August 28, 2018
Elle - 30 minutes - began with an oral review of greetings and salutations; days of the week; months of the year. Questions and answers in French: example: what are the days of the week? Months of the year? When is your birthday? What is the date today? Reviewed numbers - pronunciation only for 1 thru 100. Elle then wrote out the days of the week and months of the year on her white board. She also chose 3 questions and answers to write out. Our next 30 minutes was on the “city” project. Elle is creating a “city” on construction paper. She copied buildings such as: school, church, post office, movie cinema, store, bank, etc. from “images on google”, onto printing paper, cut them out then pasted them onto a large construction paper. Finally she labeled each in French. At this point her project is about 40% complete.

Our lesson today began with a review of greetings and salutaions; then we moved onto an introduction of 18 nouns of places and 10 prepositions.
15 minutes - Elle and I reviewed the greetings and salutations. I read them and she modeled them. I then asked her a greeting or salutation, in English, and she gave me the corresponding French phrase. Elle then read the list of greetings and salutations to me.
90 minutes - In order to make the learning experience interactive our lesson on nouns of places and prepositions will be a project. We began with the worksheet I prepared of nouns of places in the form of a page that is laid out like a city. I read the vocabulary and Elle modeled words like: church, post office, beach, library, etc. We then went to the supply closet and Elle chose the color of construction paper she wanted to create her own city which she is calling “Elleville”. Elle copied the 18 nouns of places into her spiral. She then began finding images of each on the internet, copied them, cut them out and glued them on her “city” (construction paper). I prepared the name in French on graph paper (one letter in each graph box), cut it out the word, and gave it to Elle to glue the “image” for the corresponding French word.
To reinforce the new vocabulary, we continued reading the list of nouns as we worked. Then I ran a youtube lesson on “the city” and Elle found the word from her list and repeated it. This was done as she continued to find “images” and glue them to her “city”.The project is now 20% complete. We will continue at our next lesson.
Our last 15 minutes of class time was used in repeating the 10 prepositions and forming sentences. The prepositions were purposefully chosen to correspond with nouns of the city. They were: on the right; on the left; in front of, behind, near, etc. Elle repeated the words, then using the “city” map she had created thus far, we identified the location of the building in sentence format. Example: The library is to the right of the post office; the church is to the left of the post office, etc. As she completes more of her city map, we will continue using the prepositions to form more sentences identifying the location of each building.
Elle did very well today. She was motivated and excited to “create” her own city. She caught onto the directions quickly and began doing “her own thing” finding images. As the lesson progressed her pronunciation of the French vocabulary began to show improvement. She also became familiar with the new vocabulary and was able to use many of the words without “looking up the meaning” on her worksheet.
The time moved quickly and Elle was surprised when I told her time was up.

Today was our first lesson.
25 minutes - I gave Elle a page on greetings and salutations. I modeled the pronunciation and she repeated. At the end of each section, Elle read on her own. I said a sentence in English and Elle searched, found it and read to me. Besides greetings and salutaions, we went through days of the week, months of the year and numbers 1 thru 20.
25 minutes - we walked to the "kitchen" and Elle began a "journal". Using the worksheet I had prepared for her, she wrote out the greetings we had read and spoken to each other. Each greeting had it's own response. I gave Elle sentences to introduce the days of the week and months of the year. Example: What are the days of the week; what are the months of the year. We put the days and months to work by using the sentences: what is today's date; when is your birthday. Each question had it's own answer. Elle seemed to enjoy writing out the French.
10 minutes - Elle said her numbers 1 thru 20. She wrote them out in her journal. She then checked the spelling from the "worksheet".
Elle did very well today. She is interested and has some prior knowledge of French. She liked using the vocabulary she had and enjoyed adding to it.

I waited the entire time from 9 - 10:00AM for Elle in her learning space.

We had a lovely time together! She is very smart and sweet , hope to see her next year.

Rory has some difficulties to remember the vocabulary ..
To day , I tried a new approach with a different book
and she was much better ...

Rory did much better to day .. she is less shy
and started to be more comfortable with the language ..
she needs to get confidence .. and to day was a big
difference .. I am very happy about it ..