Aileen TS#11

  Friday evening I met up with my child tutees and as well and teamed up with another tutor from our CIES class to start the children off by showing them how to use family vocabulary as well as how to tell age. We drew a basic family unit with the labeled "brother" "sister" "mom" and "dad" and asked each one of them to distinguish their role within their own family. This case being a family made up of 3 sisters and 2 brothers. We had them point out to each other what they were in the family. In the case of Amidu and Abu they would say that they were "brothers" etc. Also, we introduced using possessive pronouns in order for them to be able to explain their relationship to each other. Of course, being that they are young we didn't go into a detailed explanation of what possessive pronouns were but instead modeled for them in example sentences of what to use. For example "She is my sister. He is your brother." To sum up the first hour of the session I think the kids were able to get a good grasp on what a family can be composed of.