WEEK ELEVEN- Daily Log: Tuesday, May 8, 2007

• Today was a very fun day because I continued to teach the classes. When I first got to my placement I got right to work going over today's lesson and the activities we will be doing. Mme. Mercer made up a sort of game for the students to apply what they had learned yesterday. I then looked over the pages they would be working on in class today, in order to prepare myself for any questions or concerns the students may have.


• When class time rolled around I made my way to the afternoon classes and lead them through their prayer, the date, and the weather. Mme. Mercer then told them what pages to work on, and I walked around the class to help out in any way I could. Some students were having trouble grasping the concept, and so I used a more hands on way to teach them. They seemed to understand what I was saying after a while.


• I then started to prepare for the game. I started by placing sixteen flashcards on the blackboard ledge and numbering them by 5's all the way to eighty. I then told them to make a cheatsheet in their notebooks by writing down all the names of the food on the flashcards with the right article (ex. le, la, les). Once they did this, I took it up with them to make sure we were all on the same page. I then split the class in two teams and told them to put their heads on their desks. I handed out little flashcards containing some grammar. The point of the game was that two people go up to compete, and whoever says the food with the right partitive gets a point. The kids really got into it, and this made me laugh because they really cared about winning, and it also showed their initiative to learn.


• During planning time I was asked to take down some artwork from a bulletin board in the hall. I was then asked to put more of the grade eight awards on display in a glass case in the hall. My final task of the day was to help Mme. Mercer and Mme. Colonna cut out some laminated artwork and game cards. I worked for three and a half hours today.