After lessons the children have porridge at
10:30am, they have a cup of watery porridge (not made out of oats I don’t
think) and they sit on the steps in the central area of the school. All the
children love sitting out and running around, and we play games with them or
sit and chat to the ones who have better English.
When I came back up to the volunteer house Megan
and Kristina had baked a cake with the supplies we had got, so Alex will have
his cake tonight with all the children.
After porridge I went into standard 3 maths (not
intentionally repeating classes) and helped the kids with addition, I did some
marking and then any that were incorrect I went through other examples with
them, One girl was particularly stuck and I sat with her for a while. Her
English was pretty non-existent, so I hope the examples were helpful since
numbers and symbols are universal.
One thing that made maths really hard for me to
help with, was the way most Tanzanians add ‘ee’ sounds to the end of words. So
8 x 10 = 80 = ‘eightee’ but 18 – 10 = 8 = ‘eightee’
This made life much more difficult; even the
teachers do it – ‘blackboardee’. I don’t know why but I’m going to attempt to
get them out of the habit.
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