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Yesterday was a quiz. The day before I had assigned making a floorplan of a house, and if you had yours, you got to use it on the quiz.

Today, we discussed some more cultural aspects, including hand gestures. We prepared for the final exam by writing exam-like questions based on the culture sections of the textbook.

No homework, but I will post one of the final exam readings in a box on the blog later this weekend.

5/11 - Houses, names in Spanish speaking countries

1. House vocab practice
2. Learn about how people are named in Spanish speaking countries. See here for info: http://spanish.about.com/cs/culture/a/surnames.htm

3. Make a floorplan of a house and label 20 items/rooms

La tarea - work on your floorplans, bring them tomorrow.

5/10 - Bingo, talk about houses in Mexico, yearbooks

1. House vocab bingo!!
2. Talk about houses in Mexico, Sra. experiences living with families there.
3. 15 minutes for yearbook signing.

La tarea: None!

5/9 - Palabras nuevas - la casa

1. We went over the list of new vocabulary and added a few words.
2. Q&A using new vocab - How many rooms in your house, do you have a tv in your room, etc.
3. Spanish to Spanish vocab practice - Duermo en ____________ (la cama/el dormitorio).
4. Workbook - vocab practice and coloring p112.

La tarea: make a 5x5 bingo board with new vocab, you write the Spanish.
TEXTBOOKS DUE ON WEDNESDAY!!

5/6 - Sub Day

Lo siento, chicos, no estoy en la escuela hoy. Uds. van a mirar la película "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" en español.

!Hasta lunes!

5/5 - Hacer correcciones en los examenes

1. Students did corrections on their Fill in the Blank finals.
2. Students rewrote essays if they scored less than a 19.
3. New vocab list - students started filling in meanings.

La tarea: None!

5/4 - Relaxing day

Today we relaxed after having done rigorous testing the past 2 days. We enjoyed watching the video of the Spanish 4 fairy tale plays. All grading is done and grades are in the grade book.

Tomorrow, we get back to Spanish!!

5/3 - Fill in the blank portion

Today was the final portion of the District Common Exam! Mini unit starting tomorrow.

5/2 - multiple choice test, Fill in the blank tomorrow!

Students did very well. The class average for the whole test was about 85%! Muy bien hecho, chicos.

One more day and we can relax and do more fun things for the rest of the semester (well, they seem fun to me, maybe not so much for you).

4/29 - Final day of final review

1. TEST ON MONDAY AND TUESDAY!!!
2. We finished going over the review sheet.
3. complete application of a verb - Marcos/cantar
4. Irregular verb practice - conjugations, white board practice.

La tarea - we discussed lots of way to study. STUDY!

Complete application of a verb practice (answers in box at the bottom of the right hand column of the blog):
yo/beber

1. (s) (v)s
2. (s) doesn't (v)
3. (s) wants to (v)
4. (s) likes to (v)
5. (s) should (v)
6. (s) can (v)
7. (s) needs to (v)
8. (s) has to (v)
9. *(s) is (v)ing
10. (s) loves to (v)
11. (s) prefers to (v)
12. (s) is going to (v)
13. (s) doesn't like to (v)

4/28 - Review

1. Complete application of a verb - Ana, compartir
2. Review sheet. We went over some of the topics from the final exam including subject pronouns, adjective agreement, and definite and indefinite articles.

4/27 - Irregular verbs

1. Complete application of a verb. trabajar/Juan
2. Irregular verb flashcards. Students made sure they have a complete set of 14 verbs, with Spanish on one side and English on the other. Use these cards to study meanings. Then, students made 5 cards, each with a type of irregularity on it. They are e-ie stemchanger, e-i stemchanger, o/u-ue stemchanger, totally irregular, and irregular yo/-go.
3. On the back of each type of irregularity, they wrote which verbs belong in each category. This is so that students can lay out the 5 categories, and then try to sort the cards so that they can study the irregulars.

La tarea - Study irregs for practice quiz tomorrow. (no grade in gradebook, but should give you an idea of if you are on the right track).

4/26 - Essay exam, finish filling out irregular verb sheet

1. Essay exam
2. Fill out irregular verb conjugation grid.
3. Finish making your flash cards.

La tarea - none!

4/25 - Preparacion para el examen, verbos irregulares

1. Complete application of a verb - yo, estudiar
2. Essay prep - see a couple of old essays, talk about rubric.
3. Verbos irregulares - list of 14 irregular verbs, first we did meanings, then identified their irregularities, then filled in the "yo" forms.
4. Students made flash cards. They need to put the 14 irregular verbs on the cards, Spanish on one side, English on the other. They should also make one card for each of the 5 types of irregularities - total irregs, e-ie, e-i, o/u-ue, irreg yo. They should each have 5 cards left over. Don't worry, we'll find a use for them.

La tarea: Essay final tomorrow!!

4/22 - essay practice

1. Possessive adjectives quiz. No grade taken.
2. Essay practice - we discussed the rubric and read some sample letters to see what is good and what is bad.

La tarea: prepare for the essay test on Tuesday.

4/21 - Essay practice, ser-estar, possessive adjectives

1. Complete application of a verb activity.
2. Ser estar packet, do another section and check it.
3. Essay practice - sentences using ser and estar
4. Possessives, do another board activity.

La tarea - study possessive adjectives! Quiz tomorrow!

4/20 - complete application of a verb, possessive adjectives

1. Review workbook pp88-89.
2. Complete application of a verb - every day until the final exam, we will do this activity as an esponja. I will give students a verb and a subject, and they will have to conjugate it in 12 or so usages (ie - I, to ski - I ski, I like to ski, I have to ski, I am going to ski, I prefer to ski, etc.)
3. Possessive adjectives - we have been using mi/mis for my, tu/tus for your. We added in the rest of the forms. Please see here for an explanation.
4. WB p90 together
5. Text - p 232 and 233, act 18 and 20.

La tarea: NONE!

4/19 - ser/estar, irregular verbs, essay practice

1. collect parent letters, pen pal letters, drawings.
2. Using packets from yesterday, review ser/estar and how to choose which one to use. We went over the first 2 sections 8-9 questions where students had to choose the correct verbs, conjugate it, give reason for choice.
3. Irregular verbs from packet, we reviewed the different types of irregulars and went over that part of the packet.
4. Essay practice - students wrote a few sentences about school.

La tarea: Bring packets and workbooks tomorrow!!!

4/18 - Ser/estar review, irregular verb review

1. In preparation for the district common final exam, we will be reviewing all major grammatical topics we have learned this year. Today's review topics are ser and estar (conjugating and choosing between them), and irregular verbs.

La tarea: finish packets if necessary.

4/15 - vocabulario, quiz, presentations, WB

0. Turn in parent letter and pen-pal letters, also vocab drawing.
1. Vocab practice
2. great participation on review, so we did a make-your-own quiz. Each student wrote a word from the list on their board and I chose students at random to show their word for the quiz.
3. Oral presentations of paragraph from yesterday. Most kids went so we will have very few that everyone has to take notes on for Tuesday.
4. WB pp 88-89, ALSO you MUST translate one of the pages, you choose which.

La tarea: finish WB pages for Tuesday.

4/14 - Prepare oral presentation, vocab practice. QUIZ TOMORROW!

1. Collect parent letters, penpal letters. DUE TOMORROW!
2. Pass back paragraphs to different people. Everyone had to write a paragraph about the person they got. These will be read aloud in class tomorrow and Tuesday as an oral presentation.
3. Vocab practice - family vocab "puzzle" questions. ie "La madre de mi madre es ________." (mi abuela) Everyone had to share a question or answer one.
4. Arte - draw a party scene that demonstrates vocab words. You MUST depict all 10 words in the "celebraciones" section of the vocab list, as well as 5 other nouns and 5 verbs. Turn in tomorrow.

La tarea: Lots of it!! Finish pen pal letter, bring in parent letter, finish art, study for vocab quiz (Spanish to English) tomorrow.

4/13 - Vocab, actividades

1. Check, go over WB 86-87
2. Oral - p227 Act 8 #1 or 2.
3. Text pl 228 Act 10
4. Text p.229 Act 11 - answer questions in full sentences. We went over these to make them perfect. Turn in.
5. Pen pal letters!

La tarea: Answer pen pal letter, bring in parent signature form. Vocab quiz on Friday!!

4/12 - Vocab, verb tener

1. Check/go over WB p85
2. Finish filling out vocab list.
3. In textbook, do act. 5, 9 Chapter 5A
4. Due to students not doing the activities in class, the rest of the time was spent doing silent workbook pages. Workbook p 86, 87 (do the page, then translate the dialog), 88, and 89.

Tarea: finish workbook pages.

4/11 - Arbol de familia, voacbulario nuevo

1. Label your famly tree with relationships to you.
2. New vocab lists - fill out family, ages, pets sections.
3. Oral Q&A - ¿Tienes ____________ (family member)? ¿Cómo se llama él/ella?
4. ¿Tienes una mascota? ¿Cómo se llama él/ella?
5. Text p.226 Act 4
6. Essay practice - introduce self, describe self.

La tarea: Workbook p85

4/8 - Test, new vocab

1. Test
2. New vocab - family. My family tree!!!
3. Make your family tree.

La tarea: finish family tree.

4/7 - Test Review, TEST Tomorrow!!

1. On the FLIPSIDE of the workbook, do pages 143-146, practicing "ir" and "ir a" as well as "jugar".
2. Test review with whiteboards.

La tarea: STUDY for the test.

4/6 - Orals, Workbook

1. Orals- each student had to answer one of 5 questions using double verbs.
2. Workbook - p.81 together
3. Workbook - p83 and 84

La tarea: Study for test, all missing work due TOMORROW as you walk in!

4/5 - Cuentos de hadas, TEST on Friday!

We went to see Spanish 4 students perform their Fairy Tale plays! Yay!

4/4 - Double verbs, irregulars, TEST ON FRIDAY, ALL WORK DUE THURS.

1. Check/go over WB p82
2. Irregular verb review - students need to start memorizing which verbs are irregular and in what way. We are working with 8 verbs now: tener, venir, poder, jugar, preferir, querer, saber, hacer.
3. Writing practice in preparation for the essay portion of the final exam. Students had to write 6 sentences, leaving 5 blank lines between each sentence. The sentences had to indicate something they can do, want to do, like to do, prefer to do, have to do, are going to do.
4. On the next line, the had to correct their sentences.
5. On the third line, they wrote negative sentences.
6. On the fourth, they had to try to add something to give their sentence something "impressive" for the graders, adding a phrase or strong vocabulary word.
7. On the 5th line, they needed to think of how to ask a question in Spanish to elicit that information.

La tarea: be on time tomorrow; we are going to see the Fairy Tales!!

3/31 - Vocabulario, verbos irregulares, QUIZ TOMORROW

1. Check, go over WB80
2. Vocab list - review irregular verbs, different types of irregulars, conjugations.
3. Vocab practice with white boards

La tarea: Study for quiz tomorrow!

3/30 - vocab quiz, ir a + infinitive

1. 5 minutos para estudiar
2. Prueba de vocabulario, espanol a ingles.
3. check/go over WB 76-77, do page 79 together
3. Text - read and understand p 198-199
4. Text - p204 Act 11, p206 Act 14

La tarea: Workbook p80

3/29 - Vocabulario. VOCAB QUIZ TOMORROW!

1. WB p78, do and go over
2. Finish vocab list
3. Text p203, act 6, 7, p. 204 Act 8-11
4. Make practice vocab quiz and turn in before end of class.
5. WB p. 76-77, 79

La tarea: WB 76-77, STUDY VOCAB

3/28 - Capitulo 4B

1. Orals today - ¿Qué tienes? ¿Cómo estás?
2. New vocab list - practice with different sections
3. Text p202, Act 4 and 5
4. Fill in rest of vocab list (p218)

3/18 - Planes para las vacaciones de primavera, "Star Wars"

1. Fill in a worksheet for your plans over spring break, and predicting activities of others.
2. Watch "Star Wars"

Worksheet:
Durante mis vacaciones de primavera, yo...
... voy a ____________________________________________
...tengo que ________________________________________
...quiero ___________________________________________
...debo ____________________________________________
...espero (I hope/Iwait for) ____________________________
...no quiero ________________________________________
También, me gustaría ________________________________

Ahora, contesta por otras personas en la clase:
Durante sus vacasiones de primavera,
____________________va a ___________________________________________
____________________tiene que ______________________________________
____________________quiere _________________________________________
____________________debe __________________________________________
____________________espera _________________________________________
____________________no quiere ______________________________________
También, a ____________________ le gustaría ____________________________

3/17 - Examen, "tener" expressions

1. Examen
2. Vocab list with "tener" expressions
3. Make sentences with "tener" expressions saying what you are and why.
Ejemplo: Yo tengo hambre porque no como hoy.
Share sentences on board.

La tarea: NONE

3/16 - Preparar para el examen manana

1. Workbook - Flipside - go over pages 125-126
2. together, do p. 129 - word order in questions
3. Test review with white boards.
4. Text - read with subtitles chapter 4A dialog

La tarea: !ESTUDIAR!

3/15 - Repaso para el examen, vocabulario nuevo, Examen el miercoles

1. Check/go over WB p74-75
2. a+el=al, de+el=del packet, go through explanation doing little activities along the way.
3. On projector: Interrogative practice
4. Workbook - FLIPSIDE, vocab review pages 121- 124
5. ANY MISSING WORK DUE TOMORROW FOR CHATER 4A!!!

La tarea: FLIPSIDE p.125-126

3/14 - Interrogatives, New vocab intro

1. Interrogative flashcards, activity on projector
2. Check worksheet from last week.
3. Text p218 - new vocab orals
4. Text p.181 Act 13, p187 Act 19

La tarea: WB p74-75

3/10 - CSAP Day

1. !Ver la pelicula "Star Wars" en espanol!

3/7 - stem changers

1. Check/go over worksheet
2. Stem changers - o/u-ue changers, like "dormir"
3. Worksheet with stem changers
4. Interrogatives
5. Back side of worksheet

3/3 - quiz, ir

1. Review for quiz
2. Quiz
3. Worksheet, side with schedule on it.

3/2 - interrogatives, vocab

1. Check/go over WBp71
2. Turn in pen pal letters
3. Text - p185 Act15, p188
4. On little computers, go to link in post below to do vocabulary practice.
Notes for using this program:
- If it says y'all, it wants the vosotros form
- if it says you all, it wants Uds.
- the verb "to give" is dar and the forms are: doy, das, da, damos, dais, dan. It is not on the quiz tomorrow, but it is on the online vocab practice.
- to write an accent mark, click the button that says "add accent" RIGHT AFTER you type the letter that has an accent mark.

La tarea: Study for vocab quiz.

3/2 - vocabulary practice link

Go here to practice vocab

3/1 - Interrogatives, simple future tense

1. Students had to write 2 truths and a lie about their plans for Spring Break. Half shared with the class today, the other half will share tomorrow.
2. ? word flash cards
3. Interrogative worksheet on board, this one
4. Gramactiva videos - ir and interrogatives
5. Pen pal letters: share your 2 truths and a lie, finish responses.
6. WB p71

La tarea: finish pen pal letter, WB p71, VOCAB QUIZ ON FRIDAY

2/28 - interrogatives, pen pal letters

1. Check/go over WB72
2. Question word flashcards
3. WB p73 together
4. Pen pal letters - some students have new pen pals
5. Write response

La tarea: pen pal response

2/25 - quiz, interrogatives

1. check, go over tarea
2. vocab practice
3. vocab game
4. vocab quiz
5. textbooks: p184, interrogatives (question words)

La tarea: WBp72

2/24 - Lugares, "ir", question words

1. Q&A - say what you do and don't do at a place of your choice, ie: Yo leo en la biblioteca. Yo no hablo en la biblioteca.
2. Vocab practice - question words
3. Text p180 Ir activity, Q&A
4. WB p69 together and share.

La tarea: WB 70

2/23 - Lugares, vocabulario, juego

1. Check, go over WB68
2. Vocab list - fill out the rest of the list
3. Textbook - p142-143, Activity 5 on p146 (?)
4. Mad libs game - students had to fill out a list of words, then they subbed those words into a prewritten paragraph. The results were funny!

La tarea: none!

2/22 - Lugares, ir

1. New vocab list, but I still missed one word - la calle - the street. Please add that to your list if you didn't in class.
2. Vocab practice with "ir"
3. Conjugating "ir"
4. White boards - draw a place, walk around testing others on the vocab. Then pics on projector.
5. WB p67 - do alone, then go over together.
6. Pass back tests - students had to correct their short answer questions on the back for a participation grade and turn them in.

La tarea: WB p 68

2/17.- Vocabulario nuevo

1. new chapter vocab - translate and share.
2. new verb "ir" = to go. Conjugated as voy/vas/va/vamos/vais/van
3. Q&A using new vocab - Adonde vas, Prefieres ir a __ o ___, Adonde vas para (leer un libro) (hablar con un doctor) etc.
4. Art project - draw a map of a city and LABEL in Spanish at least 20 places. If you do all 26, you'll get a little extra credit.

La tarea: Finish map!!

2/16 - Examen

TEST all period.

2/15 - test review

very complete test review using the test!!! Study for tomorrow!!

La tarea: Study! If you want some pages to help you review, do workbook FLIPSIDE pp 99-111.

2/14 - Feliz Dia de San Valentin, review for test

1. Review for test on Wednesday, ser/estar, conjugation of ser/estar/stem changers, vocab.

La tarea: finish the art section of the review sheet, study for test

2/11 - review and stem changing verbs

1. WB p60, answer, check answers on board.
2. Stem changing verb explanation. Stem changing verbs are often called "Boot verbs" because the conjugated forms that have a change are in the shape of a boot. There is no way to tell if a verb is a stem changer just from looking at it; you have to memorize these. One we have been using is "preferir - to prefer" It is an e to ie stem changer, which means that the "e" in the stem ( the last one before the verb ending -ir) changes to "ie" in the boot forms. See below for an example using the verb "querer - to want."



3. We practiced conjugating many e to ie stemchanging verbs.

4. We also discussed "tener - to want." I call it an "ankle boot verb" because it has an irregular "yo" form (tengo), and then it has the stem change in all the other boot forms.

La tarea: TEST ON WEDNESDAY, study vocab and grammar.

2/10 - videos, translation

1. Funny videos explaining ser/estar and me gusta.
2. WB p63
3. Text p161 Act 19 and 20.
4. Text p150-151 translate and perform with subtitles

Tarea: NONE!

2/9 - ser/estar and adjective agreement

1. check and go over ser and estar sentences.
2. Ser/estar quiz
3. Adjective agreement practice with foods.
4. Text p157 Act 13, p158 Act 15, p159 Act 17

La tarea: WB p63

2/8 - ser/estar practice

1. check/go over WB p61
2. ser/estar review - conjgation and uses
3. Worksheet to practice uses. English sentences, determine which you would use.
4. adjective agreement - adjectives agree in gender and number with the noun they are describing.
5. WB p62 done in class to practice making different forms of adjectives.

La tarea: Translate 10 sentences from the worksheet into Spanish. You can do them on the back of the sheet. Watch you conjugated forms of ser and estar, and make sure your adjectives agree with the subject!!!

2/7 - Work with new vocab, verb "deber"

1. Check/go over WB p59
2. Q&A Vocab list - saying what you should and shouldn't eat to maintain your health.
3. Listening activities
4. Text p 154 Act 8 aloud

La tarea: WB p61

2/4 - vocab practice chapter 3B

1. check and share food categories
2. go over tests from yesterday
3. textbook: read p.148-149, do listening activities
4. Text p152, act 4, 6, 7

La tarea: WB p59

2/3 - Test, new vocab

1.. 3 minutes to review
2. TEST
3. New vocab list
4. Q&A using new vocab
5. On back of vocab list - name each category of foods, then list 3 items that fit each

La tarea: Food categories - 3 items each

1/31 - Review for test

1. Check/ go over WB51-52
2. Go over all sub work
3. Review for test tomorrow (Wednesday due to DIA DE NIEVE)

La tarea: Study for the test

1/28 - Sub day

¡Hola estudiantes! Lo siento, pero mi hija (daughter) está enferma hoy también. Here is your fun for today:

Test on Tuesday! There will be hints posted on the blog at www.senoraphipps1.blogspot.com that will help you study.

Basically, you need to study:

Foods (vocab, I will give you English and you will need to produce the Spanish)

How to say you like, don’t like and love foods, knowing when to use Me gusta vs. Me gustan.

Complete conjugation of –er and –ir verbs

Read a sentence and choose the verb that makes sense, then conjugate it

Read a sentence and choose the correct word or phrase to complete it (mostly from the section of Other Vocab on your list, the last section, and meal names)

Answer questions in complete sentences about food.

If you haven’t turned in your pen pal letter, do it today!!!!

Bring all the work from yesterday to class on Monday, as well as what you do today.

1/27 - Sub day, all missing work due on FRIDAY!

Tell them test is postponed to Monday! Lucky! They will need to do 2 things; they probably have time to finish in class, but if not, it is homework. I will check tomorrow.
1. Ask for pen pal letters. If anyone has them, have them write a big number on the top for which class period they are in.
2. Translate dialog on pages 126-127. They have done this type of translation before. They should work alone but can ask each other quick questions. Each person needs their own paper.
3. on p144 is a vocab list. They need to write sentences FOR 25 FOODS AND DRINKS IN THE FIRST COLUMN OF THE LIST saying if they like, love, or don’t like it. They MUST have at least 5 likes, 5 don’t likes, and 5 loves

ALL MISSING WORK IS STILL DUE TOMORROW!

1/26 - textbook activities, workbook, TEST ON FRIDAY

1. Collect pen pal letters
2. Textbook activities - p132 Act 12, p133 Act 13 and 14, p136 Act 19.
3. TEST ON FRIDAY - covering -er and -ir verbs, breakfast and lunch vocab, gusta(n) usage.

La tarea: Workbook p51-52

1/25 - textbook, pen pal letters

1. Check/go over tarea: WB p54. As promised, students who did not bring their workbooks will get a 0 for participation. They were unable to participate due to not bringing supplies.

2. Textbook: we did a few activities on pages 129-130.

3. Pen pal letters: students recieved them, then wrote responses. Students MUST include some discussion of foods using Me gusta(n), Me encanta(n), No me gusta(n).

La tarea: Finish and turn in pen pal letter.

1/24 - redo quiz, go over reading, me gusta/tengo hambre/time frames

1. Turn in Food Man
2. Retake of quiz
3. Read aloud "Pizza, ensaladas, helado de fresas"
4. Go over Q&A aloud, also paragraph.
5. Learn phrases: Tengo hambre (I'm hungry) and Tengo sed (I'm thirsty)
6. Siempre (always), a veces (sometimes), nunca (never)

La tarea: Workbook p54

1/21 - Reading activity, Food man, retake of quiz on Monday.

1. Anyone who did not get a perfect 10 on Thursdays quiz will retake it on Monday. If you do better, you will get the new grade. If you don't, you keep the first grade.
2. Students did a reading, after which they had to answer questions about the reading and then write a paragraph about themselves inspired by the reading. This should have been completed in class.
3. In class and for homework if not done: Students must draw a Food Man or Woman. This is a figure composed entirely of food items. You MUST use at least 20 foods, and you have to label each food. Due on Monday.

La tarea: Food man (Hombre de comida), study for vocab retake

1/20 - New vocab work, quiz

It was my intention to give a quiz tomorrow and spend the day doing new vocabulary. However, due to poor behavior and inattention during the review, I gave the quiz today. I will grade them and put them in the gradebook this evening.

1. Check/go over workbook page 53
2. vocab practice. Less than half the students brought their flashcards, making work much more difficult. We worked with the rest of the vocabulary list, doing flashcard practice and playing bingo.
3. Quiz due to poor behavior.

La tarea: If I were you, I would still study the vocabulary that we were planning to test tomorrow.

1/19 - Vocab quiz, review of -er and -ir verbs

1. Check WB pages 49-50, go over
2. Vocab practice for quiz - practice quizzes, vocab game
3. Quiz!
4. Me gusta/me gustan ?Prefieres? Prefiero practice. Answering questions about foods using these words/expressions.

La tarea: WB p53, bring rest of vocab flashcards, we will start working with them tomorrow!

1/18 - Sub Day

Sorry I wasn't here today, my daughter was sick and I had to stay home with her.

The plan from today:
Spanish 1 (per 6) will be working in their workbooks. Tell them the quiz is postponed until tomorrow. Many will need to get the workbooks from their lockers, so tell them as they walk in to go get them. Tell them to work first on the FLIPSIDE (they know what that means) (it’s the side of the workbook with a bar code on it). Do pages 93-94 and 95-96. Then in the regular side, they should do page 53 and 54. They should be able to finish by the end of the hour. I will check this tomorrow!!

Remember, vocab quiz tomorrow Spanish to English on fruits, vegetables, breads, drinks, and desserts.

1/14 - (sorry this post is late) Vocab practice, new vocab

Students sorted in more categories of vocab to study, drinks, bread, desserts. We worked with the vocab a little.

La tarea: WB 49-50

VOCAB QUIZ TUESDAY!!

1/13 - Vocabulario

1. Check for complete set of flashcards with Spanish on one side and pictures on the other. It seems many people did NOT use their time wisely during the oral exams, as very few had what they needed. Partial credit can be earned for showing me tomorrow.
2. Sort vocab. We sorted out the 13 vegetable words and 12 fruit words. We started working with only those vocab words and we practiced a few different ways.
3. Explain "Me gusta" and "Me gustan". Me gusta is used for liking singular items (ie. salad, lunch, pizza), Me gustan is used for plural items (sandwiches, strawberries). Students had to tell me something they like, they don't like, and that they love (Me encanta, Me encantan).
4. Text p. 135? Oral activity of saying what kids like and don't like.

La tarea: Make sure you have a full set of vocab flash cards for food items!!!!!

1/11 - 1/12 - Oral presentations

Tuesday:
1. Check that students brought flash cards.
2. Oral exams/work on making flashcards for underlined words on vocab list, Spanish on one side, picture on the other.

La tarea: translate underlined words from vocab list.


Wednesday:
1. Go over underlined words
2. Oral exams/work on flashcards.

La tarea: bring in completed flash cards tomorrow!

1/10 - Finish packet, oral exams, make blank flashcards

1. Finish going over packet. Keep the packet, because you will be seeing the questions and answers from the back page again!!!

2. Oral exams - Volunteers only. About 10 students volunteered. I decided to increase the time frame for extra credit to 90 seconds (up from a minute) and increase the total time to 3 minutes. I eliminated the Q&A so the project went down in value.

2. While orals were going on, students were cutting up paper to make at least 72 blank flashcards. Students MUST bring these blanks to class tomorrow, it will count as a homework assignment. If you choose to use index cards, you need to cut them in half, they will be too big if you use whole ones.

La tarea: finish making your flash cards. ALL STUDENTS MUST be ready to do the oral tomorrow. I will take volunteers and then start calling people.

1/7 - Prueba, poner la mesa, paquete

1. Table item quiz
2. Practice setting the table
3. Write your script for oral exam, practice. Oral is on MONDAY for volunteers, Tuesday and Weds for everyone else.
4. Finish packet (if time, this is NOT homework)

La tarea: Practice for your oral.

1/6 - Poner la mesa, Dia de los Tres Reyes Magos, Quiz tomorrow, Oral exam next week

1. Practice setting the table.
2. Oral exam for next week. Handout at the bottom of this post.
3. Discuss "Three Kings Day"
4. Next section on review packet.

La tarea: Study for vocab quiz tomorrow. Bonus for readers of the blog: There will be an extra credit question using the prepositions!!

Presentación oral – Poner la mesa (30 points) (1/10-1/12)

Each student will have to set the table using all 13 items on the vocabulary list. As you place each item, you must state where you are putting it in comparison with another table item using a preposition. You must use all 13 table items, and at least 7 different prepositions. Each sentence will start with “Pongo” = “I put”. Remember: de+el=del, but de+la stays de la. You must finish in 90 seconds or you will not receive credit for the items you did not get to. !!Extra credit: finish in under 1 minute for 3 points of CE!!
Ejemplo: Yo pongo el mantel en la mesa. Yo pongo el plato encima del mantel.

After setting the table, I will ask 2 questions regarding the location of items on your table. You will have to answer with a correct, complete sentence using a preposition. You will have no more than 30 seconds to answer each question.
Ejemplo: ¿Dónde está el mantel? El mantel está debajo del plato.

Grading rubric (30 points):
5 points – on time
13 points - All 13 items correctly identified while placing
7 points – 7 prepositions used correctly
5 points – correctly answer 2 questions by naming the item, using the correct form of estar, using a correct preposition, and using an appropriate second item for the locational relationship (see example).

Presentations will be in class on Monday 1/10-Weds. 10/12. Students may come to the classroom on Monday during 5th or 7th hour to present in private with me (come after the first 10 minutes), or find me in my office during 4th hour.

1/6 - Welcome back! Repaso, poner la mesa

Hola estudiantes y padres!

Before starting our next chapter, we are doing some review of verb conjugation, sentence structure, and answering questions. Then we will begin chapter 3, talking about food.

This week, we are doing a mini unit on setting the table, which also helps review prepositions. Each student gets a set of table items and in Spanish, I tell them how to set them up.

On Friday, there will be a vocab quiz, matching, covering all the vocab below. Next week, students will set the table for me for an oral presentation grade. More details on this will be posted on Thursday or Friday.

Vocabulario:
el mantel
el plato
el platillo
el tazón
el tenedor
la cuchara
el cuchillo
la servilleta
el vaso
la taza
el popote
la sal
la pimienta
a la izquierda de
a la derecha de
arriba de/sobre
en
encima de
detras de
cerca de
lejos de
al lado de
al otro lado de
debajo de
entre
con