This morning in English we started off by playing Bananagrams as a whole group. It was fun watching them all get competitive and try so hard to get the words right. In our smaller groups we did the 2nd half of the review worksheet and did some more worksheets where they filled in the blanks with the correct word. We then took our spelling test and they did so well! I was very happy. Then we finished up with playing Bananagrams to help with our spelling test tomorrow.
Morning tutoring was Raphel and Samuel. We different worksheets for each of them, based on what I thought they needed help with. Raphel had an alphabet worksheet to help him with letter formation and Sam had a math worksheet. They both did that for a while and then we came together as a group to work on our letter flashcards again. They seem to really enjoy doing these because they get to draw pictures and they catch on more quickly to letter sounds this way. These boys are both very quiet and shy and hardly talk at all during tutoring. I love them though! I just love getting to know all the kids’ different personalities.
For lunch we had a delicious avocado and chicken sandwich with some leftover beans Anne had from yesterday’s supper. It was super delicious! We headed over for preschool around 1, thinking we’d be doing it on our own today but then Charity and Bridgette where there to help out and translate so that helped, especially with the devotion we did at the beginning. Otherwise the kids would have gotten nothing out of it. We finished the preschool day with more dancing and What’s the Time, Mr. Wolf. It’s so funny watching these children dance! They have such good moves for being 3,4, and 5 year olds! I’ve taken a video of one of the dances and really wish I could upload it to Facebook so you could all see what I’m talking about.
My afternoon tutoring group was Chipo and Mwandida. Today we worked on letter sounds again and also trying to decipher small words like cat, bat, hand, band etc. They did fairly well on this but they still need a lot of work and repetition.
Shortly after 4 I headed over to the volleyball court for our Tuesday afternoon volleyball game. The last time we played it was our first week here. The past two weeks we didn’t play because Dave and Dee were gone and they have all the volleyball equipment. My team lost all three games but we had a super fun team. Now that we know everyone so much more it just makes it such an enjoyable hour and a half. Lots of laughing!
Volleyball lasted until supper, so when we got home we had a nice hot meal of beef and rice and cabbage waiting for us. We just relaxed, ate and watched an episode of Friends, then did dishes and watched another episode while I looked over my things for tomorrow. The power went out during this 2nd episode and shortly after I lit some candles so I could do some planning, the power came back on because someone turned on the generator. So that was nice. Even with the generator on, the outlets don't get power, so our laptops don't charge. It's almost time for bed anyway, so it's not that big of a deal. I'm just thankful we have light to see and read. I finished Jane Eyre tonight (such a good book!) and now started the newest book by one of my favorite authors, Jodi Picoult.
We have had the warmest March in the history of recorded meteorology. It was 83 today and we're expecting the same tomorrow! You could play volleyball outside here too! :)
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