- Chapter one test
Monday, November 1, 2010
Monday, October 25, 2010
el 1 de noviembre
Monday
- We will be working on writing together as a class.
- Also, reminder of Day of the Dead projects.
el 29 de octubre
Friday
- We will take our vocabulary quiz.
- Finish any sections in the book on Chapter 1.
- Also, remind students of the Day of the Dead projects.
el 28 de octubre
Thursday
- We will continue working on the exercises for Chapter one in our text.
- We will also have vocabulary games for our upcoming vocabulary test.
el 27 de octubre
Wednesday
- We will continue working on the exercises over the story on page 8.
- Also, we will plan our celebration of el día de los muertos on November 1st and 2nd.
- For this celebration the students can volutarily bring an authentic Spanish food item to share with the class.
el 26 de octubre
Tuesday
- We will be reading in our text books, the story on page 8. We will also be completeing the exercises that follow the story.
el 25 de octubre
Monday
- Today we took a formative exam over the vocabulary in Chapter 1. Students should be aware of what they need to continue studying for our quiz later this week. (I also know now what to better focus on)
- Students were also introduced to their Day of the Dead projects that are due November 2nd. They have the choice of creating an "Ofrenda" or a "Calavera". One is a mini alter and the other is a saterical poem. They have rubrics and requirements for whichever they have chosen to do for the project.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
el 21 de septiembre
Tuesday
- Retold the story in Spanish by writing it together.
- Read mini-cuento 2 in student text.
- Prepared for Socratic seminar in immigration
el 16 de septiembre
Thursday
- Finished with colors.
- Started talking about immigration and took a citizenship test.
el 15 de septiembre
Wednesday
- Story day--ready "From head to toe" by Eric Carly in Spanish and spoke in Spanish to describe the book.
el 13 de septiembre
Monday
- Got books from library and got familiar with the books.
- Review colors some more.
Monday, August 30, 2010
el 3 de septiembre
- Finish pictures and captions of the story.
- Begin with new actions: abre, cierra, come, llora, and yo forms--quiero, tengo, necesito and emotions está triste, está contento, está enojado.
el 2 de septiembre
- First quiz over greetings and actions
- Review the story from Monday and Tuesday
- Draw the story and write captions in pairs
el primero de septiembre
- Read or re-read the story from Monday and Tuesday.
- Review greeting and discuss formal greetings
- Practice formal greetings
el 31 de agosto
- Plans for today include finishing the story from yesterday.
- Writing the story together.
- And reading the story together (in their pairs)
- We may not get to reading it just yet--the writing takes quite a bit of time.
el 30 de agosto
- Today we reivewed some actions from last week: corre, salta, camina, toca, mira, habla.
- Next we told our first story.
- The students added in information by answering my questions. The stories remained 95% in Spanish. Plus Brad Pitt and Justin Bieber made appearances!
- Neither class was able to finish the story, but the students' imaginations are going crazy for creative endings! I'm excited to see what they will come up with!
- At the end of class, we reviewed what happened in the story. Also, throughout the story we stopped for several comprehension checks. The students explained in their groups what was happening, and also let me know whether they were understanding it.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
el 27 de agosto
- We will need to complete the greetings video today.
- Then we will review our actions, add abre and cierra, and begin telling our first class story.
el 26 de agosto
- Yesterday we chose our Spanish class names, however, we didn't have enough time to finish learning everyones. So, we will finish that today.
- We will review our first nine actions.
- Then we will review greetings with a video. It's about an American boy that goes to Mexico and doesn't know any Spanish. He meets a girl, and she helps him learn greetings.
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
el 25 de agosto
- We didn't have time to choose our Spanish names yesterday so we will be doing so today and practicing with them.
- We will also begin our first story focusing on mira, toca, habla, saca, corre, camina, and salta.
Monday, August 23, 2010
el 24 de agosto
- Review TPR terms and added some (saca, corre, camina, salta, necesito, quiero, tengo)
- Continued with greetings (¿Cuántos años tienes?, ¿De dónde eres?)
- Practice with music.
- Choose Spanish names if time allows.
el 23 de agosto
- Continued with TPR (levántense, siéntense, habla, toca, mira)
- Began greetings (¿Cómo estás?, ¿Cómo te llamas?)
- Discussed and practiced greetings cultural differences.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
el 20 de agosto
- Today the students will begin working on the different sounds in Spanish and be introduced to the Spanish language characters that they don't see in English.
- They will also be learning and doing!
el 19 de agosto
- We continued with getting to know one another today.
- The students also were able to hear and see some Spanish!
- They also got into their new August groups.
el 18 de agosto
- Welcome back everyone!! I hope you all had a great summer break!
- Today we started by just getting to know each other!
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