1-2 pm
Review, Outside
For the second hour, we reviewed the stuff they had learned so far. Numbers, Months of the year, days of the week, colors, body parts, and school. I think they practice when we aren't around because they knew the months and days of the week better than when they learned it. We definitely need to work on complete sentences but they know ages pretty well. And they kept confusing pink with green; and brown, black, and blue, but I think they just need us more repetition. Then for the second half of the hour Aileen and I took them outside to the playground and taught them how to play tag. I tried to speak to them in English and call the names of the different things on the playground as well as use verbs like jump, run, or walk, so they could get used to hearing them and seeing them in action. Near the end of the session, I also had them teach me some Swahili, they taught me greetings and how to say goodbye. I think that made them feel better about learning English to watch me struggle with Swahili. And I think it made them like me a little bit better. It was less of me telling them what to do all of the time, and it gave us a chance to get to know each other better.
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