For me a picture of today's activity is when really well, I think I'm extremely prepare to just be present. Have like an eye over the students and be compassionate and hear them if they want to share something and talk to them. If they want to listen to something else, that was that star students required at the end of the day, they were like Why do we want to talk about how we can we want to share our emotions? Because our parents are still stuck in traffic. So I provided all this concourses and and here two years ago and for me it was a bit interesting that when I came there and presented them to print out that I got yesterday. And today the school told me like, no, no.

Okay, hi. It was really nice to have the engagement as a substitute today, we got, but when his uncle students and they were doing their science enrichment, for is another teacher from grasshopper, they were doing some activities outside with volunteer from USF, eyes closed. And the last hour was the most difficult for exam 2. Just stay calm and wait until their parents will come. It was just two or three students graph that were picked up later than all the other people. So it went really good for all of us.

It was loud and very active: four out of five students, being boys after a very long school day, wanted to move, run, jump, play-fight etc rather than listen to the book, read the word on a white board, repeat the pronounced words after me. I will prepare way more fun songs to move and dance for my future classes, and some movement games like "jump on the color" (with colored paper dots or other color markers and naming colors in French), "Simon says /verb in French/", "Up, down, left and right" (for some new vocabulary words), and will prepare BIG coloring pages, usind a roll of paper I have at home + packaging paper I have from Amazon Deliveries. They enjoyed having a tiny "bring home Zine", with some coloring, word search of today's vocab, and the song we learned. It was a cool thing to have for the last 5-ish minutes to encourage them to clean up and get ready for the outside.

First class in the series. We got to know each other, and the students have shown me their potential and their main interests and preferred activities. They were enjoying the simple "color the map" that I prepared on the spot, and the guessing game "where in the world France is". They liked the video+song (mostly because it is video), and they loved moving around. They know a little bit of French, so we can move forward from that, and despite being in the 1st grade they are pretty fluent in reading and recognizing all the letters and many syllables. We had a hands-on activity "make a paper boat" to learn a word "bateau", a song "Bateau sur l'eau" and dance a bit for that song. The semi-successfull activity is the puzzle game "French Regions", I will try to make it more enjoyable. We read a book "Escargot" about a French (bilingual) snail, the first book in the series.

Today we crocheted a scrunchie, using a new crochet stitch - the "single crochet". In the midterm we had a bit of stretching and during the whole class we had a bit of chitchat here and there (as it usually goes in crafting circles).

To me it was more calm than the first class, as the students already know me (a bit) and I know them. We had only 3 students this time, but I expect the fourth student to join us again next time.

We crocheted a scrunchie, using a new technique, the "single crochet". In the mid-time of the class we did some stretches (and students made some art on the whiteboard), and during the whole class we had a little bit of chitchat, as it usually goes in the crafting circles.

It was "controlled chaos". Some kids are way older than the rest, so the little ones are more timid and the big ones are more expressive. To me all went at 9/10, because at the end I couldn't engage all of them to clean after the class - but they cleaned a bit during the class and helped a bit at the end too. I think I can prepare better for the next class, having an impression on what they actually can do (read or not read, as some are Kinder grade) and how dexterous/attentive they are to follow some instructions, that are written, spoken or presented in any other way.

Today was the first class in the series. We got to know each other, I have one extra student that is in the school roster but not in the GH roster (Hugo). Overall there were 10 students. We talked just a tiny bit on what is food and cooking, why do we eat and what do we use to cook. I have shown some of the kitchen equipment I brought today, and the rest of time we were actually making some lunch/snack out of a tortilla, sunbutter, fruits and granola. Children were excited to use a mandolina slicer (they got to cut a quarter of an apple each) and to decorate their tortillas to their desire. Not all of them wanted to actually eat the food they made so we wrapped the rolls in some cling wrap, wrote the names on the cling, and saved it "for the parents".

to me it was a bit too much, as there were a lot of students (17 at the beginning), aged 5 to 8, ready for some palytime and run-around rather than sitting down and doing something with their hands. They did really good for the first 10 minutes, after which it was quite difficult to get their attention all at once. But, overall, they enjoyed doing what they decided to do and be creative with the materials provided - and I am happy for them bieng kids.

Today I was subbing for another teacher, whose program is more into STEM. I decided, that the broad range of atendees, k to 8, calls for something very inclusive and less instructional, so I prepared some paper weaving instead of yarn arts. Kids turned out to be mostly of k to 2 grades, with great interest in snacks and outside play rather than crafts. We started with weaving but realized it is not so interesting, so I caught the idea from one of the students and we created colorful bracelets "ghost hands" instead. Two of the students even performed for us in a "talent show", dancing with the bracelets they did.

I felt a bit nervous before the class, as it is something new with the new people, but overall we had a warm and kind atmosphere. Girls needed my help and accepted it, and they actually got something to bring home — I am happy for them and ready to meet them next week again.

Today I met my School Contact, Cena, got my badge and final roster, and had a little tour on the premises. I had four girls in my class: Liora, Millie, Maya and Abby, plus one from another class - Gabie (their teacher got a flat tire on their way to school). We learned the very basic stitch of crocheting, and made an Ugly Worm each. Some were so fast that they did two! They decided to have them as a bracelet or a chocker or a headband. Some took their projects home, others wrote their names on the "holding stick" and we will return to them next week. Liora was excited to start with knitting, but I find it way harder — so we will try to knit a bit later, when we will be confident with our yarn and our fingers.

I felt a bit nervous before the lesson as it is the first one, but all went good. The overall atmosphere in the class was kind and supportive. Kids needed some help and accepted it. We had some bumps, but we overcame them! I am excited to meet the students again next week.

(Attempt #2 to write a report) I met my school contact, Cena, got my badge and a little tour on premises. There were four students in my class, Millie, Maya, Abbie and Liora, and then one more — Gaby, whose teacher got a flat tire on their way to school. I have shown some of the projects that I crocheted over the years, and we started from the basics: the simple chain. Girls were very interested in both crocheting and knitting, but we will try knitting a bit later, when we will be confident in our yarn and our fingers' movements. We did the Ugly Worm, and some decided that it will be a bracelet or a chocker. Some took their projects home, with extra yarn and a hook, to practice more.

Okay, so today with our class of pre-K students, we had 12 students aged about three years old, 25 years old, we read a book, we played a little game. We learned lots of words of Spanish according to the book. And we draw lots of little and big pumpkins, because our theme of this day, was the pumpkin una calabaza. So we had lots of practice. Stop speaking Spanish, listen in Spanish and also some activities such as drawing playing such a expressing themselves and repeating after the teacher and they had lots of fun of coloring. The pumpkins on the vine of little and big one and lots and lots of them. And I had lots of fun of giving them this experience. And I think that over preparing was a really good thing because I could pivot From one thing to another thing easily.