Today we visited Kings Kids Academy, the first school of our visit!!! It was very interesting and has developed alot over the last couple of years. When we arrived we walked through a couple of different classrooms and were welcomed very well. We met with both the pastor for the school and the head teacher, both were very enthusiastic for our visit. We had a tour of the school, looking at all the different classrooms. There are 7 grades, from grade 1 to grade 7! We observed grade 7 who were studying what the word culture meant in terms their country, this was really interesting to hear about. It was a great lesson to start with, especially for Dan, as it gave it more of an insight into the Gambian way of life.
After break we visited the nursery, this has three classes, Nursery 1, 2 and 3. The youngest children (nursery 1) were learning their alphabet and learning about shapes. Nursery 2 were learning the days of the week and months of the year. Nursery 3 were also learning about months of the year. In Nursery 1 there were many excited faces and we are looking forward to going back into that class!
We are also able to sort out what resources we could use for possible lessons next week. We have been given a grammar book to teach English with. Think it is time to ensure our grammar is perfect! We also looked at the art resources for use in our 'Scientific art lesson'.
Before we left, we had an interesting conversation with the grade 7 teacher about phonics! He explained that the children often struggled with blending digraphs (for the non-teachers, this is when you are putting two sounds together - e.g. s and h make the sound sh. The children often find it difficult to pronounce the sh sound and will say the s sound (e.g sun sine)
Tomorrow we will be back at Kings Kids Academy but will be in the nursery section!
Lauren and Dan
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