Spanish Classwork and Homework
 K-4 and K-5 :  These classes continue to make excellent progress in their study of Spanish.  Students in K-4 are able to identify parts of the body, colors, and respond to basic commands correctly.  I am so pleased with their progress.  We continued to sing songs designed to teach vocabulary on Monday.   The following new body parts were introduced:  dientes (teeth) and barba (chin).  We will continue learning new vocabulary next week.  We are also going to learn Brown Bear, Brown Bear, what do you see?  I will send the words in a post later this week.
 Grade 1     We are continuing to learn classroom vocabulary and prepositions. I placed labels on just about everything in the Spanish classroom on Monday and the students went around the room discovering the new words for known objects.  We then combined the words with last week's vocabulary to form sentences about the location of objects. 
Grade 2     Grade 2 also discovered the new vocabulary and made a list of the words and their meanings. They are so eager to learn!  One student said he wanted to descibe everything he sees in Spanish!  I will be adding more adjectives to their list of colors.  They are ready to use more descriptive words now to combine with their previously learned nouns.  I am so pleased. There is NO written homework for second grade.

Grades 3, 4, 5, and 6.  Students worked in groups walking around the room noting down the new vocabulary words and combining them with prepositions and adjectives to form sentences.
I asked them to use the new words in descriptive sentences. The words are: boligrafo, sacapuntas, bocina, reloj, librero, libros, bolsa de la maestra, plants, computadora, imprenta, silla, mesa, escritorio.  Grades 3,4, and 5 were asked to write sentences--at least ten-- with the new vocabulary words similar to last week's work. Model:  El sacapuntas negro esta encima del librero.  Most students write more than ten as I explained last  week. I will look at ALL the sentences they write and point out corrections.  Yes, I will look at fifty sentences if a student composes fifty sentences.  ( That question was asked on Monday).  I don't know what I will do if I'm asked about 100...
Grade 6:  NO HOMEWORK this week.  I am going to assign a project having to do with likes and dislikes, family, school and beliefs to the sixth grade.  They will need an empty shoebox.It will be due on October 21st.  More to follow on this project.   
Thank you, again, Students, Parents, and Grandparents,  for all of your support and cooperation. Your interest in Spanish makes it possible for students to excel in our foreign language program at SJDS.