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It has dawned on me that I had completely forgotten about this blog for the past month or so... Oops. Seriously, things have been crazy, but I regret not writing my thoughts down, because it would've been nice to go back and see how I felt as it was happening (although I'm sure you could track down my fiance or friends if you want a full recounting, because goodness knows I ranted to them enough). So, I have about 2 weeks left of student teaching, therefore I will try to recount every day in order to make up for lost... entries. Well, at least it will be a nice way to look back on my days.

We are in Chapter 4A in Spanish 1, and today we talked about question words. We made a big chart on the board with all of our question words, talked about which ones had elements that would transfer to the answer (ex. ¿Con quién? is going to have "con" somewhere in the answer), came up with sample questions and the corresponding answers for them. For guided practice, the students were given sentences and told to fill in the missing question word based on the context. Then, they had some independent practice with a communicative "fill in the gap" activity. 2nd period was dead asleep (despite my efforts) for most of the period and so struggled with the speaking task, but 4th period was on top of their game and they found it fairly easy. We also watched a video from the textbook series that featured kids from Spain, and the students thought their lisping was hilarious. So now, I told them, they can tell if someone is from Spain by the way they talk!

In Spanish 4, we wrote summaries of No oyes ladrar los perros using vocabulary words and without looking at the book, learned about si clauses (si yo fuera tú, lo haría; si hubiéramos tenido el dinero, habríamos ido a España), talked about an online blog assignment in Spanish, and introduced a new project where they have to write their own song using all of the subjunctive clauses. A full period, to say the least! They were giving me evil eyes by the end... well, it is an honors class!

I also had a meeting with my supervisor and we mapped out all of the things I need to cover in or before my final observation. I have about 8 things to secure, but hopefully they won't be too difficult to fit in.

Sadly, today was my last day actually teaching Spanish 4. I will be supervising them until next Wednesday, but there isn't any more new content that I have to teach. Sad :(

Spanish 1 tomorrow will be working with para + infinitive constructions, continuing with making questions, and stem-changing verbs. And a vocab quiz! We sure do have a full week.