Service- Day 3 Brain shine School (9)

February 1st 2012, 

Today was our last day at Brain shine

(We found out later in the day that they were having visitors on Friday so we couldn’t go there, so now the plan is Thursday they are coming to ISK from 8:30 to 1:30) Nevertheless we made today our best last day, we started the morning with PPI Religious class with the whole school (which was just   Pre-K and 1&2 grade) CC and Alex started off with the Jesus story then we did the “cuckoo” song it goes like this “cuckoocukoorookoo it is time to pray with daddy cuckoo before the sun is high…” the smile on these kids faces was pure happiness as we joined them eagerly. After that we helped hand out Jesus coloring pages for the kids to color. Shortly we had a break, all the kids were given their porridge in their classrooms and I took advantage of that time to go around every classroom from my pre-k babies to grade 1&2 and gave each kid a spoon of sugar in their porridge, they were so pleased, I felt great to see them enjoy their “now sweet” porridge.

After the break, Miguel, Priyanka and I went and taught both grade 1 and pre-k revision work of last time shapes, counting and the alphabet, to my amazement they all remembered, especially Nicole the youngest of pre-k class, then we went on and taught “naming of clothes” a lesson in Swahili our objective was for the kids to be able to name clothing pieces in both English and Swahili for example Viatu in Swahili equals shoes in English.

After lunch (we had Ugali + Sukumawiki = delicious!) we did environmental activity with the kids, we first did environmental clean up, which was basically picking up any trash around the whole school then we planted 3 trees around the school. This activity was to enforce the importance of trees and keeping our environment clean.