Date of Class: 10/22/2013
Day of Class: Tuesday
PI: Todd S
SI:
Assistants:
Module: Maps and addresses
How Many Learners: 3
Score:
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): We had 3 students and we were very happy! 2 of the students happened to be from Thursday nights class at Lynchview, so we had a good rapport already. The 3rd student is an employee at the school. Because the module is about maps, I brought in a bunch to work with, but we never made it to them. We did a lot of talking about basic english questions they had, and situations they were interested in talking about. They were very engaged and in fact we went a little late-I’m hopeful they will come back and spread the word too.

Date of Class: November 5, 2013
Day of Class: Tuesday
PI: Lisa
SI:
Assistants:
Module: Sports (Soccer)
How Many Learners: 6
Score: 19
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific):
Well, I walked into class today with no lesson plan. I tweeked the topic a little from Soccer to Sports in general because, judging from the last class, only on person seems to really like soccer and was willing to play along with a soccer lesson plan. This time, no plan and no soccer (but I didn’t take out soccer all together because it was still a good topic of discussion in class). So we went through and dictated different sports such as basketball, volleyball, and gymnastics; which lead to a discussion about the Olympics and all the different sports/events played in the Olympics (yes, soccer was involved). We did dictation work with “What is your favorite sport?” and “I like to play _____”, and that sort of thing. *Note: It’s really good having class in an actual ELL classroom because there’s so much material to use or reference from just hanging in the room or on the walls.

Date of Class: November 19, 2013
Day of Class: Tuesday
PI: Lisa
SI:
Assistants:
Module: Soccer/Thanksgiving
How Many Learners: 3
Score: 18
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific):
Well today started off with the plan of doing something with soccer but after a small conversation about Thanksgiving, I decided to continue the class with that topic. I’m sorry that we didn’t stick with soccer but judging from this particular group, I think we did everything we can about soccer. In other words, the class engagement level has been really low with this particular topic.
We dictated sentences about Thanksgiving like “What do you cook/eat on Thanksgiving?” and “What is your family’s Thanksgiving tradition?” With the latter question, we went around and everybody talked about their family Thanksgiving tradition: food, family, potlucks, dressed-up turkey parades, etc. Although we didn’t cover soccer, I felt like there were a lot of chances for the learners to speak and share their thoughts and ideas.

Date of Class: December 10, 2013
Day of Class: Tuesday
PI: Lisa
SI:
Assistants:
Module: Happy Holidays
How Many Learners: 2
Score: N/A
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific):
For a change of things, I had each student say the alphabet out and what I found that was interesting was that both learners chunk out the alphabet. For example, they both chunk together A through F. G through K, L through P, R through V, X, Y, Z; they both know the whole alphabet but when they finish A through F, they both have a little trouble with connecting that chunk to the G through K chunk, and so on. This was a interesting phenomenon to witness.
For class, we had a “12 Days of Christmas” scramble where each learner got random days of Christmas and what was given on (from the song). And we went through the whole song with each learner saying what gift they got from what day.
As a request from the last class, we went through “Oh, Come Ye All Faithful”, first as a document search, then line by line, making sure meaning was comprehended, then we sang the song.