Dear Parents, 
          I want to wish you a very Happy New Year!  I look forward to an exciting second semester teaching your children and learning from them!  Thank you so much for your support and interest in Spanish. 
                             See you next year!  
                                     Miss Linda 

Dear Parents, 

      We had so much fun yesterday singing Cascabel, Jingle Bells, in Spanish.  Some of the children have copies so you can sing along with them at home.  

K-4   We continued learning Jingle Bells, Cascabel, in Spanish.  We also discussed the meaning of the word sleigh, trineo, pasear, going out, and sonar, to ring. I love the responses to the meaning of sleigh.  One of the most interesting was:  " It is like a boat, but it flies and has presents Santa is bringing to us."  We discussed other modes of transportation, but after the children started thinking about Santa and reindeer, I think we will have to return to the discussion of transportation next year!   Children  learned Feliz Navidad, Merry Christmas, and Prospero Ano Nuevo and heard the story, Winter in Spanish. 

K-5  We also sang and talked about the meaning of the lyrics to Cascabel.  We also reviewed foods  we like to eat.  Children heard The Three Little Pigs in Spanish.  The version I read is different and very kind to the wolf.  I like that. 

1st grade completed a worksheet with Spanish vocabulary about silverware and dishes.  They also sang Cascabel. 

2nd Grade completed the worksheet above and created their own sentences about objects used at the dinner table.  We shared them orally.  They  received their papers back from two weeks ago on numbers.  They did an excellent job on this paper and I am extremely proud of the children.  They work very, very hard.  Thank you! I worked with individual children on telling dates in Spanish which we started  last week. 

3rd grade sang Christmas carols and also did a worksheet in Spanish with new vocabulary related to eating and setting the table.  They received graded work which I hope they will share with you.  

They also received a sheet listing alphabet letter names in Spanish.  They wanted to take the sheet home and work on it over vacation.  I like that, but there is NO official homework. 

4th grade worked on vocabulary related to professions.  We discussed the many cognates the two languages share which makes learning new vocabulary easy sometimes.  For example, profesor/a, professor, arquitecto/a architect,  pintor/a painter, cientifico/a scientist.  There are many more! 

We sang Silent Night and Jingle Bells in Spanish.  I love our fourth graders!  They also received graded papers which I would like you to examine.

I wish all of you a Feliz Navidad.  Thank you for your interest in St. John's Foreign Language Program and for all of your generosity and support this past year.  

                                                             Srta. Linda 

I am sorry I was unable to post anything last week.  My computer was at the shop.  Thank you for communicating with me via text and social network.  Please do not hesitate to phone me at any time. I like to talk!