Beyond Tutoring

Our beyond tutoring team has been experiencing some unexpected hurdles with our project this month. Most of us have been going to the Wednesday night tutoring session to meet the kids and introduce ourselves to everyone.  After talking to the Reverend of the church facility we hope to use we realized how much more complicated our project was than simply inviting some kids to have fun with us on a Saturday morning.  We first had to check to see if it was alright to use the church as a gathering place.  The Reverend said we could as long as we had all the kids and their parents sign liability forms.  He also wanted us to send in a detailed plan so that he could talk to the kids’ parents, and have them be comfortable allowing the kids come join our project.  We have spent the last month coming up with plans for each Saturday.  We also prepared the liability forms and a flyer for the Reverend to give out directly to the parents.

We decided on having a theme for our project with the kids “Globe Trekkers”. Every meeting we will introduce a country or region of the world and have interesting facts as well as an activity that relates to the country or region.  We also plan on providing the kids with a passport booklet for them to keep and update throughout the year.  They can tape or draw in pictures, write interesting facts, and keep a memento of what all we have discovered about each place. They can also earn stickers by winning games to add to their journal. After accumulating so many stickers, they can receive a prize. 

We got the Reverend’s approval for using the church as a meeting place, and we are now waiting for all the liability forms to be returned to us before we can have our first Saturday meeting with the kids. We are scheduled to have our first session on October 23, and we will be learning all about the country of South Africa!