miércoles, el trece de abril del dos mil once

[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: mentías, escondías, fui, me voy. 4. Practice our gestures. 5. Begin to review 7-5 (possessive adjective practice--both "short" & "long" forms). Homework: Make further corrections to your stories, if needed.

martes, el doce de abril del dos mil once

[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.

lunes, el once de abril del dos mil once

[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) **Remember that these always match the object! ****These always go out front: mi libro. 4. Discuss this year’s new form of possessive adjectives (the “long” form): mío/a(s)…………..nuestro/a(s) tuyo/a(s)……………………………. suyo/a(s)………….suyo/a(s) ****These always go out back: el libro mío. 5. Practice using both forms of the possessive adjectives with some ch. 7 vocabulary: --her earrings --your watch --my coin --our flashlight --his battery --their key --your (“y’all’s”) money/silver Answers: --sus aretes / los aretes suyos --tu reloj pulsera / el reloj pulsera tuyo --mi moneda / la moneda mía --nuestra linterna / la linterna nuestra --su pila / la pila suya --su llave / la llave suya --su plata / la plata suya 6. Begin workbook page 7-5, practicing both the short & long-form possessive adjectives. Homework: 7-5 (evens translated to English, of course)

miércoles, el veintitrés de marzo del dos mil once

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): SSR

5. Review of 6-8, 6-9 in the workbook.

6. (4th & 6th periods only): Preterite/Imperfect practice with another Clark Kent story.

Homework: None.

martes, el veintidós de marzo del dos mil once

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.

lunes, el veintiuno de marzo del dos mil once

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.

miércoles, el dieciséis de marzo del dos mil once

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 preterit.

Homework: Study your flashcards on Quizlet.

lunes, el catorce de marzo del dos mil once

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 will be no listening section, as we have just taken a listening assessment.

Announcement: Good luck on this week’s state and district testing. Be sure to get some sleep!

Today’s Agenda:

1. Read, in Spanish, for ten minutes during SSR. Nice job guessing the meanings of unknown words.

2. Write a paragraph about what you did over the weekend and share with a partner. Students then shared out what their partners did.

3. Read another Clark Kent vignette to practice deciding between preterit and imperfect verbs. Remember, this is a fundamental skill for moving onto Spanish 3. We will be practicing this throughout the second semester.

Homework: None, officially. It’s recommended to study your vocabulary on Quizlet. Sleep well for this week’s tests. Good luck!

miércoles, el dieciséis de febrero del dos mil once

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.

lunes, el catorce de febrero del dos mil once

¡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.

jueves, el tres de febrero del dos mil once

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 we established the following accent rule:

--All words ending in a vowel have a natural stress on the second to last syllable. A natural stress has no accent. If we hear the stress on a different syllable, we write an accent where we hear it.

2. Listen to our new song: “Estoy aquí.” Nice job catching the first three missing phrases: fue, lo que, ahora.

3. Practice our ch. 5 gestures.

4. Begin to review the workbook pages (5-3, 5-4).

Homework: Keep studying ch. 5 vocabulary on Quizlet.

miércoles, el dos de febrero del dos mil onceT

Announcement: Substitute today

Today'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).

martes, el primero de febrero del dos mil once

Announcement: Substitute today

Today'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.

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!

martes, el catorce de diciembre del dos mil diez

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 gestures and our cucaracha song for the irregular preterite verbs.

4. Continue working on the packet of irregular preterites & ch.1-4 vocabulary.

Homework: Be ready to turn in your packet tomorrow. A handful from each page will be graded for accuracy, and the grade will go into your grammar category.

viernes, el diez de diciembre del dos mil diez

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.

miércoles, el ocho de diciembre del dos mil diez

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 meanings in the preterite. The preterite is all about conveying ACTION.

--“quería” (s/he wanted)……………. “quiso” (s/he wanted & tried)
--“estaba” (s/he was)…………………. “estuvo” (s/he was…but it’s OVER)
--“tenía” (s/he had)……………………. “tuvo” (s/he had…but it’s OVER; s/he got (an idea))
--“sabía” (s/he knew)…………………. “supo” (s/he found out)

Homework: Start practicing your ch. 4 vocabulary & irregular preterite verbs on Quizlet!

martes, el siete de diciembre del dos mil diez

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, quisiera, cosas.

4. Practice our ch. 4 gestures.

5. Review the homework for Monday: 4-1, 4-2.

6. Begin the homework.

Homework: 4-3, 4-4 (evens translated)

viernes, el tres de diciembre del dos mil diez.

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 song to the tune of "La cucaracha" to help us memorize those irregular, preterite verbs.

4. Begin the homework.

Homework: 4-1, 4-2 (even's translated)