2023 will see the expansion of the program to include an afternoon session for the younger children. The "older" ones (2 1/2-3 years old) will continue in the mornings. This allows for differentiated teaching and more opportunity for appropriate developmental activities.
Included in their afternoon session for tutoring and doing homework the school age children will have a time for reading one-on-one with a teacher twice a week. The purpose is to promote reading for fun and thus increase the children's desire to read as well as fill gaps in their reading skills. We also have a devotional time for the children each week to introduce them to the Bible using stories, songs and activities.
There was a training session for the teachers last week with tips on how to work with the children's reading program as well as ideas for the preschool curriculum. This program will begin when public school classes start on Feb. 2. (Brazilian school year is by calendar year).
 |
| Educational Team of the LAR Maná |
Young Children's Educational Park
 |
| . |
We are so excited to be looking at plans to complete the Little Park. We used Mom's Children's Fund to set up the park and complete the educational wing of the children's home. Now with the epidemic past we hope to get some of the final touches done: painting the walls, adding some therapeutic equipment to benefit our children who have some trauma and learning delays, completing the outdoor classroom for activities such as painting, clay, play dough, and sensory tables with sand, rice and water.
Some ideas for finishing touches:
Here are some before pictures. We will be posting more as we develop the park.
We are in a dead heat to get as much done as we can before the winter rains begin in March.
 |
| We want to put a shelf above the sink area to hold organizers with supplies |
No comments:
Post a Comment