holiday games in Montebello we were at the point that the summer holidays have begun for the children from the Colegio, 3 months! What has it all happen?
The first two weeks of the holidays I spent in the small library of the school. Small library to be, well, probably more of a junk room, it had an urgent need cleaned, and sorted at times! I have sorted out all the books with jasmine, rearranged, dusted off and thrown away a lot of it. The problem is there that it can rain from all sides through the ceiling start. This is the reason why moist all the books and very many of them are moldy.
Then began the "vacation Recreativos, holiday games for the children of Monte Bello, at the Colegio! Six volunteers (including me) were asked to take care of the design of these holiday games. Initially, it was still unclear whether the holiday games take place at all are: Log in enough children? If so, all the children the amount of 5,000 pesos to pay to participate? Is there enough money for the materials? And and and ...
After much back and forth, we have a box of materials to work to get available. Although far from all the materials that we had requested, but all things from which you can do with a little creativity! There were three groups of children who were divided according to age, and three different topics on which activities were executed: 1 Sport, 2 Art, 3 Germany! My original plan was to rehearse with the children, a puppet play and the required hand puppets themselves produce. This plan but I have thrown the first week of the pile because it was not feasible for me. First, no materials were available to make hand puppets. Second, the rehearsal of a puppet theater piece is a continuous work that is not guaranteed when other children come every day and go! Finally, I screwed my requirements with the children back and artistic activities such as painting, crafts, working with paper mache, etc. carried out, which was hard enough:). In the first week we have the book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by taken to task gemacht und gebastelt. In der Woche darauf haben wir mit Hilfe von Luftballons und Pappmaché bunte Schüsseln hergestellt. Die restlichen Tage haben wir vor allem Basteleien für Weihnachten angefertigt und ausstehende Arbeiten, wie zum Beispiel das Bemalen der getrockneten Pappmaché-Schüsseln, aufgeholt.
Anfangs war ich ziemlich frustriert und jeden Tag von Neuem am Ende von meinen Kräften, denn die wenigsten der Kinder gehorchen oder führen ihre Arbeit pflichtgemäß aus. Eine Unterrichtsstunde gleicht viel mehr einem totalen Durcheinander. Kinder, die kreischen, Kinder, die sich um Materialien streiten, Kinder, die sich gegenseitig schlagen, Kinder, die aus dem Klassenraum abhauen, Kinder, who do not want and therefore disrupt their friends, children, the question is no use of my materials and make them broken. There are also children who wish to work like that but can not because they are disturbed by the Others. If you would like to eliminate all this chaos (in a different language), that's impossible! But in time I began to understand why the children behave this way. It is more or less a cry for attention. When the children to beat each other that this is more a sign that they have never learned to solve problems without violence. Since many of the children are often alone at home because the parents work or because they do have only one parent, which is often busy, they have not learned what it means to respect another person to have and as to the ownership of those with caution. The conditions from which the children come, are reflected in the behavior of the children again. If one is understood, would soon be much easier to deal with all the problems and difficulties. I screwed my initial requirements back and learned that the smallest changes are the same here very big changes. If, for example, it creates only teach a child that you are also problems with words and can not be solved with violence, then an incredibly huge win for all! I understood that with the holidays not play here is the focus of producing something great with the kids, because that is really important employment with the children. If it still manages to run an activity with patience at an end, so that the children end up a kind of sense of achievement, then that's a lot more value, failed as a puppet play. It is very important to focus on small advances and to enjoy it and most important is to ask through the background to understand!
In the end, I have the holiday games from day to day more fun and I had the feeling that the children are von Zeit zu Zeit immer mehr an uns gewöhnt haben und uns somit auch mehr respektiert und die Zeit genossen haben!
