Monday and Tuesday, August 29 and August 30.
Grade K-4 The K-4 children learned a new song, a mi me gusta bailer. This song is accompanied by movement which I use often with younger children. We also reviewed the names of our puppets and basic responses about age, name, feelings, and the weather.
K-5 Our K-5 children are so receptive to learning Spanish! I can conduct the entire session in Spanish. We learned how to say the names of shapes in Spanish and reviewed expressions with tener, to have. I am very proud of our little second language learners.
Grade 1 Grade 1 learned the names of shapes and how to express their responses in complete sentences. We reviewed responses to basic questions about family, weather, days, months, birthday, name, and animals.
Grade 2 Grade 2 learned the names of basic shapes and responding in complete sentences to questions about themselves.
Grade 3 Students individually demonstrated their mastery of the use of ordinal numbers. They did an excellent job! I am very proud of them
Grade 4 Students discussed the projects made by our new students about the countries of Spain and Cuba Individual students then demonstrated mastery of the use of ordinal numbers. Ordinal numbers are not quite as easy as they are in English! I am so proud of our fourth graders.
Grade 5 Fifth graders presented their projects: South American Countries. We emphasized foods landmarks, system of government and the flag of each country. Several students did not complete the project successfully. The product they presented was incomplete and/ or not done carefully. I asked those students to redo their project for our next session, September 12, due to the Labor Day holiday next Monday. I will be sending home some information about grading policies and my rubric for grades on written work and oral presentations. I will be calling parents to notify them or will send a note home as soon as soon as possible if their child's work was not completed. I also notified their classroom teacher personally and returned the work to the students.
Grade 6 Our two sixth grade classes are awesome! Students turned in their autobiographies. Several students did not turn in their composition. They had two weeks to complete an assignment which actually was based on last year's written work. I really want to prepare our sixth graders for next year and being responsible for the completion of homework is a very important part of being a successful student. I explained the assignment that is due on September 12. Students have two weeks to complete this assignment, as they had for the first one. The new project is to create a book based on their feelings. I showed an example of a completed illustrated book. Each page should show a different emotion in the from of a photographs, drawings, computer imagesa, magazine photos, collage, etc. Under the image, the students need to write ONE sentence in Spanish or Spanish and English describing what the image shows, for example; A veces me siento feliz. Sometimes I feel happy. (A picture of a boy smiling will accompany this sentence. A veces me siento asustado. Sometimes I feel scared. ALL STUDENTS COPIED THESE MODEL SENTENCES IN THEIR NOTEBOOK. The book should be at least sixteen pages long. I encourage students to include more than sixteen pages. Several students said they were excited about this creative project and wanted to begin as soon as possible. Since there is NO CLASS ON MONDAY, students have plenty of time to complete their book even if they go away for the three day weekend.
Have a great holiday.
Mrs. Linda
Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Monday and Tuesday Classes Week of August 15, 2016.
K- 4 Children reviewed our songs and met new puppets. The new animal puppets introduced new vocabulary terms to the children. We have a new little doll named, "Susana" who helped children review parts of the body. Children learned three new songs today, as well. They are: Happy Birthday in Spanish, This is the Way We Wash, and Fray Felipe.
K- 5 K-5 The children learned three new songs, (See K-4). They also answered some questions about themselves in order to review responses learned last year. They heard a story in Spanish about the wind. We reviewed other weather expressions as well.
Grade 1 Children answered questions about themselves in Spanish. They were able to correctly respond to two questions about themselves in complete sentences! Children also learned three new songs.
Grade 2 The children were given a short dialogue in Spanish to recite. They took the dialogue home and may practice at home. Please ask your child about the dialogue. The purpose of the dialogue is to review last year's vocabulary. Everything was explained in English so that they children know the meaning of the conversation.
Grade 3 Children were introduced to ordinal numbers. They copied the numbers to review at home. We will be working with ordinal numbers next week. All children need to bring a notebook and pen or pencil to Spanish class every Monday. Unless otherwise noted, worksheets students receive in class should be practiced at home. If homework requires any written work, I will state this on the blog. Also, students will always complete five or six sentences in class before I ask them to create more sentences or a paragraph at home.
Grade 4 The students copied ordinal numbers in their notebooks. We will be working with ordinals more next week.
Grade 5 Students read an article from their Scholastic Magazine in Spanish. They need to prepare a poster about a South American country which is due August 29th. All students were given a country. I included Brazil since we are talking about the Olympic Games as part of our culture strand. If your child forgot his/her country, he/she may prepare the poster about, Argentina. Peru, Brazil, or Venezuela. These countries were mentioned in our newsletter. The poster should include the country's flag, typical foods, form of government, and monuments or points of interest. Since the students prepared posters about selected Spanish cities last year, they are very aware of what is expected from them. New students were shown examples of work prepared last year so they have an idea of what to do.
Sixth Grade Students were introduced to ordinal numbers. They also were given a worksheet about professions to complete in Spanish. The homework is to complete their autobiography using the worksheet to help them with the last paragraph. This activity is a review and students may use their autobiography from last year to complete the new autobiography. The responses should be in Spanish only. The autobiography is due August 29th. If the students already completed the assignment, there is no homework for them. I explained everything they were being asked in class, but nearly everyone understood the paragraphs without any help from me!
Have a wonderful weekend.
Mrs. Linda
K- 4 Children reviewed our songs and met new puppets. The new animal puppets introduced new vocabulary terms to the children. We have a new little doll named, "Susana" who helped children review parts of the body. Children learned three new songs today, as well. They are: Happy Birthday in Spanish, This is the Way We Wash, and Fray Felipe.
K- 5 K-5 The children learned three new songs, (See K-4). They also answered some questions about themselves in order to review responses learned last year. They heard a story in Spanish about the wind. We reviewed other weather expressions as well.
Grade 1 Children answered questions about themselves in Spanish. They were able to correctly respond to two questions about themselves in complete sentences! Children also learned three new songs.
Grade 2 The children were given a short dialogue in Spanish to recite. They took the dialogue home and may practice at home. Please ask your child about the dialogue. The purpose of the dialogue is to review last year's vocabulary. Everything was explained in English so that they children know the meaning of the conversation.
Grade 3 Children were introduced to ordinal numbers. They copied the numbers to review at home. We will be working with ordinal numbers next week. All children need to bring a notebook and pen or pencil to Spanish class every Monday. Unless otherwise noted, worksheets students receive in class should be practiced at home. If homework requires any written work, I will state this on the blog. Also, students will always complete five or six sentences in class before I ask them to create more sentences or a paragraph at home.
Grade 4 The students copied ordinal numbers in their notebooks. We will be working with ordinals more next week.
Grade 5 Students read an article from their Scholastic Magazine in Spanish. They need to prepare a poster about a South American country which is due August 29th. All students were given a country. I included Brazil since we are talking about the Olympic Games as part of our culture strand. If your child forgot his/her country, he/she may prepare the poster about, Argentina. Peru, Brazil, or Venezuela. These countries were mentioned in our newsletter. The poster should include the country's flag, typical foods, form of government, and monuments or points of interest. Since the students prepared posters about selected Spanish cities last year, they are very aware of what is expected from them. New students were shown examples of work prepared last year so they have an idea of what to do.
Sixth Grade Students were introduced to ordinal numbers. They also were given a worksheet about professions to complete in Spanish. The homework is to complete their autobiography using the worksheet to help them with the last paragraph. This activity is a review and students may use their autobiography from last year to complete the new autobiography. The responses should be in Spanish only. The autobiography is due August 29th. If the students already completed the assignment, there is no homework for them. I explained everything they were being asked in class, but nearly everyone understood the paragraphs without any help from me!
Have a wonderful weekend.
Mrs. Linda
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