Window on America Center Tours

 On October 28 and 29 Sumy Window on America Center run 2 tours for pupils of 6 and 8 forms of secondary school №17. Our center is a fun and interesting place for kids and families. Our center offers more than just books; there are many services, programs and resources available to help to like learning, reading, foreign languages. Our events are usually fun, exciting and educational. Children were introduced to the various center services and collection. Also they had a great fun playing Kinect games.

Pumpkin Carving Day

On 26 of October we gathered at the Window on America Center for Pumpkin Carving Day. PC volunteer David told about the history and traditions of the holiday, the way he and his family celebrate the Halloween in the United States. David showed how to do pumpkin carving and invited everybody to try. Those who visited the master class started to work with pleasure. It was the most exciting part of the event and the results were fantastic. All pumpkin decorations were different and excellent.

Teachers from Sumy region visited Window on America Center

Teachers from Sumy region visited Window on American Center for the first time. Our guests got to know about the main objectives of the Center - to provide information about the United States, to maintain an open dialog through programs, to provide access to English-language resources, computers,the Internet. We told the teachers about the resources of the American Center, which were designed to help them in their work, spoke about the activities of the Center for patrons. Leaving many participants said that they discovered Window on American Center and  they will be happy to visit it again with their students.

English Games Night

15 people came to our first week of English Game night.  We started with Kinnect games, and played darts, and rafting on the television.  Then because we had a good number of people arrive, we decided to split the group into two groups and half of us played Uno while the other group continued to play Kinnect games. This was very successful as some people had never played UNO before.

On 21 of October we completed a world geography puzzle together and then we split into groups and played the following games: Scrabble, Taboo, and A 10 day trip across America.  We will play some new games for next week, so come see which new games we will play!

Conversation Circle

 Our English-Speaking Club named Conversation Circle started to work In September. Now it is led by the new Peace Corps volunteer Ashley Wichman. There were four meetings of the club in this month.  The topic of the first meeting on September 4^th was “Introduction”. Ashley introduced herself and told about her plans as for the work of the club. Old members and friends met and new ones introduced themselves. Communication is a real fun especially when it borders with the mastering of English and it is the main goal of our club. Topic “Travelling” was discussed during the second meeting. Mostly people told how they spend summer, where they traveled, spared impressions and discussed future plans. The third and the fourth meetings of the Conversation Circle on September 18^th and 25^th were devoted to the discussing of the topics “Life Goals” and “Winter Sports”.

Pumpkin Carving Day

 

Books Donation

  We would like to express our sincere appreciation to Martha and Don who donated books to our Window on America Center. Thank you so much for the books.  They arrived in excellent condition. We are absolutely thrilled at the selection. Now we have full list of the Harry Potter books.

Thank you for your interest in donating to the Window on America Center!

Thank you again for supporting the Center!