It has been another solid week of
literacy activities, English lessons, drawing and reading at the
library. The big revelation of the week was definitely the markers,
though we've had to limit their use after several of them walked away
during free-use hours on Tuesday. I wish I could show you the work of
one of our 9th graders who was drawing incredible scenes
out of some of our books.
You can see a many examples of the
beautiful gifts we've received this week in the background of our
brand new, beautiful website! Check us out at: http://
The most popular literacy activity of
the week was definitely the “Alphabet Olympics,” a series of
short games (we got through two this week and plan to revisit this
activity often) that reinforce knowledge of letters and sounds and
work on French vocabulary. One highlight of my week was the fact that
one team of 4th graders came up with 8 words starting with
“b” and one of them was bibliothèque (library).
We are definitely starting to build a
routine and the students are rapidly adapting to library procedures.
There is a group of 9th graders who have started helping
out during particularly busy hours reminding the younger children in
Bambara to make sure they check their book out at the desk before
they start reading and helping manage the line of kids waiting for a
space at the door. It is as awesome to see them taking that kind of
ownership of the space as it is to see them coming in to read on
their own.
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