Last week, our high intermediate and advanced daytime and evening students received visits from our partner Washington Heights Workforce1 Career Center. They learned about Workforce1 services, became members, and were taught how to build an effective resume.

Yesterday our weekend classes wrapped up their first semester with fun activities . W1 played a game similar to the $10,000 Pyramid, W2 did White Elephant, and W3 did Secret Santa. Before all of the activities, we also had a surprise farewell party for our counselor Faye.

Tuânminh A Đỗ, aka Mihn, one of the current Artists-In-Residence at University Settlement visited our Level 3 and CCR classes last week to give speech workshops to our students and learn more about their stories as immigrants. Our students loved the interesting workshops because they were able to learn how to pronounce words correctly and confidently and have fun while sharing their personal immigrant stories.

A lot of our Daytime students volunteered to deliver meals to older adults living in the East Village area and helped prepare for the Thanksgiving lunch and party at the senior center. All the physical and language challenges were nothing to our brave students when they felt happy thinking they were doing something good for the community. Click each picture to make the image bigger!

Every year, a lot of our students take a tour of the Seward Park Library to make their NYPL cards and learn how to use the library. Classes 0A, 0P, 1B, and 1C visited the library so far this year and more classes are planned to go there later. We would like to thank Andrew the librarian for collaborating with us and helping our students every year! Feel our students’ excitement from the pictures below!

Our students enjoy not only their regular English classes but also some special activities.

The first activity we would like to share is “Leave Your Mark on the Map.” In the hallway, there is a big world map on the wall where students can stick a star-shaped sticker to let us know where their hometown or home country is. We get to know each other by doing the activity and talking about where they are from. Our teacher Joe’s classes took time to represent their countries.

The next activity is reading “Students’ Success Stories.” Right next to the world map, we posted some of our previous students’ success stories who advanced either in career or in education. Our teacher Lynne took her students to the wall hoping that her students would dream of being featured there someday.

Sometimes we want to celebrate our classmate’s birthday by throwing a small party. Our W2 and W3 students sang the “Happy Birthday” song in different languages of their native languages and English. The birthday student, Andrei brought some sweets, juice and home-made Mannik to share with his classmates. The following video just captured a few moments of the sweet celebration.

Our W1 teacher, Lynne captured some interesting moments of our weekend folks at the block party last weekend. It looks like the students were interested in and enjoying learning about a new culture!