Peter TS # 12

On 14 April, I tutored Umutoni. We worked on telling time. I drew a picture of a clock on a sheet of paper, and cut up two other sheets of paper as clock hands. One was little and the other was short. I wrote down the following: What time is it? Umutoni didn’t understand at first, but when I made the hands of the clock point towards noon, I said that it was twelve o’ clock, and she gave a sign of recognition. When I moved the short hand to the ‘one’, and when I asked her what time it was, she said that it was one o’ clock. (It wasn’t this easy. It took about twenty minutes to get to this point.) But when she understood, she was able to tell simple times. Next we worked on colors. In the Kinyarwanda handbook. I found the following words: red (umutuku); green (icyatsi kibisi); light blue (ubururu bwerurutse); yellow (umuhondo); orange (oranje); brown (igitaka); purple (ikijuju); black (umukala); grey (invi); white (umweru); pink (pinki); and dark blue (ubururu bwijimye). We went over them, but ran out of time.