Elle was trying to hide from me when I came in. She was reluctant to come into her room with me. She went to Nicole who convinced her that she must begin French. For the first 5 minutes she was sitting in a chair opposite me saying she didn’t know anything as I went through a vocabulary review. She then took a blanket and for the next 5 minutes laid on the floor, blanket wrapped around her, still saying she knew nothing. I told her the words were on the piece of paper I had and I showed them to her as she lay on the floor. She finally got up and sat in a chair. I slowly went over the vocabulary and tried to play games with her using the vocabulary.
15 minutes - vocabulary review of greetings, numbers, city buildings, time and weather. 15 minutes - in a pre-prepared Bingo format, Elle identified the vocabulary of greeting sentences - questions and answers. I would say “what is your name” and she found the corresponding French sentence. She read the French when she found it then crossed it out. We went through a series of 14 questions and answers. She is identifying the greetings with more ease now, however, she does not want to attempt to write it out. Remainder of the time - I gave Elle a photo of a summer scene and a spring scene. Using her “weather” activity sheet, she wrote 5-6 sentences describing the weather in each. She then went on her computer and chose a winter and autumn scene. She printed them and once again using her “weather” activity sheet wrote out 5-6 sentences describing the weather.