Tunalea Daycare

Contact Information-0787170227

Tunalea DAycare is located almost 7 miles from the CCS Rau Home base.

They take in children of ages between 3 – 6 years old, most of whom are coming from the community working class families and farmers. The school serves as a care center while parents are busy in their daily work. Currently there are 45 children and some of them are orphans. The school is in dire need of volunteers to assist and give advice in day to day running of the center.

The school runs between 8.30 and 11.00 am.

Volunteer Activities:
• To assist resident teacher in teaching basic literacy (i.e. writing, reading, counting, shapes, colors)
• Providing physical activities to a group of children.
• Playing games with the children and have fun
• Work hand-in-hand with the Tanzanian teacher to develop pre-school activities and materials that can be used.
• Providing personal presentation and experience to the children and teacher for cultural and educational exchange.

Supplies and Equipment

• Readily designed group activities with facilitator instructions, ready for review and implementation.
• Supplies for physical education activities, music for different activities
• Toys/things to be used for teaching different activities
• Materials for painting

Attributes:
• Love of children and a flair for teaching
• Patience with children and ability to provide effective classroom management
• ESL teaching skills are important and ability to adjust your speech to a very low of annunciation
• Creativity in the design of learning activities with very little supplies or modern equipment

Other notes
The volunteer should speak slowly and not take it for granted that the pupils understand what they’re saying. Find new and creative ways of teaching English. The kids really thrive on positive feedback to build their confidence.

It is important to balance maintaining control in the class and reinforcing the children’s learning.

The children have memorized songs about ABC and colors, but they do not really understand what they are singing. It would be good to reinforce these topics.

It is good to take the children into a small group and teach them. When the kids are all in one room it is difficult to teach and maintain order. In the beginning, the work is challenging, but you will love the kids and you will get a lot of pleasure from seeing the kids learn.

Volunteers have also found that the kids are curious about volunteer’s skin and hair and may like to touch you! It is a good way to bond and also give them exposure to people of different cultures.