Learning children´s names, dodging running verb-game competitors, and wiping chalk dust off our clothes... all in a day´s work! Monday 5th Jan 2009 was the first day in class for Rob and me and the first day back after the Christmas festivities for children at the Fox Academy. After we introduced ourselves to the group and the children had all told us their names and ages, it was onto a competition: Hombres V Mujeres! The competition covered various nouns and verb conjugations that the children had learnt over the past month... and surprise surprise the girls came out top (some things never change)! As it was our first time in school, the teacher led the class whilst Rob and I helped to judge and spur the children on... from here on we will be taking a much more active role, and hope to help the students (aged 7-15) to really progress by the time their summer school finishes.
In the evening after class we headed to the Plaza de Mayo 25 in the centre of town (still beautifully decorated with Christmas lights) to plan the next day´s lesson: body parts. Hopefully we will have enough varied material and activities to keep everybody occupied and interested! As the school does not have a great deal in the way of resources, we also compiled a shopping list, which I have today been out purchasing from our friendly local stationery shop: flipchart paper, marker pens, coloured pencils... got a bit stuck when it came to the spanish for blue tac but nevermind!
For now, I can´t get "heads, shoulders, knees and toes..." out of my head...
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