For the last couple weeks, Kevin and I have been continuing our Sinhala classes with Pre-School and Grade 3 kids. It has been quite a success for both, us, and the kids. And we hope to continue these lessons into the next semester (showing perseverance and commitment for activities), as it is a good learning experience for both of us, and we can continue to help cultivate language and culture in our community and give back to our community (engaged in issues of global importance).
We have continued to become more comfortable with the kids and vice versa (work collaboratively with others), thus giving us the opportunity to teach more challenging lessons for the kids. We also got to improve on leadership skills (developing new skills), which is a great as we hoped to take this opportunity to improve on this particular quality, mentioned in my previous post on service. Over the weeks we planned and initiated further lessons and taught both classes various words. Grade 3 learned more about fruits, animals, basic sentence structures, pronouns, etc. While we taught pre-school about Christmas, animals, the senses, etc., incorporating them through various games like charades and pictionary to keep the lessons entertaining ad well, as we are teaching young kids.
Overall I think it was a great semester for both us and the kids, and we look forward to the next!
