Intermediate ASL St James

Happy Holidays, everyone!

We had fun this month of December learning signs for holidays such as "Merry Christmas, Happy Hannuak, Happy Holidays, Happy New Year, etc.

The students created cute Christmas trees!

Have a GREAT break and I will see you back on January 6th! 

Teacher Sarah :) 

Mid December Beginner French

Bonjour parents!

I know the past few weeks we haven't had class frequently, but beginner French wrapped up 2019 on a strong note!

Right before our break, your students may remember that we drew a Thanksgiving banquet table with intermediate French and labeled our plats préférés des fêtes (favorite holiday dishes) en français.

Then this past week, we reviewed prepositions/position words with a two-class scavenger hunt and a modified version of the game "Ship and Shore" with French commands.

As fun review over the break, you can ask your students to sing you the French alphabet or teach you numbers 1-20 and play the "counting up" game from class. (If they need a reminder, we play this game by standing in a circle and having each student say one number as we count up, down, or by multiples of 2 or 3 in French).

After the long break, we'll ease back into French with some review games and new shape vocabulary!

Bonnes vacances, enjoy your vacations!

Enseignante Cate

Birch Lane Beg. Spanish - December

   

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

For the months of November and December, students have been learning different foods and food categories, as well as phrases to ask for food. 

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The last week of class we also learned winter vocabulary.

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We learned different foods for breakfast (desayuno), lunch (almuerzo), dinner (cena), dessert (postre), snacks (bocadillos), and drinks (bebidas). We also practiced ordering food with may I have... (Me podría dar...), please (por favor), and thank you (gracias). 

For winter vocabulary, we learned words such as winter, snow, ice, snowflake, snowman, hot chocolate, mittens, scarf, and so on.

Feel free to ask your children at home for extra practice!

Happy Holidays! 🎄

- Maestra Lorena

Mid-December Post

¡Bienvenidos!


These 2 weeks we have learned opposites, directions, and practiced asking questions. We have also learned some common names in Spanish. Below is a list of the vocab words we learned. We have also practiced making sentences and have continued reading a story every Thursday to practice comprehension and pronunciation. If it's possible, I would highly recommend all of you to practice pronunciation with your kids.   

Male names: Juan, Pedro, Jesús (Chuy) Female names: María, Andrea, Guadalupe (Lupe) Question words: quién, qué, porqué, dónde, cuál, cómo, cuándo  Opposites: grande/pequeño, cerca/lejos, adentro/afuera, mugroso/limpio, dulce/amargo, caliente/frío  Directions: arriba/abajo, izquierda/derecha/recto, al revés/adelante

This is an example of how to give directions in Spanish: A dónde voy? Voy a la tienda. Voy a la derecha, camino recto por 5 minutos y voy a la izquierda.

¡Gracias! ¡Que tengan un lindo día!

Int Spa - Birch Lane December Post

Hello everyone,

This December we went over the seasons such as, fall (otoño), winter (invierno), spring (primavera), and summer (verano) and we used them and what we had learned previously to make them into sentences. In these sentences, we combined the seasons and sports in Spanish which we had already learned. For example, some of the sentences the kids learned were, "En el verano juego futbol." (In the summer I play soccer.), another one was "En la primavera me gusta jugar baloncesto." (In the spring I like to play basketball.), and "En el invierno me gusta esquiar." (In the winter I like to ski.). Once they learned these sentences they created art with them as seen below.

The following week we learned some holiday vocab such as, Christmas (Navidad), Christmas tree (arbol de Navidad), presents (regalos), Christmas lights (luces de navidad), New Year (Nuevo Año), countdown (cuenta atras), midnight (medianoche), and celebration (celebracion). For this we also used vocab that we had previously learned to also create sentences. For example some of the sentences that they made were "Me gusta la Navidad por los regalos." (I like Christmas because of the presents." and "En el Nuevo Año tenemos una celebracion." (In the New Year we have a celebration.). Once they learned the sentences they made cards to take home to their families, as seen below. 

I wish you all HAPPY HOLIDAYS with your families!!!

Beg./Int. ASL- Patwin- December Post

Hello Patwin ASL Parents!

In the past couple of weeks we have learned various meal and beverage signs. We learned signs such as meat, beef, fish, turkey, pork, spaghetti, hamburger, sushi, taco, cereal, bread, sandwich. We also learned signs such as dairy, yogurt, ice cream cheese and milkshake.

These are some of the student's art work. They created meat platters out of construction paper to represent the signs we learned. 

We also learned new phrases such as, I have .., I don't have ..., I like, I don't like.., I want..., I don't want.., my favorite.. Try asking them to sign their favorite fruit or their favorite food! 

In the upcoming weeks we will be continuing useful phrases such as ordering at a restaurant and starting animal signs.

I appreciate your support and would like to keep encouraging students to use their ASL outside of the classroom.  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 

December | Week 1

Buen Dia Padres!

As the children came back from the break, we used this week to review some of the prior material we've gone over. Some of the vocabulary they reviewed includes snacks such as galletas, papitas, and dulce (cookies, potato chips, candy); drinks such as agua, leche, jugo, te and cafe (water, milk, juice, tea, and coffee) other foods and some fruits and vegetables. This week we played pictionary and musical chairs but in the past we've also done group projects in which the students write as many vocab words they recall on a poster paper after a few minutes of review. We will probably do this for future reviews since they seemed to have enjoyed it in the past.

Here are some pictures of this activity:

Next week we'll be learning how to order the different foods we've learned in a restaurant setting. Thus look forward to it! Gracias!

End of November Beginner French Post

Bonjour les parents!

In the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving break, our class reviewed the "être"/"to be" verbs, practiced our position words, and learned how to name our favorite foods en  français!

And the week before the break, we teamed up with the Intermediate class to draw a Thanksgiving spread and labeled our favorite holiday foods. You can ask your students to name left-over dinde (turkey) and purée de pomme de terre (mashed potatoes) on their second week off from French!

Here we are decorating our banquet de Thanksgiving!

In the coming weeks we will take on the challenge of a scavenger hunt with position word clues and review fruits/veggies, colors, and some simple verbs with fun games you can play with your students at home. Ask them to teach you "J'espionne"/"I Spy" or "Simon Dit"/"Simon Says" to practice vocab at home!

À la prochaine!

--Enseignante Cate