Sunday, January 25, 2015

Kennell_TP_#3

TP Session #3 (1/21/2015)

I met Young-Seo, my five year old child tutee, for our second meeting on Wednesday. I had put together a plan to begin teaching her colors, along with other vocabulary. The idea was that I would add a few more colors to her vocabulary each week in the context of a story, and perhaps a writing exercise. For example, I knew she liked penguins, so I planned on covering “Black” and “White,” along with other penguin-related vocab. However, she tore through my prepared vocab so fast that I abandoned my original plan and had her try to write out all of the colors, which she did with very little assistance.
We then had a little quiz where I wrote “fill in the blank” –style questions in the following style: “Strawberries are ____.” She devoured the quiz with no help reading or writing, and promptly asked for a harder one.

We moved on to writing a letter to her Korean friends. Though she had little trouble writing the sentences, she found it boring and hard to focus on. I plan next week to read with her, find vocab words that are difficult for her, and then have her write a story using the words. Seeing how much she liked drawing, I may let her illustrate the story as well, just to keep her interested.

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