I thought that my classes might be getting a little boring and I might be in danger of losing a couple of them. I’ve been working quite hard with the children and there’s probably not been that much fun, so I thought I’d step up the fun content this week. This mean that I needed to drag Ian in, whose expression clearly illustrated his view on the ‘fun’. I did half an hour of hiding coloured sweets under plastic cups, plus a Jenga type game of stacking sweets (with the aim of speaking colors and learning placements) and then half an hour on the computer playing some games. Ian had two of the children on his computer and judging by the noise, – and the look on Ian’s face when the children went home – their fun quota was met.
I’ll plan another fun class for next week and then get back to the boring stuff again. I might do cooking with them.
I am quite pleased with how the class is going. When we had a group of youngsters call round to see Basil recently, my class was saying ‘Basil, we love you’, whereas their friends were saying ‘Basil, we lo-bay you’, which is how it would be pronounced in Spanish. So at least they are learning something – even if it is only to tell a large Pyranean Mountain dog that they love him!