Intermediate ASL - St James

Happy Halloween!!

Teacher Sarah showed up to class as an "ASL woman", a playful twist for Wonder Woman. It was fun seeing everyone dressed up as a hot dog, wizard, and spiderman.

We learned Halloween words such as vampire, trick or treat, Frankenstein, pumpkin, etc. The students also learned about ASL/Deaf history this week. "Was all deaf people born deaf?" "At what age did the deaf people tend to learn ASL at?" They came up with really good guesses of those questions! The answer to the first question was: No not all deaf was born deaf. Some was born hearing, became deaf at later age. Some was born then immediately got sick and became deaf. Some was born deaf (like me), etc. The answer to the second question was: Various ages. Some learned right away when they was born, some learned at a later age, some learned while they was in elementary school, some never did learn ASL.

Happy Trick or Treating tonight!

Teacher Sarah

Patwin Beginning & Intermediate ASL

Happy Halloween!

Colored on the HUGE Frankenstein.   Each student colored eyes, boots, and so on.  I asked them to write in a simple sentence then we sign in ASL sentences.  Almost done.  We will finish that tomorrow on their "Fun" Thursday.  "Fun" Thursday is like a free play, but they choose a few games to play to review from Week 1 to Week 7.

 Can you guess what they were signing?  Which one is pumpkin?  Halloween?  Monster?  Bat?  Witch?  Please ask your child(ren).

 Halloween Bingo!  They learned to pay attention to their Teacher Tara while she fingerspelled or signed.

 Feelings: (from left to right) boring, silly, shy, mad (they used their facial expressions OPPOSITE!)For example: you can see Mason being serious, but his index card said, "silly".  We had fun learning how to sign of feelings vocabulary and used facial expressions.  Somehow, a few of them decided sign and used facial expressions in the opposite ways and we laughed.

Jayden and Sean working together on Decode the Code!  Can they translate the following sentences from the manual alphabet?  It is a very good practice for them to read the shapes of hands. 

 "I <3 ASL" by Tamara.

St James - Intermediate ASL

Hello!

We have been learning alot of material this past month but the students especially loved learning the numbers and different ways to use it in ASL (dollars, counting, ages, etc). They have fun doing the number basketball where they have to sign the numbers written on the paper then crumble up and throw it into the basket for points. The students can count up to 1 million in ASL which is pretty impressive!

Any questions or comments, feel free to contact me :)

Sarah

Intermediate Spanish - Pioneer

Buenas noches padres,

This past month has been great! We have learned (and reviewed) various themes such as:

• greetings
• the abc
• animals
• colors & shapes

Since we are in the intermediate class we have focused a little bit more on building sentences, and recently started to compliment the curriculum by learning personal pronouns, verbs and conjugations.
The following pictures are from when we learned about animals in different habitats: sea animals, dessert animals, farm animals and pets. Here are some pictures and some vocabulary :)







Animales del mar:

• el pulpo
• el pez
• la ballena
• el delfín
• el tiburón
• la medusa
• el camarón
• el caballito de mar

Animales del desierto:

• la lagartija
• la víbora
• el armadillo
• el camello
• el coyote

Animales de granja:

• la vaca
• el pato
• el cerdo
• el becerro
• la gallina
• la oveja
• el caballo
• el burro

Mascotas:

• el pez
• el gato
• el perro
• el conejillo de indias
• el conejo
• el perico

If you have any questions please let me know! 

Warmly,

Maestra Elisa

Birch Lane - Int Spanish - Mid Oct

Hola padres,

I hope you all find yourselves doing fine, and had a good start to the week. These past three weeks have been fun. All the students have been getting to know each other and have been working hard. We have worked on a couple of stuff such as numbers, colors, shapes, animals and introductions.

We have yet to start some projects, but here are some work/drawings the students have finished.

The students had to write a sentence and draw what the sentence is about. They all used the same verb in their sentence, which is "gustar".

          

Best,
Irene Sanchez

If any questions or concerns, feel free to reach out.

Patwin Beginning & Intermediate ASL

Hello!  

My name is Tara Williams and I have been teaching Beginning and Intermediate ASL at Patwin Elementary School this year.  It has been nice getting to know all the children and they have been motivated to learn ASL.

On our first week we started to sign on Greetings and Introductions.  On the second week, we signed on commands and useful sentences.  On the third week, we learned how to introduce each other by our personal identity.  On the fourth week, we learned more fun vocabulary on colors and shapes.  We have been practice finger-spelling ABC's.

Children are learning pretty quickly!  

Here are some pictures of these past two weeks:

 They picked their favorite colors and colored in the shapes.  We played a game called, "I Spy".

 We practiced finger-spelling with Alphabet Bingo.  They enjoyed that game!

We used Flower Pot (same as the game hangman, but it's a friendlier version of the game).  Students do their Flower Pot every morning to continue practice on their finger-spelling.

It would be fun if you play "I Spy" (using colors and shapes) with your child(ren) at home.  They actually like to "hide" their own colors and shapes and they think it is a fun game.  

Int Spanish - Korematsu - Mid October Post

 ¡Hola padres de TALK! :) 

These first weeks of TALK at Korematsu have been great! The kids have been reviewing introductions in class, as well as learning about the 21 Spanish speaking countries! We also have reviewed numbers 1-100 and a few commands.

Something that I have incorporated into the classroom this year is "País de la semana" where I talk to the kids about a Spanish speaking country for the whole week (~5 minutes each day at the beginning of class). We have learned about Cuba and it's music: el son. Last week we learned about Costa Rica and their food: chocolate and coffee, as well as their lifestyle phrase "Pura vida" (in English pure life).

For this upcoming week we are going to start to review colors and shapes and start to focus a bit more on sentence building and a few verb conjugations for the verbs we use most in class such as gustar (to like), tener (to have) and ser/estar (to be). We will also be learning about Argentina and it's famous dance: ¡el tango!

Here are some pictures of this past two weeks:

The kids reviewed introduction questions and interviewed each other to practice their pronunciation 

The kids played a game where they had to guess where all 21 Spanish speaking countries were located around the world

Some of our students working on a word search with all the Spanish speaking countries and color coding a map of the world to see where the countries are located

During Week 3 the kids learned a bit about Cuba (such as music, and food)

During Week 4 the kids learned about about Costa Rica (such as flora and fauna) 

If you ever have any questions, comments or concerns do not hesitate to reach me via email at teguerrero@ucdavis.edu

Un saludo,

Maestra Teresa