Projects

  "The world map made of postcards"

“The World Map Made of Postcards” is a project running by Dajana – A Polish volunteer.The main goal of this activity is to let children know more about other countries.  People from all over the world are sending postcards to CDF and than we are putting them together with Armenian translation on wall next to the map (As I can’t really translate them into Armenian, my coordinator Shushanna does help me with this). Children can check number on postcards and find this number on map and in this way discover where the country from which postcard has been traveling is. We received first postcard on September and now we have more than thirty. Most of them are from Europe, but we also have postcard from South Africa, Japan, Afghanistan Singapore, Canada and several from the USA. Now we are working on find some people from South America and Australia who can send us some postcards to our collection. We also have a blog for this project where you can check all the postcards we receive –http://wmmop.blogspot.com 

It is my pleasure to update this blog every time we receive a new postcard.

Dajana

 

The evolution of English and embroidery clubs.

English club for children, who I have the honour to run,  will soon celebrate one month anniversary. ;) Because of that we already have some information about this activity to share with you.  Well,  according to first idea English Club was meant to be twice a week, but so many children wanted to take part in it, that first idea had been converted to a second idea . So now there are two kinds of English Club - for children up to 7 years old once a week, and for children from 7 to 15 twice a week.  Together with smaller children during this month we were discovering the world of the English alphabet – on every meeting  children learned some letters and the name of one animal. Every meeting contains also drawing, colouring, cutting and gluing some pictures , so children have no possibility to be bored. English Club for older children is different, because they already know the Latin alphabet and some of them also have English lessons in school. During this month we have been working with such basics topics like numbers, colours etc.  I am doing my best to make them learn new words already during meeting, so there is a lot of repetition, cross-words, but also games which helps them arrange new words in their memory. My aim is to make them use some simple sentences in English during our lessons, so topics scheduled for this club are quite untypical, but I hope that results will be visible soon. Moreover, if children will be still as eager to learn English as they are now, I am planning to make with them some an English speaking play. So be ready for that! :)

I am also running embroidery club which take place every Friday and it is time during which children can exercises their fingers, but also have rest for mind thanks to relaxing music which is accompanying us. Now we are embroidering some characters from cartoons like e.g.  Donald Duck. It takes a lot of time for children to finish one picture, but they are patient and they don’t give up even if thread muddling over and over again. 

Dajana :)

English Club!!!!!!

Martin Loeng (EVS volunteer at CDCS) is holding English Second Language classes for adults at the Child Development Foundation. Whether you are a beginner or know some English already, you can come and learn. We will practice our English in many ways, by looking at the whiteboard, playing language games, or going for walks and describing things. It will be educational, and fun.

We will start in the first week of October.
Seats are limited, so be quick!

Motivation letter – deadline: 25th of September
Give your name, your age, your English level.
Why do you want to learn (more) English?

Send to:
Martin.loeng@gmail.com

PS: Selected candidates will be informed about the actual dates of the classes.

Martin Loeng