The week of Christmas, Yanik, one of our local translators, made a full schedule of all kinds of activities. I asked if a reading competition could go in the plans, and we had a great turn out. I assumed that a handful of kids would be brave enough to compete after our few weeks of practicing in their weekly literacy class, but parents somehow got all the kids to be a part of it. I had 42 kids from K-12th read various things according to their age. Three judges joined me and did an awesome job. All the kids got alphabet book/songs and a fun pen just for participating, and winners got to choose from other prizes. The adult competition is scheduled for March 22!
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| Kids prepping for the competition. |
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| I asked Jenita to lead the kids in singing the alphabet song with our alphabet book while I tallied the judges scores for the competition. |
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| Judges organizing our tallies. I asked George, on of our local translators, along with my literacy helper, Nini, and a new helper Jowed to judge the kids' competition. Yanik, in the foreground, MC-ed the event for us. |
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| The boy, Edmon, to the right of Jesiah, won the competition with his fantastic reading. |
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| Maria just graduated this year from a high school in Vila. She came home for Christmas and participated in the reading competition. |
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| Kids chatting and waiting for final scores to be read out. |
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