Tuesday and Wednesday- Ruth Mother Care
On Tuesday
I was in P1 in the morning and taught about vowels and how they can determine
whether to use the article ‘a’ or ‘an’. They seemed to grasp the concept well
but the most exciting part of the lesson for them was getting to choose one of
the fairytale stickers I took with me when they managed to circle one of the
vowels hidden amongst the consonants on the board. You can see how happy they
were from the photos and their smiles were accompanied by cries of ‘we love
stickers.’ It was lovely to see them discuss with their friend which sticker
they should choose saying things like, ‘The castle or the fairy?’ I had a quieter afternoon in P3 reading them stories
and particularly enjoyed reading ‘The Railway Children’ to them as it is one of
my own favourite classic tales.
On
Wednesday, I was in P2 all day. In their morning English lesson, I taught them
about how to make words with the letter ‘f’ in them plural. In their afternoon
reading lesson, they practised after reading words with the letter ‘A’ sound in
them and then I read ‘The Hungry Caterpillar’ and ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’
to them. They particularly love the bear hunt sound book and getting to press
the sound effect buttons.
After returning from school, we went to youth fellowship
where we watched an inspiring film called ‘Do You Believe?’ following different
people and families and how they were impacted by God. Our favourite quote from
it is 'If you were accused of being a
Christian would there be enough evidence to convict you?' because it’s so
thought provoking.
Thursday- Nutrition workshop
This week
our community outreach took a different form than usual- we ran the first of a
series of workshops for those living in Nabulagala. Today Silva ran the
workshop on nutrition, which went well as there was good participation and
interaction from those who came, especially in the form of the question and
answer session at the end. I am looking forward to the workshop next month as
it is good to be able to do something more practical to help the families we visit.
Return Ministries
On Sunday,
Smile were asked to help at a crusade event locally run by Return Ministries
Uganda, so we ran the children’s activities for the day there. It meant that
our Sunday was a little different to normal as we had to set our alarms for
6.30 because we had to be there by eight o’clock. In true ‘African time’,
people didn’t turn up till much later so it ended up starting around eleven o’clock.
Meanwhile, we found ourselves with sleeping children on our laps and our hair
being played with. For the morning session, I was in charge of running the
session for the forty two to four year olds and as we had an uneven number of
people helping, I was the sole leader. At first that was a real challenge when
they are too young to know English and my Luganda is limited to a handful of
phrases but thankfully an older girl came to help me translate. We were all
teaching the story of creation to different age groups so I taught it by
reading the story using the Beginner’s Bible with actions to go with it and
then getting them to draw something God created. Later on, we ran games for the
children with balloons, bats and obstacle races which was good fun for them and
us. Whilst at the end of the day at 5PM we were all exhausted, it was
definitely a day to remember!
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