadows Academy’s Early Childhood Education (ECE) training to develop a lesson packed with pattern recognition. Children who are taught to recognize patterns between things early have higher cognitive abilities …

Transportation is an indispensable component of our everyday lives, and developing communication skills in this area is an essential life skill. When visiting an English-speaking country for the first time or interacting with English speakers, …

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 …

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 …

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 …