Games Day

On 12 of June Sumy Window on America center was visited by the high school students. In summer when the time of vacations and holidays comes, our center becomes a favorite place of leisure activity for many schoolchildren. They just came to the library to learn some new games. We showed and tested  new collection of board games such as “Taboo” and “Monopoly”, also our guests collected puzzle map of the United States. Our staff and schoolchildren worked together to help each other to learn new games because the best way to learn new game is in a group. We had a great fun playing board games!

 

New information and fun for children

On June 3^rd Sumy Window on America Center run two tours for pupils of the 6^th and 11^th forms of the school №2 and the tour for the pupils of the 9^th form from the school №17. On the whole our Centre visited 78 children. We told them about printed resources of the Sumy WOA and made brief demonstrations of the Kindles and iPads.  Besides we gave them information about Rosetta Stone program designed to help learn English and told about work of the PC volunteers in Sumy, about our clubs and courses of foreign languages. After that each group of children played Kinect games.

Conversation Circle

There were four meetings of the Conversation Circle in May. During the first one on May 8^th the members of the club played the card game “Uno”. During the second meeting on May 15^th topic “What I am going to do in summer” was discussed. After that the members of the Circle played the game “Mad Lips”. The third and the fourth meetings of the Conversation Circle on May 22^nd and 29^th were also devoted to the developing talkative habits during the playing learning games such as “Hot Seat”, “M’n M’s” and others. The fourth meeting was the last one under the leadership of Jennifer Alton. She is leaving for home after two years in Ukraine. Members of the Conversation Circle wished her good luck. We are very grateful Jane for her active participation in the work of our Conversation Circle. The meetings of the club have been extremely fascinating and everybody really enjoyed them. A lot of various interesting topics and situations that were of great use for the English learners were discussed during the latest period. Good luck, Jane!!!

English - Speaking Club

Welcome to English-Speaking Club. Our club is not lesson, our club is games, dialogs, it will help you to speak. Last month we had a variety of topics discussed. We ask our PC volunteer David to tell some words about our last meeting.

Resources for studying English.

On May 30, Window on American center hosted meeting with high school students. Our guests learned about the main objectives of the Centre - to be a partner in promoting mutual understanding between Ukrainian and American people, to provide accurate information about the United States, to provide access to English resources. . We presented “American English” website and eLibraryUSA to which all Window on America centers in Ukraine were signed up by the Department of State. We also presented Kindle and iPads and students got especially interested in an educational game Spelling Star available at the Kindle, which helps to improve language skills.

Fun and informative programs for kids.

On 27, 28, 29 of May we run tours for kids to help them explore our collections. The events were attended by schoolchildren aged 10-13. Kids had fun with books, iPads, board and Kinect games. We hope that visiting the Window on America center motivated our guests to study English language, and know the USA better.

Spelling Bee

On 22 of May we were glad to host meeting with kids from Classical gymnasium. Our meeting was devoted to Spelling Bee, a competition in which contestants are asked to spell words. The concept is thought to have originated in the United States and Spelling Bee events are now held in many countries around the world. Participants of this event could not only get the information about the history and rules of Spelling Bee, watched movie trailer about Spelling Bee but also took part in contest, which was organized by PC volunteer David. After our contest kids played Kinect games with David. All of them left the Window on America center in the wonderful mood.