We've been awfully busy over here at The Toa Nafasi Project this month of March. So much so that I've still not found time to post an entry about our excellent fifth anniversary celebration and now the recent International Women's Day festivities. Bear with me as I negotiate these hectic days and do my best to prioritize all the things that need to get done!
The most pressing of all tasks at the moment is to complete the intake at our four participating schools sites in Moshi Municipal district, Kilimanjaro region: Msaranga, Msandaka, Mnazi, and Kiboriloni Primary Schools.
All four headmasters have been greeted and schmoozed. Ditto all sixteen Standard One and Two teachers in the regular classrooms. Nothing left to do but the job at hand: taking the names and photos of each child in the 2018 Standard One registry, and completing an observation form for each student, noting things like appearance, behavior, gross and fine motor skills, and of course, aptitude in basic literacy and numeracy.
We've done it many years before (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017), and we'll do it again now, but it's an awful lot of work and takes more than a bit of time.
Still, I love this sort of ripple before the full tide of the work sweeps over. I get to see the kids for the first time and witness little glimpses into their minds and personalities.
Here are a few new faces from 2018. I'm guessing each one of these little people has his or her own way of looking at the world. Starting with the blackboard....
I. Eye
II. Tree
III. Winds
IV. One
V. Beauty
VI. Mood
VII. Imagine
VIII. Noble
IX. Sight
X. Flying
XI. Shadow
XII. River
XIII. Snow
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