Journal #8
March 16, 2011
8:30-10:30 (2 hours)
The first hour of today’s lesson focused on Health. Oscar has a test tomorrow in his health class and wanted a little help learning the definitions of some of his words. So, I looked through Oscar’s book and started saying words to him to see if he knew what they meant. When he did not, I pulled out a cue card and had him write the entire definition on one side and the word on the other. Then, we moved onto the next words. Once we had gone through all the words, Oscar had cue cards so he could continue studying on his own. I showed him the definition side of the word so he could try to guess the word and showed him how to look at the words to get the definition. He tried each way. Then, decided he would study more at home so we could get started on our English lesson.
Oscar came in with list of words that he overheard this week. These words included what he thought to be interesting new verbs, nouns, adjectives, and adverbs. While Oscar did have five words written from three of the categories, he only had one adverb listed. He explained to me that he did not hear adverbs very often and if he did he had trouble noticing them. So, we began the lesson reviewing the definition of an adverb. Once Oscar provided the definition I decided to give him a little practice listening for adverbs. I had Oscar pull out a pencil and a piece of paper. I then listed 3 words, with one of them being an adverb. I asked Oscar to write down which word he thought was the adverb. We did this for about twenty minutes before Oscar started to feel more confident. Then, I asked Oscar to think of a few other adverbs on his own. He came up with about three of them. Next, we pulled out Oscar’s story from last week. He first asked if he could add more to the story. He wrote another 4 sentences onto the four he already had and then said he was finished. After this, I asked Oscar to use his list of words and add them to places where they might fit to create a more interesting story. Oscar changed one of his nouns and verbs, then added a few adverbs into the story. It was definitely starting to get more interesting. Then, Oscar asked if he could add a few sentences. I told him he could do whatever he wanted to. So, he rewrote his story on a separate sheet adding a few more sentences. Once he did this we ran out of time. I told Oscar we would only spend a little more time on his story next week and then it would be final unless he wanted to keep working on it in his own time. I told Oscar to listen for interesting words again this week and come with three words in each category for next week, more adverbs if possible. He agreed and walked away pretty excited.
No comments:
Post a Comment