Karibu!
So here I am in Kenya.
This week I have begun to find a place for me in the school, Tunaimi Timbwani. I have been giving one teacher ideas to help her make her maths more enjoyable and to help the children to learn more (at the moment a lot of the learning is done by rote so the poorer ability children never get any better). And I have been given a job of taking out the poorer ability children in the lower classes at English and giving them extra support. I just had them out now and some of them didn’t know their initial letter sounds so I am really having to go back to basic phonics. I only had them for a short while. I think I was meant to have them for the whole afternoon but I was unprepared and had no resources, besides which an hour and a half is too long to slog on with letter sounds, one of them was only 5. So I left them back at their class so that I could go away and find some more appropriate work for next time.
The weather is luscious at the moment and I am living in strappy tops and skirts. It gets ridiculously muggy in March apparently but it is pleasantly hot at the moment. Yesterday I found myself taking a class to the field for PE (it was sprung upon me, as many things seem to happen here) and realised on the way that I didn’t have any suncream on or indeed a hat. The lessons are only half an hour though and so I managed not to get burnt. It wouldn’t normally bother me but the sun really is strong when you are not in the shade.
Anyway, has to be a quick one, here’s a photo of the kids for you all to enjoy.
So here I am in Kenya.
This week I have begun to find a place for me in the school, Tunaimi Timbwani. I have been giving one teacher ideas to help her make her maths more enjoyable and to help the children to learn more (at the moment a lot of the learning is done by rote so the poorer ability children never get any better). And I have been given a job of taking out the poorer ability children in the lower classes at English and giving them extra support. I just had them out now and some of them didn’t know their initial letter sounds so I am really having to go back to basic phonics. I only had them for a short while. I think I was meant to have them for the whole afternoon but I was unprepared and had no resources, besides which an hour and a half is too long to slog on with letter sounds, one of them was only 5. So I left them back at their class so that I could go away and find some more appropriate work for next time.
The weather is luscious at the moment and I am living in strappy tops and skirts. It gets ridiculously muggy in March apparently but it is pleasantly hot at the moment. Yesterday I found myself taking a class to the field for PE (it was sprung upon me, as many things seem to happen here) and realised on the way that I didn’t have any suncream on or indeed a hat. The lessons are only half an hour though and so I managed not to get burnt. It wouldn’t normally bother me but the sun really is strong when you are not in the shade.
Anyway, has to be a quick one, here’s a photo of the kids for you all to enjoy.
