"The best way to teach is by example. The best way to learn is by doing."
On a Friday morning after midterm exams I help Teacher Margaret and 48 Top Class students make modeling clay and use it to "make models." We have a wonderful time for about two hours, and we all learn many important school and life lessons from this experience. We take about 80 pictures and make a slideshow with music to watch many times and to show our families.
Teams of boys and girls take turns digging clay with a shovel and carrying buckets of clay.
We mix clay and water to get just the right consistency for modeling clay.
Then students make large balls of clay for each small group.
Each group divides the large balls into individual balls for each student.
Teacher Margaret gives directions: "Make something you want."
Isaac is busy working on his model.
A cellphone! Cellphones are very popular.
All the models are drying in the Top Class classroom.
Students are volunteering to tell about what they made.
Teacher Margaret is completing her final term of practice teaching: excellent teacher.
Teacher Marilyn has made a new dish for her earrings.
We are dancing in the sunshine today in Mityana, Uganda.
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