Inside the Classroom

Students wear school uniforms.Part of their dress code is shaved heads for both boys and girls. It's a good plan, considering how hot and humid as it is. English is the official language of Kenya, but is the children's third language: the first is their tribal dialect (there are 42 different dialects), Swahili, then English.

I taught a couple of hands-on math lessons: one using tangrams that the students created from patty papers, the other an area lesson culminating in finding the area of a hand.

A couple of students linger after class (missing recess...) to get the seven tangram pieces back into a square.