English Camp at Pongprae Vuittayakhom - Day 2

We spent two days at Pongprae Vuittayakhom School. The second day,  our format and teaching teams stayed the same but our lessons were different. The kids came to school excited and ready to learn more English and participate in more activities.

Connie and Char's lesson was two parts. With the way the rotations ended up, both teams taught the first part and second part twice each. The lesson centered around a book about Earthworms. It brought vocab and sentence structure to the students. We also started most rotations with a "This or That" game. The starting person wraps a length of yarn around their wrist and then answers a question like "Chocolate or Vanilla?"   They say their preference, and then others in the circle who share the same raise their hand. Then the yarn is thrown to another person, and so on, eventually throwing another "this or that" question into the mix until everyone is connected. A short explanation of how we all make different choices and like different things but we're all still connected to our friends wrapped up the game. Some kids in one of our groups labeled our web as the Friendship Bridge. We thought that was fitting.

Michelle's crew read a book "Seven Blind Mice" which helped focus on colors and days of the week for their vocab. The kids were able to put their new vocab words to work with water color painting. I don't know for sure, but I'm guessing this was the favorite station of the day.

Elaine and her team focused on phonics, letter sounds, and days of the week.

The staff at the school loved having us there. They were so kind and gracious to us. They were wonderful hosts. They brought us snacks and water each morning, they provided a delicious lunch each day, and brought us goodies & coffee in the afternoon. We are so appreciative of their kindness towards us. At the end of the day, we were thanked for coming and invited to come again. I think it's safe to say, we all enjoyed the experience, and we will be back again some day.

So blessed we were by these sweet kids and their teachers. Some of the AYDC students attend this school, and they were very proud to have us there, telling their classmates that we were their people. As if it was their honor to share us with the rest of the school. I hope it was as much of a blessing to them to have us there as it was for us to be there. And yes, in case you were wondering, we were all tuckered out by the end of the day.