I found myself saying things, like "Marc with a tall M, not short m!" to differentiate between capital and lower case.
The kids had an instant appreciation for the French they did know, as well as a realization that they should remember more than they did. At the end of the day, they were smiling, and throughout the project they worked on, they were on-task.
I'm so very proud of one student in particular, who is normally the self-proclaimed laziest kid we know. He worked so hard, and his project looks great.
What really strikes me the most about these kids is their capacity to rely on each other when I least expect them to. Their assignment was to create a poster showing five people from their lives, and to provide the following:
- Their name, age, and relationship
- Four adjectives to describe them
- Two adjectives that they are not
- Two activities they like to do
- One activity they don't like to do
The majority of the class chose each other for at least three of the people on the poster. It was downright heart-warming. For a moment I thought I was in a Mrs. Butterworth's commercial. Children were beaming, snapping photos of each other to print out, and frolicking back and forth from the library to type out their paragraphs. 180 degrees from the day before.
