lunes, el quince de septiembre del dos mil ocho

Español Uno (1):

Today's Learning Objectives:

1. Read during SSR for five minutes. Students look for both cognates and words that appear related to our gesture vocabulary.

2. Discuss in Spanish what we did over the weekend.

Students use the "¿Qué hiciste durante el fin de semana?" yellow handout to discuss what they did. Students write two sentences. Discussion for details.

1st hour: Listening quiz (T/F) on what our classmates did over the weekend. Nice work on your first quiz!

3. Students practice old gestures.

4. Students see two new gestures:

--sabe = s/he knows (how to..../info.)
--quiere = s/he wants

5. Student-created oral story with our new and old vocabuary (à la MadLibs)

1st hour: Chewy quiere dinero (money). Chewy quiere un dólar. Anda a Profe Nick, pero Profe Nick no le da un dólar. Profe Nick no tiene (has) dinero de los Estados Unidos. Profe Nick tiene dinero de México, pero no tiene dinero de los Estados Unidos. Chewy anda a Josh. ¡Josh tiene dinero! Josh tiene un Mazerati. Josh tiene muchos Mazeratis pero no tiene dinero para Chewy. Josh no le da dinero a Chewy. Chewy anda a la pared. Anda a Santa Claus Mitch. Santa Claus tiene dinero para Chewy y le da el dinero. Chewy le da un "high five" a Santa Claus Mitch.

2nd hour: Jimmy quiere una piñata de diamantes. Quiere una piñata de diamantes para Yolanda. (¡Yolanda es guapa!) Anda a México para una piñata de diamantes. Pero no hay (there are not) piñatas de diamantes en México. ...to be continued.

Submitted: Signature for having read the story of "Ana...." to an adult.
Homework: None.

Español Uno (1):

Today's Learning Objectives:

1. Read during SSR for eight minutes.

2. Discuss in Spanish what we did over the weekend. Students use the "¿Qué hiciste durante el fin de semana?" yellow handout to discuss what they did. Students write three sentences. Discussion for details.

Interesting details we discovered:
4th hour: Alex had fun playing a game called "Bandit" (??) in which he and thirty other people had a race between pools. Barrett fell and got a concussion...her friend Mason then ran inside to go eat ice cream. Alex also fell, as did a bunch of other 4th hour students. We are accident prone!

5th hour: Teresita was up really late exercising--4am! We lectured her on how important it is to sleep. Rupali danced hip-hop over the weekend. Although Rupali likes to dance, she's not as fanatic about the show "So You Think You Can Dance." Both Mishala and Profe Nick will be attending the show next week at the Tacoma Dome. Mishala has actually had dance classes by lots of the stars on SYTYCD!!!! Wow.

6th hour: Matthew returned from knee surgery and is doing well. Ellen played croquet over the weekend. Alyson watched "Gilmore Girls." Marie and Kaelani are also attending the SYTYCD show next week at the Tacoma Dome.

5th hour: Listening quiz (T/F) on what our classmates did over the weekend. Nice work on your first quiz!

3. 4th hour: Finish our first timed writing.

4. Students practice old gestures.

5. Students see four new gestures:

--sabe = s/he knows (how to..../info.)
--quiere encontrar= s/he wants to find
--está enojado/a = s/he is mad
--le dice = s/he says to him/her

6. Student-created oral story with our new and old vocabuary (à la MadLibs)

5th hour: Andres quiere encontrar un carro. Quiere encontrar un Mazerati. Graham también quiere encontrar un coche fantástico. ¡Pero quiere encontrar un coche con una novia (girlfriend) dentro del (inside the) coche! Anda al supermercado para encontrar a una novia. En el supermercado hay novias, pero son novias feas. Graham está enojado. Graham quiere encontrar a una novia guapa. Graham va a la clase de español. ¡En la clase de español hay novias guapas! No está enojado. To be continued....

6th hour: Brandon quiere encontrar a otra novia (girlfriend). Su novia famosa se llama Tyra, pero Brandon quiere encontrar a una novia para cada día: una novia para el lunes, otra novia para el martes, otra para el miércoles, etc. Mariah también quiere encontrar a un novio. Quiere encontrar a un novio que se llama Corey. Va a la clase de francés para encontrar a un novio. En la clase de francés hay novios—novios guapos—pero ninguno se llama Corey. ¡Qué lástima! Mariah va a Starbuck’s para encontrar a un novio. En Starbuck’s hay un novio—¡y se llama Corey! Corey le da algo a Mariah. Corey no le da café a Mariah. Corey le da comida a Mariah. To be continued....

Homework: None.