SPW volunteers in Pułtusk

Since there are winter holidays for two weeks in Poland in January - it also means that some children might spend more time in day care centers. They come earlier – to be there for the time they would otherwise be in schools. That’s why volunteers from SPW decided to go and spend some time in Pułtusk to help our friends – volunteers from FYIE with their activities in day care center Świetlica.

Last week on Tuesday Dominik, EVS volunteer from Czech Republic, made presentation about his country. I was not there so cannot write in details.. :)

On Thursday I made short presentation about Slovakia. I showed to children some pictures of interesting places from my country - for instance some symbols of our Capital Bratislava, pictures of Tatras, caves, castles, Janosik and also our Slovak fairy tale characters: Matko a Kubko – which they understood as Slovak version of Lolek i Bolek :) There were also some pictures of Slovakian traditional food. Unfortunately it was not possible to have the real food. No time to cook :)

Veronika, volunteer in day care center, helped me with translation to Polish

Children in day care center

Then we watched and listened to song from Macko Uško /Miś Uszatek in both languages – Slovak and Polish, so children could have heard the difference and compare it. (In Slovakia this fairy tale is very popular, I believe every kid knows it – and actually, when I was a child I thought it was Slovak fairy tale :) )

Maťko a Kubko vs. Lolek i Bolek :)

 

I hope we all learnt something – children (and also teachers in the center) something new about Slovakia; and me –  how to deal with children and how to speak and understand Polish if I "have to".  :) (Children were asking me someting when Veronika - who helped with translating - was not around.) So this was my first day in the center.

In the evening we played few funny board games - there was opportunity for young people from Pułtusk to join us and play along.

The best moments happened while playing Dobble – the game where you have to name the same objects at different cards – everyone was telling names of the objects in her/his own language. So we learnt how to say some words in Polish, English, Slovak, Czech and Russian. It was good and funny way how to learn languages a bit – and also how to spend nice time together.

Hard times - everyone wants to be a winner!

On Friday we went to the day care center as well - to play a bit with the children again, to teach those who were interested a bit of Slovak and Russian language and draw a bit with them.

This week there are other SPW volunteers in day care center Świetlica in Pułtusk – Fatima from Portugal and Alisa from Germany. They both will  introduce something from their countires so children now have really intercultural and international experience - we hope they are enjoying it. :)