lunes, el treinta y uno de enero del dos mil once

Announcement: I will be gone tomorrow (Tuesday) and Wednesday.

Today’s Agenda:

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

2. Add two verbs to our yellow, weekend page:

saber (“found out”)
supe…………supimos
supiste…………………..
supo…………supieron

conducir (“drove”)
conduje…….condujimos
condujiste…………………...
condujo…….condujeron

3. Discuss the weekend, answering the following questions:

--¿A quiénes viste durante el fin de semana? ¿Dónde los viste?
--¿Supiste algo durante el fin de semana?
--¿Condujiste a alguna parte?

4. Practice our new ch. 5 gestures.

Homework: Study your vocabulary on Quizlet.

jueves, el veintisiete de enero del dos mil once

Today's Agenda:

1. Continue practicing our verbs, with new forms in the imperfect.

2. Listen to our song of the week: "One, Two, Three, Go!"

3. Finish defining our ch. 5 vocabulary.

4. Establish gestures for some of our new ch. 5 vocabulary.

5. Tackle 5-1 & 5-2.

6. (6th period only): Receive the written section of the final exam.

Homework: Read Monday's story to an adult for Friday.

miércoles, el veintiséis de enero del dos mil once

Today's Agenda:

1. Practice our verbs, with new forms in the preterite.

2. Practice spelling unknown words in Spanish, using our knowledge of Spanish phonetics.

3. receive our new song of the week: "One, Two, Three, Go!"

4. Recieve the graded final exams. Great work!

5. Begin to define our new ch. 5 vocabulary.

Homework: Read Monday's story to an adult for Friday.

martes, el veinticinco de enero del dos mil once

Today’s Agenda:

1. Practice spelling unknown words in Spanish.

2. Listen to our new song of the week: “One, Two, Three, Go!” Nice job catching the first three missing words: lo que, cierras, te quiero.

3. Finish reading yesterday’s story as a class.

4. Illustrate six scenes from the story:
--Había un estudiante que se llamaba Paul. Paul quería estar de moda como Steve Carrell.
--Así que un día Paul fue a Macy’s para buscar la ropa.
--Macy’s tenía suéteres, pero no tenía suéteres de tamaño mediano.
--Paul se puso muy enojado.
--Paul decidió ir a Starbuck’s. Paul vio a Steve Carrell en Starbuck’s.
--A Steve Carrell le gustaba la ropa de Paul. Paul se sintió muy feliz.

5. Practice telling the story above to a partner.

6. Receive the ch. 5 pink packet & briefly discuss our new verb tense: the imperfect. We began to fill out definitions, as well.

Homework: None.

lunes, el veinticuatro de enero del dos mil once

Today’s Agenda:

1. Change seats.

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

3. Discuss the weekend, answering the following questions:

--¿Qué hiciste para divertirte?
--¿Qué ibas a hacer que no pudiste hacer?
--¿Cómo estuvieron los exámenes finales?

4. In our new table groups, tackle the story “La moda de Steve Carell,” guessing the meanings of the underlined vocabulary.

5. As a class, begin to read through the story.

Homework: None.

lunes, el diez de enero del dos mil once

Today’s Agenda:

1. Tackle four of our irregular preterite verbs: dar, haber, ponerse & traer. Remember that your upcoming grammar quiz on Thursday will largely focus on irregular preterite verbs.

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

3. Discuss the weekend, answering some of our fundamental weekend questions.

4. With a partner, tackle a mock version of the upcoming speaking assessment. Three minutes flies by! Make sure you’re practicing at home, so you answer all twelve questions well on the day of your speaking assessment.

5. Practice recalling our countries & capitals on maps 1 & 2, in anticipation of Tuesday’s culture quiz.

Homework: Keep preparing for your upcoming assessments!

lunes, el tres de enero del dos mil once

Today’s Agenda:

1. Read, in Spanish, for ten minutes during SSR. Students also looked up at least one of their word guesses in our student dictionaries.

2. Receive our last grammar quizzes. Remember, while you only needed to be able to recognize the irregular preterite verbs on the last grammar quiz, you will need to be able to produce them for the next grammar quiz.

3. Discuss the weekend, answering the following questions:

--¿Estuviste de vacaciones en otro sitio (otro lugar)?
--¿Te aburriste durante las vacaciones?
--¿Qué hiciste para divertirte?
--¿A quiénes les dijiste “Feliz Año Nuevo” el primero de enero a las doce de la mañana?
--¿Te visitaron los parientes (relatives)? ¿Te trajeron regalos? ¿O los visitaste tú? ¿Les trajiste regalos?

4. Teacher check-in for mandatory extra practice during the break for all students scoring less than 80% on either the grammar or vocabulary sections of our second cumulative test.

Homework: Keep studying your ch. 4 vocabulary and irregular preterite verbs!