viernes, el dieciocho de diciembre del dos mil nueve

Español Uno (1):

Announcement: Classes are shortened to 47 minutes due to an afternoon assembly.

Today’s Agenda:

1. Receive yesterday’s vocabulary quizzes. Great preparation!!! Keep reviewing those food/tableware flashcards over break to come in prepared for our January 6th follow-up quiz.

2. Discuss vacation plans, answering our fundamental question: ¿Qué vas a hacer durante las vacaciones?

3. Listen to and sing our last holiday song: “Himno a la hermandad” (Auld Lang Syne).

4. Check for completion of the homework (4-7, 4-8, 4-9). We’ll review these pages when we return from break.

5. Enjoy 15 minutes of “The Polar Express” in Spanish.

Homework: Study those food/tableware flashcards for our January 6th quiz. Enjoy your break!

Español Dos (2):

Announcement: Classes are shortened to 47 minutes due to an afternoon assembly.

Today’s Agenda:

1. Talk about upcoming vacation plans, answering the following question: ¿Qué piensas hacer durante las vacaciones?

2. Listen to and sing our final holiday song, “El himno a la hermandad.”

3. Review 4-6 & 4-7 in the workbook.

4. View the first 15 minutes of the movie “The Polar Express” in Spanish.

Homework: Enjoy your break! Keep studying your blue & pink packets!!!

jueves, el veintisiete de diciembre del dos mil nueve

Español Uno (1):

Today’s Agenda:

1. Take our first (of two) food/tableware vocabulary quizzes. Remember, the second quiz is scheduled after break on January 6th. Keep studying those flashcards over break.

2. Receive yesterday's listening quiz. Nice work!

3. Sing two of our holiday songs: “Ocho Kandelikas” & “Frosty el muñeco de nieve.”

4. Review yesterday’s food crossword.

5a. Begin the homework.

5b. Make up any missed listening quizzes.

5c. Grade checks for missing/incomplete work.

Homework: 4-7, 4-8, 4-9 in the workbook (evens translated).

Español Dos (2):

Today’s Agenda:

1. Receive yesterday’s listening quiz and dictation.

2. Receive a new song to help us learn the irregular preterite verbs.

3. Review Tuesday’s worksheet on irregular preterite verbs and chapter 1/2 vocabulary.

4. Sing one of our holiday songs, “Frosty el muñeco de nieve.”

5a. Begin the homework.
5b. Make up any missed listening quizzes or dictations.
5c. Grade checks for missing/incomplete work.

Homework: 4-6 & 4-7 (evens translated)

miércoles, el dieciséis de diciembre del dos mil nueve

Español Uno (1):

Today’s Agenda:

1. Take a quick listening quiz.

2. Listen to and sing a new holiday song, “Frosty, el muñeco de nieve.” Nice job catching the missing words: siempre, quiero, sola & nunca.

3. Self-correct yesterday’s food crossword.

4a. Begin a second food crossword.

4b. Make up missed dictations (if needed).

Homework: Finish the crossword for tomorrow. Keep studying for tomorrow’s food/tableware quiz!!!

Español Dos (2):

Today’s Agenda:

1. Tackle a listening quiz.

2. Listen to and sing a new holiday song, “Frosty el muñeco de nieve.” Nice job catching the missing words: viene, bufanda, conocí, quiero.

3. Complete a dictation.

--Los libros no cupieron dentro de mi mochila.
--¿Qué trajiste contigo?
--Ayer supimos que Profe Nick está embarazada.
--Quisimos terminarlo pero no pudimos.
--Hubo una gran fiesta en mi casa anoche.

4. Working in table groups, decipher the meanings of the sentences above.

--The books didn’t fit inside my backpack.
--What did you bring with you?
--Yesterday we found out that Profe Nick is pregnant.
--We tried to finish it but we couldn’t manage.
--There was a big party at my house last night.

Homework: None.

martes, el quince de diciembre del dos mil nueve

Español Uno (1):

Announcement: Profe Nick is expecting a baby in June!

Today’s Agenda:

1. Practice our food vocabulary. Self-assess with the food/tableware images on the wall, as well as a practice quiz:

¿Cómo se dice…?
--the bowl
--the green beans
--the milk
--the butter
--the meat
--the knife
--the orange juice
--the ham
--the water
--the waitress

2. Receive and sing a new holiday song, “Va a nevar.” Nice job catching the missing words: tardes, conmigo, sal, hay.

3. Practice our gestures.

4. Review 4-5 & 4-6 in the workbook.

5. In table groups, work on a food crossword.

Homework: Finish the crossword for tomorrow. Keep studying for Thursday's food/tableware quiz.

Español Dos (2):

Announcement: Profe Nick is expecting a baby in June!

Today’s Agenda:

1. Tackle 4-5 in the workbook, practicing ser in the preterite (“was”…but it’s over).

2. Listen to and sing a new holiday song: “Va a nevar.” Nice job catching the missing words: ya, llegar, ya, este, cada, mirando.

3. Practice our gestures.

4. Practice our irregular, preterite verbs, as well as chapter 1 & 2 vocabulary.

Homework: If you didn’t finish the first page (front & back) of the preterite verbs/vocab. practice, please do so for tomorrow.

lunes, el catorce de diciembre del dos mil nueve

Español Uno (1):

Announcement: Classes shortened to 48 minutes due to afternoon assembly.

Today’s Agenda:

1. Read, in Spanish, for nine minutes during SSR.

2. Discuss the weekend, answering the following fundamental questions:

--¿Qué hiciste durante el fin de semana?
--¿Te divertiste o no?
--¿Qué tuviste que hacer?

3. Practice our food/tableware vocabulary. How well can you recall the following: la cuchara, el plato, el vaso, el tazón, el tenedor, la servilleta, la cuenta, la taza, la camarera, el camarero, el cuchillo, el azúcar, las papas?

4. Practice our gestures.

5. Begin the homework.

Homework: 4-5 & 4-6 in the workbook (even’s translated).

Español Dos (2):

Announcement: Classes shortened to 48 minutes due to afternoon assembly.

Today’s Agenda:

1. Read, in Spanish, for ten minutes during SSR.

2. Discuss the weekend, answering the following fundamental questions:

--¿Te divertiste o no? ¿Por qué? ¿Qué hiciste?
--¿Qué tuviste que hacer?
--¿Qué ibas a hacer que no pudiste hacer?
--¿Cuándo supiste que (íbamos a tener clases hoy)?.........When did you find out that (we were going to have classes today)?

3. Practice our gestures.

4. Review 4-3 & 4-4 in the workbook.

Homework: Study your blue packet & pink packet.

viernes, el once de diciembre del dos mil nueve

Español Uno (1):

Today’s Agenda:

1. Discuss upcoming weekend plans, answering our fundamental question: ¿Qué vas a hacer este fin de semana?

2. Sing our two songs this week: “Ocho Kandelikas” & “Lágrimas.”

3. Practice our gestures.

4. Review yesterday’s homework: 4-3 & 4-4.

5. Play a round of bingo with our food/tableware vocabulary.

Homework: Study your food vocabulary!!! Come in prepared to write the Spanish for ALL 65 of our food/tableware items for next Thursday's quiz.

Español Dos (2):

Today’s Agenda:

1. Discuss upcoming weekend plans.

2. Sing our songs of the week, “Ocho Kandelikas” & “La historia de Juan.”

3. Practice our gestures.

4. Correct yesterday’s practice quiz.

5. Begin the homework.

Homework: 4-3 & 4-4 (even’s translated)

jueves, el diez de diciembre del dos mil nueve

Español Uno (1):

Today’s Agenda:

1. (1st hour only): Use the answer key to circle any errors on the grammar pre-test.

2. Sing our song “Ocho Kandelikas.”

3. Listen to our song of the week, “Lágrimas.” Nice job catching the remaining words: nada, nada, viven, creo.

4. Practice our gestures, and establish new gestures for:

--debe (s/he must)
--debiera (s/he should)

5. Complete a dictation.

(1st hour only): Review 4-1 & 4-2 in the workbook.

6. Begin the homework.

Homework: 4-3 & 4-4 in the workbook.

Español Dos (2):

Today’s Agenda:

1. Sing our song “Ocho Kandelikas.”

2. Listen to our song of the week, “La historia de Juan.”

3. Practice our gestures.

4. Take a chapter 0-4 practice grammar quiz. This group, practice quiz has almost all the grammar you will need to know for our January final. (We will have one more thing to learn in chapter 5, too).

Homework: Finish anything on the practice quiz that you did not finish in class. Do NOT use any resources to help you, as tomorrow we’ll be correcting the quizzes. Please use tomorrow’s answer key to help you study for our first semester final.

miércoles, el nueve de diciembre del dos mil nueve

Español Uno (1):

Today’s Agenda:

1. (1st hour only): Hear a summary from our class senator regarding yesterday’s senate meeting.

2. Sing our Hannukah song, “Ocho Kandelikas.”

3. Listen to our song of the week, “Lágrimas.” Nice job catching the next two missing words: nunca, viste.

4. In table groups, take a practice grammar quiz over grammar concepts from chapters 0-4. You will be expected to be able to produce all of this individually for our semester one final.

5. (2nd hour only): Use the yellow answer key to circle errors on the practice grammar quiz.

Homework: (1st hour): Finish taking the practice grammar quiz. (2nd hour): Finish correcting the practice grammar quiz.



















Español Dos (2):

Today’s Agenda:

1. Practice pronouncing unknown words, using our knowledge of Spanish phonetics:
--cátedra
--estafeta
--gravímetro
--pistolero
--romancero

2. Sing our Hannukah song, “Ocho Kandelikas.”

3. Listen to our song of the week, “La historia de Juan.” Nice job catching the next three missing phrases: le dio, escuchó, volar.

4. Practice our gestures, establishing new gestures for: se pone el casco, hace un rompecabezas, se aburre mucho, ¡No lo puedo soportar!, lo pasé bien, no lo pasé bien, le pide prestado___.

5. Review 4-1 & 4-2 in the workbook.

Homework: None.

martes, el ocho de diciembre del dos mil nueve

Español Uno (1):

Today’s Agenda:

1. Practice using the correct definite article (“the”) with our food words. How well can you remember whether the following words are masculine or feminine?: pan, cereal, café, té, leche, chocolate, sándwich, arroz, postre, carne, maíz.

Remember: For next Thursday’s vocabulary quiz, you need to be able to write our food/tableware words correctly with their corresponding definite article (“the”).

Remember: El agua doesn’t follow the normal rules. It’s irregular.

2. Discuss food preferences, answering the following question:

--¿Cuál prefieres tomar? (tomar = beber/comer)……Which do you prefer to eat/drink?
------Prefiero tomar ….. ……………….............……………. I prefer to eat/drink ….
------No prefiero tomar ninguna. …………….......……… I don’t prefer to eat/drink either.

Quick self-assessment of the following food words from today’s discussion: la sal, la pimienta, el té helado, los refrescos, el aguacate, el queso, las papas al horno, las cebollas, el jamón, el bistec, los guisantes, las judías verdes, los tomates, los pimientos.

3. Listen to our first song of the week: “Ocho Kandelikas.”

This Hannukah song has some important cultural information up top.

4. Listen to our second song of the week: “Lágrimas.” Nice job catching the first two missing words: canción, fuiste.

5. Practice our spelling in Spanish. You’ll remember that we don’t use K in Spanish (unless it is a word borrowed from another language.)

Nice job guessing how we would spell the following "K" sounds in Spanish:
KA ---> CA
KE ---> QUE
KI ---> QUI
KO ---> CO
KU ---> CU

Nice work spelling the following words.

--ma-ri-qui-ta
--pan-que-ques
--ca-sti-llo
--co-co-dri-lo
--cú-pi-do

6. (2nd period only): Review 4-1 & 4-2 in the workbook.

Homework: Study your food flashcards for next Thursday’s vocabulary quiz.

Español Dos (2):

Today’s Agenda:

1. Review our basic questions: ¿Cómo estabas (ayer)? / ¿Cómo eras (de pequeño/a)? Atop each page, we wrote out the following verb forms:

ESTAR (“was/were”…feeling/location)
estaba………………..estábamos
estabas……………………………….
estaba……………….estaban

SER (“was/were”….physical description, personality description, identity)
era………………………éramos
eras…………………………………
era……………………….eran

2. Build upon our knowledge of “was/were” from activity #1. The forms above are what are technically called the “imperfect tense.” (We’ll learn the rest of the imperfect tense in chapter five, though know that you’ve already learned some other forms, too.)

Chapter four introduces us to the preterite forms of the verbs above. These were copied onto our blue, preterite packet.

ESTAR (“was/were”…feeling/location…BUT IT’S OVER)
estuve……………………estuvimos
estuviste……………………………….
estuvo…………………..estuvieron

Marta estuvo enferma. ………………………(Marta was sick.—but it’s OVER, she’s no longer sick.)
Estuvimos enojados. …………………………..(We were angry.—but it’s OVER, and we’re at peace now.)

SER (“was/were”….physical description, personality description, identity…BUT IT’S OVER)
fui………………………….fuimos
fuiste………………………………..
fue………………………..fueron

Fui astronauta. …………………………………..(I was an astronaut. – but it’s OVER, and I’ve changed careers.)
Jacobo fue miembro del coro. ……………(Jacob was a member of the choir.—but it’s OVER, and he no longer is.)

HABER (“there was / there were”…..BUT IT’S OVER, AS WITH AN EVENT)
X………………………………X
X………………………………..
hubo………………………hubo

Hubo una liquidación en Macy’s. ……….(There was a sale at Macy’s.—but it’s OVER.)
Hubo una fiesta en la casa de Laura. …..(There was a party at Laura’s house.—but it’s OVER.)

3. Listen to our first song of the week: “Ocho Kandelikas.” This Hannukah song has some important cultural information up top.

Listen to our second song of the week: “La historia de Juan.” Nice job catching the first three missing words: Ésta, nadie, fue.

4. Practice our spelling in Spanish. You’ll remember that we don’t use K in Spanish (unless it is a word borrowed from another language.)

Nice job guessing how we would spell the following "K" sounds in Spanish:
KA ---> CA
KE ---> QUE
KI ---> QUI
KO ---> CO
KU ---> CU

Nice work spelling the following words.
--ma-ri-qui-ta
--pan-que-ques
--ca-sti-llo
--co-co-dri-lo
--cú-pi-do

5. Practice our gestures, establishing new gestures for: le presta ____, la fiesta de disfraces, lo atrapa, pega el disco de hockey, el campeón, se quita los patines, se pone el casco.

6. Begin the homework.

Homework: 4-1 & 4-2 in the workbook.

lunes, el siete de diciembre del dos mil nueve

Español Uno (1):

Today’s Agenda:

1. Read, in Spanish, for nine minutes during SSR.

2. Discuss what we did over the weekend, answering the following questions (last question is new):

--¿Qué hiciste durante el fin de semana?
--¿Te divertiste o no?

NEW QUESTION WRITTEN IN THE SECOND BOX ON THE BACK SIDE OF THE YELLOW PAGE:
--¿Qué tuviste que hacer?.....(What did you have to do?)
------Tuve que ____r….. ….(I had to….)
------No tuve que hacer nada. ….(I didn’t have to do “nothing.”)

3. Discuss what we ate for dinner last night: ¿Qué comiste en la cena anoche?

Quick self-assessment of ALL our previous clip-art foods from previous discussions, as well as the new ones from today: la carne, el pescado, el pollo, el maíz, la lechuga, la zanahoria, el agua, el helado.

4. Practice our gestures.

5. Begin the homework.

Homework: Workbook 4-1 & 4-2 (even’s translated).


Español Dos (2):

Today's Agenda:

1. Read, in Spanish, for ten minutes during SSR.

2. Discuss the weekend, answering the following fundamental questions (as well as a new question):

--¿Qué hiciste durante el fin de semana?
--¿Te divertiste o no?
--¿Qué tuviste que hacer?

New Question Added to the Back of the Yellow Page:

--¿Qué ibas a hacer que no pudiste hacer? .....(What were you going to do that you couldn't manage to do?)
------Iba a ____r, pero no pude hacerlo. ....(I was going t0 , but I couldn't manage to do it.)
------Pude hacer todo que iba a hacer. ....(I managed to do everything I was going to do.)

The irregular forms of poder and tener in the preterite were filled out on our blue, preterite packet:

PODER ("managed to") in the preterite
pude...................pudimos
pudiste..........................
pudo...................pudieron

TENER ("got," "obtained" / had [but it's over]) in the preterite
tuve...................tuvimos
tuviste...........................
tuvo...................tuvieron

3. Review 3-6 & 3-7 in the workbook.

4. Receive the chapter 4 pink packet and begin to define the new vocabulary.

Homework: Study your blue preterite packet.

viernes, el cuatro de diciembre del dos mil nueve

Español Uno (1):

Today’s Agenda:

1. Discuss our weekend plans, answering our fundamental question: ¿Qué vas a hacer este fin de semana?

Discuss what we’re going to eat at lunch, answering the question: ¿Qué vas a comer en el almuerzo?

Quick self-assessment of our ability to produce the following lunch discussion words: el sándwich, la sopa, el arroz, las verduras, el postre, la hamburguesa, las papas fritas, la ensalada.

2. Sing our song of the week: “Y aquí estoy.”

3. Practice our chapter four gestures, establishing a gesture for: más o menos.

4. Practice writing a story individually, using a new set of pictures.

Homework: Keep studying your food/tableware flashcards for our first vocabulary quiz on Thursday, December 17th.

Español Dos (2):

Today's Agenda:

1. Finish our second speaking assessments.

2a. Finish yesterday’s “Project Runway” activity.

2b. Begin the homework.

Homework: Workbook 3-6 & 3-7 (even’s translated).

jueves, el tres de noviembre del dos mil nueve

Español Uno (1):

Today’s Agenda:

1. Warm-up: jot down all the food vocabulary you already have memorized. Are you at 10-15+ yet? We have only nine classes left until we take our first food/tableware quiz. Aim to be learning 7+ a day until then! (You need to be able to write the Spanish, including the corresponding word for "the.")

2. Discuss this morning’s breakfast:
--¿Comiste algo (something) esta mañana? ¿Qué comiste?
--¿Bebiste algo (something) esta mañana? ¿Qué bebiste?

Quick post-assessment on whether students can recognize the meanings of the following breakfast words from our discussion: el pan tostado, el cereal, los huevos, las frutas, los plátanos, las uvas, las naranjas, las manzanas, el café, la limonada, el jugo de naranja, el té, la leche, el chocolate caliente.

3. Listen to our song of the week: “Y aquí estoy.”

4. Establish some new chapter four gestures:
--tiene hambre
--tiene sed
--A mí me encanta
--prefiere
--Creo que sí.
--Creo que no.
--¡Qué rico!
--¡Qué asco!
--¡Algo huele fatal!

5. Practice writing a story together as a class.

This is a skill you will be demonstrating for me on future tests. We will continue to practice this essential skill, both in written and oral form.

Goal: Tell an original story of 100+ words utilizing the pictures given. Students must only use the Spanish they already know. An important skill to use is circumlocution. Circumlocution means “working your way around a word” to express its meaning. For example, if you don’t know how to say “gloves,” you can say “ropa de manos.”

Step One: Look at the pictures. Can you make sense of what a story line might be? There is not one right plot that I am looking for. There are many interpretations that would work, so just go with your ideas.

Step Two: Begin your story. Start with some description to “set the scene.” Consider naming your characters. Talk about where the story is taking place. What’s the weather? What’s the day? What’s the date? What’s the time? …any of this description is an easy place to start.

Step Three: Advance the plot to picture two. Your character(s) will have to take some action. Feel free to throw in more description.

Step Four: Advance the plot to picture three. Your character(s) will have to take some more action. Feel free to throw in more description.

Step Five: Advance the plot to picture four. Wrap up your story.

Step Six: Lightly cross out all proper nouns. Count the remaining words. How close to 100+ words did you come?

Keep in mind: If you use your time well, it is not important whether you finish the story.

Español Dos (2):

Today’s Agenda:

1a. Begin our second speaking exams (1 minute original story in the past using the pictures given).

1b. Working independently, tackle the first two parts of the “Project Runway” activity.

Part One: Using the given vocabulary & colored pencils, design the left hand side of the picture template, creating a “Project Runway” outfit that incorporates at least twelve of the words listed.
Part Two: In Spanish, write a 100+ word description of the outfit you have designed. Your description should be so precise, that a classmate reading the description alone would be able to correctly color in the right hand side of the picture template, resulting in a fairly good match.

(We will have the partner illustrating tomorrow.)

Homework: If you didn’t have your second speaking evaluation today, keep preparing at home.

miércoles, el dos de diciembre del dos mil nueve

Español Uno (1):

Today’s Agenda:

1a. Finish our second speaking assessments.

1b. Continue with our chapter 4/12 food vocabulary. While speaking exams were being conducted, students:

--finished defining the new vocabulary on the new chapter 4/12 pink packet

--finished making flashcards for the chapter

**Reminder: You are expected to memorize our new food/tableware vocabulary (all 65!), using your flashcards for 5-10 minutes EVERY NIGHT.

**Reminder: We have two scheduled vocabulary quizzes for this vocabulary: Thursday, December 17th & Wednesday, January 6th

Homework: Finish the flashcards if not completed in class. Begin to study your new food/tableware vocabulary.

Español Dos (2):

Today’s Agenda:

1. Receive yesterday’s vocabulary quizzes.

2. Listen to our song of the week: “Y aquí estoy.”

3. Self-assess on high-frequency vocabulary in the past.

4. Illustrate a four-frame picture series for practicing our speaking.

5. Trade illustrations and practice speaking with peers.

Homework: Our second speaking assessments are Thursday & Friday. Come prepared tomorrow to tell an original story in the past, using our high-frequency vocabulary.

martes, el primero de diciembre del dos mil nueve

Español Uno (1):

Today’s Agenda:

1. Listen to our new song of the week: “Y aquí estoy.” Nice job catching the first three missing words: quiero, porque, hay.

2a. Begin our second speaking exams (30 basic questions).

2b. Begin with our chapter 4/12 food vocabulary. While speaking exams were being conducted, students:

--defined the new vocabulary on the new chapter 4/12 pink packet
--began to make flashcards for the chapter

**Unfortunately, we will not be able to use our gestures to help us acquire the 65 food/tableware vocabulary items in this chapter.

**You are expected to memorize them, using your flashcards for 5-10 minutes EVERY NIGHT.

**We have two scheduled vocabulary quizzes for this vocabulary:
--Thursday, December 17th
--Wednesday, January 6th

Homework: Begin to study your new food/tableware vocabulary.

Español Dos (2):

Today’s Agenda:

1. Finish our reading vocabulary list definitions.

2. Listen to our new song of the week, “Y aquí estoy.” Nice job catching the first five missing phrases: te, lo que, este, pensar, sin.

3. Take a pop vocabulary quiz over previous, pink packet vocabulary.

4. Illustrate six scenes from yesterday’s story: “La moda de Steve Carell.”

5. Practice retelling yesterday’s story to a partner.

Homework: Keep preparing for Thursday & Friday’s speaking assessment.