10/29 - Calaveras de azucar

1. Read the second half of Day of the Dead book. This part explained how the holiday is celebrated.
2. Reminder: pen pal letter rough drafts are due on MONDAY.
3. Reminder: extra credit is due on MONDAY.
4. Sugar skulls. Students decorated some great skulls!

La tarea: Extra credit and pen pal letters.

28/10 - Pen pals

1. Esponja - -ar verbs
2. Day of the Dead
3. Pen pals

La tarea: None, unless you are doing the extra credit (see yesterday's entry). Also, remember to bring in craft items.

10/27 - Midterm Exam, gender of nouns, possible extra credit

1. Midterm exam.
2. Worksheet to learn and practice figuring out the gender of nouns. You can find the explanation here.
3. Extra Credit: Students must make a poster showing the rules for determining the gender of a noun as explained on the link above. This may NOT be a word for word copy of the explanation, and it may not be a blown up version of that page. It must be a condensation of the information into an easily understandable, short, informative synopsis.

La tarea: finish pyramid puzzle.

10/26 - Review for Midterm exam TOMORROW

1. Complete review for midterm:

Oral portion: letters (text p12), numbers (text p7), conversational questions (presented aloud) and answers (written)
Written portion: time (text p8), pronouns (p82), "ser" conjugated forms (p158), more conversational Q&A
Essay portion: 6-8 sentence essay.

Following are the questions you should be able to answer to do your best on the midterm.
1. ¿Cómo estás?
2. ¿Cómo eres? (chapter 1B, also p70)
3. ¿Cómo te llamas?
4. ¿Cuál es tu color favorito?
5. ¿Qué hora es? (text p8)
6. ¿Qué día es hoy? (text p14-16)
7. ¿Cuál es la fecha de hoy? (text p14-16)
8. ¿Qué tiempo hace hoy? (text p18)
9. ¿Qué te gusta hacer? (chapter 1A, also p.46)
10. ¿Qué no te gusta nada hacer? (p36)
11. ¿Qué te gusta hacer los fines de semana?
12. ¿De dónde eres?
13. ¿Cuántos años tienes?
14. ¿Cómo se llama tu mejor amigo/a? (p70)
15. ¿Cómo es tu mejor amigo/a? (p70)
16. ¿Qué le gusta hacer tu mejor amigo/a? (p70)
17. ¿Qué no le gusta nada hacer tu mejor amigo? (p70)
18. ¿De dónde es tu mejor amigo/a?

10/25 - ABC Oral, review for midterm

1. Esponja - La llorona
2. ABC Orals - students had to say the alphabet to a grader, then come to me to double check any incorrect letters and spell a word. Most did very well!
3. Pronoun review

La tarea: Write out the numbers from 1-100 in words in Spanish!!

Midterm topics:
ABC
Numbers
Time
Basic questions and answers
Pronouns
"Ser"
short essay describing self and a friend.

10/22 - -ar verbs, game to practice verb conjugation and letters, ORAL on Monday

1. Check tarea
2. Esponja
3. Share verb conjugations
4. Text p. 84-86, do several activities aloud
5. Game: in groups of 2 or 3, we did verb conjugation and spelling.

La tarea: Study the alphabet!!!! On Monday, each student will have to say the alphabet for me, AND they will have to spell on of the following 5-letter words aloud (picked at random):

Practice spelling these 5 letter words:
pinta
extra
cieno
golfo
chaqué
morral
zanca
porrón
sobre
hindú

’ the accent mark is called “asento”, and you say if after the letter it goes on, “oh acento” = ó

10/21 - -ar verbs!

1. La tarea, check and go over
2. Esponja - -ar verb hunt
3. Learn how to conjugate an -ar verb. We chanted the endings over and over and over again. Then we saw how they fit into the conjugation grid and how to use them with an infinitive to make a conjugated verb.
4. Conjugation practice
5. Conjugation game

La tarea: WB p36

10/20 - Quiz, ser practice

1. Practice quizzes for vocab quiz
2. Quiz
3. Ser practice, race along rows.
4. Workbook pp. 32-33

La tarea: Workbook pp.32-33

10/19 - vocab, subject pronouns QUIZ TOMORROW

1. Esponja
2. Check homework
3. Q&A using new vocab (p.96)
4. Read and understand pp. 74-75
5. Discuss vocab list.
6. Make practice quiz using 20 vocab words.

La tarea: Study for vocab quiz!!

10/18 - "ser" and subject pronouns

1. Esponja - class vocab
2. el verbo ser. We repeated the conjugated forms in order many, many times and in different ways: soy, eres, es, somos, sois, son.
3. I showed how these fit into a conjugation grid.
4. The uses of "ser". There are 2 verbs in Spanish that mean "to be". Ser is used to things that are relatively permanent. The teachers at Heritage like to use the memorization technique of TOPPNIC to remember used of ser.
Time
Origin
Profession
Possession
Nationality
Inherent Characteristic

We discussed how all those uses are relatively permanent, hard or impossible to change.
5. Subject pronouns. Then we discussed the use of subject pronouns. This seemed easy for most students (yay!). When talking ABOUT someone, you use the first or third person (not Ud.) - yo, el, ella, nosotros, ellos, ellas. When talking TO someone, you use a form of YOU - tu, usted, vosotros, ustedes.
6. Text p.82 and 83, we read explanation and did activities aloud.

La tarea: Workbook pp 31 and 35.

10/13 - Art day

1. Last few oral presentations
2. Go over test
3. Craft day: color, cut out, decorate a skull for Day of the Dead.

La tarea: Great work on the chapter test, NO HOMEWORK!

10/12 - TEST, start chapter 2A

1. test
2. vocab practice orally from chapter 2A (p.96)

La tarea: Bring in art supplies for tomorrow: glitter glue, yarn, sequins, pom poms.

10/11 - test review, TEST TOMORROW

1. Craft on Weds - we will be decorating a Day of the Dead skull picture. If you want, bring markers, glitter glue, yarn, sequins, beads, pom poms or other items to decorate your art.
2. Oral presentations/pass off
3. Go over workbook pp24-27
4. The verb "ser" Put it into your 6 box conjugation grid:
1st person sing: yo soy
2nd person sing: tú eres
3rd person sing: el/ella/Ud. Es
1st person plural: nosotros somos
2nd person plural: vosotros sois
3rd person plural: ellos/ellas/Uds. son

5. Team game to practice for test.

La tarea: Study for the test. Ser will be extra credit!

10/8 - dialog with subtitles, cootie catchers, TEST TUESDAY

1. Check tarea
2. Test on Tuesday!!
3. Read aloud dialog that kids translated yesterday.
4. Make fortune tellers/cootie catchers. Just for fun! Students wrote fortunes in Spanish.

La tarea: do any missing work!!

10/7 - sub day,

Sorry to miss you guys today, I am sick. I'll be back tomorrow and I WILL check all this work.

1. Chapter test on Tuesday, all missing work due on Monday
2. Translate the entire “play” on pages 52-53. Write out all the lines under pictures 1-8 in English.
3. Do activities 2 and 3 on p. 53 on the same paper
4. Workbook pages 26-27

10/6 - oral presentations

1. Esponja - describing famouse people
2. Pass off
3. Oral presentations. Everyone had to read their personal poem aloud and the class had to take notes.

La tarea: none!

10/5 - pass off, adejctive word order

1. Esponja "Esta bien ser diferente"
2. Pass off
3. Textbook: read and understand pp 51-52, word order rules p. 62, Act 19.
4. Workbook: p. 28 together.

La tarea: practice for oral presentation tomorrow. Workbook pp 24-25

10/4 - pass off, adjective word order

1. Conjugation grid passoff
2. Esponja "Quinceanera" book and discussion.
3. Poems: pass back. Announce ORAL presentation on Wednesday. Students will read their poem for the class. They must pronounce well, so if there are any words you are unsure about, go to the online textbook and hear pronunciations, or ask Sra. Phipps.
4. Adjective poll: Students wrote a question on their white boards to ask other students. Then they went around asking and answering.
5. White board practice of noun and adjective word order. In Spanish, the words go in the opposite order from English. For example, in english we say, "the intelligent girl" but in Spanish "La chica inteligente".
6. Also practiced definite and indefinite articles. Definite: el/la = the, indefinite: un/una = a

La tarea: none!!

10/1 - vocab quiz, project

1. Vocab and conjugation grid quiz. Vocab scores will be in the gradebook soon. Conjugation grid is a pass-off item. You have to be totally perfect to pass off; students will be tested on the grid every day until they pass. 3 students passed off today, but many were close and will hopefully make it on Monday.
2. Do Personal Poem. The assignment is listed below.

La tarea: finish poem, study conjugation grid.

Poema personal: (17 points)

Fill in the blanks with appropriate words. Type or neatly write the poem. Illustrate with at least 3 neat pictures that indicate things in your poem.
Grading rubric:
Poem itself 10 points ( 1 point per line)
On time: 2 points
Neatness: 2 points
Illustrations: 3 points

Me llamo _____________.
Tengo _____________ años.
Soy de _____________, _____________.
A veces, soy _____________.
También soy _____________ y _____________.
Según mis padres, soy _____________.
Según mis amigos, soy _____________.
No soy ni _____________ ni _____________.
Soy muy _____________
¡Yo soy yo!