Spanish 1-2
We have begun Unidad 3 en Avancemos as the Salgado jersey continues its' tour around the Spanish -speaking world. The shirt is now in Puerto Rico, a country I have not been to but would enjoy visiting.
This unit deals with food and verbs related to la comida. The leccion also begins with conjugating ER and IR verbs and also how to use GUSTAR when talking about multiple things.
All students begin the semester with a perfect 0 score. It is a great time to begin or keep maintaining that "A" grade. Students took a quiz today on the food vocabulary and most students called it FACIL.
Students should be using Studyspanish.com in order to practice at home the grammar skills we are covering. A regular ten minutes at home can go a long way.
Spanish 5-6
We have begun studying the Subjunctive Mood and its various uses. Students have learned that the subjunctive is used to express doubt, opinion, hope, and a number of other emotions with respect to an action that happens in the present tense. We will be studying the Dominican Republic next week and listening to a song by Juan Luis Guerra entitled "Ojala Que Llueva Cafe". For their next project students will be creating their own version of the song in order to express their own needs, hopes and desires.
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Monday, January 12, 2015
12 de enero 2015
Students will be taking final exams for their first semester classes the week to come on January 21, 22 and 23. Spanish 1 will be taking their exam wednesday for period 1 & 2, thursday for period 3 and friday for period 6. Spanish 5 will be taking their exam on friday, january 22.
The tests will be 100 multiple choice questions. Students should use studyspanish in order to review. This site lets them review rules and create their own practice quizzes.
Spanish 1-2 has vocabulary sheets from each of the first five lecciones of Avancemos.
Leccion preliminar
Unidad 1 Leccion 1 and Leccion 2
Unidad 2 Leccion 1 and Leccion 2
Spanish 5-6 will need to review the following verb tenses and vocabulary
SER and ESTAR uses and the present tense
regular AR, ER and IR verbs in the present tense
Stem changing verbs comenzar e-ie
irregular and GO verbs in the present tense
Preterite tense verbs
CAR, GAR, ZAR verbs in the preterite tense
Irregular verbs in the preterite
Imperfect tense
conditional tense
future tense
Students will be taking final exams for their first semester classes the week to come on January 21, 22 and 23. Spanish 1 will be taking their exam wednesday for period 1 & 2, thursday for period 3 and friday for period 6. Spanish 5 will be taking their exam on friday, january 22.
The tests will be 100 multiple choice questions. Students should use studyspanish in order to review. This site lets them review rules and create their own practice quizzes.
Spanish 1-2 has vocabulary sheets from each of the first five lecciones of Avancemos.
Leccion preliminar
Unidad 1 Leccion 1 and Leccion 2
Unidad 2 Leccion 1 and Leccion 2
Spanish 5-6 will need to review the following verb tenses and vocabulary
SER and ESTAR uses and the present tense
regular AR, ER and IR verbs in the present tense
Stem changing verbs comenzar e-ie
irregular and GO verbs in the present tense
Preterite tense verbs
CAR, GAR, ZAR verbs in the preterite tense
Irregular verbs in the preterite
Imperfect tense
conditional tense
future tense
Monday, November 17, 2014
17 November
Spanish 1-2
Students will be presenting their Bolsa Cafe projects beginning 18 November.
They will not be able to use any notes or cards as we have been practicing the Yo soy... and A mi me gusta... for the past few weeks. The props that are placed in their bags are the prompts for what they are going to say about themselves and the other person they are presenting. Students should also be practicing at home, much repetition equals good presentation.
Spanish 5-6
Students will be presenting their "Si Fuera" books tomorrow. They have been working on them for a week. They are to tell what they would do or be if they were a particular color, animal, food, language, transportation, and the list reaches ten different things. Their books should have visuals that show the ideas they are presenting using the conditional verb tense.
Students will be presenting their Bolsa Cafe projects beginning 18 November.
They will not be able to use any notes or cards as we have been practicing the Yo soy... and A mi me gusta... for the past few weeks. The props that are placed in their bags are the prompts for what they are going to say about themselves and the other person they are presenting. Students should also be practicing at home, much repetition equals good presentation.
Spanish 5-6
Students will be presenting their "Si Fuera" books tomorrow. They have been working on them for a week. They are to tell what they would do or be if they were a particular color, animal, food, language, transportation, and the list reaches ten different things. Their books should have visuals that show the ideas they are presenting using the conditional verb tense.
Friday, November 7, 2014
Spanish 1-2
We have been studying the use of adjectives in order to describe physical appearance and personality. Next week we will put this knowledge to work as we create and practice our Bolsa Cafe projects. Students are asked to bring props in a decorated brown bag that they will use to present themselves as well as someone or something else to the class. The purpose of the bag and the props is to provide prompts in order to remember what they are going to say. The Bolsa Cafe rubric shows what is expected and how they will be evaluated. The projects will be written next week, practiced in class and at home and presented beginning November 18 and ending November 21.
Students will also be tested on Unidad 1 Leccion 2 on November 13.
We have been studying the use of adjectives in order to describe physical appearance and personality. Next week we will put this knowledge to work as we create and practice our Bolsa Cafe projects. Students are asked to bring props in a decorated brown bag that they will use to present themselves as well as someone or something else to the class. The purpose of the bag and the props is to provide prompts in order to remember what they are going to say. The Bolsa Cafe rubric shows what is expected and how they will be evaluated. The projects will be written next week, practiced in class and at home and presented beginning November 18 and ending November 21.
Students will also be tested on Unidad 1 Leccion 2 on November 13.
La Bolsa
Café 1-2
Your task is to create and present a one to two minute
presentation that introduces yourself and someone or something else to the
class. You will bring objects in a
decorated bag to class that will be used as prompts for your presentation. Tell who you are, where you are from, where
you live and what you like to do. You
will use descriptive words and phrase to describe your personality and physical
appearance. The following rubric will be used to evaluate your project. The project:
Introduces and describes you and discusses likes and dislikes
2
4 6 8
10 12 14
16 18 20
Introduces and describes someone or something else with
likes/ dislikes 1 2
3 4 5
6 7 8
9 10
Is presented entirely in Spanish with fluency and linguistic
accuracy
1
2 3 4
5 6 7
8 9 10
The bolsa is decorated and contains at least five effective
props
1 2
3 4 5
6 7 8
9 10
Nombre ______________________________ periodo ______
_____/ 50
Spanish 5-6
Stuents have been practicing the use of the conditional tense in order to talk about what would happen in the future if and when something else happened. We created some excellent and creative excuses for not doing chores in class which students will be practicing at home next week.
Our next project will be the creation and presentation of a dialogue in which students discuss environmental and social issues while providing reasons for being able to, or not being able to achieve stated goals. The rubric for this project will be posted on this blog on November 11.
Monday, October 27, 2014
Spanish 1-2
This week we study the upcoming Dia de los Muertos. Students will be asked to use our new vocabulary of adjectives in order to describe a famous person for Dia de los Muertos. We will be decorating calaveras and calacas and learning more vocabulary and new concepts having to do with the celebration. The artwork and description will be turned in on October 31.
Spanish 5-6
Students will be creating an ofrenda in order to honor a person of their choice. They will be writing about the person's life, their likes and dislikes, as well as a number of important events in their life. The project will be due on October 31.
This week we study the upcoming Dia de los Muertos. Students will be asked to use our new vocabulary of adjectives in order to describe a famous person for Dia de los Muertos. We will be decorating calaveras and calacas and learning more vocabulary and new concepts having to do with the celebration. The artwork and description will be turned in on October 31.
Spanish 5-6
Students will be creating an ofrenda in order to honor a person of their choice. They will be writing about the person's life, their likes and dislikes, as well as a number of important events in their life. The project will be due on October 31.
Friday, October 17, 2014
Spanish 1-2
We continue our study of free time activities and the uses of the verb SER.
This coming week students will be quizzed on the 40+ actividades from the U1L1 vocabulary list.
They should be reviewing the vocabulary list in order to master the actividades.
The end of the week brings the next Leccion 2 where we learn to describe ourselves as well as other people.
Spanish 5-6
We have been reading some interesting Cuentos Simpaticos and studying the uses of the preterite and imperfect tenses. Leimos "El Hombre Mas Desafortunado del mundo" y "El Madrileno y el Campesino". This coming week we will begin working on Benchmark #1, in which students have to write and present a two minute skit that describes a crime using the present, preterite, and imperfect tenses.
We continue our study of free time activities and the uses of the verb SER.
This coming week students will be quizzed on the 40+ actividades from the U1L1 vocabulary list.
They should be reviewing the vocabulary list in order to master the actividades.
The end of the week brings the next Leccion 2 where we learn to describe ourselves as well as other people.
Spanish 5-6
We have been reading some interesting Cuentos Simpaticos and studying the uses of the preterite and imperfect tenses. Leimos "El Hombre Mas Desafortunado del mundo" y "El Madrileno y el Campesino". This coming week we will begin working on Benchmark #1, in which students have to write and present a two minute skit that describes a crime using the present, preterite, and imperfect tenses.
Friday, October 10, 2014
10 de octubre 2014
Spanish 1-2
Many students have done fantastic work with our Libros Abecedarios. We had books that showed La Playa, Las Frutas, La Cocina, La Casa, El Espacio, El Mar and more.
This week we begin our study of leisure and free time activities. We will be diving into Avancemos and will begin our adventure with Alicia and her traveling camiseta de futbol.
Our next project, the Bolsa Cafe involves using props in order to talk about ones self, interests and activities. Students should be gathering items that can put in a bag in order to use during the presentation. Students will be receiving the rubric this week and it will be posted on the blog as well.
Spanish 5-6
Our Libros Abecedarios were quite creative and fun. A few were quite funny. Buen trabajo!
This coming week we will be reading a number of Cuentos Simpaticos in order to lead us into our next project, La Bolsa Cafe.
Students will be introducing themselves and discussing likes and dislikes as well as their childhood.
They will also be telling a quick story about a meaningful event that happened to them in the past. The present, imperfect and preterite tenses will all be used. The rubric will be handed out this week and will be posted on the blog as well.
Spanish 1-2
Many students have done fantastic work with our Libros Abecedarios. We had books that showed La Playa, Las Frutas, La Cocina, La Casa, El Espacio, El Mar and more.
This week we begin our study of leisure and free time activities. We will be diving into Avancemos and will begin our adventure with Alicia and her traveling camiseta de futbol.
Our next project, the Bolsa Cafe involves using props in order to talk about ones self, interests and activities. Students should be gathering items that can put in a bag in order to use during the presentation. Students will be receiving the rubric this week and it will be posted on the blog as well.
Spanish 5-6
Our Libros Abecedarios were quite creative and fun. A few were quite funny. Buen trabajo!
This coming week we will be reading a number of Cuentos Simpaticos in order to lead us into our next project, La Bolsa Cafe.
Students will be introducing themselves and discussing likes and dislikes as well as their childhood.
They will also be telling a quick story about a meaningful event that happened to them in the past. The present, imperfect and preterite tenses will all be used. The rubric will be handed out this week and will be posted on the blog as well.
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