“I am not sleeping I am dozing. The difference between dozing and sleeping is: dozing is when you are sitting up, your back is up and your head is up, your eyes are shut but you can hear things. Sleeping is when you are lying down, you are horizontal, you are getting comfortable, rolling over, pulling the blanket up over you, that is sleeping. “
Night security guard.
Not a map or globe in sight! Excited to make this presentation at Layibi Techo Primary. They were very excited 🙂
I was teaching P1 (reception/kindergarten) like you taught us. I taught the sounds m, a and s. It was very exciting. They got it. And I taught them to push the sounds together and they went “S-a-m Sam” they could read the words! It is very exciting.
Deputy head teacher, Layibi Techo, Gulu
Thanks for your prayers – earlier this week I ran a workshop at school for a couple of hours: I trained the teachers on how to teach reading and writing with one of the education inspectors present. I could not have asked for a better response and a more receptive group of teachers! I said I would treat them like children sometimes as I modelled various activities and they certainly took on the role, diligently writing on slate boards various sounds, actively sounding out words and trying their hardest to say all the English sounds. Here’s one of the sound charts I made which hangs in the staffroom (thanks Read Write Inc for the idea!)…
Inspectors comment: there’s 26 schools under him so I am going to have to do it again 🙂 Progress indeed!
Government inspectors came to school this week – certainly shook a few feathers! One positive outcome: I am going to run a workshop for the teachers on how to teach reading, hopefully next week. Lots to prepare – pray that I win them over and can bring about some positive change!
School debate. Jody is on the teachers’ side and Dan is the judge – no prize for guessing who won 🙂
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The only way to cool down when you run out of drinking water in the hot African savannah plains! Travelling in a hot African country rule no 2: take your portable water filter with you! That’s, after all, why you bought it!
Well here is one class in action – yep the sound is on! Hard at work working on adjectives 🙂 I taught my little heart out for this lesson. Equivalent to about year 5 and the first time they had heard of an adjective – eeeek! Sorry about the shaky camera work. Class number is ‘only’ about 85 at the moment, but they are rising every day as parents pay for school fees. Take a look at the imaginative display board at the back of the class 🙂
A teacher at school had this t-shirt on today. No surprises here that he didn’t know the meaning of ‘crap’. When I shared the wonderful dual meaning of this word he was very embarrassed 🙂
Dan and Jodes... in Gulu, Uganda 