lunes, el veintidós de septiembre

Español Uno (1):

Collected: Curriculum Night handout.

Today's Learning Objectives:

1. Read for six minutes during SSR ("Special Spanish Reading").

2. Utilize the yellow "What did you do over the weekend?" handout to write three sentences. Discussion of weekend activities in Spanish.

2nd hour: Quick listening quiz over what students did over the weekend. Nice job listening, 2nd hour! Every student scored 100% on your first listening quiz. WOW!

3. Practice our old numbers and receive some new numbers.

New Numbers:

--cero (0)
--dieciséis (16)
--diecisiete (17)
--dieciocho (18)
--diecinueve (19)

**Good job noticing the pattern of dieciséis and diecisiete and being able to accurately predict how we would say dieciocho and diecinueve.

4. Practice our gestures and continue to read more in "Jaime y Pepe, dos muchachos con un secreto."

**Nice work noticing in the story that "n" conveys "they." In the story we see "andan, son, quieren, miran, saben, apagan, cierran, etc."

**Good job remembering that "s" conveys "you," as in "andas, quieres, miras, etc."

Homework: None.

Español Dos (2):

Collected: Curriculum Night handout.

Today's Learning Objectives:

1. Read for nine minutes during SSR ("Special Spanish Reading").

2. Utilize the yellow "What did you do over the weekend?" handout to write three sentences. Discussion of weekend activities in Spanish.

3. (4th period): Students create illustrations of "Jaime y Pepe, dos muchachos con un secreto" and retell the story to their partner looking only at the illustrations. Student volunteers told the story, based only on the illustrations, to the class. Nice job!!

4. Students peak at their score for our first dictation. Remember, dictations are when we write for precision. Careful to remember to ALWAYS use punctuation. Just as with English, it is not optional, and a lot of students' first dictation score reflected not using any punctuation.

Students complete dictation #2.

5. (5th & 6th periods): In groups, students begin to write an original story using 15+ of our target vocabulary structures in the past. Groups decide on an outline of their story (who, where, conflict, resolution) and begin to write. Students stick with the vocabulary they already know, only looking up 1-2 in the dictionary, at most. Students are competing for the most creative and well-written story for immortal fame on the purple display board.

Homework: None.