Wednesday and Thursday... Dress-ups, Colours and Grammar...

We started Wednesday with dress-ups we brought with us - sunglasses, colour hair extensions, hair clips, bangles - and of course nail-polish!! What great ways to learn new English words - and reinforce the names of the colours!!  The nail-polish was a HIT - and not only with the girls... The boys all got into it - painting one nail, or even their toes... :))

Yip, we all got into it... :))

Sunnies all 'round...

Nail-polish for young and old...

As you can see, the boys got right into it - with Alex right behind them... :)

And the Playdough was a big success again - this time we had more than 20 colours to learn!! ;-)

Sen - being MR.  C O O L ...

Guess what the kids had for lunch today??

Frogs!! Yip, all these little pieces of meat are chopped-up frogs...

Eat-your-heart out French restauranteurs!!

The frogs were to be wok-fried with veggies... Look-out Master Chef... :))

At the school in the afternoon the girls continued to teach colours and played 'colour bingo' to reinforce the colours' names... And Mich taught grammar!!  Adjectives to be specific... Like turning the sentence 'the boy rode his bike' into an adjective-ridden sentence like 'the tall, handsome, clever boy rode his new, black, expensive bike'... The kids actually came-up with this sentence... :))

Colours class at school

Mich teaching grammar...

And these kids actually like learning grammar!!!  :))

In the breaks we taught the kids to play scrabble... As you can see, we had quite a crowd - and we had 2 boards going at a time...

The 5-6pm class... OVER 70 KIDS!! 4 to a desk and STANDING around the teacher's desk!!!

B-I-N-G-O, B-I-N-G-O, B-I-N-G-O and Bingo was his name... The kids LOVE this song... And school... ;-)

Our basketball boards getting put together...

On Thursday at the orphanage we combined the colours in English with Japanese... We included the Japanese volunteers in our class and learnt all the colours in both languages!! Did you know that 'pink' in Japanese is 'pinku' and 'orange' is 'orangie'?? No, it stops there... 'black' is not 'blacku' and 'white' is not 'whitie'... :))

Iro is Colours in Japanese...

With our Japanese volunteers looking on...

Iro, iro everywhere... ;-)

The kids at the orphanage with the Japanese volunteers and us

Songnam and Mr. K, our tuk-tuk drivers, assembling the ice-shaving machines we brought with us...

Mun modeling the new school shirt the sewing class just made for him...

Our basketball court is taking shape...

And is being 'test-run'...

Steph showing the kids how to stick on the Australian flag tattoos we brought with us...

Alex and Steph on the way home after a long day... Letting-off some steam - singing and dancing in the tuk-tuk... Who needs a radio when you have 2 teenage passengers?!?!?...

Our fellow road-users certainly appreciated the free entertainment... :)))

Well, that's it for another day... The weekend's coming-up - stay tuned for our field-trip... ;-)