After my second observation I was disappointed with the way the class turned out.  At first I was frustrated that my lesson plan and timing did not seem to go the way I had planned but after a few days of self-reflection I began to realize that I could learn a lot of valuable lessons from my experience.  Today I am happy to report that the lessons I learned from that experience were put into practice and I am happy to report that today's class went very well.  The main problem with the class that I taught for my second observation was that (1) I tried to tackle too much material and was not able to slow down and just focus on teachable moments.  (2) I  tried to shorten the musical echoing song too much and left 15 minutes at the end of class without any structured instruction.

In today's class we focused on a song called "El Preguntón" or "The Big Question."  This song did not use any visual slides and just focused on a song repeating all of the interrogative words.  The class had to fill in the blanks of the song as they listened.  We listened to the song three times and then went over the whole song together.  After they knew all the words, we sang the song together as a group and then divided the class up with the girls on one side and the boys on the other.  The girls then sang the calling part and the boys sang the response.  The whole class seemed to enjoy the call and response and were really starting to understand the interrogative words.  After a few rounds of call and response we moved to an exercise that has to do with all the interrogatives.  By moving slowly through these exercises I noted that I was able to fill all the time in the class and the students paid much better attention.