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.

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.

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.

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.

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!