Seeing as it was Friday Aug. 16, I decided to take Zhang Li to the downtown area of Spring Valley, NY (our local area) to the shops and park after our vocabulary review. I thought it would be a great way for her to have fun physically practicing and using grammar points such as prepositions, verbs, and proper nouns, especially in the park.
For our vocabulary review, we used the same method by spelling aloud and writing each word multiple times. This time however, the game we played was a word search I made on my computer with each of the new terms (clansman, tribal, predator, Persian, lethal, migratory, irrational, etc.). Again, I gave her ten minutes to find as many words as possible. It was a little more difficult since the words were hidden all over, but she managed to find 70% of the vocabulary with having to review her vocabulary list only a couple times.
Then, we headed downtown to hang out for the afternoon. We went to an awesome gelato place called Angelo's and began our grammar practice. I would ask her a question such as, "Where are we, now?", so she could reply and utilize a preposition, for example, "We are in the ice cream store, sitting down on the chairs." We even rattled off all the verbs that could be applied to the daily work inside a gelato shop (i.e. churning, freezing, chilling, blend, serve, stir, twist, dipping, sprinkling, scoop, etc.) Afterward, we headed to the park. We made a preposition game where Zhang had to play on any equipment that required you to either sit on, go inside, or go under. Therefore, when I would say, "Play on something you sit on.", Zhang would go to the swings. When I would say, "Play on something you can go inside or outside of.", she would play in the playground's tunnels and slides. We spent the rest of our session here adding more ways to use the playground to model a preposition.
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