Nicole TP4 - (CIES)

    Today I met with Ahmed and Sultan in the strozier starbucks cafe. I checked on their quizzes from last week that we had practiced material for and both of them had done extremely well! Both Ahmen and Sultan got at least 80% on them! This week they were working with  conjugations of "to be," classroom words, prepositions, and money. I started off with reviewing classroom words and prepositions. I had them both use the book to write 5 sentences describing items and their placement in comparisin to each other. Once they both finished Sultan read his first sentence, which was properly executed, then Ahmed read his aloud and I asked Sultan if the sentence was correct. He told me it was incorrect but could not tell me why. Ahmed had missed teh word "is." I explained to him teh reason we put why in the sentence and it's importance in the sentence. We repeated thsi situation having the two men corrrect each others erros, both striggled immensely with the placement of "is" and "are." Once we  went through the sentences my tutees decided they would write three more to show me that they now understood their mistakes, both of their work was at 100% at the end of this exercise.
    We moved on to coins, first I asked them to name each. Ahmed was extremely knowledgable with this activity and helped Sultan through the coins. Next I asked them to spell and write the value of the coins I named. This was a slow process as I went one by one and helped with spelling errors as we went.  They both struggled with the "-ar" aspect of "dollar," plurals, and diferentiating whether words were spelled with an "e" or "y."  We then played a game where each of us talked about something we bought and how much it cost, then Sultan or Ahmed would write and then tell me what coins/ bills equaled the correct amount. Ahmed loves math and the study of money, it was fun to teahc them but also attempt to teach each other by only using english. This was a good game and helped them grasp the value and written value. In arabic there aren't zeros in a number just periods to show the values. This led us to a conversation about currency exchange rate between the Kuwait  Denar and the U.S. Dollar, one Denar is aproximately $3.50. They told me they flet ready for the next quiz and that this lesson was useful for when pay for food or any checkout line.
   I sometimes find myself struggling with this age group as I'm never sure what kind activities would be most suitable. Suggestions welcome!




These two are my most challenging students.