Marissa_TP#6

Marissa M.
Tutoring Blog #6
9/25/14

At this meeting with Zoe we primarily talked and wrote sentences.  There was no reading activity this time because we were already going on an hour and a half after our discussion.  When I arrived at her house she was coloring a picture for me - a strawberry!  She had remembered from our last session that I said one of my favorite fruits was a strawberry.  I thought this was neat!  The picture is now hanging on the bulletin board in my office for everyone to see. 

To start the lesson we played the card recognition game again.  This time though, I made a few cards with words that I knew she did not know on them.  Specifically, I chose words that had one picture associated with them, but different meanings.  For example, one was a picture of models walking in a fashion show.  The words I used were catwalk and runway.  Another was of Earth.  For this I used globe and world.  She really seems to enjoy this game.  The only thing I have noticed that I may need to work on is the time she takes for the game.  I started to get the feeling she was stalling a little bit on this - she knew some of the pictures well and where they were, but took extra time with labeling them.  One way I might work on this is to limit the number of cards a little more and make it more randomized with what I display each week.  This is a great activity and we had some great discussions about the different words, but it did cause us to run behind schedule a little bit.

After the card game I asked to see the questions that Zoe had worked on the previous week to ask Carson.  When I saw the list, it was all in Korean.  I couldn't read any of them!  So, I told her we were going to re-write the questions so that we had a list to ask her when she came.  This proved to be a little more difficult and her mom had to help translate some of the questions out.  Overall though she did a good job with translating most of the questions.  There were a few grammatical errors (again, mostly tense) we had to look at, as well as some incomplete sentences, but other than that I am very impressed with her writing abilities. 

We did leave with a few new words to discuss last week - gymnastics, flamingos, owl, fashion, favorite, and Germany.  With Germany I thought about trying to play a little world map game or something - she asked me where on the map this was.  I told her I had been and said I had lots of pictures from all over.  She seemed interested in where I have traveled and so I may use this for our next lesson somehow.