Our Song Circle welcomes you into out small community.

This is a place for school classes from around the world to share with others their creativity and connection. Our Song Circle - Wimbo Mviringo was originally started by the Community Breakthrough Support Mission in Kimilili, Kenya. We feel very privileged to participate with you in this exchange of peace and fellowship.

Please spend some time looking through the school projects presented here. Our children would be delighted if you would consider joining Our Song Circle and making projects of your own. School classes of every age group are welcome.

Even though English is the main language used on this site, please feel free to create a project either your native language or in a second language. It would be good, if possible, to write a summary in English of the projects for others to read.

If you need any help about how to become a member, or you need suggestions about what projects your class can do, please do not hesitate to ask either Lia or Rev. Wasike. We are hopeful, with time and care, Our Song Circle will grow into a wonderful and joyful place for us all.

Blog Posts

lilalia

Herlina's Class Water Experiments

Here is a short video of Herlina's class doing their experiments:

Posted by lilalia on December 9, 2009 at 8:51pm

lilalia

Water, a precious Gift of Life (Part I)

We often take the availability of water for granted. Herlina and Gabi worked on a project that focused on teaching the children about where water comes from and how precious gift water is to life on this earth. Through various science experiments, the children of various classrooms in Germany and Indonesia exchange information amongst themselves about their findings.

The students sought out various sources of water: kitchen water tap, a grocery store, a pond, a school water fountain, etc.

This… Continue

Posted by lilalia on December 9, 2009 at 5:30pm

lilalia

Water, a precious Gift of Life (Part II)

The science experiments were constructed so the students were able to use all their senses and observations skills to find out:

• Who needs water? (Animals, plants, humans, etc.)
• What is water made of?
• What can water do? (Cools down through condensation, evaporates with light and heat, etc.)
• How does water smell?
• How does water feel? (Surface tension, temperature, etc.)
• What sounds does water make?
• How much water do we use?
• Why we soon lack of clean water in Jakarta?
• Why is Jaka… Continue

Posted by lilalia on December 9, 2009 at 5:30pm

lilalia

Update on our school garden project

Rev. Wasike sent me this update to post here about our new school garden.

Our garden project started as many project here start, by taking small steps with big hearts and strong wills. Since the plot of land that our temporary school stands on is too small, the planting was done in various places in the area; depending on the free portion of land donated for this season by the Kimilili community.



We managed to plant cassava plant, maize, cow peace, and kale (sukuma wiki). Continue

Posted by lilalia on April 11, 2009 at 9:34am

lilalia

A Star is Born

Rev. Wasike sent me this story to post here.



Fadhili is one of our pupils in our school. Jennifer from the States bought him a football, which Rev. Wasike purchased in Nairobi and recently brought up to Kimilili. When the football was handed over to him, he was in the school compou… Continue

Posted by lilalia on April 9, 2009 at 4:31pm

lilalia

News about Relocation of CBSM School

I'm writing this blog post for Rev. Wasike and the children of the CBSM school...

Greetings from Kimilili. Over two hundred pupils reported back this January for the start of their new school year. They opened the school year with a ceremony, only to stand before locked doors the morning after. During the last few weeks, Rev. Wasike and many helpful members of the community have been very busy building new temporary facilities. Eventually, they are going to have to build a proper school, but fo… Continue

Posted by lilalia on February 12, 2009 at 2:22pm

lilalia

CBSM Nutrition and School Garden Project


I am happy to announce a new project, a CBMS Nutrition and School Garden Project. Rev. Wasike says the garden will provide the most essential food for the school children. It is a half-acre (2020 sq m) plot near our new temporary school facil… Continue

Posted by lilalia on January 25, 2009 at 11:19pm

Michael Hubert

Christmas season

greetings

let me wish you merry Christmas and happy new year, i would like to give a brief note of things happened during the Christmas season, as you know we had several setback, onslaught of rains and floods, sickness among children and many trials, but things were all eased out though prolonging difficulties were there, some good generous hearts came forward to share their loving kindness. most of the givers remain to be discreet, however i would love to mention one small incident which tran… Continue

Posted by Michael Hubert on December 26, 2008 at 9:42am — 1 Comment

Rachel Harbut

The new year..

From what I know about Rev. Wasike and Mr. Hubert, they both are very positive and strong people in difficult times, keeping the children's best interest at heart. They are encouraging to the children- and I think that deserves recognition; so here's a Merry Christmas to everyone on Our Song Circle.


And keep up the good faith with the New Year
PEACE on earth.
Merry Christmas!

PS) What kind of events are you doing for Christmas or the New Year?… Continue

Posted by Rachel Harbut on December 26, 2008 at 8:30am — 1 Comment

TEH FRANCIS YAI

SONGS SUNG IN THE SCHOOL

Hello. It has taken a while for me to post about our school. In the next few days, I will post some blog post that tells you about our school. Today, I'd like to tell you how song and music is a part of our life here.


School life in Cameroon is colored with singing every morning,… Continue

Posted by TEH FRANCIS YAI on December 20, 2008 at 9:00pm — 3 Comments

lilalia

Gabi's Class Wins 2nd Prize!

Gabi's class participated in a Computer World 2008 contest at the university of Luebeck. The contest was for school projects that explore syllabus material with the help of digital media. Gabi's class project was the Our Song Circle and her one project "Where is Mario". The judges particularly like the fact that all of you are participating in Our Song Circle - Wimbo Mviringo. They feel, and I also believe, that the children in all our schools will benefit from hearing each other songs and learn… Continue

Posted by lilalia on December 20, 2008 at 8:00pm — 1 Comment

Rachel Harbut

REV. WASIKE in EARTH CLINIC

December 4, 2008
Earth Clinic, LLC
Monthly Prayer & Meditation Group


SUNDAY'S PRAYER TOPIC:

Thank you as always for joining us in meditating on solutions, cures, and resolutions to the most pressing local and international problems of the day. We envision our group as scattered across the world, individually casting the same pebble into the world-pond, sending out ripples of loving-kindness.

INCREASE THE PEACE -- PAKISTAN AND IND… Continue

Posted by Rachel Harbut on December 14, 2008 at 9:32am — 2 Comments

Kitale school

Caleb singing "I'm happy"

A young student, Caleb, and I had the opportunity to travel to Kimilili to visit with Rev. Wasike and the children of the Community Breakthrough Support Mission. I will write you soon about our visit, but for now a video of photos with the accompaniment of Caleb singing the song, "I am happy".



I hope you enjoy it. Continue

Posted by Kitale school on December 11, 2008 at 6:38pm — 3 Comments

Gabi's Class

Tomorrow's a Big Day

Tomorrow is a big day for the children of my class. We are attending a prize ceremony at the university in Luebeck. We entered Our Song Circle . Wimbo Mviringo in the Computerwelten 2008 contest. This contest is about different school projects using digital media.

So, cross your fingers that we win!

Posted by Gabi's Class on December 11, 2008 at 4:49pm — 2 Comments

Gabi's Class

Head & Shoulders, Knees & Toes...

In Germany, most children begin to learn English in grade 3. I have been having a lot of fun teaching my grade 3 children English songs.





The following song is one well known all over the world. I hope you enjoy it.… Continue

Posted by Gabi's Class on December 8, 2008 at 11:14pm — 2 Comments

cbsm school

Happy Christmas Wishes



We, the community of Kimilili,wish all Our Song Circle - Wimbo Mviringo friends a Happy Christmas. We pray that God may bring to reality the dreams of living peacefully together. May the New Year give birth to many breakthroughs. May our Lord Jesus remember you as you remember others. May all be well with you. Amen.

In Jesusu anme:
Kimilili Community

Posted by cbsm school on December 8, 2008 at 5:40pm — 2 Comments

Kitale school

Brief History of Our School

Hello. My name is Esther and I am the head mistress of the Kitale early childhood farm & prison school in Kitale, Kenya. Presently, we have about 100 children attending our grade school. Our young children come from the prison compound (from parents working in the prison or from mothers residing there) or from the near lying farms.

Our school was founded about three years ago. Initially, we had about 30 children. The second year there were a few more and this last school year we had nearly… Continue

Posted by Kitale school on December 6, 2008 at 6:54pm — 2 Comments

cbsm school

Visitors to Kimilili

The Community Breakthrough Support Mission recently had some visitors to Kimilili. Can you guess who they were? Well, Esther and Judith from Our Song Circle - Wimbo Mviringo. Isn’t that wonderful?

We had wonderful time. We took a tour of the CBSM facilities, met with our children, and discussed possible school exchange projects in the fut… Continue

Posted by cbsm school on December 6, 2008 at 4:53pm

cbsm school

CBSM School Closing Celebrations 2008

Well, we managed to complete our first school year in Kimilili. What a fine celebration we had.



I would like to extend a special thanks to all our teachers, school volunteers, and children guardians. Without your tremendous help, we would never be able to care for our children as we do. My gratitude is great.

P.S. for those of you in other countries, Kenya has "summer" vacations now! And here you are in snow... it is a truly wonderful world. Continue

Posted by cbsm school on December 5, 2008 at 6:22pm — 2 Comments

deb

Grade 4's and 5's sing Frere Jacques

We thought we'd post another song....
We are learning to sing in both French and English!

Continue

Posted by deb on November 17, 2008 at 10:30pm — 3 Comments

 
 

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