miércoles, el doce de septiembre

Spanish I:

• 1st, 4th, 6th, and 7th hour: We went over the exercises assigned yesterday. 
• Students had time to correct mistakes on their practice quiz, and to take a new quiz.
• Students began a worksheet packet on the Etapa Preliminar. This is not due until Wed. Sept 19, and they will have class time tomorrow to work on it.

IMPORTANT:

• Students have a vocab quiz on the Etapa Preliminar on Wed. Sept. 19

3rd grade Spanish:

• Students began making flash cards for the greetings vocabulary. They will have a matching test on these words in a few weeks.

Greetings

Hola = Hello

Adiós = Goodbye

Buenos días = Good morning

Buenas tardes = Good afternoon

Buenas noches = Good night

Gracias = Thank you

De nada = You are welcome

Por favor = Please

¿Cómo te llamas? = What is your name?

Me llamo = My name is

¿Cómo estás? = How are you?

Estoy = I am

Bien = Good/fine

Mal = Bad/not well

Así, así = So-so

¿Cuántos años tienes? = How old are you?

Tengo ____ años. = I am ____ years old.

¿Cuándo es tu cumpleaños? = When is your birthday?

Mi cumpleaños es el ____ de ____. My birthday is _______ ___.

¿Dónde vives? = Where do you live?

Vivo en… = I live in …

martes, el once de septiembre

Spanish I:

• Students began to do bell work. They will do this every Monday from now on, for a grade, and we will go over it on Friday. Bell work this week is writing down the date and the weather.
• Students received hand outs on the calendar, weather, Spanish punctuation on the computer, and how to pronouns the alphabet and numbers.
• I handed back the practice quiz and we went opver some of the common mistakes. Students were shown which spelling mistakes are acceptable and which are not acceptable.
• We finished reviewing the Etapa Preliminar chapter.

2nd hour did not have much of a Spanish class because of the Fun Run assembly. They were only able to start the bell work. they do not have any homework today, and we will do today's work tomorrow.

Classwork/homework:

• Students began classwork questions from the textbook, and had class time to work on them. This is to be finished for homework, due tomorrow. We will go over each exercise in class tomorrow.

IMPORTANT:

• The first vocab quiz is on Wed, Sept 19. Students have the exact words they need to know, and they are on this blog, and in the class room.

3rd grade Spanish:

• Students began making flash cards for the greetings vocabulary. They will have a quiz on these words in several weeks.

Greetings

Hola = Hello

Adiós = Goodbye

Buenos días = Good morning

Buenas tardes = Good afternoon

Buenas noches = Good night

Gracias = Thank you

De nada = You are welcome

Por favor = Please

¿Cómo te llamas? = What is your name?

Me llamo = My name is

¿Cómo estás? = How are you?

Estoy = I am

Bien = Good/fine

Mal = Bad/not well

Así, así = So-so

¿Cuántos años tienes? = How old are you?

Tengo ____ años. = I am ____ years old.

¿Cuándo es tu cumpleaños? = When is your birthday?

Mi cumpleaños es el ____ de ____. My birthday is _______ ___.

¿Dónde vives? = Where do you live?

Vivo en… = I live in …

lunes, el diez de septiembre

Spanish I:

• Students had a practice vocab quiz for Etapa Preliminar. We went over the differences between spelling mistakes that will be allowed and not marked wrong, and mistakes that are grammar mistakes, like making something masculine or femenine, and using the correct endings for verbs.
• We began to review the first chapter Etapa Preliminar:

1. Greetings
2. Where Spanish is spoken
3. Formal versus informal, for asking someone their name

            ¿Cómo te llamas? = What is your name? (familiar, used with family and friends)
            ¿Cómo se llama? = What is your name? (formal, used with people you don't know or to
                                             show respect)
    4. Sounds of the Spanish alphabet

         H = is silent
         C/G are hard sounds if followed by a, o, and u (casa, como, cual, gato, gordo, guapo)
         C/G are soft sounds if followed by e and i (cero, cien, general, gigante)
    5. How to say the date in Spanish:
                Hoy es lunes, el diez de septiembre.     

Homework:

• Study for first vocab quiz

IMPORTANT:

• Vocabulary quiz on Etapa Preliminar is on Wed. Sept 19

3rd grade Spanish:

• We went over greetings words, and began to make flash cards.           

 

Greetings

Hola = Hello

Adiós = Goodbye

Buenos días = Good morning

Buenas tardes = Good afternoon

Buenas noches = Good night

Gracias = Thank you

De nada = You are welcome

Por favor = Please

¿Cómo te llamas? = What is your name?

Me llamo = My name is

¿Cómo estás? = How are you?

Estoy = I am

Bien = Good/fine

Mal = Bad/not well

Así, así = So-so

¿Cuántos años tienes? = How old are you?

Tengo ____ años. = I am ____ years old.

¿Cuándo es tu cumpleaños? = When is your birthday?

Mi cumpleaños es el ____ de ____. My birthday is _______ ___.

¿Dónde vives? = Where do you live?

Vivo en… = I live in …

viernes, el siete de septiembre

Spanish I:

• Students went back to the lab today. They each created their own account on conjuguemos.com to use at home for studying purposes.
• They finished their flash cards and practiced them on either quizlet.com, conjuguemos.com, or one of the En Español websites.

Homework:

• Start studying the vocabulary words you do not know on the Etapa Preliminar chapter for a quiz on Wed. Sept. 19

IMPORTANT:

• The first vocabulary quiz is on Wed. Sept 19 on the Etapa Preliminar. Students will receive a copy of which words they need to know on Monday. The words they need to know are:

Buenos días.      Good morning.                                

Buenas tardes. Good afternoon.                                                             

Buenas noches.                Good night.

leer                        to read

escribir                 to write

escuchar              to listen

hablar                   to talk

¿Cómo se llama?              What is her/his/your formal name?                        

¿Cómo se llaman?           What is their name?                                                      

¿ Cómo te llamas?           What is your name?       

Me llamo…..                       My name is…                                                                    

Se llama….                           His/her/your formal name is…                  

Se llaman….                        Their names are….

¿De dónde eres?             Where are you from?                                                   

¿De dónde es?                  Where is he/she/are you formal from?          

Soy de…..             I am from….                                                                      

Es de…..                               He/she/you formal are from….

¿Qué día es hoy?             What day is today?                                                                                         

Hoy es….                              Today is…..         

lunes                                     Monday

martes                                  Tuesday

miércoles                            Wednesday

jueves                                  Thursday

viernes                                 Friday

sábado                                 Saturday

domingo                              Sunday

5th Grade Spanish:

• Students were given a vocabulary sheet of basic greetings. They began to make flash cards for these. They will have a quiz on these words in about a month.

Greetings vocabulary for 5th grade:

Greetings

Hola = Hello

Adiós = Goodbye

Buenos días = Good morning

Buenas tardes = Good afternoon

Buenas noches = Good night

Gracias = Thank you

De nada = You are welcome

Por favor = Please

¿Cómo te llamas? = What is your name?

Me llamo = My name is

¿Cómo estás? = How are you?

Estoy = I am

Bien = Good/fine

Mal = Bad/not well

Así, así = So-so

¿Cuántos años tienes? = How old are you?

Tengo ____ años. = I am ____ years old.

¿Cuándo es tu cumpleaños? = When is your birthday?

Mi cumpleaños es el ____ de ____. My birthday is _______ ___.

¿Dónde vives? = Where do you live?

Vivo en… = I live in …

jueves, el seis de septiembre

Spanish I:

• Students went to the computer lab at Avery and made flash cards, either on their phones or ipods, or on the website, quizlet.com. These were flash cards for any of the words from last year that they do not remember.
• We looked at the most useful Spanish websites:

1) http://www.classzone.com/books/en_espanol_1/?state=MI

2) http://www.classzone.com/books/en_espanol_1/page_build.cfm?content=online_workbook

3) http://www.conjuguemos.com

IMPORTANT:

• No homework today. Tomorrow we might be gong back to the lab. Check for a sign on my class room door.

3rd grade Ms. Hollerbach:

• Students made name tags with their Spanish names.

miércoles, el cinco de septiembre

¡Hola and welcome back!
Please make sure to check this blog every day, for important information. You will find notes and study guides, and information on what the homework is, when it is due, and when you will have a test.

Spanish I:

• Students wrote down common Spanish frases and questions that they will need to use in the class room.
• Students reviewed vocabulary learned last year. They highlighted the words they do not remember. Tomorrow they will be making flash cards for these in the lab.

Homework:

• Finish highlighting Spanish vocabulary that you do not remember. Due by tomorrow.

IMPORTANT:
You must know the vocabulary from the etapa preliminar, and unidad 1.
Click on the links below to get the vocabulary sheets:
Preliminar:
http://www.berkleyschools.org/norup-international-school/pages/55704/etapa-preliminar

Unidad 1, etapa 1:
http://www.berkleyschools.org/norup-international-school/pages/55743/unidad-1-etapa-1

Unidad 1, etapa 2:
http://www.berkleyschools.org/norup-international-school/pages/55744/unidad-1-etapa-2

Unidad 1, etapa 3:
http://www.berkleyschools.org/norup-international-school/pages/55768/unidad-1-etapa-3

3rd grade Spanish:

• Students made name tags with their Spanish names.

lunes, el once de junio

Spanish I:

• Students in 2nd and 4th hour were given their All About Me projects, if they were emailed or turned in. These will be due tomorrow. amd if they are not turned in, they will be marked as missing.