viernes, el doce de septiembre

Español Uno (1):

Today's Learning Objectives:

1. Discuss weekend plans in Spanish. Students illustrated weekend plans to answer the following question:

¿Qué vas a hacer? = What are you going to do?

Voy a ______r. = I'm going to ____.

Ex: Voy a dormir. (I'm going to sleep.) Voy a ir de vacaciones. (I'm going to go on vacation.) Voy a jugar al hockey en California. (I'm going to play hockey in California.)

Exciting things we learned:
1st period: Supriya, our resident author, will be writing a story this weekend. Supriya likes to write and is looking to write novels one day.

2nd period: Nick will be playing with his hockey team in CA this weekend. He will be playing with the team from his home town, from where he moved two years ago. Nick says he will likely be moving back mid-year. :( We will be so sad to see him leave us.

2. Listen to and sing our song of the week. Nice enthusiasm!

3. (1st period): Define weather phrases on our day/calendar/weather handout (white paper).

4. (2nd period): Make our writing folders.

5. Do our first dictation to help us associate what we hear with how those sounds are written in Spanish.

6. Play "Simón dice" with the following body part words:
--la mano = hand
--el pie = foot
--los ojos = eyes
--los labios = lips
--la cabeza = head

Homework: If you haven't already read "Ana, la astronauta enferma" to an adult in ENGLISH, please do so for Monday.

Español Dos (2):

Today's Learning Objectives:

1. Discuss weekend plans in Spanish. Ask a partner the following question and write down what s/he is goign to do. Share out to the class.

¿Qué vas a hacer? = What are you going to do?

2. Listen to our song of the week (and sing and dance). Good enthusiasm!

3. (4th period): Finish the perspective change exercise started yesterday. (1/2 sheet white paper)

4. Do our first story retell in written form. Students write the story of "Ana, la astronauta enferma" as best as they could from memory. Students write "for fluency," keeping their pens/pencils moving for 10 minutes.

5. (5th-6th periods): Students counted the # of words, seeing if they're approaching 100. Our goal this year is to write 100+ word compositions/stories without hesitation in 5 minutes.

6. (5th-6th periods): Students played "Simon Says."

New Body Vocabulary:
--el espinazo (spine)
--las costillas (ribs)
--el codo (elbow)

Homework: None.