Chores!
It has been a lot of divertido learning how we help out around our homes. Today, we finished reviewing our chores and will soon be moving onto review games! Please ask your student how to say…
walk the dog
take out the trash
wash the clothes
vacuum
Perhaps even ask them what chores they know how to say in Spanish! You should have also received several workpages in the past few weeks, if not, ask your student 🙂
What is a syllable? How do we spell Spanish words? This week is all about reading with our Spanish brains and practicing our vocabulary and figuring out how many syllables each word has! The students so love practicing and figuring it out for themselves!
La Sílaba es cada fonema o conjunto de fonemas que pronunciamos en una sola emisión o golpe de voz, cuando decimos una palabra.
Spanish alphabet was reviewed as were Spanish letter sounds. After all we want to sound as native as possible 🙂
Video Log in Español! (Logs will be sent home in Friday folders. Upon completion of a log, students will bring me the completed and I give them an empty log.)
It’s not a reading log, it’s a video log! Los estudiantes are moving fast y furioso through our Spanish units. However, I want to encourage students to bring the language and culture into their homes. The whole month of March is going to kick off with friendly class competition. March 1st-March 31st. Each grade level is going to be challenged to listen to as much Spanish content as possible. All grade levels are participating from grades K-5th. Whichever grade level has the highest percentage of view time per student, wins a classroom party with a pelicula y popsicles!
Each time your student watches Spanish content, they need to record it in the log and have it signed by an adult. The content that is viewed can ONLY be in Spanish! NO ENGLISH. The videos are allowed to have English subtitles, however the audio MUST be in Spanish.
What can my student watch? Try their favorite tv shows! Disney Latino, Nickelodeon Latino, Animal Planet Latino or Discovery Latino are all available online. Also, be sure to check out your local libraries! Often times, movies you already have in your homes can have the audio switched to Spanish.
Some students have asked if music counts toward content. Absolutely, however only one listen per song will count toward total time. No repeat songs or videos will qualify. Try playing some Spanish radio in your car on the commute to school!
Reading comprehension in Spanish! SO fun! We started off by listening to the story and trying to figure out what it was about. Afterwards the students read to one another. Then we came together to answer questions about the reading. It was an absolute blast! Decoding with our Spanish brains vs. English was a blast. Ask you student about the different letter sounds in both languages!
We are also listening to real world Spanish videos so that we can continue to further acclimate ourselves to different accents. Of course, this is on top of our routine vocabulary.
Be on the lookout for pages that have been sent home 🙂
Here are several online games to practice for the assessment tomorrow 🙂
https://conjuguemos.com/verb/battleship/133
https://www.quia.com/ba/394754.html
https://conjuguemos.com/verb/133#
Tarea this week: pages 34-35, 39-40.
Today is the study session for our assessment on Friday. I will be meeting students in the lobby at 3:25 and then we will walk over to my classroom together. Please pick up your student at 4:15 from my classroom (next to our PreK classes).
They will be bringing home additional study materials as well. I look forward to reviewing together!
Just a friendly reminder that I want to encourage you all to bring Spanish language and culture into your home! Perhaps have a family ¨date night¨ when you try a Latino restaurant and go home to watch a Spanish movie? Maybe you watch the movie CoCo or Ferdinand and talk about the cultural similarities and differences? Maybe try watching a few Spanish televised programs? Check out Telemundo for real world shows! I only have your students for 45 minutos, 2x/week! I wish I could see them everyday 🙁 If we do not bring language home, how can we expect fluency or fluid conversation and understanding?
Here are some things you should do to bring Spanish into your home:
-Find a tandem partner to have free, regular conversation practice in an informal setting. As a bonus, they’ll probably come away with a new friend!
-Change the language of all electronic devices and social media sites to Spanish.
-Make the most of free resources like newspapers and library publications, which are perfect for reading and translation practice.
-Watch Discovery Kids Latino, Disney Latino chances are any show your student likes has a Spanish version! I am attaching several links below for your reference.
https://www.discoverykidsplay.com/
http://disneylatino.com/
https://www.latam.discovery.com/animal-planet
2nd has been working so hard on their language acquisition that we began to work ahead of schedule! We could not be more thrilled!
We moved onto reading and comprehension today in class as we read descriptions about people that we had to then translate and draw. It was a blast to be able to see the connections that were made during this exercise!
Ask your student what a cognate is, I am sure they would love to share with you!
Today is just a brief update, but I felt the need to brag about the hard work they have been putting in 🙂 Lots of work being sent home in Friday folders, be on the lookout!
Tarea for this week: pages 30-32. Due first class of next week.
