Matthew started by studying for his upcoming vocabulary test.

We then read three poems by the Argentinian author Douglas Wright.

These poems dealt with different themes. We discussed those themes briefly. We spoke about the author's word choice and patterns in the poems.

Matthew then worked on his vocabulary from his supplemental text - defining the words in preparation for reading.

We then read that book and translated sections of the book.

Today, Bella and I started the class with a conversation in Spanish. At every opportunity, I tried to work the verbs from her upcoming test into the conversation.

She was then given 5 minutes to study her vocabulary.

After that, we read 3 poems by the Argentinian poet Douglas Wright. These poems were perfect as they are meant for children and are easily digestible by new language learners.

We did some minor disection of the poems meanings and plays on words.

Bella was then shown a video dealing with cooking and we read a conversation from her text also dealing with cooking.

Bella's lesson today was about preparing horcata - the Mexican drink.

Bella was first told how the class would be conducted and how to handle any filming of the lesson that took place.

She then read a part of the recipe that we had printed out. We specifically read the part that discussed a little history and description of the dish.

She then was told a series of formal commands in Spanish. She was responsible for writing down the command, then repeating it, then executing it.

She did an excellent job following the steps.

Lastly, we shared what she made with some of the staff.

Great job Bella!

Bella spent this session reviewing for her upcoming tests.

First, she reviewed notecards on her own for her 55 verbs test.

Then, she was asked to do 2-4 problems from various sets of exercises from the text. One set dealt with using the subjunctive in a sentence. The next set dealt with using formal commands to answer people's questions.

We then watched a video that used a great deal of the vocabulary from the chapter.

Lastly, Bella used some review software to get ready for her test.

Matthew and I discussed the list of vocabulary that he has been compiling as he has been reading his Golf book.

We discussed which of those words were most essential to modern conversational Spanish.

In the process, we generated a precise list of words that he will be tested on. We cleaned up any errors that were present in his list (i.e. spelling, plurality, etc.) He was given some options for the format of the test. He made choices that seemed consistent with his personal strengths.

He then studied those words.

We worked on the vocabulary learned, we watched a video about good manners and bad manners and we started talking about the new chapter: Sports.

He did some exercises using the present progressive and then began to fill out a comparative table with all the verbs in their different conjugations.

Continue practicing the present progressive.

Bobby and I attempted to work on his business assignment. However, the college's server was down.

We switched to Spanish.

Bobby and I discussed his the subjunctive. We also discussed the connection between language and thoughts. We discussed the historical events leading to the spread of Spanish.

Bobby was charged with finding a sensation or idea that he had thought of before but did not have words for it.

He was then asked to invent a word for that experience.

He chose to create a word for feeling so excited that you feel like you are going to perish. He said he experienced it while bungee jumping.

On 4 different occasions Bobby checked to see if the server had come back online. It did not come back online until 5 minutes before the end of class. At that point, he started working on his business class.

Bella turned in her homework. We discussed it.

We then discussed formal commands in Spanish. We reviewed how to conjugate in the subjunctive. We discussed how the conjugation for the subjunctive and formal commands is the same in Spanish. Bella was shown examples in English of commands. She was given nonexamples in English as well.

Bella then used the words from her homework to translate a section of text that we read last session. She did a great job.