what did I learn?

I learned how to find resources when none exist. 

We had newspaper, we had glue sticks, we had scissors.  We could make collages. 

We had jigsaw puzzles.  These teachers had never done a jigsaw puzzle before.

We had some plastic donated garages, lego-type materials, stuffed animals.  We could build with these materials. We could play with these materials, dramatic play.  We could share our stories, and we could become a community of story-tellers. 

We had some Montessori materials. We could match and seriate these materials.  We even had a set of 3-part cards! 

We had some finger puppets that I had bought with my daughter, Leslie, in a market in Mexico. We could dramatize some stories. 

There are NO TRAYS available in Kpondo...  but there are plastic baggies.  I considered substituting these baggies for trays.  This would keep the dust and sand off the materials.  

Did I mention that dust and sand was blowing everywhere, particularly before the rains.