My first major project at site is finished! I have been working on an environmental camp for the past month, teaching environmental themes and English vocabulary to students ages 9-16 at my local school over the 9th and 10th. We taught 6 lessons about exploring nature and how to help the earth and got to play around with the awesome kids at my school. I invited 5 other volunteers from around the north (Kayla, Nora, Jay, Sima, and Kathleen) to help teach, and we had a great time! Check it out:
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| Kids sitting at the opening ceremony |
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| Kru Kriangkrai, the English teacher, helped me translate things and was an immensely useful counterpart |
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| Lots of teachers and officers from the SAO showed up to help (and get free tshirts) |
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| Playing Bear Bug Frog |
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| One of my Mateom classes at my Meet a Tree lesson |
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| Going to investigate some trees while blindfolded (they were cheating rampantly, but it was still a lot of fun) |
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| Where is your tree? |
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| How a seed grows - and kids got to plant their own to take home |
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| There was an impromptu jam session at lunch in the music room |
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| Kathleen teaching Plant a Seed class |
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| Jay teaching Meet a Tree |
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| Kayla teaching Plant a Seed |
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| All the volunteers stayed at my house for two nights |
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| Kayla and Sima whipped up an amazing dinner |
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| On day 2, I got to do a scavenger hunt with 4th-6th graders |
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| Looking for bugs |
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| I love this school! |
Is Bear, Bug, Frog like Giants, Wizards, and Elves from CHVE and Mr. Anderson? Such a fun game, and a good idea! All these activities look like they were a success! I'm so glad it went well and your hard work paid off.
ReplyDeleteExactly! Haha Mr. Anderson! Yeah it mostly went pretty well. . . some of the big group activities were slightly lackluster because we had kids in such a large spread of age groups, so some of the older ones weren't as jazzed about the games as the younger ones. But yeah it was really fun.
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