The young visitors once again excited the DOUNB library's silence. A regular training session for younger schoolchildren took place at “Window on America” Center. The “Grass-Hoppers” Club penetrated deeper into the topic "Ukraine’s Tourist Attractions" with WOA’s volunteer Anna Motorina.
We enlarged our stories with adjectives. Anna supported us with her ideas how to write the advertisement brochure. We believe that the parents of our club members will also contribute to this activity at home.
She told the club members in English about the capital of Ukraine - Kyiv, Cossacks’ Khortytsya, Kamyanets-Podilskyi castle, musical fountains of Vinnitsa, the landscape park "Sofiyivka".
The best responses were graded in American style – with A, B, C.
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The second session of the revived Grasshoppers Club took place at WOA Dnipro this afternoon.
The session was prepared and moderated by WOA’s volunteer Anna Motorina, a fluent speaker of English and a high school student (Dnipro’s School #), ready to share her knowledge.
The session consisted of several types of language activities, new vocabulary introduction, cognitive videos watching, games and active discussion.
The topic of the second session was “Weekend”. The young learners aged 9-11 also learned new verbs, which helped them to form sentences and tell about what they like to do on weekends. We also had prompting pictures, of which we created a collage, and we plan to use it in the next session.
The things children liked most in the library - singing together with characters of the educational video “What do you like to do?” and playing a board game “Scrabble”.
It was exciting!
The next session will be held on Thursday, 15th March at 3 pm.
Number of participants – 8 (children and parents).
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Within the frame work of the project "Summer with "Window on America" WOA Dnipro was visited by group of summer camp children from schools No.23.
The DOUNB Library staff prepared a surprise for them – a cartoon about library’s rules, video about tourist attractions of Washington D.C., the kids had a chance to see books for children, and learn many new English words from cartoon Goldilocks. The educational videos helped to have fun and learn correct pronunciation of the English words.
Participants number – 20 persons.
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Within the frame work of the project "Summer with "Window on America" WOA Dnipro was visited by 3 groups of summer camp children from schools No.23 and No.99.
The DOUNB Library staff prepared a surprise for them – a tour of the DOUNB Library. The kids had a chance to see how a 3D printer works at the “Maker Space”. They learned how to tell in English about the tourist attractions of the Dnipro region. They have demonstrated their knowledge of the US geography and history.
The children actively responded to the questions of moderators, demonstrated their knowledge of spoken English. The educational videos helped to have fun and learn correct pronunciation of the English words.
The children sang, danced, happily clapped hands.
Participants number – 50 persons
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Within the frame work of the project "Summer with "Window on America" WOA Dnipro was visited by a big group of summer camp children from school No.23.
The DOUNB Library staff prepared a surprise for them – educational games dedicated to beloved pet and delicious fruit! The children actively responded to the tasks, demonstrated their knowledge of the English vocabulary. The educational videos helped to have fun and learn correct pronunciation of the English words.
The information was adapted for the children's age; it contained educational and entertaining elements with pauses. The children sang, danced, happy clapped hands. The Library’s "smart board» was a hit. The kids had to make a line to provide access to the smart board to all willing to answer interactive questions.
Participants number – 80 persons
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Within the frame work of the project "Summer with "Window on America" WOA Dnipro was visited by a group of summer camp children from school No.99.
The DOUNB Library staff prepared a surprise for them – educational games dedicated to beloved pet and delicious fruit! The children actively responded to the tasks, demonstrated their knowledge of the English vocabulary. The educational videos helped to have fun and learn correct pronunciation of the English words.
The information was adapted for the children's age; it contained educational and entertaining elements with pauses. The children sang, danced, happy clapped hands. The Library’s "smart board» was a hit. The kids had to make a line to provide access to the smart board to all willing to answer interactive questions.
Participants number – 25 persons
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English fun for visitors from Summer Camps. Dnipro city schools help kids to practice English during summer holidays – they organize visits to WOA Dnipro.
The "Window on America" Dnipro continues educational and recreational activities for students at the school summer camps.
Children from the local school № 99 listened to the slide show presentation "Dnipro City in Ukraine". The objective of the presentation was to teach the kids the basics of cross-cultural communication. They should be prepared to introduce their home country and home town to foreign guests.
We reminded the kids in English about the tourist attractions of Dnipro city and peculiarities of Ukrainian cuisine.
The WOA’s young visitors particularly enjoyed the English vocabulary game with a SMART-board recently installed at the DOUNB Library. Children took turns performing fun tasks. The most active students received souvenirs to remember the visit to WOA.
Participants number – 20 persons.
This afternoon the WOA’s volunteer Mr. Oleksiy offered the second coding session for children within the CodeClub.UA framework in Window on America center in Dnipro, Ukraine.
The kids familiarized themselves with the functions of the SCRATCH program. Scratch is a free visual programming language developed by the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Media Lab. Scratch is used by students, scholars, teachers, and parents to easily create animations, games, etc. It provides a stepping stone to the more advanced world of computer programming.
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Kids' Code Club started at Dnipro WOA!
This afternoon the WOA’s volunteer Mr. Oleksiy offered the coding session for children within the CodeClub.UA framework in Window on America center in Dnipro, Ukraine.
The kids familiarized themselves with the functions of the SCRATCH program. Scratch is a free visual programming language developed by the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Media Lab. Scratch is used by students, scholars, teachers, and parents to easily create animations, games, etc. It provides a stepping stone to the more advanced world of computer programming.
Information and Resource Center "Window on America" (Dnipro Ukraine) prepared for students of school № 141 an educational and entertainment presentation «Winter in our city».
WOA’s Head Svetlana Usenko and the WOA’s volunteer Sergiy Barabash demonstrated to the children how one can have fun and study English in winter, even when the winter holidays are over.
For two lessons the students watched a slide show and entertaining videos. They have learned many new words for the topic “Winter”, drilled the new words, actively answered the questions. The sessions were interactive as the students were not afraid to use the microphone while answering questions. The students enjoyed the videos about birds and animals that live in the Arctic. The kids were offered to sing along English songs about winter and they did it with pleasure.
The WOA’s visit took place a few days before the Valentine's Day. The children greeted the WOA representatives with warm wishes and Valentine cards! The WOA’s volunteer Sergiy received the biggest number of Valentine cards!
Participants number – 142 persons.
