viernes, 30 de octubre

This has been a fun week - everyone has been working hard on their children story books. Two students have already turned them in and they look great!!!

Remember - give me a call if you have a question as you are working on them this weekend. They are due Monday at the start of class.

Monday is also the Unit 2 Exam -- we will have another study session on Monday morning at 8 am in my room if you would like to go over actually test questions before you see them in class.

Have a great weekend and Happy Halloween!!

Paz,

Profe Laura

Week of Oct 26-30

Just a reminder that students are working on their Los Cuentos book project. They are due on Monday! Please, remember to let me know if there is anything I need to bring in (besides the usual) to help you complete your projects!

Also -- remember the test is on Monday!

I am so excited to see your projects. We will be reading them to the class next Thursday and Friday! :)

Paz,

Profe Laura

viernes, 23 de octubre

Yea to Troy and Ramsey who got the word of the week right! We have the new one posted -- good luck!

Thursday, I passed out the study guide for the Unit 2 exam on November 2 and today I passed out the rubric for the Los Cuentos Who Am I? Riddle storybook projects also due on November 2.

We are also half way done with our second round of charlas. I will continue to pull students aside during project work time so that students are still using the time to work and practice Spanish. I am going to make the topics revolve around the themes from the unit so that we can practice for the exam.

All next week we will be using class time to work on projects. Be thinking about it over the weekend!!

*Remember - if you need any special materials to work on the project next week, please let a comment to let me know how I can help you!

Have a great weekend!

Paz,

Profe. Laura

martes, 20 de octubre

Over the last two days we have been working with reading and summary writing. On Monday, we finished La Zorra y El Cuervo -- the students did a great job of reading as a group. Then we created a summary together of the book in Spanish. This was prep for today's activity. Each student is taking home a copy of ¿Tu mamá es una llama?, reading it, and writing a summary of their story to share with the class.

HW - Complete the summaries - revise, check for errors, and turn in tomorrow!

Tutorial is today from 4-5 pm. Please come!

viernes, 16 de octubre

Today (though we had a shortened period because of morning meeting), we continued with Charlas. We also started reading the play, La Zorra y El Cuervo (the Fox and the Crow). There is no homework except for those who didn't turn in their assignments from before.

Next week we will finish our story and start to work on summary writing in Spanish.

Have a great weekend!

Paz,

Profe. Laura

jueves, 15 de octubre

Hope you all enjoyed the long break! We are jumping right back into vocabulary and sentence structure. Remember your HW for tomorrow - classification sheet and the animal comparison venn diagram!

We will be reading a story in class tomorrow -- I am excited!

Paz,
Profe Laura

viernes, 9 de octubre

What a great week! Thank you everyone who left posts on the blog assignment - it was fun to read them!

All this week we were busy with our project for Hispanic Heritage Month. All groups did a great job researching the environmental threats facing their Spanish speaking country. One of our groups even presented to the entire school at morning meeting -- thank you Kai, Ramsey, & Shay! They each receive a Latino treat and a peso for representing our class so well.

We learned that in México, there are many problems with pollution and deforestation. We learned that in Costa Rica eco-tourism and poaching is taking a toll on the country's animal diversity. Finally, we learned that in Ecuador, oil spills have done much damage to their wildlife. Students also researched agencies who are out there trying to make a difference -- like tagging turtles and replanting trees. Thank you, students! I learned a lot this week!

Also -- Bravo to Dakota for getting the work of the week! The new one is already posted. Starting next week, we will continue our work with Animals on the Verge of Extinction and also talking more about irregular verbs.

Have a great weekend!

Paz,

Profe Laura

lunes, 5 de octubre

Hope everyone had a good weekend! Today we wrapped up our first round of charlas which we will put on hold for a week. We started our project for Hispanic Heritage Month. Students are working in groups of three to learn about the environmental problems and practices in the Spanish-speaking countries of Mexico, Costa Rica, and Venezuela. The group with the best presentation will give theirs in front of the school at Friday's morning meeting along with student representatives from the other grades in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month. I am very excited to see how these projects develop!

Great job to Troy, Ramsey, and Dakota for getting last week's word of the week! Our new one is posted - keep guessing and expanding your vocabulary!

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BLOG ASSIGNMENT: The assignment is to answer the follow questions either as a comment or on a piece of paper and turn it into me. Please use COMPLETE sentences. This response can be in English.

1. Tell me something that you have learned about the country you are studying.

2. Why is it important we have National Hispanic Heritage Month?

This assignment is worth 10 points, so please (especially on the second question) expand and explain your thinking.

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I look forward to hearing your responses!

Paz,

Profe. Laura

viernes, 2 de octubre

We had a great week this week! Lots of practices with our animals -- the quizzes were great! Everyone got 100% on the animal matching quiz yesterday!

On Friday, we only had three students in class because of the Hula Hoop Contest. Remember, students who miss class much make up their participation points within a week by reading an article in Spanish (information is in the syllabus).

Next week, we will start our projects for Hispanic Heritage Month as well as tie in with the work we are doing with animals on the verge of extinction.

There is no homework for the weekend! Have a great one!

Paz,

Profe. Laura