Our first order of business today was to celebrate Cabo’s great work from yesterday. I gave him some free time as a reward.

After Cabo’s free time had expired, he worked in the textbook on pages 338-339 doing 2 different exercises. He performed the task at and A grade level of execution.

We then reviewed his sentences about the Isabella book from the day before. I gave him notes on minor improvements.

We previewed what we would cover in the text in our next class.

Cabo studied for his Spanish quiz during a teacher guided review.

He then took his quiz. Cabo was focused and worked hard during this very brief quiz.

While I was grading his quiz, he had time to decompress from the stress from the quiz and to work on vocabulary.

I returned his quiz to him and gave him and reviewed the correct answers with him.

Cabo then wrote a series of summary sentences ( 20 Spanish Sentences in Total) for the chapters that he had read in the Isabella book. This served as a review of the book for him.

Cabo worked independently and at a high level for his current understanding of Spanish.

This was Cabo’s best day of the school year (during my time) so far! His focus and level of work were remarkable.

Sofia continued working on her Body Parts in Spanish project.

She finished cutting out the shape of the body. We said the parts in English and Spanish as she cut them out.

Sofia then created the labels for the body parts.

We reviewed the verbs and sentence structure that is used for "Simon Says..." and how to say that a body part hurts.

I reviewed with Cabo the present progressive.

We went over 3 example sentences on the board. He was able to orally use the conjugation correctly.

Cabo then read the last chapter of Isabella silently. We then read the book together. He jokingly commented on the storybook ending.

We discussed the final chapter of the book. This was a major milestone in Cabo's Spanish language aquisition journey. We were able to have a a brief, disjointed, but fundamentally sound conversation about chapter 10 of the book.

We celebrated Cabo's success.

Cabo and I took turn reading paragraphs from the textbook and discussing the content. We highlighted to the book's frequent use of the present progressive and its use of common phrases and thematic vocabulary.

Cabo and I reviewed material that we covered just before the break.

Then, Cabo read a chapter of Isabella silently. We then read the chapter aloud together.

Cabo wrote answers to 5 questions in Spanish.

We then previewed material from the textbook for tomorrow.

Cabo finished the class by writing a 5 sentence paragraph on what he likes to do while on vacation.

I presented a lesson to Cabo focusing on the -go verbs. I presented a list of the verbs, a set of verb trees, and multiple sentences.

He then worked on knowing which verbs appear on the list, conjugating the verbs in the yo form, and writing sentences with the verbs.


Cabo read another chapter from the Isabella book and he wrote some sentences.

We read from Cabo’s chapter book. He generated some sentences in Spanish.

Cabo read from Isabella and answered 3 questions about the text.

We then read from the textbook together on page 334. Cabo and I discussed exercises 3 & 4 from the chapter.

Cabo reported being very tired at the start of class and seemed low energy.

In response, we eased into the day with a brief review of information that he had already learned this year, mapping his Spanish studies up to this point in the year in the process.

He gradually became more lively. We then dove into the textbook reading the introductory sections of Chapter 10. We analyzed the pictures and text and came up with ridiculous false cognates along the way for the vocabulary. While there was a gradual start, it was a productive session and we accomplished everything scheduled for the day.

I presented a lesson on the board giving examples of the present progressive in Spanish and in English.

We then walked around the school discussing what different people were doing at the time that we observed them. We discussed their activities using the present progressive.

Cabo did a great job with comprehension and with his one word answers. As expected on the first day of a new concept, he struggled to use the conjugation flawlessly, but did an excellent job for his current level.

We also read Chapter 6 of the our Isabella book. Cabo’s comprehension of these chapters is superb.

I conducted a brief review with Cabo for the Test.

He then took his test. He answered the questions quickly.

I gave him a moment to decompress as I graded his test. This took approximately 3 minutes.

We then reviewed the test and went over all of the correct answers. I asked if he had any questions. Cabo got an A on the test.

We then quickly reviewed the test