Julia Smith TS #13

On February 25, I had my 5th tutoring session with the refugee children from 1:00-2:00. Laura and I were both there, and we reviewed the colors. I realized that the kids remember the words (red, blue, orange etc.) but they do not remember to which color the word corresponds. For this reason, we did a few activities to correlate the word with its meaning. We laid out construction paper in a circle and called out a color and the kids had to run to the corresponding color. This was a fun activity, but made it hard to know whether each kid actually knew the color. We then asked each one individually to name certain colors when they were asked, and they had some difficulty. Oftentimes they would call out random colors until they guessed the correct one, and so Laura and I encouraged them to stop and think before answering. We did the same activities with numbers 10-20. We then spent some time outside and we taught them how to play freeze tag and red light green light.