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-Students answered questions about cities and capitals in South America.
-Maia, Miles, and Anand led a review lesson on numbers and counting.
-Burkett and Jordan led a review lesson on common phrases and classroom items.
-TAREA: Students have a reading to complete for Wednesday. If you need another copy, please come see me.
Submitted by kimber on
-Students reviewed action words and their meanings in English.
-We talked briefly about the subject and verb in a sentence, and looked at infinitive verbs.
-Hannah led us in our daily routine.
-We played a counting game.
-We finished talking about the other four wonders of the world, looking at photos of them while students took notes.
-We played a blindfold game for practice with giving someone directions.
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-We had a day of games outside with Nikki's class working on vocab such as body parts, animals, location, and more.
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-Students took a quiz on "Maravillas del mundo"
-The class practiced conversation questions with a partner.
-We reviewed the different wonders of the world we saw on video.
-We began talking about new vocab to prepare for our class "trip" through the Incan Trail. Students should study this vocab at home.
Submitted by kimber on
-Students answered questions on the homework reading.
-We talked about different wonders of the world that we saw on video on Tuesday. We discussed where countries were located.
-Students practiced conversation in partners.
Submitted by Nikki on
Students corrected errors:
frase del día: por fas o por nefas (by hook or by crook)
Students played board races to practice irregular preterite conjugations
Since we are studying Maravillas del mundo hispanohablante this quarter, students came up with the idea of making a cake in the shape of maravillas (Machu Picchu, el gran agujero azul, Tikal, etc.). We looked at the calendar and students will come to the Kids' Kitchen on Wednesday the 15th of October to work on the final touches of their cake decoration (the rest will be at home).
Tarea: students will have a quiz next Tuesday on regular and irregular preterite verb conjugations.
Submitted by kimber on
-Students answered questions about geography involving cities, countries, and continents.
-Students split into their partner groups and finished working on their review presentations.
-We played "Dibuja" (Pictionary) with review words.
-The class will present their projects Friday and next Wednesday.
Submitted by Nikki on
Students arrived and wrote down translations to some of the ingredients we worked with when making aguas frescas last week.
lime --> limón
sugar --> azúcar
cucumber --> pepino
mint --> menta
hisbiscus flower --> flor de jamaica
We played "el cielo es azul, ¿cuántos años tienes tú?"
We looked at pictures of famous places in the Spanish-speaking world and students answered questions about them.
Students started a game about geography and the places we talked about today.
Tarea: no hay (there isn't any)
Submitted by Nikki on
Students arrived and wrote down a three sentence description of one of the potato heads students made in the last class. We went over responses.
Two groups practiced basic conversations in Spanish.
We played "el cielo es azul, ¿cuántos años tienes tú?"
We read a book in Spanish a student had brought in reviewing animals
We looked at pictures of famous places in the Spanish-speaking world and students answered questions about them.
Students started a game about geography and the places we talked about today.
Homework: no hay (there isn't any)
Submitted by Nikki on
Sorry students for not posting lessons until now. Today we combined our class with Kimber's and watched videos in Spanish about several of the wonders of the Spanish-speaking world, including:
* Machu Picchu
* Canal de Panamá
* El gran agujero azul
* Ruinas maya
* Las cataratas de Iguazú
* La isla de pascua
* El Salar de Uyuni
Students took notes which they handed in.
Tarea: continue to work on irregular preterite verbs since we will have a quiz next Tuesday