Operations is rolling

The operations team is making good progress on developing our curriculum and wanted to update you on some of the ideas that we are moving forward with.
The topics that we are covering so far (as discussed at our meeting yesterday) are: classroom materials and common phrases/commands, food and table settings, computer and technology information, standard and complementary colors, body parts, the weather and how it coincides with the seasons, and the months of the year/days of the week.
The three components that we are keeping in mind when making these units is that they must be self-teaching, self-correcting, and re-usable. This will allow the most students possible to learn at the same time, while also allowing the teachers to circulate and reach all of the students.
In order to incorporate making "education/learning attractive" to the students, we are creating and adapting a lot of games and activities to our specific activities. One common way that we are accomplishing this is create a flashcard review/memory game for each unit.
Activities in specific areas so far include: velcro flip books for vocabulary words and common terms, a grocery shopping list and restaurant menu games, matching words to a diagram of a computer, having students create and share large family trees, a labeled doll house reconstruction, color wheels for every center, large body cutouts that can be labeled, a Simon Says game with the body parts, each center will be provided a re-usable calandar, and a Bingo game with the weather and seasons.
We have also devised a rotating schedule for the 5 centers to follow in order to share all of the curricular materials that we are providing. Making 5 seperate copies of each unit would cummulate in us transporting over 50 binders of material alone to the Dominican Republic. In order to maximize our energy and information output, we decided to have the centers work on a rotating schedule and will be counting on our liasons in the DR to help in transporting materials between the centers.