Conversations with Barnabas-Preschool
Today is my first day to teach at the preschool. The kids are between ages 4 and 7. We have 68 enrolled this year. I am going to show them an educational cartoon about counting to 10 created by Akili and Me . The numbers in Kiswahili go 1-moja, 2-mbili, 3-tatu, 4-nne, 5-tano, 6-sita, 7-saba, 8-nane, 9-tisa, 10-kumi. A mission team last year installed the solar power system in the school building and I am borrow a tv to show the cartoons that I download from YouTube when in town. This will be the first time most of these kids have seen a video much less a cartoon. After the cartoon and the other teachers constantly moving the kids around for a better view (it is 68 kids and one 24" TV), I taught a lesson on the numbers. Basically I wanted them to count each number different ways. Show me 4 fingers on one hand. Draw 7 circles on a sheet of paper. Get in groups of 5. We did these type activities mixing in crafts, b...