Cam and I focused in on the Spanish Alphabet. He remembered approximately half the letters without any sort of reminder or refresh.

I told him the name of specific letters as needed. We made connections as we went along dealing with how letters and or phonemes may be viewed/categorized by different groups.

We spoke about which letters are viewed as official by the academy of Argentina.

We discussed ch, ll, rr and lleismo. We discussed alternate pronunciations for the letter z.

Cam was given an opportunity to practice his alphabet.

Per his request, we moved his alphabet test up to today. He scored a 100% but needed to go back and fix the "l" sound that he made.

This amount of information typically would be done over a period of time, but we were able to quickly introduce, assess, refresh (address gaps), and complete for a grade all of this material in single session.

Good job, Cam!

We finished the session by discussing the number of countries that speak Spanish and possible reasons why.

I introduced myself to Cam.

We discussed his prior exposure to Spanish. We covered a variety of preliminary Spanish topics including common phrases, specific verbs, conjugations, and vocabulary sets.

Cam displayed a strong foundation of Spanish.

We discussed the format for our class. We discussed our objectives going forward in the year and how we will honor his existing knowledge.

David and I reviewed briefly before his exam.

He then resumed the exam that he had started prior to the break.

David seems to do very well with information that we have covered recently. However, he will sometimes struggle with information even fundamental information that we have not covered recently. An example would be the word nosotros.

We will continue to work to help him to move this critical information to his long-term accessible memory.

Kaitlin and I looked at a series of labeled pictures and read some accompanying short paragraphs.

These pictures dealt with sports that are popular in Spanish-speaking countries. We discussed other sports not pictured.

Kaitlin read in Spanish and I provided feedback on her pronunciation as we went along.


We used phrases that we learned earlier in the year (levantar la mano, ir a pie) to make connections to the vocabulary from this chapter.

David and I worked on reinforcing some of the concepts of the first semester as he comes back from his holiday break.

Today, we focused in on the verb Tener. When asked to conjugate the verb tener, David has some issues being able to do it. So, we looked at the conjugation table. I quizzed him and then we played a game with tener.

I quizzed him on the verb tener again. After our game, he was able to recall the verb tener much more accurately than prior to the game.

Kaitlin was introduced to the topic of sports.

We discussed some phrases that she may encounter at home and at events dealing with the sports that she practices during the course of her day outside of school.

These included phrases and vocabulary like "pass me the ball, brakes" and others.

Kaitlin and I read a short passage in Spanish. We discussed the words and phrases as we went along.

We also finished translating the key phrases that she chose to work on this week.

David and I reviewed some of the concepts from last semester to help him to be successful on his makeup exam portion.

Absent - Cam and I were to introduce him to some of the concepts of Spanish and discuss his learning goals.

Kaitlin and I started the class reminding her to get her supplies out.

We discussed how she will continue to get more and more responsibility as the year progresses and how that will be a part of her participation grade.

Kaitlin and I discussed the submission of her work. She let me know that the work is physically located in Florida.

She then wrote a 5 sentence paragraph in Spanish talking about food that she likes to (and doesn't like to) eat. We mentioned some elements of good paragraph composition but also reminded her that in Spanish 1 it is okay to have more repetition than in her English classes.