Being a volunteer you have to work in different areas and sometimes you see interesting things. Today I am going to tell you about one of these interesting things.
One of the Geração Tecla actions is going to the schools and spending the break with kids called Animação de Recreios . We have three different schools that we visit every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday – once per week every school. This activity is something different from all the office work, that sometimes makes you more tired, than a half an hour spend with kids, so it is good, that we have an opportunity to try to find ourselves in different fields.
One of the Geração Tecla actions is going to the schools and spending the break with kids called Animação de Recreios . We have three different schools that we visit every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday – once per week every school. This activity is something different from all the office work, that sometimes makes you more tired, than a half an hour spend with kids, so it is good, that we have an opportunity to try to find ourselves in different fields.
In all the schools the best
game for all the kids is jumping the rope. It reminds me a
video of DJ Fresh – Gold Dust. But of course kids are not such professionals
yet!
The strangest part is that we
are going to three different schools, but that are kind of close to each other,
and half of the kids from all the schools live in the same neighborhood and
come to the activities after school, but still they jump the rope in
different
ways.
The kids from Tuesday’s
school have a special song when they are jumping a rope and they sing
it while jumping and they even have the special way of dealing with the rope.
The kids from Wednesday’s
school really enjoy jumping in pairs; or if you allow them, they will
try to fit as many as possible to jump. Then, when someone doesn’t manage to
jump on time they have to go back to the end of the line while others continues
to jump till the last person is left, who is the Master of the rope.
Thursday school’s kids have their own different
traditions of jumping the rope. They all line up and then one kid runs in jumps
once and runs out and they go like this till the first kid is in the front. The
first kid then jumps twice and on and on, till the break is over.
The part I love the most about
going to schools is that the kids try to count in English. Ok, firstly we
were counting in Portuguese, so now you can wake me up in the middle of the
night and I will count you in Portuguese as fast as I can without even
thinking till 30! But now, as I already mentioned, the kids are trying more and
more to count in English and show us, how much they know.
Once we even made a special rope like a
net that they need to climb through without touching the rope. Of
course they were jumping, flying and crawling on the ground like preparing for
war. We were even laughing that we are making the little soldiers. But
they really are like that especially when they start every 5 minutes to say,
that it is too easy and we have to find a way to make the net more difficult
to climb through.
Sometimes, it is so nice
to feel like a kid and play with them; sometimes we also try to jump
the rope or climb the net or play other games. Once we tried to do a relay
and they loved it!
Probably the best part of
this activity is forgetting everything. You are a kid again and you don’t
have any more work to do, just for that half an hour you can crawl on the
ground and pretend that you are 5 again and don’t worry about anything!
Gi
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