Español Uno (1):
Today's Learning Objectives:
1. Warm-up: Quick practice grammar quiz. "¿Cuál te suena?" (Which sounds right to you?)
2. Listen to our new song of the week: "Cielito lindo" and discuss the song's relevance to today--México's Independence Day. "Cinco de mayo" is NOT México's Independence Day! Quick cultural discussion on Mariachi music's popularity in México, as well as the generally romantic nature of many Mariachi songs.
Quick look in the song at how the word "tienes" (you have) is different from "tiene" (s/he has) by just one letter: s. Quick extrapolation: "mira" (s/he looks at) becomes "miras" (you look at) just by adding "s." And so on. So easy!
3. Quick oral retell of the story of "Ana, la astronauta enferma."
4. Students complete their first individual, written retell of "Ana, la astronauta enferma." Students write for fluency for ten minutes--all in Spanish. The point is to keep our pens/pencils moving the entire time, not stopping to overthink spelling or other details. Students can follow the original story plot or change it. After writing students count the # of words. Our beginning of the year goal will be to reach 100+ words (not including proper nouns) in ten minutes, and we will be slowly dropping our time to reach 100+ words in five minutes.
This was the first time my Spanish 1 students wrote so early in the year, and WOW, I am impressed. Talk about writing fluency! Keep up your good listening and reading which makes this possible. Nice work!
5. Practice our new gestures:
--sabe (s/he knows)
--quiere (s/he wants)
--un montón de dinero (a ton of money)
--está enojado (he is mad)
--está enojada (she is mad)
--cierra la puerta (s/he closes the door -- OR -- Close the door!)
--apaga la luz (s/he turns off the light --OR-- Turn off the light!)
Homework: Bring a small, zip-lock bag to class tomorrow.
Español Dos (2):
Today's Learning Objectives:
1. Warm-up: Quick practice grammar quiz. "¿Cuál te suena?" (Which sounds right to you?)
2. Listen to our new song of the week: "Cielito lindo" and discuss the song's relevance to today--México's Independence Day. "Cinco de mayo" is NOT México's Independence Day! Quick cultural discussion on Mariachi music's popularity in México, as well as the generally romantic nature of many Mariachi songs.
3. Practice our gestures (old and new). Yesterday's new gestures below:
--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
4. Creation of new story or recap or yesterday's class-created story:
4th hour: Trenton quería encontrar a ciento y ocho novias. Quería encontrar a novias que eran profesoras de educación física. Querían encontrar a novias que tenían dieciséis años y sabían comer un montón de flan….
5th hour: Graham quería encontrar a una novia....
6th hour: Mariah quería encontrar a un novio....
(I think we've got a theme going here!)
5. (5th-6th hours): Begin our new story, "El cuento de Jamie y Pepe, dos muchachos con un secreto."
Homework: None.
