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Ocio: review and talking about break

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Class Activities: 

Students arrived and wrote about their breaks for warm-up activity.

Students chose one thing to share about their break with other students. Each student asked ¿Qué hiciste durante las vacaciones? to every student in class. As a big group, I asked what each student did.

To practice some of our vocabulary around ocio, students listened to statements and responded appropriately. Si tu deporte favorito es beisbol, levántate. (If your favorite sport is baseball, stand up). Students responded to statements about their hobbies.

Tarea: no hay.

Class topics: 
past tense verbs
leisure
Fluency level: 
Intermediate

Repaso

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Class Activities: 

Students wrote down the poem about months from memory as our warm up activity.

This week, we are bringing together vocabulary and concepts we've learned so far this year. Students were given categories and had 3 minutes to write down as many words as they could remember related to the category. Category 1: cosas en la escuela (things in a school), categoria 2: partes del cuerpo (parts of the body), categoria 3: adjetivos. We went over vocabulary words and students got a point for each word they had written down.

Tarea: For extra credit, students can recite the poem about months (attached) at the beginning of class Wednesday.

Class topics: 
review
Fluency level: 
Beginner

Ocio: repaso

Submitted by Nikki on

Class Activities: 

Students filled out attached do now activity at start of class.

In small groups, students were given (attached) vocabulary words we've used recently in our ocio unit related to art and sports. Students took turns choosing a word they had to either describe in Spanish, draw, or act out. Other students were to guess the words.

Tarea: No hay (since students are busy with expo this week).

Class topics: 
ocio
Fluency level: 
Intermediate

Ocio: las artes y comprensión auditiva

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Class Activities: 

Students conjugated verbs tener and vener for warm up activity.

As a class, we went over answers from Tuesday's activities and students handed in their worksheet.

Every Thursday, we will start doing some listening comprehension practice for a higher level of proficiency. Handed out attached worksheet (parte 2 of listening comprehension) and students went through pictures and wrote down vocabulary they knew related to the pictures. As a class, we went over what the questions are asking. Students then listened to this activity and chose the correct drawing. This activity ended up being challenging for students which shows we should be practicing a bit more (next time a bit easier!).

Tarea: no hay

Fluency level: 
Intermediate

Tiempo: poema de los meses

Submitted by Nikki on

Class Activities: 

Students arrived and corrected their quiz they took Monday using notes. If they were unable to finish in the first 5 minutes of class, they need to finish as homework.

Students called out the months which I wrote on the board. I presented a poem that talk about weather and we learned weather-related phrases. The poem is attached.

After going over the meaning of the poem, students were given attached sheet with photos. There are 12 photos, each matching a description of a month from the poem. Students were to cut out the photos, put them in order and paste them on a big sheet of construction paper. Along with the photos, students wrote the whole poem.

Tarea: finish correcting test if student didn't finish in class.

Class topics: 
months
weather
Fluency level: 
Beginner

Ocio: las artes

Submitted by Nikki on

Class Goals: 

To learn vocabulary around the arts.

Class Activities: 

Students arrived and added a flashcard to their set: futuro próximo (ir a + infinitivo). Went over as a class.

Introduced the next topic in our ocio unit: the arts. Students were paired up to do some research and were given two handouts. The first included four photos and students were to identify the type of art, the person who does the art, and the verb (painting, painter, to paint). The other handout (attached) described 5 Latin American artists in different disciplines. Using the internet, students were to answer the questions below involving identifying the artist.

Tarea: complete what we were working on in class.

Fluency level: 
Intermediate

Time (test)

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Class Activities: 

Students arrived and looked through notes I had written on work in their folder.

As a class, we went through and corrected previous time review worksheet.

Students completed quick quiz

Tarea: final draft of schedule. Students had previously written their typical weekly schedules with times, class subjects and after-school activities. Students who handed in their schedules got their corrections back and need to come up with a final draft. We will be compiling information about students to put together a book about them.

Class topics: 
months
numbers
days of week
telling time
Fluency level: 
Beginner

Review time unit

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Class Activities: 

Students arrived and studied their notes about numbers, telling time, months, and days of the week.

In pairs, students competed to practice vocabulary we've been working on the last several weeks about time. Review included questions like:

  • La _____ de hoy es el 4 de febrero. fecha
  • La clase de español comienza a las ____. ocho.
  • Es el día entre miércoles y viernes. jueves
  • Quinientos cuarenta y dos. 542
  • Hay 7 días en una __________________. semana
  • La estación que incluye marzo, abril, mayo. primavera

Tarea: prepare for a quick quiz Monday about days of week, months, numbers, telling time and general time-related vocabulary. Also, several students haven't handed in a schedule of their typical week which they need to do by Monday.

Class topics: 
months
time vocabulary
numbers
days of week
telling time
Fluency level: 
Beginner

Time (telling time)

Submitted by Nikki on

Class Activities: 

Students completed attached do now activity practicing time-related vocabulary.

In pairs, students received clocks as well as times written out in Spanish (attached). Groups matched up the clock with the correct time in Spanish. Once times were matched, students practiced in pairs:
¿Qué hora es?
Son las nueve y cinco.

Students received attached review worksheet to practice their time related vocabulary. Whatever they didn't complete in class is for homework.

Tarea: complete review worksheet.

Class topics: 
review
numbers
telling time
Fluency level: 
Beginner

Ocio: deportes 3

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Class Activities: 

Students conjugated verb ser as their warm up activity and put their group of notecards in a ring.

Final two groups presented their sport while other students listened and took notes.

Listened to recordings talking about different exercises/sports from native speakers. Students listened to each recording twice and talked about what they heard. We are going to start incorporating listening activities each week in our classes.

Introduced various short connecting words that students should learn:
y (and)
con/sin (with/without)
o (or)
en (in/on)
de (of/from)
también (also)
pero (but)
porque (because)

Tarea: Write a half page describing a few of your hobbies (pasatiempos).

Class topics: 
deportes
comprensión auditiva
Fluency level: 
Intermediate

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