Amani Preschool

We've been teaching preschool here at Amani for the past few months. Our class has about 12 kids, ages 2.5-5 years. Class begins at 9am and finishes at 11, with a small snack at 10. We usually do a learning activity, story time, and a craft each day. The children enjoy learning, like hearing stories, but they live for arts and crafts!!! We often have to remind the children that school is not a time for hugs and kisses and telling the aunties that they love us. We have to save all of that for after school or we would never get anything done.
A friend from home, Tiffany Hanson, was very generous and donated tons of new books to the children! They have loved the stories and the favorite so far was a really cool book about all the different kinds of hair that children have around the world. While reading the book we told them to shout, "that's my hair," when they saw hair that was like theirs. They loved seeing children who looked like them. The craft that day was to decorate their own crazy hair onto a head! They thought it was the most hilarious thing ever. We love our preschoolers and will miss hearing them tell us their ABC's, counting and singing songs while we are gone in Sudan. The children say "Thanks Auntie TIff!"