Monday, March 21, Tuesday, March 22, and Wednesday, March 23.

K-3  Children learned a song and dance about the days of the week, reviewed body parts, colors, opposites, and several questions about themselves.


K-4  Students made weather books which I will collate and distribute to teachers as a class book.  We added new vocabulary to our lessons on weather in Spanish.  I love when the students can actually see the kind of day we are having through the windows in the Easy Reading Room!  Sometimes they can apply three or four different expressions in one class period! The children  reviewed parts of the body, numbers, and days of the week.

K-5  Students also made weather books and reviewed basic questions about themselves and the stuffed animals I use to motivate students and make our activities fun.

Grade 1  Students recited a dialogue between a teacher and a student.  The dialogue included days of the week and months of the year as well as several new common expressions used in Spanish  conversations.  Some of the children  wanted  to take a copy of the dialogue home to read.

Grade 2 Grade 2 also read the dialogue about a conversation between a teacher and her student.  All children took the dialogue home.  It is not homework,

Grade 3  The students presented their homework sentences using prepositions and parts of the body.   Students who did not complete the homework  worked on a dialogue.  I will inform parents next week of the students who did not complete their homework.  We began describing our classroom using prepositions and the names of classroom objects.  I was so pleased that some students can look around the room and describe the locations of the windows, posters, chairs, books, etc. entirely in Spanish.  There is no homework.

Grade 4  Students s wrote their autobiographies using their worksheets as a guide. They each  read their  paragraph to the class.  Grade 4 does a fantastic job with homework assignments!  Without the completed worksheet, we would not have been able to finish this assignment in class.  I am very proud of them.

Grades 5 and 6 read or sang their likes and dislikes.  The melody was, "These Are a Few of my Favorite Things,"  from The Sound of Music. The students who were in class also copied their responses from the homework  worksheet to create a paragraph about themselves.  Most of the students wrote the paragraph at home since the worksheet was partially completed in class last week. There is no homework.




                                    I wish all of you a very Happy Easter.

                                                        Miss Linda

Wednesday, March 16

Grades 5 and 6 have a homework assignment which will be due on Wednesday, March 23.
The first part of the assignment is to prepare a T-graph listing things the student likes on one side, and things they do not like on the other side.  ALL STUDENTS MADE THE T-GRAPH IN CLASS AND WROTE AT LEAST TEN ITEMS. Students need to have at least thirty likes and dislikes. The second part of the homework is to complete one sheet of an autobiography  This is a review.  Every part of the autobiography was discussed in class. If your child needs help with the assignment, please call me at 601-428-1704.  Students were asked if they wished to do an additional page providing more information about themselves.  About seven students from each class asked to do the second page.  Only one page is required, however.  Both assignments are to be completed entirely  in Spanish for 5th and 6th graders.

   Have a great weekend.  Looks like spring is not quite here, but it is on its way!

Monday, March 14

Grade K-4  Students were very happy to be back in school today!  We played the language  game with our stuffed animals.  All of the children did a great job understanding which animal I was asking them to find.  I can conduct our lessons almost entirely in Spanish with our K-4 students.  They have learned so much.  We discussed opposites in Spanish using some colorful visuals. The children heard the story, Buenas Noches, Cuaquito about a family of ducklings and the night sounds and sights they experience while trying to fall asleep.

Grade K-5  Students answered some questions about themselves in Spanish.  The children learned ten pairs of opposites in Spanish.  They heard the story, Buenas Noches, Cuaquito, which  they really enjoyed.  The story is about ducklings trying to fall asleep and noticing night sounds and sights which have to be investigated by Mama Pata.  I am thinking some of the children also might have some issues falling asleep and really enjoyed hearing about the ducklings nighttime experiences. Ask your child to share the story with you.

Grade 1  Children recited a short story about March weather.  They also learned opposites in Spanish and heard the story about Cuaquito, a little duckling and his family.  We reviewed basic questions in Spanish.

Grade 2  Grade 2 recited the story about March weather.  They have a copy to take home.  Please ask your child about it.  Grade 2 students also learned opposites in Spanish and answered questions about themselves.

Grade 3  Using the students work with prepositions in Spanish and a copy of a fox with parts of the body labelled in Spanish, students created sentences telling where each part is located.  For example,  La boca esta debajo de la nariz.  The mouth is under the nose.  I asked students to finish writing the descriptions for homework and bring their work next week, March 21.  Most students wrote at least ten sentences in class.  There are sixteen parts of the body on the handout.    Please contact me if you have any questions about the assignment and I will be happy to explain it if you need further clarification.  If your child has at least ten sentences written, we can finish the rest in class.  I do encourage students to try to compose the rest of the sentences as homework  since they were given four or five examples in class to copy.  Completing homework is important.

Grade 4  Students worked on completing the first part of their autobiography in Spanish. I asked  them to practice reading  what they have already written for next week, March 21. I assisted students with their responses if they did not know the word they needed.    I also encouraged students to try to complete the rest of the page with their responses.  One student said he wanted to complete the page and share it with me on Wednesday of this week!  It makes me so happy that he is so  interested in learning Spanish that he can't wait to share  his work with me.  Several other fourth graders wanted to work independently during class since they did not need any assistance.  That really pleases me.

Grades 5 and 6 worked on some review sheets based on our study of Spanish cities.  The students were able to use their handouts to help them find the answers to the descriptions of the cities.  I was very pleased to see that most of the students came to class prepared with their handouts in their Spanish notebook.

There is no homework.  Have a wonderful spring break.

Air Jam was awesome.  I loved all of the performances and really really enjoyed the closing performance presented by the sixth graders.  It was great!  What a surprise it was!  It was also great seeing my students' parents and siblings. Being part of the SJDS Family is a wonderful experience.

                                                     Miss Linda

Grade K-3 had a fun time today responding to descriptions in Spanish about twelve  stuffed animals and their locations about the room.  I am so pleased at how well the children in all three K-3 classes understand Spanish!  Listening is a very important part of learning a language, including a child's first language.  I am going to continue this activity using other vocabulary including common classroom objects, food, family members, toys, and community workers.

The children also sang songs and reviewed numbers to ten and twenty.

It is my pleasure to teach our K-3 children.  They are so receptive to learning Spanish.  Thank you for your cooperations and interest in our program at SJDS.

                              Have a great spring break next week.

                                                    Miss Linda