Monday,  November 2.

Grade K-4 reviewed weather terms and numbers. They also played a game and sang songs to review parts of the body.  Children listened to three stories in Spanish about fish, bats, and butterflies.  I have some stories in Spanish for preschoolers.  If you would like to borrow some, please send me a note with your child's teacher.

K-5 answered basic questions in Spanish.  They also listened to three stories about bats, butterflies, and fish.  We reviewed weather terms and played a game to reinforce naming parts of the body.

Grade 1  Grade 1 did not meet. They attended a program about Native American culture at the library.

Grade 2  Grade two answered questions about their birthdays, days of the week and months of the year in written form.  I asked them to take the paper home to practice answering questions.

Grade 3  Students who completed their homework shared their shopping lists.  Creating a shopping list in Spanish was last week's assignment, as listed on my blog last week.  The activity is an authentic learning experience for children. They did an excellent job!  Please contact me if you do not understand the purpose of the assignment.  We began the list in class. I never simply ask students to do an assignment without relating their task to classroom work and previously learned vocabulary and concepts. We completed a list on the whiteboard for students to use as a model.  Homework for Grade 3 is to draw pictures of food and related items such as fork, tenedor, cuchara, spoon, plato, plate, etc. After drawing the foods, they need to write the Spanish word in each box under the picture.  They may create as many pictures as they wish, but I am requiring at least sixteen--eight in each box on both sides of the paper I gave each child. Students said they wanted to make many, many sheets of pictures and Spanish vocabulary.  One student asked me, "How much is 16 x 4? When I told her, she said she would fill "64" boxes with words and pictures.  Remember, I am only asking students to prepare 16!



Grade 4  Children presented last week's dialogue.  They were given TWO new dialogues to study at home.  Some children presented one of them in class already.    Next week, the rest of the class will present the dialogues.  Grade 4 is doing an excellent job learning Spanish.  They are very motivated to learn a second language.  I would like to thank fourth grade parents for their support and cooperation.  Parents play a very important role in their children's attitude toward what they are learning in school. I corrected the dialogues they created as  homework last week.  I am amazed at how well students write in Spanish!

                                          Have a great week,

                                                Srta. Linda