Wednesday, September 28, 2011

miƩrcoles, el veintiocho de septiembre

Spanish I:
  • had a quiz on 1.1 words. This can be retaken at any lunch time (as many times as desired).
  • began flash cards on 1.2 (pg 69). This quiz will not be for a couple of weeks, but it is best to start practicing them every day. Flash cards are due by next Wednesday.
Reminder:
Midterm grades will be coming up soon. Please take quiz retakes and turn in missing work as soon as possible, if you want to improve your grade.

Homework:
There is no homework due to the holiday weekend. Next week we will begin Unidad 1, Etapa 1.

3rd Grade Spanish:
  • began writing a small skit, using the greetings words we are learning.

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

martes, el veintisiete de septiembre

Spanish I:

  • finished a listening comprehension exercise
  • took a practice quiz for the vocabulary quiz tomorrow
  • practiced the words not known.
Reminder:
Vocabulary quiz tomorrow on words on pg 47

Important:
The midterm progress report is coming up next week. All retakes should be taken by this Monday if you want your grade to improve.

4th grade Spanish:
  • Students began writing a skit on greetings. They will memorize the words and act them out within the next few weeks.

Monday, September 26, 2011

lunes, el veintiseis de septiembre

Spanish I:
  • We went over the work sheet that was due today.
  • We had another listening activity.
Reminder:
Vocab quiz (pg 47) this Wednesday

3rd grade Spanish:
  • went over the greetings vocabulary
  • finished flash cards
  • tested each other using the flash cards.

viernes, el 23 de septiembre

Spanish I:

  • Students had their first listening activity, writing down names of people and countries and phone numbers.
  • Students continued working on the worksheets handed out yesterday, which are duw on Monday.
Reminders:
Vocabulary quiz (pg 47) next Wednesday.

Thursday, September 22, 2011

jueves, el veintidos de septiembre

Spanish I:
Students went over pages 10-19 in the textbook and answered questions out loud. They began a worksheet that is due on Monday, Sept 26th. This is not to be done for homework tonight. Tomorrow we will do the listening activities in class.
The vocabulary quiz on pg 47 will be next Wednesday, September 28th. Students received a vocabulary sheet for this today, and the flashcards for this unit are due tomorrow (they must be done BEFORE they walk into class).

4th grade Spanish:
We reviewed the basic greetigns again, and students either finished their flash cards, or practiced them in small groups.
You can see the vocabulary by clicking below:
http://www.berkleyschools.org/index.aspx?folder=11871

miƩrcoles, el veintiuno de septiembre

Spanish I:
Students went over the work sheet on greetings assigned yesterday. If this was not completed, they worked on it on their own and were marked down 5 points. Homework must be done by the day it is due, or they will lose points. Work will not be accepted if it is more than a week late.
Students had class time to finish their flashcards from pg 47, and to practice them, or work on their skits.

3rd grade Spanish:
There was no Spanish class today because of the Peace Parade.

Spanish I reminders:
Flash cards on page 47 are due by this Friday

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

martes, el veinte de septiembre

Spanish I:
  • Students had an oral test on the Spanish alphabet. This can be retaken as many times as desired at lunch time only.
  • We went over vocabulary from the first vocabulary quiz on the Etapa preliminar, and worked on some exercises.
Homework:
  • packet on Etapa Preliminar chapter (using exercises from pages 2-20, and vocabulary from page 21. This homework is due by tomorrow 9and you have one week to turn it before it will not be accepted.)
  • flashcards from Unidad 1, Etapa 1 (page 47) must be done by this Friday and shown to me, or they will considered late, and you will not get a grade for them. Remember to make flashcards from the words on page 47, NOT from the sheet I gave you (since that one has extra words that I will not test you on). The vocab quiz on these words will be in a few weeks, but I suggest you start studying them a little every night.
4th grade Spanish:
  • We made flash cards on the basic greetings words we went over last week. These words can be found by clicking on
http://www.berkleyschools.org/index.aspx?folder=11871