Education Month

The Peace Corps Pic 

We just wrapped up our education month activities and it was fun!!! We did a literacy tent where children were told stories and played literacy games and also a elocution and reading competition where the students came from all over Linden to compete in reciting a memorized, classic poem or read a passage from a book out loud so we could see who was the most fluent. Good times.   I wanted to share a few pictures! Thanks Chels for helping me out!!!!  

Ms. Chapman, my counterpart, discussing story books with Nursery children at our Literacy Tent!

One of the games we created for Primary school students to play. Basically the rod has a magnet and line attached to it and the students try to catch a "fish" which either a word or image. If it's a word they have give synonyms or antonyms of the word, if it's an image they need to identify the image, then spell the word.  FUN!

Me acting a fool doing drama for the primary children. They had a good laugh. I performed the "Three Goats  Gruff"

Ms. Chapman and her sister perform the ginger bread boy at our Literacy Tent! 

A little boy reads to me at our Literacy Tent. The game was "Read a book, Win a Book" He was pretty good!

She's trying to win a book, so I'm helping her out a bit!

Children being "child sized grass" that the goats gruff wanted to eat! I feel so powerful! They do what I say!!! ;) 

At the end of the Literacy Tent, we present the National Library with a Jolly Phonics kit to show our appreciation. 

The students who came to our Elocution/Reading competition. They came from all over. Those two schools on the left live about 2 hours outside of Linden. It was great to see them part of our Eduction Month Activities.

One of our Reading Winners getting his textbook and reading book. Don't worry, all the participants were winners. Everyone walked away with a book or text book. The winners just got a little more.