October 31st, 2013

October 31st, was the first class I had with Zara. I met with her after school in my mothers class where both my mother and her mother, Ms. Brooks were present. I decided to start off with something rather simple and easy. I first wanted to see what level of portuguese she was at so that I could plan future activities and classes. I decided to read her two stories about cats. They were very basic books. As I was aware she in unable to read, although she understand very well. After reading her the story I asked her questions such as:

• What was the story about?
• Who were the main characters?
• What were the names of this character and that character?
• What was your favorite part of the story?

After reading the story and asking her comprehension questions, I asked her what she wanted to do. I gave her a couple of options such as:

• Drama center 
• Drawing
• Play dough
• Puzzles

She decided she wanted to draw, so we both sat down together drawing. While drawing she was explaining to me what she was doing in Portuguese so that it became an interactive activity rather than an individual activity. Following that, I asked her questions about the drawing so that she could use her descriptive words while explaining.

Lastly, she decided she wanted to play at the drama center with the dolls and the doll house. Zara was explaining to me in Portuguese what was happening in the family, what they were doing, what their names were and so on.

Before ending the class I asked her what she would desire to do next Thursday when we met up again. She said she would like to read a book once again and from there we would see.

Duration of class: 35minutes