Dear Parents,
           Monday was a very busy day in Spanish class. Here is a brief description of what your child did in class.
K-4 and K-5 :  Children sang all of our songs in Spanish, including our new song, Estrellita Brillaras--Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.  I will be sending home the words to all of the songs so you can sing at home with your child!   We are finishing our unit on foods.  I am thinking about asking parents to help their child with a poster showing the foods they like to eat and the name of the food in Spanish.  More information will follow after this grading period.  I read a story to the children in Spanish about an owl who could not sleep.  All of the stories I are designed to help students acquire new vocabulary in Spanish. 
1st :  I introduced telling time to the hour to the first graders.  They did an excellent job with this activity.  We will be making clocks soon so children can practrice at home.  Please review the numbers from 1 to 12 in Spanish with your child if you can: uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, seis, siete, ocho, nueve, diez, once, doce.  Your child know these numbers as we have counted in Spanish up to twenty.  Some children can go beyond twenty in Spanish. 

2nd grade:  All students have notebooks which I will keep in class unless there is homeowork.  I introduced short paragraphs about the culture and history of Mexico to the students.  We will be working on learning about different cultures for the next few weeks along with our study of language.  Each student copied down an informative paragraph and will be adding paragraphs to their notebook in the coming weeks.  The paragraphs are in English with key vocabulary words in Spanish, such as, bandera-flag, mariachi- traditional Mexican music, calavera-skull, popular image in art created by Jose Posadas.
3d grade:  The third graders also learned paragraphs containing information about various topics related to Mexican culture.  They took their paragraphs home in their notebooks. Please ask them to share the paragraph with you.

4th:  Fourth grade presented their dialogues.  They did very well.  Several students needed to practice more in the future with their partners.  I will give students a chance to present their dialogues again.  Students should continue practricing the two dialogues they have presented to improve their fluency in Spanish. 
Thank you for your interest in our Spanish Language Program.  I enjoy working with you children.  Students are at the intermediate level of production already.  I am so pleased. Please contact me if you have any questions about the activities.
                         Atentamente,
                              Srta. Linda