AMKFSC Letter Friend

On the 18th of December, the YAP set off for Raffles Institution(RI) to begin our Letter Friend Project with the Ang Mo Kio Family Service Centre(AMKFSC). This project was initially a test run of teaching English to children with little or no prior English speaking experience. This was to be done when we go to our worktrip in the World Vision's ADP in Thailand next year(which we are excited about!)

At around 10AM, children all full of energy bounced into RI with their parents and family in tow. Looking back, we would never have thought these kids that aged from 4-8 years of age were all from low income families. During registration, our young participants were given a goodie bag each with food items, where they were being introduced to the alphabet that the first letter of the word was. Such as, 'B' for biscuit.

Following that, we started our games that incorporated the letters of the alphabet.

Due to privacy reasons, we are unable to upload pictures of the participants.

Our YA, Nicolette is demonstrating how to use the paints and sponges to fill up the letter H

The completed masterpiece done by the participants!

The mess that was being left after the chaotic but extremely fun sponge painting!

Other games like Word Rush, where participants had to play dog and bone-Letter Friend Style!

Playing other games like London Bridge, to allow our YAs to interact with the children, while being able to teach them some English, especially the sounds that each letter makes.

Our last, finale game was LETTER SNAKES AND LADDERS! Where all the kids had a chance to use the big dice we made, in order to reach the finishing point! However, they had to identify the letter on each space before advancing, serving as a revision, for what they had learnt. They also had to beware of the snakes and get a little boost from the ladders!

Our very own dice! made extra big for extra big snakes and ladders!

It was finally time for some lunch for both our YAs, volunteers and participants!

And our YAs were on hand to serve some tasty lunch to all!

Finally, we could all sit down and take a break, to enjoy each other's company!

The YAs and the volunteers of AMKFSC.

Our YAs, all tired but satisfied and heart warmed by the events of the day!

We want to thank AMKFSC for giving us an opportunity to work with them, cause it was definitely enjoyable for all of us, YAs who experienced the joy of making new friends (despite our age differences:))and also the joy of sharing what we knew, and sometimes take for granted(like our language) to those that don't have the opportunity!