Helping Hands

This week in Helping Hands was by far my favorite. I planned and initiated an activity to help develop the children’s basic writing and speaking skills. In this activity they filled out a worksheet that I made. This worksheet asked them about what made them happiest, their favorite animal and color, where they were from, their age, etc.

 

 

 

 The most rewarding moment of my entire semester in this group occurred with this activity. A number of the students wrote that the times in their lives when they were happiest were when they were at OSC.

 

 

 

 

After filling out the sheet they each posed for an individual picture. To the upper and middle class having your picture taken may be something you do every day. However, to these kids it was something they had never done before. They had never had a picture of themselves. They lined up with excitement, each with huge smiles across their faces. We later printed the pictures and pasted them onto their worksheets. They decorated the sheets and brought them home.

 

 

Before the session ended, we had them get into groups and read aloud their sheets to each other.  I was able to see where they needed help and what vocabulary they struggled with most. In this group we deal with the global issue poverty. Through teaching these children English we are opening up doors for them. This base of English will serve as a stepping stone into mastering English which will help them in high school and to get a job when they are older.