New Day School starts again!

Oh no, it's been a week since I've written a blog!!! See, if you read my last post, you'll see that pride goeth before a fall. ;)

Well, there is anticipation in the air here at New Day as we prepare to start back to school tomorrow with new teachers! Here is a breakdown of what is happening.

Wes & Blu created a makeshift second classroom in the dining hall because we have divided the kids into 4 groups. The teachers have been doing assessments and the groups are as follows:

Star Class (Nursery/Pre-K): Axer & Cason, taught by Ms. Diana & Hildah

Sunshine Class (Early Kindergarten): Misheck, Junior, Kelitah, & Cynthia, taught by Ms. Carolyn & Abby

Moonlight Class (Late Kindergarten): Laurie, Cambree, Purity, Sisi, Muchoni, & Sankwa, taught by Ms. Diana & Hildah

Rainbow Class (Late 1st grade): Caedmon & Machila, taught by Ms. Carolyn & Abby

The kids will be in classes for 2 hours a morning where they will be taught phonics, reading, math, handwriting, and Tonga. The other 2 hours of the morning they will be outside doing their electives: P.E., Bible, Art/Music, Life Skills, & Tutorials/Reading. These classes will be taught by Mulenga, Elizabeth, Michelle, Blu, Darbi, Wes, Laurie, Kalenga, Debbie, and summer volunteers.

The kids will have a lunch break and will then return to school as a large group for science and social studies.

We have several goals with this new system. The underlying goal is of course to provide our kids with the absolute best education possible. Another goal is to have our Zambian teachers learn technique from our American teachers and our American teachers to learn cultural teaching from our Zambian teachers. Another goal is for our early Kindergarten to be caught up to the late Kindergarten class in a few months so that when we bring 8 new orphans into the mix, they will fit right into the Kindergarten class...

Did that give you a headache? :) Be in prayer for us at New Day this week as we start this new schedule, work out the kinks, and the teachers form relationships with the kids and fellow teachers!

This afternoon, after seeing a friend's post on facebook about crayon making, we decided to try some for ourselves - we'll see how they turn out! :)

Cambree has always been our fruit girl. She LOVES Zambian guavas! :)