Lucía

Tuesday afternoon, right before my class with the kids was supposed to start, the mother of one of my Lucías approached me and asked if there was something I could to with Lucía to make things more difficult for her. Lucía is the oldest kid in the group and, according to her mother, has been a little bored with the things we´re doing. She said she already did all of this last year. I told the mom I´d try, but it´d be difficult for that day since everything was already planned.

I payed special attention to Lucía during class, and made it a point to ask questions to the group and then specifically to her if no one knew the answer. There were a lot of words she didn´t know, and the ones she did know, she didn´t know how to spell. I figured she couldn´t have been too bored. But Wednesday at school she asked me if I was going to make things more difficult for her next week. I told her I would try. I also called her out and reminded her that ´´yesterday, there were a lot of words you didn´t know.´´ She replied, ´´I knew them, I just didn´t remember them.´´ Ah.