second+test+4B+Weather

The second test was done on a group of 29 children aged between 8 and 9. The topic was still on the weather but this time they did not have all the same pictures. Moreover I did not ask them to colour because there was not enough crayons for everyone, instead they had to put numbers in the boxes left on puporse. The sentences that I used were:" écrivez 1 dans il fait beau". They are not all confident with their numbers, so some translate them into English. They were all using their fingers to find the number. They were worried because they did not all have the same pictures.

Each child results are available in the document "children's result 4b". I add more words, they had nine different pictures: During the first 15 minutes we went through the sentences again, all the time trying to link an action to make this part less boring. Then we song a little song that goes: > il fait beau > il fait chaud > il fait froid > il pleut beaucoup > il y a du vent > > il froid > il y a du soleil > il y a du brouillard > il fait beau > il fait chaud > mais il neige. > They simply hated the song so we did it just three time. > > Then we had the little test. > > The results show that most of them made a confusion between il fait beau, il y a du soleil et il fait chaud. It is quite normal since they almost say the same thing > The one that they did not seem to get was: il y a du brouillard which appears wrong 16 times. Then it was:il y a du soleil with 13 people getting it wrong. Il fait beau has been mistaken by 10 pupils. However they got : il neige well, only 4 children put the wrong number in this box and il pleut only 1 got it wrong. > > I think that I might need to get through the sentences again. > > Finally before doing my lesson of 30 minutes, I had a small group of 8 children and they made less mistakes because we went through the sentences in a smaller group so they were obliged to focus and listen. > > The average is 2, 43 mistakes by children which is ,in my opinion, quite good. > > Only 4 children made no mistake and it is not a suprise since they always participate and are confident in French. They always > > know the answers and have always their hand up. They get it before the others. > This is one of the paper I gave them. and this is the other > > one.
 * ** il fait beau
 * il pleut
 * il neige
 * il y a du solei
 * il fait chaud
 * il y a du vent
 * il fait froid
 * il y a de l'orage
 * il y a du brouillard

However, I cannot compare the resuts with the first test because they almost all made no mistake! But 5 children had the same result, they made no mistake at both tests. Only one child improved his result by making 3 listakes instead of four. First, he got wrong: il pleut, il neige, les nuages and il fait froid. During the second test, he still did not get: il pleut, il neige and il y a du brouillard. 11 children made one or two mistakes, most of them made no mistakes at the first test. 11 children mode three or more mistakes. I cannot compare their results because most of them made no mistake at the firts test.