Guest blog by Brenda Blair, early childhood teacherDecember 27, 2016 to January 8, 2017 I was in Sierra Leone with SLFND. We started out in the city of Bo where I me the 10 people from Mondema village who were selected to be teachers of the Dovelema Early Childhood Center. Kim Kokett, another preschool teacher and I met with the teachers for a couple of days going over early childhood development and activities children can do at different age levels. We used preschool materials brought with us to demonstrate what children can do when. The teachers had never seen the materials before either (bristle blocks, potato heads, lacing shapes, a parachute, magnifying glasses, felt boards and story pieces) so had a great time trying them out. The parachute was especially fun, we asked them to think of ways to use it and we found out they know many of the nursery rhymes that American children know and we did movements with the parachute to the some familiar nursery rhyme songs.
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