On Monday, we started a project with the kids, that we will have ready for the end of camp. One of our children, Emmanuel, was tasked with tracing the TOHH logo on a piece of banner paper. He is so artistic and loved doing this!
Then, we had each child choose a color and place their handprint on the tree! Tree of Hope Haiti believes that "one seed sown produces a harvest of many." These children are the fruit of the TOHH tree, and we are so proud of each and every one of them!
On Tuesday, the kids learned adjectives! They have been working so hard learning the verb "to be," so now, using their adjectives, they are able to form short sentences in English! How exciting is that?!
On Wednesday, the children started using their new English words to write sentences. They chose their favourite animal, and wrote three sentences about it! They did such an amazing job! Here you can see that Penthia wrote three sentences about her goat "She is nice," "She is smart" and "She is a girl!"
The younger kids worked on writing their names, as they cannot yet write sentences. They are very artistic and their drawings are beautiful!
On Thursday, the older and younger children split up into two groups. The older children read two books. The first one was Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? They caught on so fast to this story. They were able to understand, even though it was in English! The second book they read was One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish. Some of our most advanced children, Widleson, Emmanuel, and Donaldoni helped translate and read the story to the class in Creole!
During this time the younger children read the story Rooster's Off to See The World. The children read the book in French, which is called Le Coq Qui Voulait Voyager. This book helped them practice their subtraction skills.
On Friday, the children read another story: The Giving Tree! After that, they split up into groups. The older children got to create a superhero and write three sentences about their superhero. They really got into this, and were even playing superheroes outside during free time!
Meanwhile, the younger children learned a new song: Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes! They had already learned the song in Creole, so now it was time to learn it in English.
On Saturday, the children in the community came for a movie night! They just love movies! Today, we watched The Incredibles. The looks on their faces are so joyful, as they laughed at all the silly parts :)
This week, we visited three homes. The first home is a TOHH home built by Team Vitello in August 2015. You may remember this house, because we visited them on July 13th, and posted an update about the family.
During that visit, the mother told us she was six months pregnant. When we checked in on them this week, she told us that she had had her baby on July 18th - just five days after we visited the first time! She told us that she had her baby at home all by herself.
The second home we visited was Terravil's house. We have gone to see this family before because Terravil's sister, Berlandie, was sponsored. This week, Terravil was sponsored, so we went to tell his family the good news! If you would like to see the video of us revealing his sponsorship, click this link!
This week, we were also blessed to have two of our child sponsors come visit us here in Haiti: Chelle and Carleen!
Chelle sponsors Didi and Demas, and Carleen sponsors Dodo and Ketlove. The children were so excited to spend time with their sponsors, and open up some presents!
Cassandra helped the children show Carleen and Chelle all the hard work they've been doing in class. The kids loved this and were so proud of themselves!
The third home we went to belonged to our two sponsored twin girls, Nathalie and Nathacha! They live with their mom and dad, along with an older sister and brother. Their parents were so full of joy to have us stop by! When we entered their yard, we saw that they had a new swing to play on - how fun! All the kids enjoy playing with this :)
Lastly, we visited a new store that just opened here in our community! Up in the mountains, there are often few stores and people must travel down into the town to buy necessities. Having a store in our area is hugely convenient for our community. Here, you can buy rice, flour, oil, magi, macaroni, and more! We have been watching this store be built for the past month and we are happy that it's now up and running! This really the development of our community.
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