Beginner French @ Davis Art Center: End of October

Bonjour les parents, it's Enseignante Cate!

We've been a busy class for the past few weeks! Since the last post, our class has covered numbers, animals, and body parts en français!

Ask your student to count to 20 (vingt), name their favorite animal préféré (favorite animal), or sing "Head, shoulders, knees, and toes" to you in French.

Both French classes played Pictionary together last Friday!

Beginner French drew their favorite animals and wrote a sentence about them in French.

This week we practiced body parts by each drawing one feature on the white board as a class. 

Over the next few weeks, we'll begin to learn more conversation phrases in French and more vocab including foods, simple verbs, and more.

À la prochaine!

--Enseignante Cate

Beginner's Spanish - Birch Lane

¡Hola padres de Birch Lane! Hello Birch Lane parents!

We have now finished week 6 of our Spanish classes. It has been a pleasure working with you and your children; they're great! 

So far we have learned how to introduce ourselves, the alphabet, numbers (1-30), colors, shapes, fruits and vegetables. 

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To learn shapes (figuras) and review colors (colores), we created them 

with different colored play-do.

 We also created shapes with our bodies!

A rectangle (un rectángulo) 

We also attempted a circle 😁 (un círculo)

For fun, we also played Halloween and Day of the Dead (Día de los muertos) bingo. 

The winners get tickets for prizes!

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We have been practicing tying everything together by introducing themselves with their name, age, they favorite colors or colors they like, and a fruit that they like. Make sure to ask them at home for extra practice!

For the next couple of weeks, we'll be learning more food items such as breakfast foods, lunch, dinner, dessert, etc.

Thank you for your support! Gracias por su apoyo.

- Maestra Lorena

Beg./Int. ASL- Patwin- End of October Post

Hello Patwin ASL Parents!

Your students have been very engaged in learning. They have learned their numbers from 0-30, and their shapes and colors. They have really enjoyed the color section of this curriculum. Try asking them to teach you how to sign red, blue, purple, green, gray, white, rainbow, black, brown and clear. Also ask them to describe the shade of the color, is it dark purple or is it light purple? I attached an image of some colors we learned.

In the upcoming weeks we will be starting on fruits and vegetables. One of the activities will be to create fruit bowls and have students describe all of the fruits they have incorporated on their bowls. The following week, we will be reviewing all of the signs we have learned thus far. The repetition is a way to reinforce and increase retention of the signs. We will also incorporate some festive signs to welcome the season and festivities. 


I would like to note that every one of the students is learning and improving. I appreciate your support and would like to keep encouraging students to use their ASL outside of the classroom. This should become easier as the students' vocabulary keeps expanding. As always, please feel free to contact me with any questions, suggestions, comments or concerns. My email is gortizf@ucdavis.edu. 
Respectfully,
Grecia Ortiz Flores 

Intermediate Spa- Birch Lane Elementary

Hello everyone,

These past two weeks have been great with the kids. During week 2, we learned how to say the Spanish speaking countries, in Spanish. In the third week, we learned how to say the Spanish speaking countries in a sentence, such as "Me gustaria ir a (Spanish speaking country) ." For this past week, we learned how to say clothes in spanish, such as zapatos (shoes), calsetas (socks), camisa (shirt), pantalon (jeans), bufanda (scarf), gorro (beanie), etc,. Overall, they've been great, soon I will post the art that they have done in class. Thank you for your time!

Best,
Cinthia Gonzalez

Beginner Spanish - Korematsu - Mid October Post

¡ Hola padres y madres de TALK!

Welcome to the first blog of the school year.

So far,  the kids  have learned how to introduce themselves, basic greeting, the alphabet, the number from 0 to 30, and the name of some fruits and vegetables.

As you can see below, they even made a soup with the vegetables that they learned in class this week!

The children have been doing great; I am very impressed and happy to see how much vocabulary they have retained in just these few weeks.

Next week, they will be learning colors, doing some interesting activities and playing fun games, so don't  miss the next blog to see the pictures!

¡ Hasta la próxima! 🤗

-Maestra Yenifer 

Intermediate Spanish, North Elementary

Week 3- Semana 3

Días de la semana/ weekdays and weekends
- Lunes = Monday
- Martes = Tuesday
-Miercoles = Wednesday
- Jueves = Thursday
-Viernes = Friday
- Sabado  = Saturday
- Domingo = Sunday

• What day is it today in Spanish --> Hoy es _____

Spanish speaking countries

Norte América: México

Centro América: Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa rica, Panamá

El Caribe: Cuba, Republica Dominicana, Puerto rico

Suramérica: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay , Argentina.

Europa: España

África: Guinea Ecuatorial

Questions about Spanish speaking countries and their continent.
Pregunta de los paises y sus continentes-

pregunta= Donde está Guatemala?

Respuesta = Guatemala está en Centro América.

Spanish Alphabet
- A, a= ah
- B,b= beh
-C, c= seh
- Ch,= Cheh
-D, d = deh
-E,e= eh
-F, f= ef-eh
G,g= heh
H, h = ach-eh
I, i = ee
J,j = hota
K,k = hah
L, l = el-eh
LL, ll = eh-jeh
M, m = em- eh
N, n=  en-eh
Ñ, ñ = en-yeh
O, o = oh
P, p= heh
Q, q = cuh
R, r= er-eh
rr= e-rreh
S= es-eh
T, t = teh
U, u =uuh
V,v = veh
W, w= dob-leh-uuh
X, x= eh-kis
Y, y= ee-gri-eh-gah
Z, z= se-tah