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Students arrived and wrote down what they know about Spain and we went over it.

Students put their two items on a big map of Spain and shared what they wrote on the map with the group.

frase del día: quitarse el polvo (quítate el polvo)

Students had 15 minutes in the computer lab to go over the attached Spain trivia. Any questions they didn't finish in class are homework.

Tarea: finish Spain trivia

Students corrected the following sentences:
1. Me gusto los animales.
2. Avery gusta viajar.
3. Te encantan el chocolate.
4. No gusto este ejercicio.
5. Le encanta las sorpresas.

palabra del día: concesionario de autos/coches

We put a big blank map of Spain on the board and each student came up and wrote their two things on the map they had chosen for homework (cities, water, regions, etc.).

Students spent 10 minutes practicing their script they will perform after break for Kimber's Spanish class.

We finished playing a Dominican Republic review game.

tarea: bring a show and tell item and be prepared to talk 3 minutes in Spanish to the group next class after break.

Students corrected following mistakes:
1. Me encanto Buenos Aires.
2. Portia le gusta viajar.
3. No gusto los insectos.
4. JP le gustan el baloncesto.
5. Lydia encanta bambolear.

We talked about other verbs like gustar:
* gustar
* encantar
*fascinar
* importar
* dar asco

frase del día: jugar al escondite

Students presented how to do something in Spanish (paper airplane, instant coffee, shooting a basket, eat ice cream, eat a cookie). Some new vocabulary came up through this process:
* morder
* masticar
* tragar
* sabor
* pulgar
* dedo índice
* dedo medio
* dedo anular
* meñique
* muñeca
* codo

We talked about the short play we will present to Kimber's class the Thursday after spring break. Students divided up who is going to bring what props and costumes next class when we will practice.

We finished playing a review game about the Dominican Republic and phrases of the day.

Tarea: next quarter we are studying Spain, so students need to look at a map of Spain and be able to put two things (cities, regions, bodies of water, mountains) on the map.

-Students answered questions about our storytelling activity last week.
-We reviewed the homework questions from "La isla bonita" reading.
-We read together a reading about a boy's daily routine in the Dominican Republic. We talked a little about past tense verbs.
-We joined Nikki's class in the kitchen for a celebration of their end of quarter. We tried several dishes from Latin American cuisine, including alfajores, binuelos, and tres leche cake.
TAREA: none