English Club in the kitchen

The cherries and the strawberries baking scones in the kitchen.

Two future bakers?

Baking involves teamwork (Mangos)

You can't bake scones without involving your hands!

The Pineapples puttning their last touch to their scones.

At the tracks

Every Friday at 3.45 pm it is time for Centru Tbexbix's athletics program. Here are some pictures from the lesson last week.

The wizard of lies

Since the theme of February was truth, several activities during the lessons, especially in English Club, have been connected to this topic. Highly appreciated was the photo story called the Wizard of Lies created by Jill and the Strawberries which you can see below.

The Wizard of Lies

Once there was a powerful wizard of lies.

He was searching for the most honest child in his town to become his new assistant.

He spoke his magic spell, so that every time a person lies one body part became really big.

He met many liars, like Mr Alfonso...

...or Mrs. Wumba.

But finally he met the most honest person in his town and took her to his castle, where they lived a happy life without lies.

The end

Thanks to all participants (both in front of and behind the camera!)

               

In the company of cinderellas, cowboys and clowns

Two weeks ago was the time for carnival here in Malta. Of course we at Centru Tbexibix wanted to take part in the celebration so we hosted our own carnival party for the children. The turn out proved to be even better than expected with about 35 children showing up in various creative costumes and for an hour and half they enjoyed themselves with dancing, playing games etc.

Green fingers

It is not only the children that get to learn new things at the centre. Sometimes the volunteers also have the opportunity to try something new, like last Wednesday when David held a workshop on how to take care of and replant the plants of the centre.The initial skepticism of some of the participants quickly vanished and everyone soon got their fingers dirty and enjoyed themselves taking care of the "baby plants".

Thank you David for an interesting and useful workshop!

Music for body and soul

Tuesday afternoon  the centre vibrated with music and the tunes of The Lion Sleeps Tonight filled the air. Both children and volunteers joined in as our friend Deborah, an American singer, came and held one of her popular workshops with the children.

Deborah

The children got the chance to play an instrument

What has aboriginal art, yoga and Germany in common?

Answer: They were all part of Centru Tbexbix’s Yoga Shoots of Wednesday 25th Jan.

On this day we at Centru Tbexbix had the great pleasure of welcoming a class from our own neighbourhood, Bormla. The Yoga Shoots was divided into three parts. Our volunteers Nika, Arianna and Alice introduced the children to yoga, while Sophie told them more about her home country, Germany. The children also had the chance to sing a German song.

In Laila and Sonja’s Arts & Crafts, the children had a lot of fun making aboriginal art with animals. First they saw some pictures to get inspiration, and then they had a go of it themselves. The results you can see down below.

One of the teachers from Bormla Primary School later wrote:

It was a very interesting and enjoyable program full of learning activities. All the learning activities were well organized and I'm sure the students had a great time.