School has now begun again and I am in the full swing of
English teaching, after school origami, preschool craft and evening dance
classes. One of my the other volunteers here, Chambery came and took some photos
for a sponsorship programme of my classes. The first is in Secondary school
where I do substitute teaching as the school is a little understaffed so I cover any absences with spoken English
classes. Here is one of my favourite and better behaved eager classes 7A – they
pick things up so much faster than my other classes and are a delight to teach.
This is taken in my 2nd standard class who I
teach daily, their class teacher is also in the classroom to help with
discipline. I help them work with the government textbook which is somewhat
complex for their level. To make things more fun I teach them a new simple
conversational question every week which we have put together into a small
“drama” of two friends meeting that we also practice every day.
Currently we are doing a topic on ‘My school’ and learning
about different areas; playground, restroom, office etc etc. Above we are
preparing flashcards for a tour round the school the next day. The reason
Morghanna has a shaved head is it’s customary in Hinduism to dedicate your hair
to God on your 3rd and 5th birthday. Below is us gathered
outside the school gates; I took a photo at each of the places we showed them.
They were so excited to go into the higher secondary school’s (particularly the
computer & science lab) and even more excited when I got all the photos
printed to display in the classroom.
