I was asked to substitute for Barri for 60 minutes then for Marcus for 30 minutes.
Elle and I went outside to check the weather. Then using a weather activity sheet which I had created for her, she described the weather in French into a journal notebook. This activity lasted 20 minutes. When we returned,
Elle and I played the Bingo game with numbers in French for 15 minutes. We then played scrabble in English for the remainder of our time together. Although we created words in English, I had her tell me whatever words she knew in French. The words she did not know, I told her the French equivalent. She seemed to enjoy increasing her French vocabulary in this fashion. Elle is a very good language arts student. She effortlessly created words from her “letter bank” throughout the entire game.

10 minutes - review of greetings and salutations.
25 minutes - reviewed nouns of the city then tested the nouns via a game - Bingo. Using a Bingo board filled with a different city noun in each box, I said a city noun in English and Elle said the noun in French. She then put a star in that box. We played this game twice. Elle knew the names of all the nouns without having to look at the “city map” she had made. She did well and received a “100” for this test.
25 minutes - we reviewed numbers 1 thru 49. Then using a Bingo board, Elle filled in any number she wanted between 10 and 49. I called a number in French and Elle searched for it on her bingo board. Elle had difficulty remembering the numbers at first and had to reference her activity sheet. We played the game a second time and she did better but still needed to look up quite a few of the numbers on her activity sheet. She received a “78” for this test. Elle needs to review her numbers for homework.

Elle arrived late. When she arrived, she saw teacher Bobbi and went into her room where there was another student, rather than going to her own room where I was waiting for her. I was walking to the front door to tell Elise that Elle hadn't shown up today when I saw her. We had only 7 minutes left by the time I could get her back to her own room.
Elle arrived late today. In our remaining time, we reviewed the names of the buildings on her "city" project. Her pronunciation was good. Tomorrow we will play "bingo" with the names of the buildings.

subbed for French teacher

This was my first class meeting Elle. She is a nice girl.

Substitution from 10:00 to 10:30.
30 minute culture lesson on Paris. Utilizing you tube, Elle searched “les bateaux mouches”, le Sacre Coeur, Notre Dame, La Seine, les bouquinistes on La Seine and les Galleries Lafayette. She enjoyed this lesson very much.

20 minute review of greetings (how are you, what is your name, etc.), days of the week, months of the year, and salutations - esp: when is your birthday, what is today’s date, what are the days of the week, what are the months of the year?
15 minutes - review of the nouns associated with Elle’s “city” project.
15 minute - review of the parts of the body - written out and sung in song from you tube.
10 minute - review of time - 1:00 thru 11:00, noon and midnight.

Substitute for teacher 10:00 to 11:00. We continued to do French.
20 minutes - Elle watched specifically chosen You Tube singing lessons on “parts of the body” in French. I gave her a worksheet with the vocabulary and we went over the parts of the body, but she enjoyed repeating the song, so we continued with that.
20 minutes - we reviewed telling time, and the vocabulary of the “city” on her project.
20 minutes - Elle sang the “parts of the body” song she had learned from you tube. We then watched 2 other you tube videos with different songs on the topic of “parts of the body”. We sang together, to master the vocabulary, until time was up.
Elle enjoys learning vocabulary thru song. I'm glad I chose to teach her the "parts of the body" utilizing the you tube song videos.

20 minute - review of greetings and salutations; numbers 1 thru 60; and vocabulary for city, as per Elle’s project.
40 minutes - using the numbers 1 thru 12 Elle learned how to tell time - and the question: What time is it? We went through all the hours of the day as well as noon and midnight. We briefly began 30 - such as 1:30, 2:30, etc. We finished by writing her new vocabualry words into her notebook.
Elle did very well today.

20 minutes - Elle reviewed the greeting and salutations vocabulary with me. She wrote her numbers from 1 thru 20, the days of the week and the months of the year, on her whiteboard. Her spelling is improving. We then went over the sentences: when is your birthday, and my birthday is ….
40 Minutes - Elle completed her “city” project. While she was finding pictures on the computer, printing them and pasting them to her “city” board, we discussed the activities going on in each building. For example: Le restaurant - we talked about meals in France and the fact that the main meal of the day is taken at lunch, not dinner. Also that dinner is at 8 p.m. Ecole = school; schools in France do not have the same schedule as those in the U.S., etc. Elle repeated the French words many times during this activity.
Elle was very resistant to beginning her lesson today. She insisted that she needed to speak with her friend Kate. I gave them a few minutes to talk then asked Elle to come back into her own room so that we could get started. She refused and I asked Tara to speak with her. I later learned that Elle was very anxious over both the amount of time and the subjects she had on her schedule.