Best of Both Worlds: Alabama Team Recap 2: English club

The second aspect to this week (in addition to being in the classes) was English club. We took the opportunity while in the classes to invite students to our evening festivities. We had English club on three different nights, with three different themes: games, art, and music. I only have a few pictures from art night and music night...I was emcee-ing each night and didn't get in on all of the camera action, unfortunately. We had games, activities, group discussions, live music from Amiee and Adam. It was really great. Vova shared at the end of each evening, and we were able to visit with a lot of students.

On art night, our first activity was "match stick" art. Each group was given 10 match sticks, a piece of cardstock, and some glue. They had to create a picture out of their matches. They were super creative and had a great time!

More art. Lovely friends.

Mrs. Joyce, Dawn, Katya, and Katya. They made a butterfly.

One example. Title: Girl Doing the Splits. Ha!

In honor of Huntsville, the Rocket City, one team made a rocket. Precious.

Me and Nastia- ensuring that no one was cheating. They sometimes do that...

Ok, there's a story behind this next project. I went to a conference about doing student outreach. One of the ideas was a group art project. The people leading the conference said that it didn't really work for them. I thought it would be super for Ukraine, though. So, I came up with an idea and pitched to Mom. She then took the idea and made it concrete. The plan: The students were going to be divided into groups, and each group would have a small part of the project to complete. We didn't tell them what the end result would be. They worked on the part assigned to them, following the pattern on their specific pieces of paper.