My main reason for going on the Project to Jacuí was to see the children's program in action. The lady who coordinated the children's program, Juliana, is the same lady that I have been working with in writing a curriculum that all of the teams will use in July. We have been working on this through email and talking on skype, so I felt is was very important to see how the curriculum really works and if there are any changes that need to be made for the 10 day Project in July. It turned out to be a very good thing that I did go because there are a few things that will need to be modified for the number of children we will be working with. The funny thing is that those who were on the Project seemed to think I was some kind of spy that Asas de Socorro sent to see if they were doing everything right! I kept trying to put them at ease, but it wasn't until the end that I think they really believed me!
One part of the curriculum that I asked Juliana to add was a class specific for the 1-3 year olds that teaches to their level. We have done this on the local Projects that I have been working with, but this was new to Juliana. She did a great job in writing that part of the curriculum and the teacher of this group was very creative as she made "fruit" out of balloons! I made sure I got a private lesson on how to do this before I went home!
This is one of the things that will need to change for the July Project. We had 15-25 children in each of the workshops and in July we will have 50-60 in each workshop! Working with paints, brushes, water, etc. would be way too stressful with 50-60 kids! I'm suggesting that we do a mosaic technique instead of using paints.
We had more children show up each day of the Project and on the last day the church was full! The older kids really enjoyed the program as well and had different activities in their workshops that were more age-appropriate. I am really excited about using this curriculum in July!
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