This week my focus was solely was to teach the Kids about La Famille.
The Plan of Attach:
I orginally envisioned that we would play a game where we would match up the engish words with the french Words, but I found that this game was as "fun" as I orginally thought. So about half way through the game with my first group, we did rotations the this week I'll talk about this later, I came to the realization that it was a flop; I then decided to scrap the Idea. The second part of my lesson was to have them draw a family portrait of their family in there book; this part of the lesson went over great. Also Periodically I would ask them about their families and I would get varing responces like: "my sister's MEAN!" "My family has hair" (yes i really got that as an answer) etc... I would also engage them with small talk like: " Who are Drawing in your book?" "Can you 'guys' tell me what grandmother is in french?" And of course I would get a couple of grumbles as they were trying to say "la Grand- mere", But little did they know they were actually learning French. Mohahahahahhaha.
Behavior of students (not adults):
I found that the kids were very well behaved. I only had one instance where I had to Keep one kid's attention by asking questions everytime I noticed him getting destracted, but other than that it turn out to be a fairly "smooth" day.
The Rotations:
Successes:
- I fealt that rotation between the group was amazing.
- I thought the group Arrangement work out fairly well. I deffinitly saw difference between the groups that I was surprised to notice.
- Time. We spent way to long with the first group.
- Didn't get enough time with the third group.
- Over all i feel we need to improve this section of time managment because we had similar problem last week. I like the idea of having a eggtimer that will ring when we need it to.
Oh well that all I got for this week.
Ben signing off....