Monday's Classes

Grades K4 and 5 continued learning vocabulary in Spanish as they listened to a story about colors based on Mexican traditions and customs.  I mentioned The Day of the Dead which is very important to Mexican families.  The story I read mentioned some of the special candies and food the children eat on November 1st.  The special day has nothing to do with Halloween traditions practiced in this country

Grade 1  We continued learning terms in Spanish for clothing.  Each child named the picture of clothing they were given.  They also began telling what they were wearing.  Next week we will make clothing books.  Please prepare with your child 5 or 10 pictures of clothing cut from a magazine or hand-drawn and colored.  The clothing pictures should not be too large so we can paste them easily in books.  We also  reviewed basic questions and answers.  There are about twenty basic questions we have been studying.  I will send home a list of the questions for you to have.

Grade 2  Children also practiced naming articles of clothing and told what they were wearing.  The made sentences based on the clothing books they made last week in class.  Thank you for sending the pictures of clothing to school with your child.

Grade 3  Children received a new dialogue about ordering food in a restaurant.  I would like the children to practice the dialogue at home.  If you need a copy, please let me know and I can put some extra copies in your child's teacher's mailbox.  All children received a copy.  Some of the children want to do the activity assigned to the 4th graders.  The 4th graders have to change the names of the food to create a new dialogue or dialogues.  Children may do that activity, but it was NOT assigned to the third graders.  I would like to discuss this with parents.  Some children want to go above and beyond the assignment, and I encourage them to do so.  It allows the students extra practice in Spanish.  So, if your third grader wants to create a new dialogue, I will let him or her present it in class next week.  Other children need only to practice the prepared dialogue they received in class today entitled, " En el restoran."

Grade 4  Students received a dialogue and presented it in class.  Their homework is to change the food terms to other words thereby creating a NEW dialogue.  They may create as many as they wish.  They may simply put a line through the original food term and add another or copy the entire dialogue and add new food requests.  Some students wanted to change the beverages as well so I prepared a list of fruits to use in describing different kinds of juices.  Jugo de naranja- orange juice, jugo de fresa- strawberry juice, etc.  New dialogue is due Monday, October 26.

                               

                                                                           
                                                                   Thank you,

                                                                      Miss Linda
                                                                         Srta. Linda