Here's some of what we taught in our first week...

THE A-B-C and NEW WORDS...

We made alphabet letters with playdoug at the orphanage and used it as the basis for singing the ABC song – each kid got to hold-up the 1-2 letters they made and sing it out when it got to their letter... A-B-C-D-E-F-G... You get the drift...  We then wrote the alphabet on the board and listed words the kids knew under each letter... And finished-off with a game of hangman... :)

These kids never saw playdough before...

Didn't take them much to get a handle on it - flatten it, cokkie-cut it and hold-up you letter... :)

That's a lot of words for every letter...

We played Pictionary - this is our driver, and Savong's brother in law, Koi - he drew a chicken...

I wonder is Pablo Picasson also had such a time enjoying his artwork... :)

Am can hardlt reach the blackboard - see, she's standing on her toes...

But her Pictionary hearts we very cute... :)

Steph playing Boggle on the board...

We showed the kids the AV we made with the song we taught them last time – Heal The World... They all had to crowd around the laptop... :)

That's a lot of heads around a small screen...

:)

ONE HAND, TWO HANDS...

We taught the kids the names of different body parts (single and plural... for some reason the Cambodians never add the ‘s’... one hand, two hand... one ear, 2 ear...). We then sang and danced the hokey-pokey... That was a lot of fun and the kids got to use the body parts we just learnt, as well ‘left’ and ‘right’... We had Anne, a volunteer from the US, join us – great to see the enthusiasm!!

Body parts on the board, we were ready for the hokey-pokey...

You put your right leg in... Well, most did... :))

NUMBERS

Ah, yes, numbers... We did a lot of work with numbers...

We counted from 1 to 50 forwards, and backwards... and called and spotted random numbers... We then had a couple of kids come-up at a time and compete as to who would be the first to point to the number we called out – they were VERY competitive... One short boy even complained that the girl who was paired was taller and he was therefore at a disadvantage... :)) He ended-up winning – just knew his numbers better than she did... :)

First we said hello and shook hands...

Then we did 'battle'... Who can point to the number being called first... Irrespective of your height... :)

Kedang - Winners are grinners... :)))

We also played lots of BINGO – we had prizes for every round and every class got addicted to it... Just one more game?... We played it 2-3 times in every class during the week – great way for the kids to learn the numbers, use the numbers – and then the winners had to call the numbers back to us to check-off the board... :)

Any idea what we're playing?...

BINGO!!

This week we’ll be playing SHOP, using the numbers we learnt, so stay tuned for that Post on the Blog...

But the next Post will be a beauty – we took the kids from the orphanage to the market on the weekend – to buy them ALL some new clothes and shoes... WHAT A TREAT – for them and for us...