Dear 5th and 6th Grade Parents,
                   Students presented their dialogues in class today.  They did a superior job on their presentations.  Students also read sentences they created using the target expression: A mi me gusta combined with a verb or a verb and prepositional phrase from the worksheet I prepared for them to use as a guide.  There is no class next Friday,  October 31.  The school will be closed.
I asked students to  create an original dialogue based on today's presentations for our next class on November 7th, Friday.
They all have the worksheet to use as a guide.  These hand-outs are extremely important.  The instructions are:  Change the names of the students in the dialogue.  Change the countries.  Change the sentences stating what the student likes.  Add sentences/lines of dialogue stating activities students do NOT like.  For example:  No me gusta bailar.  No me gustar jugar al tenis.  No me gusta escribir cuentos, etc.  There should be a balance of likes and dislikes.  ALL of the vocabulary needed to complete this assignment is on the worksheet.  Please contact me if your child loses or misplaces the worksheet.  There are also translations included on the worksheet.  Some students wanted to use other verbs not mentioned on the worksheet.  This is fine.  Translating verbs from  a translator on the computer should not be a problem.  Problems occur when students try to translate entire thoughts from English to Spanish.  Unless the ideas are simple,  the translations are sometimes awkward or incorrect.  This is why I gave a worksheet to the class to use for their own original dialogue. 
Have a wonderful weekend.  See you at Eaglefest on Thursday!

                                   Miss Linda