CHINA! English Camp!

Here's a review of English Camp, mostly in pictures, enjoy!

Our class was a group of 9 Kindergartners, a couple 5 year olds, mostly 6 year olds, and one 7 year old. We represented team Brazil as part of the overall camp theme of the World Cup. Most of our kids had learned a bit of english previously, but it was still a challenge to teach the class because of the language barrier. Plus it was their summer vacation so it was sometimes a bit difficult to get the class to focus, oh and did I say they were only 6 years old?!?!

The first day of camp we had our students write their names on their shirts and decorate them. This is Amy, she did such a great job decorating her shirt and including such fine details.

Here's a group picture of the class, minus one, Bobby was sick that day. Notice the tiara on CiCi, it was her birthday that day!

Here we are in line for lunch, Mary, Paul, Alice, Sunny, Peter, and Jake in the front. The kids did a pretty good job in the food lines every day. They brought up their tray, got their food, and almost always made it back to the table successfully without spilling everything!

This is during playtime. Our kids LOVED playing with the food & kitchen toys! Bobby had such focus with the food, he made some pretty elaborate plastic meals; cutting and slicing the vegetables, cooking the fish, crab, chicken, adding the spices, etc. It was pretty impressive.

Here's another shot from "playtime". The little boy brawl....I'm not sure what exactly they were playing but it involved wrestling most days. This is Peter on the bottom, Bobby pinning him down, and Paul trying to get in on the action.
Here's nap time. We had some "tall" beds and some short beds. Of course everyone wanted to sleep on a tall bed, and by sleep I mean jump from bed to bed yelling and doing fighting moves. Eventually we started bribing the kids and told them they'd get a sticker if they were quiet and rested during nap time.

This is our sticker chart. Sunny and Amy pretty much blew everyone out of the water because they are just quiet attentive girls. Our more rambunctious kids were able to earn stickers when they were exceptionally quiet or helpful during class. I must say the sticker chart was pretty effective in encouraging and rewarding the kids.

Our kids also loved coloring time. This was probably the quietest most focused time during the day, well except for TV time. Here are Paul & Amy coloring Easter eggs on the day we learned about Easter.

Here's our chalk board for the Easter Lesson. It was amazing how focused the kids were during the lesson, praise God! They were so interested which was incredible, and then a few of them even said "I know this story!" or "I've heard of him before!" It was so amazing to see this from our kids and to see first hand what God is doing in China!