Monday, July 27
Nayun and I met at the library again this afternoon. Her father told me that she had been in summer camp this week, so I used that as a topic of discussion. Speaking is no problem with Nayun, because she grew up in the United States. She's very comfortable speaking in English. After asking her about camp and getting nowhere, I asked her to write some sentences, but she refused that also.
I went back to what I knew: drawing. I started coloring a picture and she began coloring also. To be completely honest, I have no idea how it happened, but she instantly was opening up about camp. I have no idea what I said or did, maybe she just felt more comfortable, but I started learning all about her camp activities.
She ate cheese pizza, had lemonade, played on the playground...
I used this to draw a picture about her time at camp. When she came over to look at it, she corrected me, asking where the table was. I then had her write a few sentences about camp, modeling first, how it's done. "Nayun ate pizza at camp."
She started writing and if she dared spell a word without knowing if it's completely right, she'd look up at me right when she finished asking for approval. If I shook my head, she would instantly shake hers and erase the word, correcting it.
Mistake/error correction with Nayun is very simple because she often knows the correct spelling of a word, she just second guesses herself.
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