On 02 October 2010, our first mission accomplished at the very first destination - Kuching, Sarawak of the "2010 HOPE worldwide MY Reading Program Nationwide Project"!
We stopped by Sekolah Kebangsaan Serian, which is estimated 50 kilometres away from Kuching town. The school is located at a greenery place, with all the natures surrounding - trees, hills, flowers and of course, fresh air, which are things that we could hardly get in KL.
So, I love this place, and I love the kids there too.
Most of the kids are from the rural community. Learning English seems very hard for them, but never stop their eagerness and passion. We had great fun there!
This is how it goes. The kids were first, very shy and insecure. But when the songs start, they started to sing along, and picking up really fast with all the gestures we taught them, songs like "BINGO", "Head, Shoulder, Knees and Toes"and many more!
Then, we had our classics - STORY TELLING ! This time, we had our time favorites since my childhood - Snow White. As the story started, we introduce the Snow White of the day - Du Lin, one of the Volunteer Facilitator for our Reading Program, and we have the rest of the volunteers to play the act as well - The Wicked Stepmother and the Seven Dwarfs!
The kids were just so overwhelmed with all of us! And finally we reached the climax of the story - our prince! Well this time, is not the volunteer to be the Prince Charming, but one of the kids in the Reading Program! His name is Marc Beckham! Woww, what a fancy name he had! So, in the end, Prince Marc Beckham wake the princess up with a blow of Flying Kiss!
Eventually, here we started our Break Out Activities - The Reading Session lead by respective volunteers and the "Learning Alphabets with Play Dough" activities specially designed for kids who have Dyslexia, objective is to help them to progress in recognizing and write the 26 alphabets. Basically, this age range for this group of children is around 5 to 7 years old.
And then, during our game session, we have memory games! We have some flash cards, which contains pictures of different animals on each card. Before the game start, we have a round of studies on every animal that appeared on each card. After that, we shall have a round of tests on the children, see how many of them can able to catch up by telling the name of that particular animal every time we show the card. Then, the game started! We divided the children into two groups, each group of them will have one empty plastic cup which always will be hold by the first person in the group. At th same time, all of the flash cards will be placed randomly on the floor. Once the game start, the facilitator will call one of the name of the animals, eg: snake, then the first person of the group who is holding the cup, shall place the cup on that particular flash card which have the picture of "snake" on it. Who will be the first one who place the cup on the card correctly, will be the winner.
After a round of excitements, now it's time for everybody to sit down and have some snacks and packet drink - cakes, biscuits and milo. Before the snack is served, we trained the children to wash their hands, to emphasize the hand cleanliness before having meal.
Let's call it a day! After the snacks time, will be time to go home! Since this is our very first Reading Program, so, we have a round of photo snapping session! What a great time we have had together!
So, let's check out the pictures
MY Reading Program's classic - STORY TELLING "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"
Jiva, one of our volunteer is, a teacher of SK Serian. He discipline the children so well! As he used to be very serious and stern during the school, now, finally the kids can see his smiling in this Reading Program on Saturday!
Above all, we HOPE worldwide Malaysia with the children of MY Reading Program, would like to express our deepest gratitude to CIMB Bank, for funding us, in order to expand MY Reading Program to Nationwide!
More cities we are heading on our way! Stay tune with us, with more updates on MY Reading Program, sponsored by CIMB!
See you soon!
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