Would you like to meet other families somewhere in the world and share with them what ‘home’ means to you?
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'Show and Tell' has become one of the Hands Up project's core online activities. It's fun, communicative, and potentially very motivating for learners, especially if it involves interaction between young people who live in different contexts around the world.
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I first heard of 'Show and Tell' when my eldest son, who's now 24, told me he needed to get ready for it at his primary school in the UK. The basic idea is that children take in an object which has some personal significance to them. It could be one of their favourite possessions, a picture of one of their favourite people or a place they've been to, or something related to one of their hobbies.
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With its adorable beaches, sandy shores and very tasty food, Gaza could be the most beautiful area to spend a holiday by the sea…
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This week we have a post from long term HUP volunteer, Madeeha Manzur. Madeeha is a teacher in a primary school in Rawalpindi, Pakistan and every week she connects to a class of children in a school in Nablus, Palestine. But unlike most of our volunteers who tell stories or teach English by interacting themselves with the children in Palestine, Madeeha does it slightly differently by enabling the children she works with in Pakistan to do so. I think she's doing a wonderful job and you can see by the faces of the children in the pictures that they are all getting a lot out of the experience. Over to you Madeeha...
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This week we have a guest post by one of the latest teachers to join our ever expanding pool of volunteers around the world, Emi Slater. What Emi writes fits in very well with the current trend in the work of the Hands Up Project to focus more on children creating stories, rather than merely consuming them. Over to you Emi...
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Last week we arranged a live link up between her students and a group of grade 12 students at a secondary school here in the UK. Here’s Amal’s post about what happened…..
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