First Project

What a crazy week! I have been sooo busy between working at South and attending my classes at the University that I am just not having time to do an update for Wednesday and Thursday. Sorry for the delay.

Wednesday was unfortunately a little slow. As it was the first day in a new section there was a lot of input (teacher lingo for teaching new information) which seemed to prove a little boring for the students. We will work to find a better way of beginning sections that are a bit more interactive.

Thursday, in contrast, went great. We did a lot of activities using the new information we had learned and got the kids up out of their desks to practice speaking Spanish with their classmates. There was lots of good energy and everyone seemed to be much more engaged than the had been the previous day. At the end of the day we presented a the first project of the year to the students. Each student is being asked to pretend that they are heading off to college, or moving into their firs apartment, and that they are being given the opportunity to design and decorate their room any way they like, with no economic restraints. The idea is that students will use the section vocabulary (furniture characteristic of a bedroom) to label the items they choose to put in their dorms or apartments, though they will also need to locate many words that the chapter does not provide them in order to Desirae their contents of their ideal dwelling. Many of the students seemed pretty excited about the project so I hope they have a lot of fun doing it. I will provide them with a good opportunity to develop their creativity, and hopefully allow us to see another side of our more artistic students.
As there is no school on Friday, the students will have extra time to work on the project, and we have also made it due on Tuesday, so that we can use Monday to answer any questions that they may have come up with over the weekend.

I cannot wait to see what they come up with!