Beginner Spanish- Patwin Elementary

It has been really rewarding to teach another language to my students. They all have been excellent children who are always willing to participate in class, and I really enjoyed having them in my class. I hope to see you all next year. Enjoy your vacations!!!

Int ASL-St James

It was a great pleasure working with my students this year! They did fantastic at the end of the year performance showing off all their learning from the past few weeks such as classifiers, facial expression, grammar structure, translating from English to ASL. 

In order to keep practicing the language, I highly suggest you to go to Deaf events, ASL events, find other peers to practice with, and watching videos/using those sites: 

Handspeak.com 

ASLPRO.com 

FOR EVENTS: There is many social events all over Northern California. If you google, "ASL events", many events will come up. 

http://www.norcalcenter.org/allevents/

Have a FABULOUS summer! Looking forward to work with the students again next year! 

Teacher Sarah \lm/

Int Spa Korematsu - Late May Post

Hola padres de TALK ☀️

It was such an honor to have had the opportunity to work with your children this semester/school year and see them learn and grow curious about Spanish. With the summer being around the corner, I am hopeful that some students (if not all) would like to continue their studies (after all, in order to learn a language, one must practice it daily!). Thus, here are some resources I think can be useful and age appropriate for your kids so they can continue to practice and engage with Spanish during the summer:


Rockalingua

• Description: Kid friendly website to practice Spanish! Has a variety of free resources from songs, videos, worksheets, picture dictionaries, and more! You can also pay a monthly fee to access all their resources available. 
• Link: https://rockalingua.com/

Duolingo

• Description: Free website and phone app that aid with language learning. Duolingo uses a play-based approach to make learning fun but also focuses on grammar (reading and writing) and pronunciation. 
• Link: https://www.duolingo.com/

Drops

• Description: “This is a phone app that uses engaging games to make language learning a fun part of a daily routine. While fun and simple, the beautifully designed app is built with years of research into how to help ... learn a language more effectively and easily.” 
• Link: This is a phone app! 

If you ever have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at teguerrero@ucdavis.edu. Wishing you and your family a great and fun summer! 😀

Warmly,

Maestra Teresa Herrera-Guerrero 🌻

Beginner French - DAC - May Post!

Bonjour TALK Parents,

Merci!! The TALK school year has come to an end and I just wanted to say thanks to you and your amazing children! It was a pleasure teaching the Beginner French class and I hope that the students had as much fun as I did. Thank you to the families that came to Open House this morning and joined the students in playing games, it was a lot of fun! I wanted to make one last post to say thank you and to summarize what we did this past month!

At the beginning of this month we learned about feelings and emotions, the students each created their own emojis to show a feeling:

Je suis fatigué (I am tired)            Je suis malade (I am sick)           Je suis heureuse (I am happy)

After that, we began preparing for our End of the Year Performance where the students made crêpes. All of the students worked so hard and I could tell that they were dedicating time outside of class to memorize their lines, I was super impressed! It was a fun two weeks practicing and preparing all of our props, and then it was finally performance day and the students did such a fantastic job!

To all of you once again, thank you for an amazing year! Au revoir et bon été!!

- Katie

Int. Spanish at NDE

¡Hola a todo el mundo!

Over the past month in the Intermediate Spanish class at North Davis Elementary, we have been learning verbs and vocabulary and preparing for the big day - our presentations at Davis Arts Center.

For the presentation, each student picked one or two of the Mexican states and wrote a report on it. This was actually an idea that one of our students had, and it turned out to be a great one!

I have enjoyed teaching all of the students in this class (Maisie, Abby, Toby, Cyrus, Devansh, Willa and Hannah) but sorry to not be able to continue in the fall, when my regular teaching schedule will change. 

I hope that every one of these students continues learning a second or third language. Ask me about the cognitive benefits of being multilingual the next time you see me!

Abrazos,

Maestro Avi

Beg/Int ASL at Patwin - Mid May!

Hello Patwin ASL Families!

These last two weeks of May, we have been reviewing signs, practicing receptive skills, and practicing facial expressions. We have also been preparing for the game we will be playing at the End of the Year Performance this coming Saturday, May 18th!

One important part of ASL is facial expressions! When asking questions, the placement of your eyebrows helps the person you are signing with properly understand the question you are asking. A yes/no question requires raised eyebrows. A "wh" question requires a furrowed brow. The diagram below if a fun way to help your students remember the proper facial expression when asking a question!

Be sure to have your students demonstrate the different facial expressions used when asking questions!

As always, please feel free to reach out to me with any questions or concerns via email at klcuevas@ucdavis.edu. I look forward to seeing you all at the End of the Year Performance!

Warm Wishes,
Teacher Kiara 🌸

Int Spa Korematsu - Mid May Post

Hola padres de TALK ☔

I hope you are enjoying the refreshing weather! These past two weeks, the kids have been working super hard preparing for the End of the Year Performance. We have mainly worked on sentence building in order to verbally produce sentences as well as pronunciation!

About a month ago, the kids chose they wanted to do something sports' related for the performance, so without giving too much away, here are a few pictures from these past two weeks!

We are so excited to be performing and we hope you can make it!!! 😊

As always, if you have any questions or comments let me know! You can contact me at teguerrero@ucdavis.edu

Saludos,

Maestra Teresa🌻

The kids worked on sentence building to prepare for their performance

The kids worked together for our performance's poster 

The kids are ready for Saturday's Performance!

Int ASL - St James

We are preparing our presentation for the end of the year performance! The students are very excited and have been practicing so hard! TALK classes will end in one and half week from now, how time FLEW! It had been a pleasure working with the students :)

See you all on Saturday! Good luck to all other classes: ASL, Spanish, and French for the performances.

Teacher Sarah

Intermediate French - Prep for Student Showcase!

Bonjour Parents,

For the next few weeks at TALK we will be rehearsing our performance for the student showcase. We’ve chosen to do a cooking show and teach the audience how to make crepes!

Here is the recipe for the students to practice at home. I recommend that the students write down their lines on a note card and review them at least once a day. It’s also helpful to write down how to pronounce each word.

Bonne chance !
Ali et Katie

Int Spa - Korematsu - Late April Post

Hola padres de TALK ☀️

These past two weeks, the kids have gone over vocabulary related to places in the city as well as means of transportation. We have been focusing on verbs related to these topics such as to travel (viajar), to go, (ir), and to work (trabajar).  

During the week dedicated to places in the city the kids got to draw and label their ideal city, adding their six favorite places onto their maps. Here is a fun link for you to review this vocabulary at home. The website includes online games, songs and even worksheets the kids can work on on their own: https://rockalingua.com/worksheets/la-ciudad-worksheet

This last week the kids reviewed means of transportation and we played a variety of games such as charades, pictionary and they worked on a worksheet to practice their sentence building. Here is a fun link for you to review this vocabulary at home. The website includes online games, songs and even worksheets the kids can work on on their own: https://rockalingua.com/worksheets/means-transportation-worksheet 

Here are a few pictures from these last two weeks:

As always, if you have any questions or comments let me know! You can contact me at teguerrero@ucdavis.edu

Saludos,

Maestra Teresa🌻

The kids worked on their ideal city maps

The kids were given a set of images and a list of words

Working together, the kids were able to place the images with the corresponding words

Intermediate French - DAC - End of April Post

Bonjour Parents!

Last week at TALK we learned all about professions. The students also learned about typical objects that are used in each profession. Like for example, "Un artiste utilise un pinceau" (an artist uses a paintbrush) We also went over how to use the verb "utiliser" which means to use. We played a game in the big room at the Davis Arts Center where I stuck post its of all the vocab we had learned, and the students had swat with flyswatters the object used in the profession I was describing. This game helped the students review the vocab in an active way! Here is a list of the vocab we covered! (vocab list)

Le professeur : professor L’artiste : artist Le / La journaliste : journalist Le médecin : doctor Le / La dentiste : dentist Le / La vétérinaire : veterinarian L’infirmier / L’infirmière Le pompier : fireman/firewoman

Un livre : a book Un pinceau : a paintbrush Un ordinateur : a computer Un stéthoscope : a stethoscope Des attelles : braces Un pensement : band aid Un tuyau d’eau : a water hose Un camion : a truck

In the past few weeks, we also studied school vocab. We learned how to say all the different grades and all the different classes. Each student filled out a worksheet with which class was their favorite.

Un élève : a student Une école : a school Une école primaire: an elementary school Un college: middle school/junior high Un lycée: a high school Une université : a college, university

CP: First Grade CE1: Second Grade CE2: Third Grade CM1: Fourth Grade CM2: Fifth Grade 6ème: 6th 5ème: 7th 4ème: 8th 3ème: 9th 2nde: 10th 1ère: 11th Terminale: 12th

Une matière : a subject La science : science La physique : physics La chimie : chemistry La biologie : biology L’anglais : english L’espagnol:  spanish Le français : french L’écriture : writing L’histoire : history La musique : music L’art : art L’Education physique : physical education/gym

This week we are studying house vocab. So far, we have covered basic vocab and we labeled the dollhouse that TALK has together. Today each student got assigned a room of a house and after they finish their drawings we will assemble them into one big house!

La maison : the house Un appartement : an appartement La pièce/la sale : the room La cuisine : the kitchen Le garage : the garage la salle a manger: the dining room La chambre : the bedroom La salle de bain/les toilettes : the bathroom Le sous-sol : the basement Le grenier : the attic Le couloir : the hallway Les escaliers : the stairs Le mur : the wall La fenêtre : the window

Vocabulaire de la chambre : Le lit : the bed Le bureau : the desk La chaise : the chair L’armoire :  the wardrobe La table de nuit : the night table Les rideaux : the curtains l’oreiller: the pillow Le tapis : the rug Les couvertures : the covers s’en dormir: to go to sleep

À bientôt !

-Alexandra