Joyce Cho(조해인)

[johnny]

Joyce has been at our house for 1 week and several days so far and has adjusted to the time change extremely well.  She knows English well and understands much of what we are saying.  She is a quiet and smart young lady with a pleasant nature about her and it has been wonderful getting to know her.  Life in our house is quite busy with many activities and such and she has adjusted well.

  Last week and this week Joyce has been reading short stories out loud from the "Doors to Discover" series and answering comprehension questions with me in full sentences.  She does well at pronunciation and has not had to have much correction in this area.  She is quick to ask when she does not understand a word and we are keeping a list of those words for her to remember.  She will also be working on "Daily Grams" which is a short review of capitalization, punctuation, grammar concepts and sentence combining which she will be doing each day - in this she is at a Grade 7 level.  We are also working through the Easy Grammar Level 1 Book and she is doing very well.   She has a good understanding of prepositions, subjects and irregular and regular verbs.  We also work on a journal each day and generally it will be centered around questions that I provide.  So far she has told me all about her favourite foods in Korea, her family in Korea and described her bedroom in Korean using colorful language.  I have given her a novel to read entitled "Parvana" and she will be working through this on her own time.  We will also be putting together a little activity in regards to this once she is finished. 

Joyce plays the flute very well and we have had an opportunity to play a couple of Christmas songs together.  We will be working together on several songs so that we can play them for our family at Christmas.  She also attended a conference with Rachel and I last Saturday in the U.S. where we spent 4 hours with 600 other young girls singing, listening to a speaker and making a craft.  Some of the other activities that Joyce will be participating in will be a guided tour of the Powerhouse Dam in Mission, fieldtrip to the Spacestation in Vancouver which will be in January and probably a trip to ScienceWorld.  She also attends "band" practice every Monday night with our family and sits in the drum class with Rachel.  In December she will be participating in a cupcake class and T-Shirt making class.  We will also have opportunity to swim, skate, jump on the trampoline (which she already is enjoying) and watch parades - which we will be doing tomorrow! 

The kids all love Joyce especially Rachel and Rebekah as they are around the same age.  We are looking forward to our time together over these next months and know already that Joyce will exceed very well in her studies and her interaction with the kids and family as a whole.   

[johnny]

조해인 학생이 머물고 있는 Vanderveen네 가정에서 보내온 편지입니다.

[재형]

소식 반갑습니다.
해인이가 적응 잘 하고 영어공부을 비롯하여 여러가지 활동을 하게되어 좋습니다.
여러가지 가족활동 중에 수영이 있는데 혹시 해인이가 소극적일 수 있습니다. 수영을 배우다 말았거든요.
그래도 함께 참여할 수 있도록 하여주시면 좋겠습니다. 이 기회에 수영을 좋아하게 되면 더욱 좋겠습니다.
그리고 해인이가 말을 많이 하지 않는 편이었는데 많은 대화를 할 수 있도록 유도하여 주시면 좋겠습니다.(영어말하기가 많이 향상되도록!)
엄마 욕심이 많죠?! 늘 건강하고 좋은 일 가득하길 바랍니다.

[johnny]

부모님들의 심정이 많이 이해 됩니다. 또 저희가 마땅히 하여야 할일들이기도 하고요.
수영뿐아니라 일상생활과 대화에 적극적으로 참여할수 있도록 도와주라고 가정에 전달하겠습니다.