After having breakfast at your accommodation, you will head to your childcare placement, which is close by and located in the same area.
Depending on where you are during your stay will determine what your day-to-day might look like. Typically, volunteers will spend the first part of their stay focusing on developing an understanding of the key challenges and ways in which the school operates, to contribute sustainably. This could mean in the beginning, you work more alongside the teacher, observing and enjoying playtime with the children. As your time goes on, you will be able to become more heavily involved, perhaps helping run activities, lessons, units, and more.
The children attend school up until noon. Therefore, also being an Inquiry school, the day is generally broken into 5 main blocks:
- Start the day with a fun exploration-based activity to promote wonder and questions in children.
- Following this, the children will move into Literacy, where they will focus the learning activities around exploration or play-based activities.
- The children then break for porridge.
- After porridge, the play-based learning continues, however focusing on developing their early childhood math.
- Finally, the day is wrapped up with games, play, songs, or any other fun winding-down activities before the children head home!
After 12, you will head back to the accommodation, where you can spend your free time with other travelers, exploring the city, relaxing, and many continue working on developing ideas, resources, and activities for your school in the afternoons also.
At the accommodation, there are several weekend tours, safaris, daily activities, and events which you can also join to make the most of your time here in Tanzania.
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