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Spanish 1 - Van Oss

23/5

Study for the Final. Enjoy your three day weekend and prepare yourself for one good, hard, important week!

20/5

Skits! Today and tomorrow. Vocab portion of the Final is in Friday. Study estos palabras. Buenos Suerte!

16/5

Today we recieved the review for the final. There are 3 vocab sections and a list of questions you should be prepared to answer orally. The third section will be done in class by reading the last chapter in Casi se Muere and writing a synopsis of what happenned. Finish your skits and be prepared to perform them on Tuesday. Have a nice weekend!

14/5

New project - a skit!! Today we formed groups to orchestrate a skit. Each group will need a storyboard of their skit to turn in. There should be a few scenes to each skit which cover conversation between characters, hot seat questions between friends and strangers, and shopping etiquette at the market. Friday will ve time to finish writing the script. You should memorize this over the weekend and be ready to present it on Tuesday. Have fun!

13/5

Today Profe told us about the final. It will be a Reading Comprehension assessment of the final chapter in Casi se Muere, as well as an Oral Test with Profe. The final part will be a Vocabulary test on all the vocab from this semester. That includes 3.1, family, food and shopping. Start practicing these words now and you'll have no problem on the final in 2 weeks. Good Luck!

7/5

Preuba de Vocabulario Comida, esta Viernes. Know all the Vocab for Food, as well as the Demonstrative and Possessive Adjectives. Study hard! Test this Friday!

2/5

Fiesta de Cinco de Mayo!!

30/4

More work on Food Vocab with the introduction of Comparative, Superlative, Demonstrative and Possessive Adjectives. This Friday - Cinco de Mayo Party! Don't forget <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: inline-block !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;"> for a dish. Make something authentic for a 4! Bring your Sombrero!

22/4

Vocabulario Nuevo!! In the last few weeks we will focus on vocabulary for food and shopping. All these words will be helpful and integral to your travels in Spanish speaking countries. <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: inline-block !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;"> the new Vocab WS with the corresponding translations. Due to be checked tomorrow.

11/4

Movie day! Enjoy your break!

9/4

Clozeline!! Song analization and Senor Wooley. No Homework.

31/3 and 2/4

<span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: inline-block !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;"> up presentations! If everyone finishes, we can watch a movie and have popcorn on Friday!

27/3

Oral Testing on family Vocab and Adjectives. Don't forget, <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: inline-block !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;"> Power Point Projects are due Tuesday!

24/3

Possessive Adjectives! Su, sus, mi, mis, nuestra/o, nuestras/os, tu, tus. Don't forget that the possessive adjective needs to <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: inline-block !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;"> with the noun it refers to, not the person who is doing the possessing.

14/3

Another class period to work on the Family PowerPoint project. Have a nice weekend.

12/3

Substitute today. Be good, work hard. All class period is availble for work on the project.

11/3

A new Project! En espanol, we will design a powerpoint to talk about our families. Make sure you have the assignment outline for this project. It is a biggie!! Due Tuesday March 25th. Enjoy this one!

7/3

New book! __Casi se Muere__. We read the first chapter. No homework. Enjoy your weekend!

5/3

New Vocab - 4.1

21/2

Hoy Profe no esta aqui! Tiempo de fiesta!! No, pero seriamente - podemos mirar una pelicula - "La Luna Misma." Feliz vacaciones del Invierno.

19/2

Hoy, hay un prueba en vocabulario 3.2. Buena Suerte!!

14/2

Feliz dia de San Valentin! Hoy terminamos __Pobre Ana.__ Es un libro muy bueno! Luego jugamos un partido que buscamos para palabras espanol. Es muy divertido! Tienes los fines de semana buenos! Hasta luego semana!

7/2

Hoy, practicamos los verbos de 3.2, otra vez. Luego, miramos "Nacho Libre!!" Es una pelicula muy comico!! Luego, miramos un otro pelicula - "La Luna Misma." Es muy buena, pero no terminamos. Un otro tiempo? Hasta semana proxima! Feliz fines de semana!

5/2

Ahora - todo en Espanol!! Miras la fecha de hoy? Es differente, no? Hoy practicamos el vocabulario de 3.2. Practicas las conjugaciones do los "boot" verbos. Estos son dormir, querer, contar, cerrar, defender, empezar, encontrar, jugar, morir, pensar, entender. Tambien hoy, leemos mas en __Pobre Ana.__

2/4

New Vocab 3.2. New for today are Stem-Changer Verbs!! These are the verbs that change in the middle of the verb when they are conjugated. Like - querer, dormir - they <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: inline-block !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;"> quiero and duermo for the yo conjugations. These are also called the "Boot" verbs.

1/29

TEST! Good luck.

1/28

Study conjugations and Vocab 3.1. Test Wednesday!

1/24

Comprehension test on __Pobre Ana__. Write a half page in Spanish on what you know about the story. Then we did an interview with a classmate and prersented what we learned about them in class. Have a great weekend!!

1/22

Make-ups quizzes. Read some<span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: inline !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;"> in __Pobre Ana.__

1/17

Quiz! Good Luck! Enjoy your long weekend!

1/14,1/15

Practice Vocab 3.1 and -Ar -Ir and -Er verb conjugations for Quiz for Friday

1/10

Practice on conjugations, then we read 2 chapters in __Pobre Ana__.

1/8

<span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: inline !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;"> practice on the different conjugations of -ar, -er and -ir verbs.

1/7

Welcome back!! Today we loosened up with some trivia and pictionary. Then we reviewed conjugations of all -ar, -er and -ir verbs. No Homework!

12/20

FINALS! Good Luck! Just kidding, have fun reading and enjoying eachother's stories. Have GREAT winter break!

12/16

Writing assessment in class.

12/13

Write your story in Spanish in your book in class. Take the whole period or whatever time you need.

12/11

Work day. <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: inline !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;"> stories and illustrations for your book. Be prepared to write your story in your storybook in Spanish on Friday.

12/10

Work day! Work on your story outlines, then come up with the story in English. <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: inline !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;">, put all the corresponding pictures in the book for each page. You may draw, print, <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: inline !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;"> - stretch your creative bone to do the art part. On Friday you will be expected to write the story in the book, in Spanish, FROM MEMORY! On Finals day, we will have storytime and everyone will get a chance to share theirs. Have FUN with this!

12/6

Presentaciones!! Then introduction to how we are going to construct our story books for the final. Begin brainstorming flow-chart of the story,while having someone in mind to give the story to for Christmas!!

12/4

OOPs! Snow day shortened all the periods and Profe has no voice! Today is a work period for the presentation. All skits will be performed Friday in class.

12/3

Talked about the Final - which will be the construction of a storybook in Spanish. On the day of the final we will read our stories to the class. To prepare for this, we <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: inline !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;"> by stretching our story-writing skills with a group project where we will write a short skit in Spanish, to be performed in front of class Wednesday.

11/26

<span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: inline !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;"> watching "Machuca." No Homework. Enjoy your Thanksgiving and your break!

11/23

Time to RELAX!!! We are watching "Machuca," a movie about the civil unrest in Chile in the 1970's.

11/20

Ir a and Tener que worksheet to <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: inline !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;"> in class, as well as a paragraph using these verbs to tell us what you are **going to** do for Thanksgiving break and what you **have to** do over Thanksgiving break. Get these two things finished and we can RELAX on friday and tuesday of nexr week!!

11/15

More work with Ir a, and Tener que.

11/13

Review of new vocabulary, 2.2. Learn the difference in conjugations of -ar, -or, -er and -ir verbs. Also know Tener que, and Ir a.

11/8

Finished Spanish writing assignment to prove how much more awesome our class is than Ms. Hoagland's. Also finished "Viva Cuba!" Have a nice weekend! Hasta Lunes!

11/6

TEST! Estas preparado?

11/5

Review of all the vocab we were working on before last week. Test will be on wednesday, tomorrow. Estudias mucho!!

11/1


 * DIA DE LOS MUERTOS!**

10/30

<span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: inline !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;"> making skulls and ceorating classroom for the party Friday. Don't forget to bring your food for **DIAS DE LOS MUERTOS!!**

10/29

Made salt flour skulls, skeletons, and paper cut-outs for party on Friday.

10/25

<span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: inline !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;"> two worksheets and turn them in. Watch "Viva Cuba!"

10/23

More review of vocabulary, telling time and masculine and feminine articles. PARTY <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: inline !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;"> Friday,Nov 1!!! Dia de los Muertos! Don't forget to bring a dish or some plates, cups, drinks... sign-up next week. Profe will be gone this friday. There are two worksheets to <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: inline !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;"> by the end of that period. Then we will watch "Viva Cuba!"

10/22

Learned new vocabulary words and reviewed the use of **masculine and feminine articles** as well as their corresponding use with nouns in the **singular** and **plural** forms. Also discussed the exceptions to the rules of whether nouns are masculine or feminine

10/17

We got our homework checked. Did more "silla calientes" <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: inline !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;">. Then we translated all the words from ther "Muy Muy Guapo" song into English. Then we played war to practice our numbers in Spanish. No Homework.

10/15

More practice on SER and ESTAR conjugations with matching adjective forms. **Homework:** Worksheet on making the Adjectives agree with the nouns they modify.

10/9

2.1 Practice worksheet. Practice telling the time in Spanish, knowing your numbers in Spanish, and translating sentences into Spanish using verb conjugation and adjective translations. Don't forget to match the correct verb conjugations with the subject of the sentence. Also adjust your adjectives to the subject - masculine/feminine, singular/plural.

10/8

TEST - all period was taken by the test. No Homework.

10/4

Watched a movie in Spanish, "Viva Cuba!" Class let out early for HOMECOMING assembly. Don't forget to study for the test on Tuesday.

10/2

Discussed the differences between SER and ESTAR. Watched a video on this too, and <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: inline !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;"> a worksheet to be ready for the Quiz, which is now <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: inline !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;"> week, tuesday. Remember DOCTOR and SELF to decide whether to use SER or ESTAR.

10/1

More practice of Conjugations - SER, TENER, ESTAR, IR. Quiz Friday on these - all of them - and the Vocab sheet 1.2.

9/27

Practice Conjugations of SER TENER IR and ESTAR. <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: inline !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;"> reading Berto and <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: inline !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;"> and turn in worksheet.

9/25

Read and understand Chapters 5 and 6 in "Berto," in class. There is a glossary in the back for words that you cannot understand. <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: inline !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;"> a worksheet in class to show your understanding of the story and its themes.

9/24

You should know how to conjugate **SER and TENER.** This includes all the conjugations for subject pronouns: yo, tu, el/ella/UD, nosotros, vosotros, ellos/ellas/UDS. Did some more reading in "Berto."

9/20

Tested on conversations in class. Worked on conjugations of the verbs Ser and Tener.

9/18

Reviewed take home vocab list, then students paired off and created a conversation with the other student from words off the new vocab list. Conversations must be taken home and memorized for <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: inline !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;"> class. You and your partner will repeat from memory, your conversation in front of Profe or Snra Carter in class on Friday. **Homework:** Memorize converstaions. <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: inline !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;"> worksheet on conjugations of the verbs Ser and Tener.

9/17

Learned some history of Mexico. Reviewed more vocab and given a sheet on greetings and <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: inline !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;"> to take home and translate into english.

9/12

There was a Quiz in class on material learned so far. Then we read two chapters (capitulos 2&3) in "Berto" and made a list of all the words we do not know. 9/10

Review the vocabulary on classroom nouns, days of the week, masculine and feminine articles and their plurals and the song about the seasons and months. Some class <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: inline !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;"> were done on these items as well. There will be a quiz on these items on thursday.

9/6

Reviewed homework, vocabulary. Played game practicing classroom vocabulary by naming things in a box. Read from book, Berto and His Great Ideas, in Spanish. No Homework.

9/4

Review of days of the week and vocabulary words from the classroom. Profe discussed **Subject Pronouns**: yo, tu, el/ella/usted, nosotros, vosotros, ellos/ellas/Uds - as well as their complimentary **Conjugative Form of the Verb Ser:** soy, eres, es, somos, sois, son. <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: inline !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;">, Profe reviewed the **masculine and feminine articles:** el,los,la,las,un,unos,uns,unas. Use these with the vocabulary sheet for the homework. Translate vocab in english to spanish with the correspnding article. Due <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: inline !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;"> class!

8/30

Students practice numbers 1-30 again by playing the card game war. Then took a quiz on numbers. <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: inline !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;"> a project with a partner. Find out about your friend, and use adjectives to describe them in spanish. Then describe their likes and dislikes in spanish - in front of the class. No Homework!! Enjoy three days off!

8/28

Review of numbers 1-30 by <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: inline !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;"> done with a partner. Also learned the **Question Song**, to help students remember what all of the question words mean. They are: Por que, cuando, donde, quien, que, cual and como. All of these have a accent on one of the vowels, where does it go on each word? We also learned a song to help us remember the months of the year and the seasons. Vocabulary practice at home: In Spanish, know numbers 1-30, the days of the week, months of the year, all four seasons and Question Words.

8/27

Review of numbers in Spanish. All students should know how to say 1-30 in Spanish. We practiced how to say today's date in Spanish. Students should know how to say all of the months in Spanish, as well as the days of the week. Profe taught students a song to remember the days of the week in Spanish. Review vocabulary list handed out in class.

8/23

Students did a pre-assessment. Handed in money for class magazine and signed syllabi. Group work on knowing your numbers in Spanish. Should know 1-30 well by <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: inline !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;"> class. Profe passed out number cheat-sheets.

8/21

Passed out a questionaire for the students, so Van Oss can get to know them better. Discussion on the correct pronunciation of vowels. Each vowel has only one sound - A (ah) - E (eh) - I (ee) - O (oh) - U (oo). Gathered into groups and came up with all the <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: inline !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;"> students could think of that they already knew. Bring $8 for spanish magazine, and box of tissues to <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: inline !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;"> class.

8/19/2013

First Day! Getting to know eachother <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: inline !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;"> - what famous "Rockstar" would you be? Trivia from "Am I Smarter Than a Fifth Grader" cards. Discussion of expectations and what to bring to class <span style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: inline !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px !important; min-width: 0px !important; padding-bottom: 0px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; text-decoration: underline !important; vertical-align: baseline !important; width: auto !important;"> time. Guidelines on what spanish MUST be spoken in class if one has to ask questions on the material or go to the bathroom. See the board on the front left side of the classroom for more info on this. Students also recieved syllabi, last page needs to be signed by parent and returned.