Jinsho Exchange Activity

Today was the first in four days of exchange activities with JIES Grade 3 and Jinsho Grade 2.  This time JIES students are teaching the Jinsho students about some international games.  The games that we all decided on together were Basketball, Foosball, Percussion Cups, and Hot Potato.  One student from each group is in charge of being the expert/leader for one game and teaches it to Jinsho using only English, hand gestures and through example.  Some of the games have fairly complicated instructions which makes it challenging to teach when the students have limited English ability.  The JIES students need to be tolerant, empathetic and patient when teaching.  Besides this difficulty, all the students had fun playing the games on the first day and reflecting on how to explain and make them better for the next day.