Cocohodo Library
About Cocohodo
Cocohodo library, located in the Sensok area of Phnom Penh is library a library opened by a Korean missionary for the library neighbor's children and those residing in narrow alleyway areas near a clothing factory.
Before starting our first session, we visited the alleyways
Week 1
Theme: Who?
Following the themes of first week sessions in our past initiatives, we focused in introductory activities that taught self-introductory phrases like "my name is.." "what's your name?" with DIY name placards.
This initiative, we decided to construct our weekly themes following the 4Ws. (Who, What, Where, When)
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Dream job illustrations
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Name placards
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Initial bracelets
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Name Tag
Week 2
Theme: What?
A student's favorite activity! We learnt that from our initiative at Dail, that body tracing+ labeling body parts on a big poster was many's favorite. We also did a game of twisters and body part bingo.
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Body portrait trace
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Twisters
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Body-part Bingo
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Blind-fold pin-the-body part
Week 3
Theme: Where?
In week 3, we learned typical locations such as school, hospital, and gas station. We also incorporated basic action verbs like walk, run and dance to construct basic sentences.
"I'm running to the school!"
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Pipecleaner action charades
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Musical chairs
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Location map
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Location image puzzle race
Week 4
Theme: When?
"When do you go to school?" In week 4, we taught ways to phrase the communication of time. We also incorporated prepositions with clay animals and origami houses.
"The dog is on/in/beside/behind/next to the house"
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Felt clock DIY
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Origami house
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Clay animals
Week 5
Theme: Active Recall!
With a newly incorporated sticker chart with organized a little sticker market, where students could use the stickers them collected in the past 4 weeks to purchase a goodie.
For this, we organized a mini carnival with games that engages students with active recall sessions. For example, a ping pong cup game where students had to call out the name of the location after seeing the picture attached to the cup they scored in.
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Ping Pong Location recall
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What time it? (Slideshow presentation where students had to call out what time it is)
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Simon says (Body Parts)
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Occupation tray memory game
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Jigsaw puzzle race