Week 4
Hello all.
Now that Diwali is over we have finally gone back to school, but not without some town wide sports first! The sports days were rather dull all in all, the children competed, some did well, others did not. Sports where actually being played, it was rather exiting, but there were gaps of up to a half-hour between competitions in witch there was nothing at all to do. The second day was better, Ruth (another volunteer from England) was present and I competed in the pillow fight and the tug of war. I lost at both but had a good time nevertheless, no doubt Eliza will give you some of the details.
Then after a relaxing weekend (finished LOTR) it was back to school. The children had not attended for some time and they are still getting into the flow of things. Class I is doing well with time, but the concept of quarter-to, quarter-past, and half-past will take a great deal more review before they master it. Class II continues to be difficult, but they are beginning to understand when they need to use the past "to be" rather than the present. We introduced the idea of using phrases in the beginning of each sentance to aid them, and we hope that it will stick, so we can use a similar method when we tackle the future tense. Class III is doing rather well, as expected. They seem to have a great "gut sense" for the irregular verbs in the perfect and plu-perfect and it is not often that they ere, and when they do they always play it safe and follow the rules rather than guess.( "go" often becomes "had goed" rather than "had gone") Class IV is ok, but they are truly struggling with putting vocabulary into useful sentences. More often that not, they simply define the word (eg. "a cottage is a small house") yes, they are sentences, but not quite what Eliza and I would like of them. We are trying to help them in this, and if we succeed we may do the past tense with them as well.
Well that's all of the news here.... Although I have run out of interesting books, because Eliza is currently reading Oliver Twist.... So I am reading the Appedixes in LOTR.... Aragorn II got quite old eh dad? 210... And that is short compared to the older Numenorains.
Now that Diwali is over we have finally gone back to school, but not without some town wide sports first! The sports days were rather dull all in all, the children competed, some did well, others did not. Sports where actually being played, it was rather exiting, but there were gaps of up to a half-hour between competitions in witch there was nothing at all to do. The second day was better, Ruth (another volunteer from England) was present and I competed in the pillow fight and the tug of war. I lost at both but had a good time nevertheless, no doubt Eliza will give you some of the details.
Then after a relaxing weekend (finished LOTR) it was back to school. The children had not attended for some time and they are still getting into the flow of things. Class I is doing well with time, but the concept of quarter-to, quarter-past, and half-past will take a great deal more review before they master it. Class II continues to be difficult, but they are beginning to understand when they need to use the past "to be" rather than the present. We introduced the idea of using phrases in the beginning of each sentance to aid them, and we hope that it will stick, so we can use a similar method when we tackle the future tense. Class III is doing rather well, as expected. They seem to have a great "gut sense" for the irregular verbs in the perfect and plu-perfect and it is not often that they ere, and when they do they always play it safe and follow the rules rather than guess.( "go" often becomes "had goed" rather than "had gone") Class IV is ok, but they are truly struggling with putting vocabulary into useful sentences. More often that not, they simply define the word (eg. "a cottage is a small house") yes, they are sentences, but not quite what Eliza and I would like of them. We are trying to help them in this, and if we succeed we may do the past tense with them as well.
Well that's all of the news here.... Although I have run out of interesting books, because Eliza is currently reading Oliver Twist.... So I am reading the Appedixes in LOTR.... Aragorn II got quite old eh dad? 210... And that is short compared to the older Numenorains.
posted by Eliza and Phil at 9:52 AM
1 Comments:
Hi Kiddos -- NancyRuthMom here and I'm at work and can't remember my blogger name or password, so sorry for anonymous! I love these postings! It really sounds like you are making a big difference. Major kudos to you both for donating your own money to make sure the sports festival happened. I'll bet that doesn't get forgotten anytime soon. Miss you like crazy. Your moped is very depressed, since no one is driving it these days... Love you, NancyRuthMom
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