Monday and Tuesday Classes  Week of August 15, 2016.

K- 4  Children reviewed our songs and met new puppets.  The new animal puppets introduced new vocabulary terms to the children. We have a new little doll named, "Susana"  who helped children review parts of the body. Children learned three new songs today, as well.  They are: Happy Birthday in Spanish,  This is the Way We Wash, and Fray Felipe.

K- 5  K-5  The children learned three new songs, (See K-4).  They also answered some questions about themselves in order to review responses learned last year.  They heard a story in Spanish about the wind.  We reviewed other weather expressions as well.

Grade 1  Children answered questions about themselves in Spanish.  They were able to correctly respond to two questions about themselves in complete sentences!  Children also learned three new songs.

Grade 2  The children were given a short dialogue in Spanish to recite.  They took the dialogue home and may practice at home.  Please ask your child about the dialogue.  The purpose of the dialogue is to review last year's vocabulary.  Everything was explained in English so that they children know the meaning of the conversation.

Grade 3  Children were introduced to ordinal numbers.  They copied the numbers to review at home.  We will be working with ordinal numbers next week.  All children need to bring a notebook and pen or pencil to Spanish class every Monday. Unless otherwise noted, worksheets students receive in class should be practiced at home. If homework requires any written work, I will state this on the blog.  Also, students will always complete five or six sentences in class before I ask them to create more sentences or a paragraph at home.

Grade 4  The students copied ordinal numbers in their notebooks.  We will be working with ordinals more next week.

Grade 5  Students read an article from their Scholastic Magazine in Spanish.  They need to prepare a poster about a South American country which is due August 29th.  All students were given a country.  I included Brazil since we are talking about the Olympic Games as part of our culture strand.  If your child forgot his/her country, he/she may prepare the poster about, Argentina. Peru, Brazil,  or Venezuela.  These countries were mentioned in our newsletter.  The poster should include the country's flag,  typical foods, form of government, and monuments or points of interest.  Since the students prepared posters about selected Spanish cities last year, they are very aware of what is expected from them.  New students were shown examples of work prepared last year so they have an idea of what to do.

Sixth Grade  Students were introduced to ordinal numbers.  They also were given a worksheet about professions to complete in Spanish.  The homework is to complete their autobiography using the worksheet to help them with the last paragraph.  This activity is a review and students may use their autobiography from last year to complete the new autobiography.  The responses should be in Spanish only. The autobiography is due August 29th. If the students already completed the assignment, there is no homework for them. I explained everything they were being asked in class, but nearly everyone understood the paragraphs without any help from me!


  Have a wonderful weekend.


Mrs. Linda