Our Wednesday Football coaching has been going very well! A huge thanks to Coach Peter for offering to teach these skills, and a hearty well done to those who have been learning!
Coach Peter shows football/soccer skills to DHE participants
The DHE got a chance to step out with archeologist Kathryn Pricee to discover what’s being dug up from the pre-history scene in Qatar. Kathryn and the team from the University of Birmingham are trying to uncover the ancient past of Qatar’s north. Our field trip to Zubara allowed us to be part of the process.
Mothers need their education, too! Thanks to one of our members, we got to have a soap making demonstration at our most recent Mums’ night. Chemistry, history, and cleanliness, all rolled into one. And good food and great company to boot!
Our lovely demonstrator shows us how it's done
Look what we did!
Doha Home Educators has now finished our biggest and most involved co-operative learning session EVEH!!
A huge thanks to our members who took on the herculean tasks of coordinating, and another big thanks to all our teachers. Final thanks to everyone who pitched in for the closing party – what a blast! Another co-op is coming up – watch this space!
Butch shows off his art work from Art class
Certificates being given for our Thinkg Games class
Some of the group spent an educational and relaxing day at the Doha Zoo. The zoo here is a little oasis of lovely gardens, trees and vast stretches of lawned areas.
Week 3 of our etiquette lessons finds us actively learning about ‘introductions’. This topic has bought up a lot of questions, not only from the children but also from the parents as there was so much to take in and learn for all age groups.
Living as we do in a culture very different from what most of us were raised in, has it’s own relevance to how introductions should and shouldn’t be done and our children take this all in their stride.
We learnt how to introduce:
- yourself
- family to other people
- girls to boys
- younger people to older people
- friends to work colleagues
- people to people in authority
and also to wear our name tags on our right hand side up near our shoulder because this is the hand you shake and you can easily see someone’s name tag this way.
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One of our mothers is running a weekly course on Social Graces. She will be teaching our children some of the life skills to help them to become polite, respectful members of society in all sort of different situations and cultures. This important subject has been a big hit with the DHE families, with a large group of us attending the first lesson last week. Living in the Middle East we come across many different customs that we may not be used to but there are also manners that cross all cultures like this first lesson on ‘Listening’.
Everyone assembled and listening intently on our 'Listening' lesson.
We show respect to others by actively listening to them. How do you actively listen? Make and maintain comfortable eye contact when someone is talking to you. Ask questions to show your interest in what they are saying . Focus on what the person is saying and respond when necessary.
To reinforce how difficult it can be to make and maintain eye contact with someone we played a game where you had to catch someone's attention across the room and then hold their eye contact while swapping places with them. Great fun and not as easy as it sounds.
Afterwards we shared lunch and the kids socialized with their homeschool buddies young and old.
One of our mothers arranged an amazing reptile show for the DHE Group through a contact here in Doha.
The gentleman who owns this amazing collection of reptiles has Ball Pythons, Milk Snakes, Red tailed Boas, Horned Frogs, Soft Shell Turtles, Tarantulas, Iguanas and Red eared slider turtles. Our kids, and parents, spent a very informative, and I’m sure thrilling, afternoon petting and holding some of these reptiles.
Our families love to spend time together and tenpin bowling is one of the DHE favourites. The kids love the activity, competition and socialization and of course the mothers do too.
We booked 2 games but the kids were having so much fun they played another. Afterwards we had a lovely lunch together in the bowling alley restaurant and then some of the kids played pool and tried their skills on the computer games. We really are blessed to have such wonderful facilities here in Doha to supplement our homeschooling.
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