- 2 hours today - In our first hour today Abby read her homework assignment - she wrote out a summary of chapter 4 in French. I made only 2 minor grammar corrections. She then began reading chapter 5 in French. She translated up to page 22. Her homework will be to write a summary of the beginning of chapter 5. During the 2nd hour, Abby and I went outside and she made entries into her journal. Taylor joined us and she took Abby’s sentences and put them into Spanish. Then I had the girls make a parallel between the 2 languages. The results were: there were many similar vocabulary words. I also showed them that nouns in both languages are either masculine or feminine; the sentence structure was the same: subject, verb, object; and that adjectives go predominantly after the noun and they must agree with the noun in gender and number. They were surprised to see the similarities. Taylor pointed out that those same rules apply to Hebrew and Abby pointed out that those same rules applied to German. They both enjoyed the “joint” language lesson. They said “it was different” and asked if we could do it again. I told them “we’ll see”.