Beg and Int ASL at Patwin

Hello!

This week was a good experience for my ASL students because we had an interpreter coming to my classroom last Monday and today.  They were able to ask some questions.  I asked them, "What is Deaf Culture?"  I believe they learned something new.  Please ask your child what did they learn about Deaf Culture.  Next week, they will be learning advance ASL.  That would be interested for them to learn new more vocabulary and ASL structure!

Teacher Tara

Int Spa - Korematsu - Late January Post

¡Hola padres de TALK! 😃

Welcome to our Winter/Spring Semester!

For our last week of the Fall/Winter Semester the kids reviewed emotions. We reviewed that Spanish is a gender-based language (so nouns and adjectives are either feminine or masculine) which applied to emotions. To describe feelings we have to change the ending of the adjective to indicate if the person who is talking is female or male!

We did multiple activities to review this topic, and one of the kids' favorite was being able to make their own emojis! Check out the awesome masks they did:

Addison also made a silly emoji 

Ava made a silly emoji

John made an annoyed emoji

Anna made an excited emoji

For the beginner of our Winter/Spring Semester we went over introductions to welcome our two new friends into the Intermediate Class! We also reviewed school supplies and classroom vocabulary (such as pencil, notebook, chair, desk, etc.!) so the kids had to go around the classroom labeling as many things as possible in Spanish! Lastly, the kids also reviewed the verb to have (tener) and the conjugations for yo, tú and él/ella and were able to form full sentences expressing which school supplies they had in their backpacks.

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

Maestra Teresa 🌻

Intermediate ASL - St James - End of Jan

        As we ease into the new semester, we had an ASL interpreter come to our class on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Teacher Naira's class joined my class for those days to learn more about Deaf culture, ASL grammar, and who teacher Sarah is since they can use their voices to ask me tons of questions through the interpreter. Some of the parents even participated too! 

      They learned that although ASL is AMERICAN Sign Language, it still has regional signs and accents just like hearing community do! For example, Texas tend to drawl and say "y'all", etc. Deaf people have accents and different signs too. They learned that if they see a new sign they did not know, respect their use of word even if it's different from what you learned. I showed them the regional difference between California and Arizona (I was living in AZ for 15 years), they were shocked to see a difference for the words: slow and chicken. They also was surprised to hear that ASL is not universal. Each country has their own sign language. Just like spoken languages.

I had so much fun interacting with the students in a personal way this week! I'm looking forward to the new semester. 

Teacher Sarah  

Beg. French- DAC- Mid January blog!

Bonjour tous le monde!

My first month teaching Beginning French at T.A.L.K. and meeting the students has been great!

Everyday, we begin by greeting each other with “bonjour” or “bon matin”, “ça va?”.

We also begin everyday by saying what day it is. For example: “Aujourd’hui, c’est vendredi le 18 décembre 2019” - today is Friday, January 18th (we change it to match every day). Sometimes the weekday or month is fill-in-the-blank and our class does a great job of remembering vocabulary! This way, we can review weekdays and months!

Ask your child what day of the week or what month it is in French! If you want to review, here are the terms we learned:

Everyone knows our weekdays pretty well but we never get to say Saturday or Sunday together in class so this is always good review at home! A good video is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lpwf5N0rfVE try to sing along!

A tricky one to remember that could be good to review at home is how to say 2019. “Deux-mille dix-neuf”. Remember it now and you’ll be set for the rest of the year :)

Last week, as we returned from winter break we learned some useful winter vocabulary!

1. Des moufles- mittens
2. Un bonnet- warm hat
3. Une écharpe- scarf

Our class made “des bonhommes de neige” (snowmen) and decorated them with the terms we learned.

Looking forward to the rest of the semester!

-Clémentine

Eric's Bonhomme de Neige!

Int Spanish - Birch Lane - Mid January

Hola padres,

I hope you all are doing well and had a great start to the week. It has been a while since my last post and I apologize for that.

I am happy to see the students come back and although it is the second week back from winter break the students have learned so much. Las week we had a small review on certain topics such as clothing, body parts, questions, verbs and other things. This week we are working on food. The students have always enjoyed talking about food and learning about it. I have asked what their favorite food is to eat. As seen below the students wrote a sentence on what their favorite was and made a drawing.

 

 

They are doing so well with writing sentences and putting different phrases together. The students are also to conjugate a few verbs on their own with minimal help. I have seen great improvement, this semester, from all the students. Overall, the students have done great work!



I hope you all have a great rest of the week. If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to email me.

Best regards,
Irene Sanchez

Beginning and Intermidate ASL at Patwin

Hello!

This week it seems like my students were doing just great and pretty quiet.  I think it's because of the dull weather, but they paid attention to new vocabulary so far!

They learned about opposites and directions and how to make them into their "own" ASL sentences.  I noticed that their ASL sentences are improving.  I still encourage them to use facial expressions and body languages.  If you sign, "Me feel sick" without using facial expression, a Deaf person will feel unsure if you are actually sick or not.  So, use "sad-blah" facial expression to show that you are actually sick.

They have been doing well!  Tomorrow is a FUN Thursday.  What does it mean?!  That means all students will be my teacher!   I will be their student!  That will be fun!

Have a good and long weekend!

Teacher Tara

Intermediate French – DAC – Mid January Post!

Bonjour parents!

            I hope you have all had a wonderful and restful break! Since “la rentrée” the students have been reviewing their winter vocab from before the break. Last week we made sculptures of our winter vocab and had the other students guess!

This Monday, we celebrated “Galette des rois”! Clémentine and I baked a traditional French “Galette” and hid two “fèves” inside. Following French tradition, the youngest students went under the table to tell me who I should give each piece. In the first helping of galette no one received the fève! It took us 3 rounds to finally find the fève. Traditionally, the student that receives the fève is crowned king/queen. However, all of our French students were royalty on Monday in their beautiful handmade crowns.

          For the rest of this week the students will be focusing on pronouns and the verbs “Être” (to be) and “Avoir” (to have). I've attached a photo of the conjugations if you’d like to review at home!

Best,

Ali

un chat avec une écharpe	un bonhomme de neige
la galette des rois

Int Spa - Korematsu - Mid January Post

Hola padres de TALK 🌞

These past two weeks the kids had been reviewing opposites, directions and animals (this last one was requested by the students!

Last week we reviewed opposites, and the kids actually asked me to give them more vocabulary! I was so surprised and excited to see they were so engaged with the topic and just wanted to learn more. To review this topic we played the matching game.

We also reviewed giving directions, which was a bit of a tricky topic! We reviewed this vocab along with the verb conjugations for caminar (to walk). The kids were given a map and some directions, so they had to find the final destination by following the directions given. We also worked on an obstacle course, where the kids had to say the directions in Spanish before being able to more forward. At each check-point on the obstacle course they were asked an opposite of a word, and the kids really enjoyed this game!

This week we are reviewing animals. On Monday we reviewed pets and the verbs tener (to have) and querer (to want). The kids were able to draw pictures of their pets or the pets they want. They practice writing in Spanish forming sentences that described their pictures. Today we reviewed sea animals along with the verb vivir (to live). The kids worked on making play-dough figurines of the sea animals we reviewed.

Below some photos of these past two weeks:

The students playing matching while reviewing opposites

The students navigating our obstacle course

Some students working on their pet drawing

A student wrote "Mom and dad, I want a dog or a cat or a turtle" 

One of our students making sea animals out of play dough

Another student making a sea animal

A student made un pulpo (an octopus)

A student working on his map and direction

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

Maestra Teresa

St James - Intermediate ASL

I've been challenging the students much more this week and they were able to rise to the challenge while having fun! 

This week, the students dived right in and learned about yes/no question ASL structure. When you ask a yes/no question, "Are you ok?" raise your eyebrows to indicate that you're asking for a yes or no answer. They played GO FISH card game to practice raising their eyebrows, asking one another, "You have 8?" "7 you have?"

We also learned dates and how to sign the numbers along with the months:

Monday - Sunday 

January - December 

January 1st (new year)

February 14th (Valentine's day)

March 17th (St. Patrick day)

April 1st (April's fool)

and so forth. 

I keep forgetting to take pictures because we're having too much fun together! 

Challenge your child to use their facial expression properly when they ask you a yes/no question and every day ask them what's the date? Friday, Jan 11, etc :) 

Sarah 

Intermediate ASL teacher 

Beg ASL St James Week 13

Hello TALK Parents!

Hope everyone had a happy and fun holiday!

The kids and I jumped right back into signing when we came back to class this week, learning animal signs. Go ahead and quiz the kids, they know so many animal signs! Land animals, farm animals, water animals, and pets!

The kids continued to show their creativity by making more Play Doh animals, and also drawing some interesting pictures of all the animals they learned. You can see some examples in the pictures below!

The first semester of TALK is almost over, and you can really tell the kids learned a lot this semester! It really was a packed week of signing this week, but they kept up like pros!

Looking forward to more fun and learning next semester!

-Teacher Naira :)