March 15th, The Final Day

For our final week at blue ash elementary, we decided to scale back our lesson plan and keep, what I call, simple. Last week, we divided up the regions that speak French based upon which continent they were on and each chose one. I myself chose the great North America, and talk mainly about Canada. I chose to talk about Canada mainly because I felt that since we lived so close to Canada that the kids should at least know were it was located at. I also thought since the winter Olympic happened not to long ago that they would at least know that. So, I had them color a flag, and if we had time I would look at a map of Canada, but must of the time we didn’t get to the map. The main thing I tried to enforce to the kids that Canada is a French speaking country and really isn’t that far away.
Overall, the attendance was down this past week and that surprisingly made the behavior worlds better than the week before. I was kind of sad the some of the kids didn’t to come to the party. Oh yeah, after our lessons we had a party in which we served French style cuisine (bread, cheese, cookies etc…). The kids really enjoyed this part, and were surprisingly well behaved. I think it was because we had the power to take the food away, but unknown to them we had no intention of doing that. We had planned to may give out a certificate or something like that but we forgot. We gave them their books and C.D. and said the final “Au revoir” and sent them on their ways. Hopefully it made a difference.

For the final time, Ben signing off.