tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86789913108977062102011-10-11T12:10:42.819-07:00A Resource for All of Profe Nick's Spanish Students in WashingtonSeñora Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05104047901845702820noreply@blogger.comBlogger4051100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8678991310897706210.post-64973678160276511032011-04-13T14:37:00.000-07:002011-04-13T14:40:54.919-07:00

[Sorry...the formatting is still not working!] Today's Agenda: 1. Receive yesterday's typed stories, and make further corrections, if needed. The final versions are due Friday. 2. Review our knowledge of positive tú commands, and practice writing some with our current vocabulary. 3. Receive our new song of the week: "El viernes te olvido yo." Nice job catching the first four missing words:

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[Sorry...the formatting is still not working!] Announcement: Classes shortened to do HSPE testing in the morning. Today's Agenda: 1. Make corrections to the stories written for the last writing exam. 2. Type up the corrected stories in the computer lab. Homework: None.

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[the formatting is not working...sorry!!!] Today’s Agenda: 1. Read, in Spanish, for ten minutes during SSR. 2. Discuss the weekend, asking and answering the following questions: --¿Adónde fuiste durante las vacaciones? --¿Con quiénes pasaste tiempo? --¿Te divertiste? 3. Review last year’s possessive adjectives (the “short” form): mi(s)…………………nuestro/a(s) tu(s)……………………………………. su(s)………………….su(s) **

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Today's Agenda:1. (4th period only): Reconfiguration of the classroom desks.2. Students picked new seats.3. Sign-ups for assessment make-ups.4. (5th & 6th periods only): SSR5. Review of 6-8, 6-9 in the workbook.6. (4th & 6th periods only): Preterite/Imperfect practice with another Clark Kent story.Homework: None.

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Today’s Agenda:1. Students tackled the vocabulary and reading sections of our cumulative exam. Speaking assessments were completed for about half the class. Homework: None.

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Today’s Agenda:1. Students tackled the written and grammar sections of our cumulative exam. Speaking assessments were completed for about half the class.Homework: Study for tomorrow’s vocabulary and reading assessments. The speaking assessments will continue. If you will be gone tomorrow for the band field trip, you can tackle the test after school or during class on Wednesday.

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Announcement: Classes met for just 10 minutes each, due to an altered schedule for testing. (As a reminder, we did not have Spanish class on Tuesday, due to an altered schedule for testing.)Reminder: We will be having our next cumulative exam starting next Monday (21st).Today's Agenda:1. Quickly discuss the Stanford/HSPE exams. 2. Review 6-7 in the workbook, practicing pedir in the

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Announcement: Next Monday (21st) & Tuesday (22nd), we will have our next cumulative exam. The speaking assessment will be both days (possibly into Wednesday, if needed). The other days you will tackle two each of the following: reading, writing (story in the past), vocabulary (cumulative, but main focus on last two chapters), grammar (cumulative, but main focus on last two chapters). There

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Today’s Agenda:1. Today we typed up the final exam essays to practice using Spanish shortcut keys. We also experimented a bit with what our new language lab has to offer.Homework: Read “Cúpido” to an adult for Thursday.

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¡Feliz Día de San Valentín!Today’s Agenda:1. Read, as a class, the story of “Cúpido.”2. Create some Valentine’s Day cards in Spanish.Homework: Prepare yourself for Tuesday’s vocabulary quiz and grammar quiz. Also, for Thursday, read the story of “Cúpido” to an adult and get a signature.

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Announcement #1: I am so sorry I wasn’t in class yesterday, as I know it was a tough day for some of you dealing with Lucas’ passing.Announcement #2: The doctors have given little Bradley a clean bill of health!Today’s Agenda:1. Practice spelling unknown words in Spanish, using our knowledge of Spanish phonetics. Begin to decipher accent rules based upon a pattern in the words we spelled.Today

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Announcement: Substitute todayToday's Agenda:1. Dice game (irregular preterite & preterite sandal verbs).Homework: If you didn't finish the dice game (or yesterday's workbook pages, have them ready for me for Thursday).

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Announcement: Substitute todayToday's Agenda:1. Warm-up practicing our verbs in the present, preterite & imperfect.2. Workbook pages 5-3, 5-4, 5-5 & 5-6.Homework: Make sure the above is completed the above for accuarcy.

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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…………supimossupiste…………………..supo…………supieronconducir (“drove”)conduje…….condujimoscondujiste…………………...condujo…….condujeron3. Discuss the weekend, answering the following questions:--¿A quiénes viste durante

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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,

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Today’s Agenda:1. Continue reviewing two of our weakest grammar topics on our last quiz: demonstrative adjectives & pronouns (this/these/that/those/that (far away)/those (far away), as well as sentences using helping verbs with a reflexive verb…She should wash her hands.)2. (5th period only): Receive your written section of the cumulative test, and make corrections.3. Practice our ch. 4

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Today’s Agenda:1. Illustrate our plans for the upcoming plans & discuss in Spanish.2. Sing our song of the week: “Inolvidable.”3. Practice our ch. 4 gestures and our new “cucaracha” song for the irregular preterite verbs.4. In table groups, tackle p. 2 of our preterite verb & review vocabulary packet.Homework: PP.1-2 of the packet should be finished. Study on Quizlet.

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Today’s Agenda:1. Review the homework: 4-3, 4-4.2. Listen to our song of the week: “Inolvidable.” Nice job catching the next three missing phrases: encontrar, se fue, me digo.3. Finish filling in our irregular preterite verbs on our blue preterite verb packet. We filled in the forms of querer, venir, estar, tener, saber, caber, traer & conducir.We discussed how some of these verbs change

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Today’s Agenda:1. Practice pronouncing unknown words using our knowledge of Spanish phonetics.2. Translate some sentences that use helping verbs:--He had to leave.--I was going to go bowling.--We couldn’t manage to go.--We didn’t have fun because it was raining.--There was a storm.3. Receive our new song of the week: “Inolvidable.” Nice job catching the first three missing words: todavía,

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Today's Agenda:1. Receive the graded speaking & reading assessments from our 2nd cumulative test (Tue./Wed./Thur.).2. Discuss upcoming weekend plans.3. Quickly discuss the ch. 4 objectives on the new ch. 4 pink packet. We have eight remaining irregular preterite verbs to learn this chapter! By the end of the chapter, you are officially accountable for all 17! We will be learning a little

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Our 2nd cumulative test originally scheduled for Monday & Tuesday (29th & 30th) will be moved back one day due to last week's snow days. Be prepared to start taking the test on Tuesday!

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Announcement: Remember, you need to be much more independently responsible for learning this chapter’s vocabulary. We will not have as many days to spend on it as we do with most other chapters.Announcement: Your upcoming cumulative exam (Monday, Nov. 29th & Tuesday, Nov. 30th) will have seven separate grades:--1) culture – maps one & two--2) reading – comprehension ?’s for a story--3) listening

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Announcement: Remember, you need to be much more independently responsible for learning this chapter’s vocabulary. We will not have as many days to spend on it as we do with most other chapters.Announcement: Your upcoming cumulative exam (Monday, Nov. 29th & Tuesday, Nov. 30th) will have seven separate grades:--1) culture – maps one & two--2) reading – comprehension ?’s for a story--3) listening

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Announcement: Remember, you need to be much more independently responsible for learning this chapter’s vocabulary. We will not have as many days to spend on it as we do with most other chapters.Announcement: Your upcoming cumulative exam (Monday, Nov. 29th & Tuesday, Nov. 30th) will have seven separate grades: --1) culture – maps one & two--2) reading – comprehension ?’s for a story--3)

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Today’s Agenda:1. Quickly see if we can recall the countries & capitals from map #1. Remember that on our next cumulative exam (Monday, November 29th & Tuesday, November 30th), you will be accountable for maps 1 & 2.2. Fill in more on our new blue verb packet. Today we filled in the sections for “-CAR, -GAR, -ZAR” verbs, as well as the definitions of our 17 irregular verbs.3. Receive our new

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Today’s Agenda:1. Read, in Spanish, for ten minutes during SSR.2. Discuss the weekend, answering the following questions:3. Receive the blue, preterite packet and fill in the sections for regular verbs, reflexive verbs & “sandal” verbs.4. Begin the homework.Homework: 3-1, 3-2 (+evens translated)

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Today’s Agenda:1. Take a Ch. 2 dictation & decipher the meanings of the sentences with partners.--Había un niño que nunca podía encontrar nada.--Un día, hubo un terremoto y él tuvo que salir de casa.--Así que anduvo a la estación de policía y chilló “¡Socorro!”2. Practice retelling the story of “Ralph” with a new partner, one last time.3. Practice writing the story of “Ralph,” being sure to

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Today’s Agenda:1. Draw six scenes from the story of Ralph:--Había un estudiante que se llamaba Ralph, y un día él se despertó tarde.--Cuando Ralph vio el reloj, se puso muy nervioso. Ya eran las siete y cuarto de la mañana y él iba a llegar tarde a las clases.--Ralph tenía miedo porque no le gustaba llegar tarde. A Ralph le encantaban sus clases.--Ralph era muy desordenado. Nunca podía

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Today’s Agenda:1. Discuss the new online flashcards available on http://quizlet.com under the group Profe Nick's Spanish 2 Students ('10-'11).2. Finish reading the story “El cuento de Ralph.”3. Define our cognates & old vocabulary on the new, chapter 3 pink packet.Homework: Visit http://quizlet.com to see if you can access the flashcards.

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Today’s Agenda:1. Read, in Spanish, for ten minutes during SSR.2. Talk about the weekend, answering the following questions:--¿Hubo una tormenta? ¿Hubo un terremoto?--¿Te divertiste?--¿Qué tuviste que hacer?3. Begin to read “El cuento de Ralph.”Homework: None.

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Announcement: Our next cumulative test has been moved to Monday, Nov. 29th & Tuesday, Nov. 30th.Today’s Agenda:1. Quickly review some of your questions regarding yesterday’s practice quiz.2. Listen to and sing our song of the week: “Y te vas.”3. Practice our gestures.4. Tackle our ch. 2 cumulative grammar quiz.5. Begin to read “El cuento de Ralph, el desordenado.”Homework: None, officially.

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Today’s Agenda:1. Receive yesterday’s vocabulary quiz. Great job preparing yourselves!2. Listen to our song of the week: “Y te vas.” Nice job catching the last three missing phrases: te quiero, a veces, lejos.3. Finish the Ch. 2 dice game, practicing regular, reflexive & stem-changing verbs in the preterite.4. Begin our practice grammar quiz.Homework: Prepare yourself for tomorrow’s grammar quiz.

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Today’s Agenda:Remember: Wednesday, we will have our next vocabulary quiz primarily focusing on ch. 2. Friday, we will have our next cumulative grammar quiz. For the grammar quiz, be especially prepared to use reflexive verbs in the present, preterite, and combined with helping verbs. Also, be especially prepared to conjugate stem-changing verbs in the present & preterite.1. Review yesterday’s

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Today’s Agenda:Remember: Wednesday, we will have our next vocabulary quiz primarily focusing on ch. 2. Friday, we will have our next cumulative grammar quiz. For the grammar quiz, be especially prepared to use reflexive verbs in the present, preterite, and combined with helping verbs. Also, be especially prepared to conjugate stem-changing verbs in the present & preterite.1. Read, in Spanish

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Today’s Agenda:Remember: Wednesday, we will have our next vocabulary quiz primarily focusing on ch. 2. Friday, we will have our next cumulative grammar quiz. For the grammar quiz, be especially prepared to use reflexive verbs in the present, preterite, and combined with helping verbs. Also, be especially prepared to conjugate stem-changing verbs in the present & preterite.1. Finish reviewing

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Today’s Agenda:1. Listen to our song of the week: “La Danza de los Esqueletos.” Nice job catching the last three words: razón, hombre, noche.2. Review what we know about stem-changing verbs in the preterite and work in table groups to quickly define the list of stem-changing verbs of page 2 in the pink packet.3. Practice our gestures and have some student-led class conversations using your peer

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Today’s Agenda:1. Chant our children’s song “Los esqueletos” and view a quick video of a group of preschoolers modeling how it is performed in Latin America.2. Listen to our song of the week. Nice job catching the next three missing words: ahora, instrumentos, museos.3. Practice our gestures.4. Tackle 2-7 (practice w/stem-changing reflexive verbs in the present) & 2-8 (practice w/stem-changing

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Today’s Agenda:1. Discuss how stem-changing verbs work in the preterite. Stem-changing verbs in the present tense are also called “boot verbs.” Stem-changing verbs in the preterite work differently! They are not boot verbs! In fact, -AR & -ER stem-changing verbs don’t have any spelling change in the preterite. They’re totally regular verbs. –IR stem-changing verbs, however, do have a

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Announcements: We have a scheduled vocabulary quiz for Wednesday, November 3rd and a grammar quiz for Friday, November 5th. All quizzes are cumulative, but these will largely focus on chapter 2.Today’s Agenda:1. Read, in Spanish, for ten minutes during SSR.2. Discuss the weekend, answering the following fundamental questions:3. Discuss how we use our new reflexive verbs with helping verbs. There

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Today’s Agenda:1. Review what we discussed yesterday about reflexive verbs. Fill out a couple reflexive verbs on our blue, present tense verb packet: ponerse, caerse.2. Review yesterday’s homework: 2-1, 2-2.3. Listen to and sing our song of the week: “Adiós.”4. Practice our gestures, and learn a few more Ch. 2 gestures.5. Discuss the speaking/writing rubrics that will be used all year long

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Announcement: Sorry I forgot to post after Thursday’s staff meeting!!!Today’s Agenda:1. Discuss reflexive verbs. Reflexive verbs are a type of verb that we will be learning about in chapter two. They often communicate “self.” You’ve already seen at least one common reflexive verb in Spanish 1:me llamo……………………nos llamamoste llamas…………………………………………se llama……………………..se llamanWhen we conjugate a

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Today’s Agenda:1. Receive last week’s cumulative Ch.0-1 exams.2. Listen to our new song of the week: “Adiós.”3. Practice coming up with quick plots for classmates’ picture sequences.4. Define some important vocabulary at the bottom of the illustrations (the homework). These words will be crucial for telling a story in the past. When we have our first real speaking & writing assessments, you

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Today’s Agenda:1. Read, in Spanish, for ten minutes during SSR.2. Write about and discuss the weekend. Student’s paragraphs included one form of each of the following: “went,” “was (emotion),” “did/made,” “managed to,” “saw,” & “was going to.”3. Write some more in our blue, present tense verb packet. Today we filled out the forms of: dar, saber, conocer & conducir.4. Use each others’

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Today’s Agenda:1. Practice pronouncing unknown words in Spanish, using our knowledge of Spanish phonetics. Quick discussion about the hard/soft G & C sounds. A “hard G” sound includes: GA, GO, GU. A “soft G” sound includes: GE, GI. A “hard C” sound includes: CA, CO, CU. A “soft C” sound includes: CE, CI.2. Discuss upcoming weekend plans.3. Practice retelling yesterday’s story to a new

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Today’s Agenda:Announcement: You will receive Tuesday’s first cumulative test on Monday.1. Change seats & introduce ourselves in Spanish to our new seatmates.2. Receive our graded, Ch. 1 questions. 3. Write more in our blue, present tense packet: decir, salir, venir, hacer, poner, traer, ver.4. Tackle two of our “Essential Spanish 2 questions”:--¿Cómo estabas ayer?--De pequeño/a, ¿cómo eras?

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Today’s Agenda:1. Read, in Spanish, for ten minutes during SSR.2. Discuss the weekend, answering three fundamental questions:--¿A quiénes viste?--¿Dónde los viste?--¿Conociste a alguien nuevo?3. Review Ch. 1 questions 21-25 and hand in the completed list of questions & answers.4. Self-assess how well we know the map vocabulary and the ch. 0/1 vocabulary, in anticipation of tomorrow’s test.5.

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Today’s Agenda:1. Receive yesterday’s dictation & listening quiz. Great work!2. Discuss next week’s upcoming cumulative exam, originally scheduled for Tuesday & Wednesday (12th & 13th). There are important changes:Due to next Wednesday (13th) being designated the official PSAT day, we will not be able to take a test in class that day. Additionally, as I have been giving you extra practice with

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Today’s Agenda:1. Take our Ch. 1 dictation.2. Listen to our song of the week: “Tardes negras.” Nice job catching the remaining missing words: pienso, brazos, si, si.3. Practice our Ch. 0/1 gestures.4. Practice singing and writing our “irregular yo song,” in preparation for tomorrow’s grammar quiz.5. Review the homework: W/B 1-7 (practice with superlatives).6. Take our first listening

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Today’s Agenda:1. Receive yesterday’s practice listening assessments. Great job!2. Practice spelling three unknown words, in anticipation of tomorrow’s real listening assessment.3. Review the homework: W/B 1-6 (practice with comparatives).4. Practice writing some superlatives. 5. Listen to our song of the week: “Tardes negras.” Nice job catching the next three missing words: hay, porque,

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Today’s Agenda:1. Review the homework: Ch. 1 questions 1-5.2. Brainstorm physical & personality adjectives from Spanish 1. Use these words to write some “comparative” phrases comparing seatmates with famous people.3. Listen to the new song of the week: “Tardes negras.” Nice job catching the first three missing words: nosotros, dicen, teléfono.4. Practice our “irregular yo song” in

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Today’s Agenda:1. Read, in Spanish, for ten minutes during SSR.2. Discuss the weekend, answering two of our fundamental questions:--¿Dónde estabas?--¿Qué ibas a hacer que no pudiste hacer?3. Practice spelling unknown words in Spanish, using our knowledge of Spanish phonetics.4. Review the homework: W/B 1-5, 1-9.5. Begin the homework.Homework: Ch. 1 questions 1-5.

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Today’s Agenda:1. Practice spelling unknown words. This is a skill you will demonstrate on our listening quizzes. Next week we will have a practice listening quiz, followed later in the week by an actual listening quiz.2. Review the homework: 1-3, 1-43. Receive the reading quizzes. Great job! Quick deciphering of the meanings of new words found in paragraphs 1 & 2. We will use this quiz next

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Today’s Agenda:1. Review yesterday’s homework: W/B 1-1, 1-2 (evens additionally translated).2. Listen to our song of the week: “No entiendo.” Nice job catching the remaining words: algún, este, ya no.3. Take our first reading comprehension quiz. Great job!!!4. Practice our gestures and our “irregular yo song.”5. Begin the homework.Homework: W/B 1-3, 1-4 (evens additionally translated).

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Today’s Agenda:Announcements: Spanish Lab (after school help with other Spanish teachers) will be available on THURSDAYS from 2:30-3:30, not Fridays as I mistakenly communicated yesterday.1. Listen to our song of the week: “No entiendo.” Nice job catching the next two missing words: hice, pude.2. Practice our Ch. 1 gestures, and learn the second part of the “irregular yo song.”3. Review

Señora Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05104047901845702820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8678991310897706210.post-20033547599123662252010-09-28T13:58:00.000-07:002010-09-28T14:17:46.180-07:00

Today’s Agenda:1. Practice pronouncing unknown words in Spanish. Great job! If you could correctly pronounce these words, your brain subconsciously understands accent rules in Spanish. We'll learn the explicit accent rules this year, but keep trusting your gut instinct for now!--bombasí--consecuente--derrame--enunciar--semifinal2. Listen to our new song of the week: “No entiendo.” Nice job

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Today’s Agenda:1. Read, in Spanish, for ten minutes during SSR. (Ch. 1 flashcard check during SSR)2. Discuss the weekend, answering two fundamental questions:--¿Qué ibas a hacer?--¿Pudiste hacerlo?3. Practice our Ch. 1 gestures. We will start with our “irregular yo song” tomorrow!4. Review Friday’s reading quiz.Homework: For Wednesday, read the story in Friday’s reading quiz to an adult in

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Today’s Agenda:1. Receive our “graded” (feedback only) practice reading quizzes from a couple days ago.2. Write some more verbs in our blue, present tense packet: haber, pensar, escoger.3. Discuss upcoming weekend plans, using your lovely illustrations.4. Listen to and sing our song of the week: “Te extraño.”5. Take our first “Word Guesses” reading quiz.6. Define our last six gestures for

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Today’s Agenda:Announcements: By looking at Skyward, you can see that we have some upcoming quizzes and assignments already posted. There is an upcoming grammar quiz, listening quiz, and two different reading quizzes. There is also a Ch. 1 dictation, Ch. 1 writing questions and Ch. 1 flashcards that will all be going into the gradebook in the next couple weeks. 1. Receive our blue, present

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Today’s Agenda:1. Tackle our “para empezar” reviewing Sp. 1 stem-changing verbs (“boot verbs”).2. Review yesterday’s practice reading. Great job guessing the meanings of the five words in context.3. Listen to our song of the week. Good job catching the next three missing words: saber, ya no, eso.4. Establish seven new gestures for Ch. 1. Homework: Ch. 1 flashcards are due next Monday.

Señora Nickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05104047901845702820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8678991310897706210.post-15019287429384499172010-09-21T14:07:00.000-07:002010-09-21T14:08:59.407-07:00

Today’s Agenda:1. Tackle our “para empezar” warm-up reviewing Sp. 1 classroom vocabulary.2. Listen to our new song of the week: “Te extraño.” Nice job catching the first three missing words: busco, lejos de, mira.3. Define the non-gesture words in our new pink packet vocabulary, as well as the first eight gesture words.4. Practice our eight new Ch. 1 gestures.5. In small groups, tackle the

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Today’s Agenda:1. Receive Friday’s vocabulary quiz. Nice job!2. Review the homework: Ch.0 questions 25-30.3. Turn in the homework: Ch.0 questions 1-30.4. Read, in Spanish, for nine minutes during SSR.5. Talk about the weekend, defining three new questions:--¿Por cuántas horas hiciste la tarea?--¿Qué hora era cuando terminaste la tarea?--¿Pudiste terminar la tarea?We additionally wrote in the

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Today’s Agenda:1. Receive yesterday’s dictations.2. Review the homework: Ch. 0 questions 19-24. Remember, I will be collecting all 30 questions on Monday. They need to be HANDWRITTEN in your OWN WORDS. 3. Sing our song of the week. 4. Practice our Ch. 0 gestures.5. Take our Ch. 0 vocabulary quiz.6. Tackle a reading in table groups, putting sentence strips in order to form the story from

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Today’s Agenda:1. (5th period only): Take a practice dication.2. Review the homework: Ch. 0 questions 12-18.3. Listen to our song of the week: “Niña.” Nice job catching the last three missing words: sólo, mirar, ojos.4. Practice our Ch. 0 gestures.5. Take our first graded dictation.6. Tackle some practice vocabulary quizzes in preparation for tomorrow’s Ch. 0 vocabulary quiz.7. Begin the

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Today’s Agenda:1. Tackle our “para empezar” reviewing important reading vocabulary.2. Review the homework (Ch. 0 questions #7-12).3. Practice our Ch. 0 gestures.4. Listen to our song of the week. Nice job catching the next four missing words: hasta, encontrar, siempre, quiero.5. (4th & 6th periods only): Take a practice dictation. (5th period will take the practice dictation on Thursday.)

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Today's Agenda:1. Tackle our “para empezar” warm-up practicing our Ch. 0 vocabulary.2. Review the homework (Ch. 0 writing questions 1-6).3. Discuss the weekend, using our new “¿Qué hiciste durante el fin de semana?” page. Today we reviewed the question “¿Adónde fuiste?” and forms of ir in the preterite (fui, fuiste, fue, fuimos, fueron), as well as defined a new question “¿Dónde estabas?” and

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Today’s Agenda:1. Receive Friday’s grammar quizzes (nice job!). Discuss protocols for handling graded work. 2. Discuss protocols for SSR. Read in Spanish for seven minutes during our SSR time.3. Practice our Ch. 0 gestures.4. Finish defining the remaining pink packet vocabulary. You are responsible on your own time for transferring the definitions to any of your flashcards that are still

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Today’s Agenda:1. Working with a partner, review/practice answering the next five of our Spanish 1 Essential Questions.2. Listen to our song of the week: “No más de ti.” Nice job catching the last three missing words: hoy, maletas, tú.3. Self-correct yesterday’s practice quiz using the provided answer key.4. Options:a. Work in a small group with Profe Nick to fill in any knowledge gaps apparent

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Today’s Agenda:1. Go to the library to pick up our hardcover Paso a paso texts. All IHS books need to be covered; using a brown paper bag as a book cover is fine. You may keep your texts at home or in your locker, and only bring them to class when requested. If you were absent today, you’ll need to get a text on your own time between classes or before/after school.2. Take a practice verb quiz.

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Announcement: We didn't have time to start making the flashcards in class today. Come prepared tomorrow with all the needed materials.Today's Agenda:1. Review some important reading vocabulary (la gente, el lugar, las cosas), as well as some Sp. 1 vocabulary.2. Discuss what we did over the weekend, in Spanish. Take a quick listening quiz on what others shared. If you were absent today, this

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Reminder: There will be a grammar quiz on our ch. 0 verbs on Friday, Sept. 10th. There will be a vocabulary quiz on our ch. 0 vocabulary on Friday, Sept. 17th.Today's Agenda:1. Discuss upcoming weekend plans in Spanish, answering our fundamental question "What are you going to do this weekend?"2. Review some of our important reading vocabulary (siempre, nunca, casi, a veces) by answering some

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Announcements:There are two upcoming quizzes on our review chapter material. On Friday (10th) we will have a quiz on our review chapter verbs. Be able to correctly write out the verbs. On Friday (17th) we will have a quiz on the review chapter vocabulary.Today's Agenda:1. Review page two of the syllabus (grading/tests/quizzes) and page four of the syllabus. Be sure to get page four signed

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Today's Agenda:1. Review yesterday's homework (questions about the class blog).Most significantly, remember that:--no late credit is given for daily assignments--the lowest "passing" grade is 63% (62% is an F)--quarter/semester grades do round up!--I won't be able to stay for after school help sessions this year2. Talk about page one of the syllabus (what kinds of activities to expect in class,

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Welcome to the 2010-2011 school year! I am really excited to be your Spanish 2 teacher. I'm so happy to see some familiar faces, and I'm looking forward to getting to know all my new students.It has been a busy summer for me. My first child, Bradley, was born on Father's Day (June 20th), so I have a little baby at home. The previous blog entry has some pictures of him from late June. I'll be sure

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Bradley Elliott Nick arrived on Father's Day (06.20.10) at 5:57am. He weighed 8lbs 5.5 oz. and measured 20" long. He is a happy, healthy baby and his dad & I are thrilled to finally meet him!

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Español Uno (1) y Dos (2):Announcement 1: I am going to so miss teaching all of you! You have been a wonderful group of students. I promise to email pictures when the baby arrives. Please know that the best going away gift you can give me is to do good work for Profe Gaynor.Announcement 2: Find your Paso a paso text and have it ready for class with Profe Gaynor. Keep in mind that you will need to

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Español Uno (1) y Español Dos (2):Today’s Agenda:1. Practice yesterday’s new gestures.2. Play “Vamos a la playa” to learn some of our non-gesturing vocabulary for our final chapter.Homework: Study your new pink packets!

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Español Uno (1):Announcement: All classes shortened to 25 minutes due to the Shakespeare assembly & HIV/AIDS training.Today’s Agenda:1. Learn some final chapter gestures, adding to our “Rock, paper, scissors” gestures for “cerca de” (close to) and “lejos de” (far from):--a la derecha de……………………………….to the right of--a la izquierda de………………………………to the left of--después de…………………………………….after--antes

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Español Uno (1):Announcement: Due to this morning’s elections, all classes shortened to 50 minutes.Announcement: Due to Monday’s upcoming Shakespeare presentation & HIV/AIDS presentation, all classes will be shortened to 25 minutes.Today’s Agenda:1a. Finish wrapping up our speaking assessments.1b. Receive yesterday’s vocabulary assessments.1c. Check for ch. 9 crossword completion.2a. Meanwhile,

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Español Uno (1):Today’s Agenda:1a. Continue with our speaking assessments.1b. During the speaking assessments, tackle a vocabulary assessment.1c. During the speaking assessments, tackle a practice worksheet for our verbs in the present & preterite. You should have finished page 1. You will have time in class to finish page 2 as I finish the speaking assessments.Homework: Tomorrow after all

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Español Uno (1):Announcement: You have a substitute today.Today’s Agenda:1. In table groups, tackle a dice game for reflexive verbs.Homework: Prepare for tomorrow’s vocabulary assessment. If you haven’t yet tackled the speaking assessment, keep preparing for that as well.Español Dos (2):Announcement: You have a substitute today.Today’s Agenda:1. Finish translations #6-29 from Monday’s

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Español Uno (1) & Dos (2):Today’s Agenda:1. Begin our final speaking assessments, telling a spontaneous story in the past based upon the pictures given.2. Tackle two ch. 9 crosswords in table groups.Homework: Finish the crosswords for tomorrow.

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Español Uno (1):Thank you: Thank you 1st hour for such a wonderful surprise this morning. I LOVED the card and the wonderful baby gifts. You really made my day. :)Today’s Agenda:1. Quick announcement about my upcoming absence this Wed. for a doctor’s appt. While we will start with speaking assessments tomorrow, they will not happen Wed. during my absence. We’ll continue with them on Thur. &

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Español Uno (1):Announcement: You have a substitute today.Today’s Agenda:1. Discuss upcoming weekend plans.2. Guess the ch. 9 vocabulary words being defined.3. Sing our song of the week: “Suerte.”4. Tackle some verbs, using your blue preterite & present tense packets.5. Read the story “El padre inteligente” and get an adult signature for Monday. Homework: Read “El padre inteligente” to an

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Español Uno (1):Announcement: I will not be here tomorrow due to an emergency medical appointment. There runs the chance that I would need to also be gone on Monday. KEEP practicing for your speaking assessments! They will start when I return on Tuesday.Today’s Agenda:1. Practice expressing “how long” we’ve been doing something, with the question: “¿Cuánto tiempo hace que….?2. Listen to our

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Español Uno (1):Today’s Agenda:1. Practice writing our numbers. We’ve learned these ahead of ch. 10, so it’s less for us to learn at the end of the year.--1.457………………..mil cuatrocientos cincuenta y siete--15.668………………quince mil seiscientos sesenta y ocho--93.714………………noventa y tres mil setecientos catorce--120.843…………….ciento veinte mil ochocientos cuarenta y tres--100……………………cien--12.259.340……….

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Español Uno (1):Today’s Agenda:1. Tackle 9-5 in the workbook.**Quick reminder that the present tense lets us convey a lot more in Spanish than in English. You noticed on 9-5 that “duermen,” for instance, conveyed “they are sleeping” in this context instead of “they sleep.” Good job using the context to come up with the correct meaning.2. Listen to our new song of the week: “Suerte.” Nice job

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Español Uno (1):Today’s Agenda:1. Read, in Spanish, for ten minutes during SSR.2. Change table groups.3. Discuss the weekend, answering three of our fundamental questions:--¿Qué hiciste para divertirte?--¿Cómo viniste a PCFC esta mañana? ¿Anduviste? ¿Condujiste?--¿Qué te pusiste esta mañana?4. Practice our gestures.5. (1st hour): Tackle a quick grammar quiz on the irregular yo forms in the

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Español Uno (1):Today’s Agenda:1. Discuss upcoming weekend plans in table groups.2. Sing our song of the week: “Amores lejanos.”3. Practice our gestures.4. Review yesterday’s homework: 9-3 & 9-4.5. Practice using circumlocution to define our ch. 9 vocabulary.6. (2nd period only, due to very long announcements in 1st hour): Quick grammar quiz.7. Play a few rounds of “Simon Says.”Homework: Consider

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Español Uno (1):Today’s Agenda:1. Practicing pronouncing unknown words in Spanish. Great job! Your accuracy showed a very internalized understanding of Spanish accent rules.--calderilla--guarnición--haba--náutico--puntualidad--vestigio--floreciente--embaldosar--delgadez--ñoqui2. Practice recognizing the meanings of some of our most important irregular verbs (present & preterite).--dieron………………………

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Español Uno (1):Today’s Agenda:1. Listen to our song of the week: “Amores lejanos.” Nice job catching the next three missing words: lugares, brazos, esperando.2. Practice our ch. 9 gestures.3. Review the homework: 9-1 & 9-2.4. Begin to discuss the real significance of “El cinco de mayo,” with an article from http://latino.sscnet.ucla.edu/cinco.html . We will finish reading this article

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Español Uno (1):Today’s Agenda:1. (1st hour only): Hear from our class senator regarding important announcements.(2nd hour only): Practice five of our basic questions: #’s 19, 20, 22, 24 & 29.2. Tackle a quick reading & ten true/false questions in table groups.3. Listen to our new song of the week: “Amores lejanos.” Nice job catching the first three missing phrases: se fue, la, mirando.4.

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Español Uno (1):Today’s Agenda:1. Read, in Spanish, for ten minutes during SSR.2. Discuss the weekend, answering four of our fundamental weekend questions:--¿Qué tuviste que hacer?--¿Qué ibas a hacer que no pudiste hacer?--¿A qué hora viniste a PCFC hoy?--¿Qué te pusiste esta mañana?3. Write three new irregular verbs on our blue, preterite packet:VENIR (“came” in the preterite)vine…………………..

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Español Uno (1):Today’s Agenda:1. Go back and review some of our “essential Spanish 1 questions”: #’s 3, 8, 13, 18, 23 & 28.--¿Cómo eres?--¿Qué hora es?--A ti, ¿te gusta ver la televisión?--¿Qué vas a hacer hoy?--¿Cuál es tu clase favorita?--¿A qué hora empieza la clase de español?2. Listen to our song of the week: “Bikini a lunares amarillo.” Nice job catching the last four missing words: nadie,

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Español Uno (1):Today’s Agenda:1. Discuss the expectations for individually typing your edited, group story on the computer. Remember, it’s due Friday with a signature verifying that you individually typed it.2. Listen to our song of the week: "Bikini a lunares amarillo." Nice job catching the next four missing words: sabía, nadie, dio, vino.3. Continue defining more of our ch. 9

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