Last Week Lesson

For the last week of teaching I wanted to do something that would be helpful for the kids and something that they would remember, so I put together little booklets and we made learning books :) I took a picture of Daniel's because he really enjoyed the project, so I decided to show his off!

So the title was pretty generic and lame:

Then on page 1, they wrote about themselves. They wrote their name, age, favorite color, favorite food, the fact that they go to school, and how many brothers and/or sisters they have:

Then we worked on some basic vocabulary for page 2. Went through the beginning of the alphabet and I thought of a word that they should know and we drew the picture next to the word so they could remember what the word is/means:

Page 3 and 4 were more vocab, but page 3 we drew a simple scene and labeled everything and page 4 we continued with the alphabet and chose random words and drew pictures:

Page 5 was my favorite because we spent a long time on their body parts. I taught them the head-shoulders-knees-and toes song except we did head-shoulder-legs-and-feet. Classic. They looooooved that song and showed it to the "principal" of GLONA. IT WAS SO CUTE! Anyways, we drew a little stick figure and labeled the body parts as their science lesson. Then we drew a boy and a girl with clothes on and labeled the types of clothes. I learned them in Twi and they learned them in English:

Oh and page 6 was just a scene with vocabulary again:

We drew a house and labeled it for page ) and page 8 was a safari! They didn't know what a safari was, and it was rather hard to explain, but we drew us driving in a car and looking through the window at the animals:

Some of these kids were showing off their dance moves and how they can sing, so we drew that for the next page:

Then we drew a map of the world with America, Africa, and China on it. Suiru was teaching with me (she came for the internship part of the program) and she is from China, so I made sure that they drew that country too:

They really enjoyed this whole project! I collected the books everyday because I knew that someone would lose theirs or forget it if they took them home, so everyday they would get so excited as I passed them out. It was adorable! And they never draw or color, so using crayons was such a big treat for me. It made learning more fun, and they did learn a lot--I know this because I gave them a quiz before I left and a lot of kids did really well:)