Friday, February 1st marked
the last day of La Guaria’s JumpStart camp. What a special day to end a very
special week! I’ll start from the beginning…
This past week the students learned to
tell time, to talk about different foods and ask for food in a restaurant
setting, they played fun games in order to review everything, they had their final interview, and we had a fun
visitor!
I am SO proud of each and every
student. I took a look at their first interview videos and then the final one
and am soooo impressed by the change. They have learned and retained a ton of
English.
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| Doing a practice called "Match Mine" |
Isenia had to attend a meeting one day
for the school, so my friend Lena came down to help out with class. The
students prepared interview questions for her ranging from “Do you have a
boyfriend?” to What’s your favorite fruit?”. Again, I felt so proud. Later we
learned how to give and receive directions in order to take Lena on a tour of
the high school (on which we lucked into seeing baby pigs!).
We also found the time to squeeze in a
little morning yoga. The kids really enjoyed doing something a little
different! My favorite part was when we all sat in circle, holding hands and
with our eyes closed. We were practicing “passing the energy”. I started by
squeezing the hand of the person to my right, and then they passed it on by
squeezing the hand of the person to his/her right and so on until the hand
squeeze returned back to me.
Class on Friday (our last day!)
started with an activity called “Say Something Nice Behind My Back”. At the
beginning of JumpStart each student received a notecard with his/her name on it
to place on the desk. For this activity the students taped the notecards to
their backs and then wrote nice, anonymous
comments on the notecards. We then danced the Cha Cha slide, followed by
some other English games, and ended the day with a mini “graduation” where each
student received a t-shirt and a certificate.
Cake and a slideshow of pictures were
the final treat to conclude an amazing English camp!!
