Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Feb. 08 2010

So, I survived the second week of Oh La La La Stundent scholars.
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:

  1. I fealt that rotation between the group was amazing.
  2. I thought the group Arrangement work out fairly well. I deffinitly saw difference between the groups that I was surprised to notice.
Failures:
  1. Time. We spent way to long with the first group.
  2. Didn't get enough time with the third group.
  3. 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....

Monday, February 1, 2010

The First of Février 2010

The first day was an interesting experince to say the least. Our intended goal for the day was to talk about Introduction (Hello and Goodbye), Colors, ABC's, and Body parts. We were also planning on playing twister to in order to tie all the themes together, but like so many other things in life things, it didn't go exactly as we planned. We ended up only having enough time to teach the kids their ABC's and the colors. I am sure that we will difinitly try and put twister in some time maybe next week or something I don't know.
I fealt that the kids were very well behaved considering that it was after school and they are only K-2 graders. I do think that working in small groups was a very effective ways to teach these children, but next timeI think we should have a station to set and have them rotate around the room. It's just a suggection .
I was supose to be in charge of the twister game, but unfortunatly we didn't make it that far :(.
So in order to just summaries my ideas for next week I suggest:
  1. We set up stations and have the kids rotate between instructors.
  2. Groups of three- four kids.
  3. Add some sort of activity to tie all the themes together.
  4. Have a better plan for our time so we don't feel that we just all of a sudden our out of time.
  5. Come back to twister. :)

Well thats it for this week.

Ben signing off....