January 3, 2008 First day back! Welcome students and parents! It would be great if some parents could send in some boxes of tissues, hand sanitizer and clorox wipes. I would appreciate all the help I can get! Students received 4 handouts today. One is a letter home with basic class expectations/rules that needs to be signed and returned as soon as possible. (By Monday, bottom portion only) Students have class commands that need to be learned in order to function in the class. They will have a quiz on these on Tuesday. Students need to have a composition book, 3 ring binder, lots of paper, pens (dk. blue or black only) and pencils by Monday. A dictionary is optional, but recommended. Open House is January 17 at 7 PM. I look forward to meeting many of you.
January 4: Collected bottom portion of letter home. Discussed alphabet, focusing on vowel sounds. Introduced greetings, farewells, asking "What's your name" and answering. Passed out vocabulary sheet on which students are to draw pictures of the meanings by Monday. passed out pronunciation guide and demonstrated how to apply it to a word in order to pronunce correctly. Gave the term "tilde". Vowel quiz on Monday. Reviewed class commands- quiz on Tuesday.
Jan. 7: Continued collecting bottom portion of letter. Gave out lockers to students in 3rd block if they had a lock to show. Reviewed vowel sounds and alphabet repeatedly. Gave quiz on 5 vowel sounds. Pages 1-11 in text reviewing presentations, greetings and farewills. Demonstrated how the composition books will be used daily. Those students that did not have them today MUST have them by the end of the week at the latest. They will have to rewrite all their information over the week-end in the composition book. Reviewed class commands- quiz tomorrow. Paired conversations-greetings, introductions, farewells.
Jan. 8: repaso oral of all of the above. Composition writing 3. maps. Students are to finish maps at home: country names, capitals, rivers, main bodies of water and mountains in Spanish. Why 2 capitals in Bolivia? Study all notes.
January 9: OHT. Review game. Graded maps. Packets to work with material in etapa preliminar. Put overheads up and discussed certain geographical important issues.
January 11: OHT in composition books. Review game. Listening skills in packets. Correct the activities together aloud. Continued working on packets, which must be finished by Monday.
january 14 Monday: OHT. Review bingo game class commands. Corrected remainder of packet. Quiz tomorrow on commands. Test on Wednesday on etapa preliminar of text.
January 15: OHT. Review orally all commands. Quiz on commands. Review Bingo game. Pages 18,19 acts. 1-4 on paper. Activity 7 on separate paper as a letter. We will exchange these with Sra. Lotter's classes on the main campus. Test tomorrow on all material learned to date.
January 16: OHT in composition books. These will be collected soon. Review by going over the 4 review activities aloud, collected them. Collected act. 7 to send to Mrs. Lotter's classes as Pen Pal letters. Took test, gave 4 main questions orally. Note taking from pages 22-25. Look at 26,27 and answer the questions on paper.
January 17: Give back tests for reviewing. Tests do not go home with students. Failures may come in Tuesday morning to re-take their test. Begin Unidad I etapa I Go over 26, 27 aloud. Readings aloud on pages 28-31. Comprendiste questions aloud, discussing how to answer in complete sentences.
January 18: substitute. Students will take cultural notes from a handout, then copy questions based on the readings from 28-31. They will write answers in complete sentences in Spanish.
January 22; Tuesday: OHT in composition books. These will be collected on Friday. Review game on board. Passed out questions from Friday. Went over first 3 reviewing how to answer in complete sentences, and how to use the question to give you most of the answer. Students were given the block to proof and fix their work. if they did not finish, they need to finish tonight at home. Students filled in the first chart of their verb charts using page 35. Students were given time to take complete notes from all the pages of U1.1, and should finish at home. Students are to make their flashcards on their own time. Students were given definitions of :infinitive, conjugate and radical. They MUST know these definitions completely!!!
January 23: OHT. Corrected all questions and discussed how to form sentences and see the answers within the questions. Discussed formal vs. familiar and explained historical rationale behind it. Did activities 1-5 on pages 32 and 33.
January 24: OHT. Video segments with book. Emphasized listening skills and watching to see cultural differences/similarities between Miami and here. Did worksheets connected with video. Corrected them together aloud. First and Second blocks had a vocabulary quiz. First and Second blocks did acts. 6,7,8,9,11 on pages 34-36 aloud. third block students did them on paper and need to finish them at home tonight for homework. I will be collecting OHT's tomorrow.
january 25: OHT. Collected, graded and returned OHT's. 3rd block took their vocabulary quiz. All classes watched a video on Spain and took notes. They were then grouped into 3's and created questions. On Monday we will create a worksheet from all their questions. For Tuesday, all students need to have 10 pictures showing actions they like to do, such as running. These may be from magazines, computer, or they may draw if they feel so inclined.
January 28: OHT. Review game. Questions from video on board, and discussed proper phrasing, appropriate choices, and some history. 10 pictures of actions due tomorrow. If they have construction paper or poster board, it would be great if they could bring some in, but it is not assigned.
January 29: OHT. Review game. 10 pictures glued onto paper to make a poster or book, with sentence me gust 7 an infinitive indicating the action shown in the picture. Students are to finish acts. 9, 13, 14 pages 35-37 for homework.
January 30: OHT. reviewed ser by correcting the homework. Collected it also. Quiz on ser. reviewed gustar. 6 people presented their books in each class. Students are to study tonight-all of unidad 1 etapa 1. Test on 1.1 will be on Monday.
January 31: OHT. reviewed gustar and infinitives by students presenting their booklets to class, act. 18 aloud and oral questions. Took quiz on same. Reading out loud as a class- discussed pre-reading strategies, discussed how to answer the comprendiste questions, which are simple yes/no type of answers and how to handle the Que piensas questions, which involve thinking skills, analyzing, comparing/contrasting. Handout/packet 1.1, did the listening skills activities and began the writing activities. Studenst are to study carefully tonight. We will finish and correct the packet tomorrow in class. Test is on Monday.
Feb. 1: OHT. quiz on ser. reviewed class and school rules, dress code. Worked on correcting review packet. Students should finish as a study aid for the test.
Feb. 4: No OHT today. Test 1.1; vocabulary 1.2; began a rough draft writing back to pen pals.
Feb. 5: OHT. review game. page 48/49 looked at pictures and discussed essential questions for lesson. Tape with pages 50/51, discussed meaning, did the pregunatas personals. Learned how to conjugate -ar verbs and rule of agreement. tape with 52/53 discussed meaning and did the activities on 54 aloud to show comprehension. Copied 10 questions from the overhead. Must answer the first 5 in complete sentences in Spanish tonight. 1o pictures of 10 different articles of clothing due on Friday, poster board if they have it.
Feb. 6: OHT. repaso oral using laminated pictures- Asked questions that at first provide answers, then asked open-ended questions. Students answered, describing the pictures in complete sentences in Spanish. Used first 5 questions as game questions on the board. Students finished copying the remaining questions, and worked on answering. Homework tonight is to finish answering these questions.
Feb. 7: OHT. went over test information. Re-test if failed tomorrow at 7:45. Exchanged questions based on reading and played game with answers on board. Reviewed sentence structure,question structure, subject/ verb agreement and agreement in number and gender.
Feb. 8: OHT. Collected OHT's, graded and returned them. Students created posters using their 10 pictures, definite articles, nouns, adjectives and applied the very important rules of agreement and placement. They have a word search to finish over the weekend with which to practice their clothing vocabulary. The test will be next Thursday on 1.2
Feb. 11: OHT. Wrote pen pal letter #2. copied notes from ventanas to help recognize cognates, adverbs, etc. Read pages 64/65 about el conjunto tejano. Do acts. 4 and 5 on page 55. If they did not finish in class, they are to finish at home. I corrected each of their letters and discussed with them individually.
Feb. 13. OHT. corrected 21/22 of packet pertaining to articles. Quiz on articles. Listening skills packet with video. Test tomorrow. Anyone absent should come in Friday morning early to take the test.
Feb. 14: No OHT. Students reviewed cultural pages 64/65 for 5 minutes before their test. Test. Wrote vocabulary words for 1.3; grouped up and practiced aloud. Construction paper for tomorrow. Family pictures are due on the Monday we return to school. Pictures of family members including siblings, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. Don't forget pets! If students do not have photos, or you prefer them not to bring them in, they may cut pictures out of magazines for a "fake" family.
Feb. 15: OHT. Culture: dating-NO- go out in groups. Pundonor- point of honor. Vocabulary for Valentine's Day. Made cards. Word search. Don't forget family pictures!!!!!
Feb. 25: OHT. Culture family, godparents, birthdays, houses. Pages 70-76 Read aloud and translated the readings. Asked oral questions and received class responses. Reviewed vocabulary, verb conjugations. Did acts. 1,2 aloud. Students are doing,and must complete at home tonight, acts. 3,4,5 on paper.
Feb. 26: Project: Please create a family tree, using your family fotos. You may also use magazine pictures.Underneath each person, write several complete sentences including: name, relationship, age, and a brief physical description.
( at least 3 sentences describing per person) Use your book to check for sentences that model this information. Remember that a family tree starts at the bottom with you and works up to the oldest members of the family. Your father's family members branch off from the left and your mother's family members branch off from the right. Please write your paragraphs neatly and glue under the pictures of each family member.
Feb, 28: OHT on tener. collected projects. Played rest of video Sweet 15. Gave additional time to respond to the questions fully. Began to go over the questions. Collected them. Will finish discussions tomorrow. Students must study all of 1.3 tonight.
February 29: OHT. Notes on numbers, tener, noun &de& noun and possessive adjectives. Packet to practice must be finished over the week end. Next week we will go over the packet and have more worksheets to practice these ideas. We will have quizzes daily. The mid-term exams are March 12 and 13. First and third blocks are on Wednesday, second and fourth are on Thursday. Students should already be preparing for these exams by creating a guide for themselves. They should have a piece of paper with 3 columns labeled: learned well, kind of learned, did not learn at all. They should list all their concepts in one of these three columns. They should then spend the majority of their study time on the things in the list that they did not learn. A brief review on the things they know well will suffice-5 minutes a night. No student should ever wait until the night before the exam to study!
March 3: OHT. review. quiz. correct packet and collect.
March 5: OHT review corected and collected handout on possessives. Copied work on tener from transparency.
March 6: OHT review bingo games family vocabulary and vocabulary from 1.1
March 7: sorry-could not access internet. OHT tener overhead. first block had a class choice assembly, so the other classes played loteria to learn vocabulary.
March 10: no OHT today. Handout on numbers, then another handout that I timed for 20 minutes. Then we formed teams and put the answers on the board for extra credit points.
March 17: First day of last 9 weeks! Hard to believe. We went over the 9 weeks exam together.
Began Unit 2 lesson 1- pages 100-105. Read aloud, discussed essential objectives. Reviewed personal a and definite articles by learning the contraction "al". Reviewed how to conjugate -ar verbs, learning that if you know one regular verb, you know them all. Video to go with the book. Students must know the subject pronouns, verb endings and new vocabulary by tomorrow. (There are only about 5 new words.)
March 18: reviewed dress code policy. OHT. Paired students-pages 106-110 acts 1-10 aloud, practicing vocabulary and verb conjugations. Second block students need to finish the assignments on paper tonight as homework. All students need to study all the vocabulary.
March 19: OHT. Reviewed yesterday's work aloud. @ multiple choice vocabulary quizzes. Students have a handout in which they are writing a verb in each box, then drawing an illustration of the meaning of that verb. They are not to use any English. They must finish this tonight. Verb quiz tomorrow.
March 20: OHT. Reviewed articles and prepositions "a" and "de". Discussed 2 contractions "al" and "del". They copied notes, then wrote out several activities wotking with this information. If they did not finish in class, they must finish at home tonight. We did not take the -ar verb quiz. Students must continue to review all information at home. Tomorrow I will look at their drawings, and the activites.
March 21: Grammar break! OHT. Power Point, handout, lecture, bulletin board on Semana Santa. Students must tune in to Spanish channel this weekend, looking for footage on Easter processions on the news. Poster board and comfy clothes for Monday.
March 24: OHT: In pairs, created posters using verbs and adverbs of what an ideal student would do and how ofte, and what an ideal student would not do, and how often. Second block was only 10 minutes long, so they only did the OHT. ALL students, but especially second block students, need to study lesson 2.1 very effectively.
March 25: OHT. All students worked on -ar verb handout. Must finish tonight if they did not complete in class today.
March 26: handout to go with text. Practicing subject/verb agreement; use of adverbs. Chapter test will be next Monday for first and third. I will evaluate second block due to GHSGT.
March 27: Changing test to Tuesday. Video on Semana Santa with a worksheet. Collected -ar verb handouts. Gave back packets from yesterday for students to finish at home tonight.
March 28: 116/117 entire class worked in Spanish circulating and asking questions for a survey. They are to record their results at home tonight. Second block: we are playing catch-up and discussing -ar verbs.
March 31: 115,118,119, 120 acts. 9,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,20
April 1: Test 2.1 begin new vocabulary 2.2 and read 124-127
April 14: Welcome back. OHT. Packet mas practica. Listening skills CD Rom acts 1-6. Played 4 times. Corrected aloud. Reading 138/139 and questions. Rest of packet is divided into homework assignments for the rest of the week. We will grade each section the following day, and the packet will be collected on Friday. Tentative test date for 2.2 is this Friday the 18th.
April 15: OHT. corrected homework aloud. Taught time with soft clock. 132,133 acts. 9,11 aloud in pairs. copied notes on time from handout.Quiz vocabulary. Read cookbooks to choose recipes in 2nd and 3rd blocks. First block discussed cultural similarities and differences of foods between cultures, based on the reading 138,139.
April 16: OHt corrected homework aloud. Quiz 2 on vocabulary. Reviewed time with soft clock and handouts. 2nd and third block lookd for recipes for 15 minutes.
April 17: OHT. Corrected homework. Remember the packet will be turned in tomorrow. Quiz on ir and time. Corrected and discussed. Finished time handout. Test tomorrow.
April 18: Corrected and collected homework packet. Open book test 2.2 Began vocabulary 2.3
April 21: 144-149 Essential questions. Readings with video. Vocabulary bingo for 20 minutes. Review of tener. Handed out new homework packet for the week. This one is due on Monday of next week.
April 22: OHT corrected homework. Some students finished up searching or copying recipes for the fiesta while others studied. Played bingo with vocabulary for 2.3. First quiz tomorrow.
April 23: OHT. These will be collected on Friday. Corrected homework. Multiple choice quiz. Students copied notes from overheads- I synthesized the etapa for them to instruct again on how to approach reducing notes to the most effective, yet simple, words.
April 24: OHT. Corrected homework. Quiz vocabulary. Discussed test. Re-take for failures are tomorrow morning at 7:40. Copied comprehension questions for readings.
April 25: OHT. Collected composition books. Corrected homework. Students are to finish the packet over the weekend. Copied conjugations of -go verbs onto verb charts. Next Friday is the fiesta.
April 28: substitute teacher today. She did not ask them to do what I had left.
April 29: second and third blocks seen today only. Worked on -er and -ir handouts, as well as the -go verbs. Tomorrow we will go over last week's homework packet as well as all of this information. Fiesta is Friday. All foods are to be labeled with name and block. Students may not use glass containers if they are riding the bus. Food must be in a microwaveable container if it is to be reheated. Students must bring in a labeled utensil as well. They are to check in with me first thing in the morning.
April 30: Finished up all packets. Collected homework packet. Tomorrow we will correct other packets and take a quiz on verbs. Friday is the fiesta, so no written homework tomorrow night.
May 1: corrected packets. No quiz. Fiesta tomorrow. All students cook and bring food.
may 2: Fiesta. All did a wonderful job!
May 5: substitute: left handouts practicing =zco verbs and -er,-ir verbs.
May 6: taught about stem changing verbs. taught students how to express emotions using estar and adjectives of emotion. Taught how to express what they just did using acabar de plus infinitive. All built upon prior knowledge. Reviewed gustar. Students paired up to create mini-dialogues: used phones to leave a message for a friend not at home, to invite someone somewhere and have that gracefully refused, to invite someone somewhere and have it accepted and set a day and time.
May 7: Review idea of stem changing verbs. Teach about direct object pronouns. Play loteria for vocabulary of 3.1 Students will be able to do the work left for the next 2 days if they have been paying attention and taking notes.
May 8 and 9: substitute. Students will be working on handouts involving stem changing verbs and direct object pronouns. They should use their notes from May 6 and 7.
May 12: Students performed their dialogues in front of the class. Quiz on the vocabulary involved. Began correcting the work left on Thursday. Final exams are next week!!! Students must study from their text and their notes and handouts.
May 13: worked on stem change packets, made corrections. Took a quiz, continued working on packets. Sent out exam material list.
May 14: Reviewed stem changes. Took a quiz. Continued working on stem changing verb packet. Played a little bingo on stem changing verbs. Instructed on the present progressive.
May 15: played bingo and charades for the present progressive. Played bingo for the stem changing verbs.
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