When we arrived, we virtually ran to the Montessori wall to see the evolution since yesterday. It was astounding! The backgrounds of each section of the wall were partially painted and the initial outlining for the art was underway. The assigned teachers were in charge and students were busy painting. There was nothing else for us to do but admire their work. And that is exactly what we were aiming for!
Next, we checked the floor of Class 3. That too seemed to be well on its way. Children from that classroom had their lessons under the shade of a large tree to keep cool.
We decided to hold one last Sports Day for the little little ones- again, we used the tires in the Assembly Hall and also used the other equipment that was available (that we bought)- football, volleyball, and cricket bats. This group was definitely more challenging as these young children generally respond slowly to instructions, especially novel ones. We were asking them to do lots of strange things that seemed normal to us. For example, the concept of running towards a target and running back to your team to tag the next runner... completely clueless. But after 4 activities requiring this skill, our little athletes began to get it. We must remember to spend more time with them next year. They are highly under-stimulated; not their fault though or the fault of the school. The government simply hasn't budgeted for a kindergarten teacher or PE teacher for that matter.
Finally, it was time to deliver the much anticipated laptops and digital cameras donated to us by the American School in London as well as the dongle they requested to access the internet. We attempted to give a mini-training on how to upload and email pictures taken with one of these cameras (a condition we have made in order to see the work they are doing with this multimedia equipment)... but very quickly we realized we were not needed. They have an IT guy who was managing just fine... he already has plans to unlock the dongle so you can insert a different sim card!
The transition is definitely underway. Tomorrow, we plan to go in, admire the ongoing work and and say goodbye to each class.
Hai,
ReplyDeleteI am the Guy u mentioned above at last paragraph.
Really very happy to see here u again. Just got exciting to see ur blog. I think our school doesn't know this.
And I tried to unlock the Dongle evenign and got success. As I told u tomorrow if you bring ur dongle I can unlock it also for you.
Nice work of you. Really our shool will never forget ur activities and helps.
I will keep in touch with u.
c u.