Beginning Spanish- Birch Lane

Hola Padres!

This past month we have learned so much! We learned new Spanish vocabulary regarding the following topics: Months of the years, Days of the Week, Adjectives,  Questions and Feelings. The students enjoyed creating different art projects, writing as well as singing.  

During this past month we traveled to our favorite places. Through this activity the students were able to describe their favorite place by answering questions we learned such as "Donde?" (Where?), "Cuando?"(When?), "Quien?" (Who?), "Que?" (What?), "Cual?" (Which?), "Como?" (How?) and "Por que?" (Why?).

 

 

We also had the chance to sing along to a Spanish months and week songs as well as create our mini calendars. Through these calendars the students were able to relate each Spanish month to an activity they do during that month.

 

 


Although we enjoyed using our imaginations and creativity to make these projects we also had the opportunity to write and play fun games!

 

I hope you have enjoyed seeing what the students have learned this past month. I look forward seeing what this next month has in store for us!

Sincerely, 

Maestra Sandra

Patwin Beg ASL Week 21

Hello Patwin ASL parents! This week, rather than learning single vocabulary words, the kids are putting their vocabulary together and practicing common questions and phrases. These past couple days, they learned some basic questions, for instance: “Your favorite color what?” or “You go school where you?”
Then, the kids partnered up and “interviewed” their partners, asking them the questions we had gone over as a class. An example of an “interview sheet” is below.  Finally, each pair of students came up to the front of class and presented their partner’s answers. And it was amazing! They signed all the questions and answers in full ASL format, with little to no help from me! These kids have learned a lot this year, and it’s really showing this week! :)

Davis Arts Center - Intermediate French Class ❄

Hello Everyone! I hope you are all staying dry on these cold and rainy days!

We’ve been having a very fun time in Intermediate French this week! On Monday we covered clothes vocab. We paired up into teams of two and had someone draw the item of clothing on a small whiteboard and only show it to 1 member of each team and then that member had to act it out to their partner and they had to guess it. The students had a fun time trying to act out difficult words to guess like “des pyjamas”.  Lucy was always the most detailed illustrator of each clothing item!

On Tuesday, we played a modified version of “Steal the Bacon”.  Each student is given a number and when their number is yelled they have to battle it out to “steal the bacon” which is often a soccer ball. To modify this game to our lesson this week I brought in various items of clothes like a scarf, socks, and a sweatshirt and I chose two numbers and then named a piece of clothing. The students had to understand the item that I said and then rush to get it. I chose this game to help the students work on their oral comprehension. By the end of the game everyone had mastered how to say every item of clothing I had taught them. Sophie and Chloe kept getting frustrated at how much the skirt looked like a scarf when balled up.

On Wednesday, we played a game called a “Chinese auction”. I divided the students into two teams. I called out items of clothing and school items in French and the students had to work together to send one person up with that item. For example, I called out “Des Chaussettes blanches” and each team had to find someone with white socks and send them up to get a point. In order to get the students to work as a team more I also called things like “trois cahiers de trois differentes couleurs” (3 notebooks of 3 different colors). The students had to work together to find 3 notebooks of 3 colors among all of their backpacks. I even called out things like “Deux couettes” (two pigtails), Henry rushed up first with his hair in his two hands as pigtails! Tori and Chloe worked together to style Tori's hair in pigtails in under 5 seconds. 

Here are some photos of us playing "Headbands" to learn body vocab the week before!

Beginner Spanish-Korematsu

Estimados padres de Familia!:

Over the past month we covered subjects such as adjetivos-adjectives, opuestos- opposites, and emociones- feelings! :)

The kids did an excellent job at learning the vocabulary.  They make associations between the meaning of the word and images that represent the word.

This a picture of the booklet that they drew about feelings. 

While we had fun drawing and coloring images that represent feelings,  we also tried to do sentences! The following is a sentence of one of the students!

The sentence says I am happy when I go home!

We also did booklets for the adjectives and  opposites, the following are pictures of their booklets

Your children are very creative and  while we practice vocabulary by making associations with drawings, we also enjoyed activities such as jeopardy, charades, and story telling to practice the vocabulary for the week!



Finally, I got to say that  we had a very productive month! we cover a lot of material and the kids did an amazing job at learning the material cover.



As always I appreciate your time and I hope you enjoy seen the work of your kids! Also if you have any questions or concerns do not hesitate to contact me, 
sincerely,
Maestra Lizeth