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-Students looked at true/false statements about Carnaval celebrations around the world.
-We worked in the tech lab on facts about Dominican Republic. We will finish on Friday.
-TAREA: none
Submitted by Nikki on
Students arrived and practiced their phrases of the day
frase del día: cara o cruz
we finished reading the play we were reading
we went over the uses of the future and did some translations.
tarea: show and tell Thursday (bring something in and be prepared to talk for 3 minutes in Spanish). We need to work a bit more on speaking and presenting.
Submitted by Nikki on
Para empezar: practicar palabras del día
palabra del día: salud, amor, dinero
conversaciones: introducción, familia, viaje especial
repasamos los errores de las conversaciones
tarea: vamos a hacer una prueba (quiz) la proxima semana de los verbos
Submitted by kimber on
-Students reviewed subjects and verbs in present tense.
-We reviewed the calendar and how to talk about time.
-We did a listening activity talking about the daily routine of someone from Santo Domingo.
-TAREA: Students should bring blank notecards to class on Friday; also, study the vocab list at home
Submitted by kimber on
-Students reviewed use of verbs in the present tense.
-Our Spanish Phrase of the Day is: Mas despacio, por favor (Speak slowly, please).
-We reviewed the verb "ser" (Yo soy; Tu eres; El/Ella es; Nosotros somos; Ellos son)
-We played a team game for practice with conjugation in present tense. We will review this more before moving on to past tense verbs.
-TAREA: Study verbs and phrase of the day at home
Submitted by kimber on
-Students presented their Carnaval masks to Nikki's class.
-We played a game for review and practice.
-TAREA: none
Submitted by Nikki on
Students arrived and turned in their homework about Carnaval. We cooked in class today with Kimber's class to celebrate Carnaval. Students made:
* King cake (student with raisin gets good luck for the year!)
* Brazilian brigadeiros
* Brazilian cheese bread
Tarea: no homework for students who handed in their Carnaval text. Several students did not hand it in.
Submitted by Nikki on
Students arrived and finished making Brazilian brigadeiros that we had made for Carnaval.
frase del día: en las marcas, listos, fuera (o ya)
We went over future conjugation:
infinitive plus:
We talked about the difference between future and futuro próximo
We watched a quick SNL skit called La policía mexicana and I planted a seed that we may write a similar satirical skit in class perhaps for our end of year project.
Students started reading a play which we will finish next week.
Tarea: memorize conjugations for future tense
Submitted by kimber on
-Students finished working on their mask/character Carnaval project. They presented to the rest of the class.
-We played a bead toss game with review topics.
-TAREA: none
Submitted by kimber on
-Students reviewed numbers 1-100 in Spanish.
-Students created masks for Carnaval, and descriptions to go along with their mask character. They presented them to the class.
-TAREA: none