El Libro de los verbos y DP Update

Today we worked on our libro de verbos
Go to this quizlet and copy down the 36 most common verbs in Spanish with their English translation. 

We also updated our DP.
For your DP you will need the following:

• A photo of your Calaca
• Your  written Poema Calavera
• An introduction to the project (A short paragraph)
• A reflection about the project (A short paragraph)

Make sure your binders are organized by the end of Tuesday. 

Evaluación Hoy - El Cuerpo

Tomamos la evaluación sobre el cuerpo

Hicimos un libro de verbos
We made a verb book in class.  If you were not here today you will need to come in and make one. 

Evaluación jueves - Quiz Thursday - el cuerpo

We continued working with el cuento del gato

Study for the quiz on Thursday

• Quizlet
• Review sheet

Evaluación Jueves - El cuerpo

Here is a quizlet to practice for the quiz on body parts on Thursday. 

We learned how to conjugate -AR verbs

• Here is a worksheet to explain the concept

Here is a new vocab list over el cuerpo - the body

Calaca and Poema Calavera due 3:15pm viernes el 22 de noviembre

I gave you feedback on your poema calaveras. 

You were able to work on your calaca if you needed to as well.

You need to hand both of these in by Friday, November 22 at 3:15pm before you leave for break. 

El Poema Calavera Draft Due

We worked on our drafts of the poema calaveras. Here is the template. 

You need to send me your draft by the end of the day today. 

El Poema Calavera Draft

We worked on our drafts of the poema calaveras.  Here is the template. 

We will continue working on these tomorrow in class and turn in a draft by the end of the period tomorrow, Tuesday.  

El Poema Calavera

We practiced describing cartoon characters by saying what they look like and what they like to do. 

We wrote a practice poema calavera about ourselves.  Here is the template we filled out in class. 

We did an activity to practice the phrases we have been using this week. 

We listend to this song that uses the verb gustar

• Here is the video
• Here are the lyrics

You choose a famous person and answered these questions about the person. 

1.       Como eres?    Yo soy ….

2.       De donde eres?  Yo soy de …

3.       Que te gusta?  Me gusta…

4.       Cuantos años tienes? Yo tengo….

Donde vives?  Vivo en….

We will continue this activity tomorrow.

Los deportes y los pasatiempos con gustar

There is new vocabulary on los pasatiempos y los deportes (sports and hobbies)

We also learned how to use the verb gustar. 

También, jugamos pictionario. 

Today we reviewed the subject pronouns and the verb SER.

 

We also watched this amazing video!

SER and Subject Pronouns

On Thursday and Friday of last week we learned about subject pronouns and the verb SER.

Here are the notes on the lecture. 

Last Day for Project Work Time in Class (la calaca)

Today we continued working on or calacas or skeleton figurines. 
You should be done with painting by the end of the day.

When you finish painting you should be working on a papel picado. 
Here are the directions

• Snowflake version
• Square version

Project Work Time - Las Calacas (the Skeletons)

Today a full day of project work time to work on our art pieces. We will have one more day in class to work tomorrow. 

We will have an ofrenda in the classroom this week. Bring in an item that reminds you of the person you are creating for your sculpture.
Options could be:

• A picture
• A trinket
• A piece of clothing
• Anything that reminds you of the person

Project Work Time

We continued working on our project.  You should be finished with the paper mache and on to gluing and painting of your figurine.

Evaluación Hoy - Día de los Muertos Arte

Today we took an evaluation on adjectives and family.   

We started on our Calaveras-skeleton figures today.  If you have another idea for an art form make sure you clear it with me. 

Evaluación Mañana - La familia y los adjetivos

We watched a video on José Posada and his artwork and another video on the modern styles of Día delos Muertos artwork.

I passed out the rubric and talked about the project

I passed out a study sheet for the Quiz tomorrow.

Here are the vocab lists that will be covered:

·         Los adjetivos

·         La familia

Here are the Quizlets to practice:

·         Los adjetivos

·         La familia

La Tarea:

• Do the study sheet listed above
• Study for the quiz
• Have an ancestor in mind and ready to begin project work
• Know what style of art you want to do for the project

Evaluación Martes

Hablamos sobre los adjetivos
We talked more about adjectives

Terminamos el video sobre Día de los Muertos y entregamos las pregunta sobre el video

We finished the video over Día de los Muertos and handed in the video questions

BBC VIDEO 1

BBC VIDEO 2

Hablamos sobre el proyecto

We talked about the project

We turned in the questions about DDLM.  Here is a link to my DP with DDLM resources. Find the answers to these questions about DDLM.

1. Where did Día de los Muertos originate? What were the original celebrations that it now incorporates?

2. What are Latin American’s views on death?

3. What is an ofrenda? What are some common items used to decorate one?

4. Who is La Catrina? What does she represent?

5. What kinds of things do people do at cemeteries on Día de los Muertos?

 

La tarea:
Quiz Monday over adjectives and family members
Here are Quizlets to practice:

• La familia
• Los adjetivos

Evaluación el martes - Quiz Tuesday over adjectives and family members

We watched the Soy Guapo video and followed along with these lyrics.

We started researching Día de los Muertos.  Here is a link to my DP with DDLM resources.  Find the answers to these questions about DDLM.

1. Where did Día de los Muertos originate?  What were the original celebrations that it now incorporates?

2.  What are Latin American’s views on death?

3. What is an ofrenda?  What are some common items used to   decorate one?

4. Who is La Catrina?   What does she represent?

5. What kinds of things do people do at cemeteries on Día de los Muertos?

 

We will only have 15 minutes to continue working on this assignment tomorrow but you will need to turn it in tomorrow for credit. 

Quiz Tuesday over adjectives and family members
Here are Quizlets to practice:

• La familia
• Los adjetivos

Today we worked on our SLC notecards

Here are some cutelittle kitties! 

We watched the classic “School House Rock” to begin thinking about adjectives.

We listened to the song, “Bonito” by Jarabe de Palo

Here are the lecture notes on how to use adjectives

I handed back the quizzes from yesterday and we recoded our scores.

We worked with the website Wordreference.com

We lookedup the adjectives for our new vocab list

Evaluación Hoy - La escuela y los artículos

Today we reviewed for the quiz

We have a new vocabulary list, La familia

• Here is an activity to practice the new terms
• Here are the answers to check your work

We watched Mi vida loca

En Clase:

We practiced the school verbs by playing Simón Dice (simon says)

We talked about how to use the school verbs in sentences by conjugating the verbs.

·         Here are the filled in notes

I gave you time in class to study for the quiz and practice using quizlet. 

 

Here is a quizlet to practice.

Here is a study guide for the quiz

·         Here are the answers for the study guide

 

We practiced the word HAY more today

We practiced school vocabulary

There is a quiz on Monday over school vocabulary and articles.  

Here is aquizlet to practice.

En Clase:

Miramos Mi vida loca

We watched Mi vida loca

Aprendemos sobre la palabra HAY

We learned about the word HAY

We talked more about definite and indefinite articles.  See this chart to help you choose the correct article.  https://docs.google.com/a/animashighschool.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxhbmltYXNzcGFuaXNofGd4OjI2ZDQyZTg0ZDZjZjFjZmY

We finished the song from Thursday

We played Paranoia – it is fun!

En Clase:

We talked about articles

We listened to a song that had to do with articles

La tarea:

You will need to have an organized binder by Friday 9/27. I will be checking your binder for a grade. You will need the following :

· Binder

· 5 dividers (los proyectos, la gramatica, el vocabulario, las evaluaciones, otro)

· Loose leaf paper

· All class handouts up to this point. See the previous blog postings if you are missing any papers. Follow the links and print them out.

En Clase:

We talked about articles

We watched Mi Vida Loca episode 2

La tarea:

You will need to have an organized binder by Friday 9/27.  I will be checking your binder for a grade.  You will need the following :

·         Binder

·         5 dividers (los proyectos, la gramatica, el vocabulario, las evaluaciones, otro)

·         Loose leaf paper

·         All class handouts up to this point.  See the previous blog postings if you are missing any papers.  Follow the links and print them out.  

Los artículos indefinidos y definidos

En Clase:

Practicamos el vocabulario de laescuela

We practiced school vocab

Aprendemos sobre los artículos definidos e indefinidos

We learned about the definite and indefinite articles

·         Hereare the completed notes from today

Miramos Mi vida loca

We watched Mi Vida Loca

En Clase:

Repartí las evaluaciónes de ayer

I handed back the quizzes from yesterday

Aprendemos sobre los sustantivos y el nuevo vocabulario

We learned about nouns and the new vocabulary

Miramos Mi Vida Loca episodio 2

We watched Mi Vida Loca episode 2

Evaluación Hoy - El Calendario

En Clase:
We reviewed and took the quiz over the Calendar.

I collected the homework from yesterday.  Here is a link to the homework if you were not here. 

After the test we started working on the new vocabulary and practice sheet.  Please complete this for tomorrow. 

• Here is the link if you do not have it. 
• Here is a link to the school vocab

Evaluación Mañana – Evaluation Tomorrow

Evaluación Mañana – Evaluation Tomorrow

En Clase:

Practicamos el alfabeto y el vocabulario del calendario por jugar el ahorcado.
We practiced the alphabet and the calendar vocabulary by playing hangman.  

Here’s the Burriquito song if you’re wondering

La tarea:

Hicimos una hoja de trabajo para practicar para la evaluación

We did a worksheet topractice for the evaluation.

·         Turn in the above worksheet that we started in class tomorrow for credit.

·         Study for the evaluation

·         Clickhere to see the quizlet

·         Hereis the completed note sheet you will need to know

En Clase:

We practiced using vocabulary of the days of the week. 

 

We practiced pronunciation of the alphabet. 

Evaluación el jueves – Quiz Thursday over the calendar

• Check out this Quizlet to help you study
• Follow this link to see the completed notes packet
• Follow this link to see the PowerPoint that explains how to say the date

En Clase:

We reviewed the days of the week and how to say the date.

We did an activity on how to say the date. 

We watched episode 1 of Mi Vida Loca

 

 

El Calendario

En Clase:

Terminamos con la presentación sobre el calendario

We finished with the presentation over the calendar.

Hicimos la hoja de trabajo en la última página

We did the worksheet on the back side.  

Click here to see thecompleted notes and worksheet.

La tarea:

If you have not taken the first evaluation or need to retake it, please contact me and do so this week. 

See the previous post for a list of study resources

En Clase:

We revisited the behavior expectations of the class.

We practiced using numbers in Spanish

We did an activity to practice the days of the week and the months in Spanish. 

• Click here to see the blank packet about the calender and how to say the date in spanish
• Click here to see the completed packet
• Click here to see the PowerPoint that accompanies the packet

If you are planning to retake the Quiz on either Wednesday or Thursday, please follow the links below for more practice.

• Los saludos y las despedidas vocab list and practice sheet
• Quizlet Study Activities
• Practice Sheet 1
• Practice Sheet 1 Answers
• Practice Sheet 2
• Practice Sheet 2 Answers  

Today we organized our binders for class.  You will need the following for class:
3 ring binder
5 dividers (El Vocabulario/La Gramatica/Las Evaluaciones/Los Proyectos/Otro)
loose leaf paper

We talked about the classroom rules and expected behavior

If you did not take the quiz last Friday please do so Tusday or Wednesday at lunch or after school. 
Here is the vocab list of what you will need to study.

See the previous posts for more study materials. 

EVALUACIÓN HOY – SALUDOS Y DESPEDIDAS

QUIZ TODAY – GREETINGS AND FAREWELLS

En Clase:

Practicamos para la evaluación

We practiced for the evaluation

Tomamos la evaluación

We took the evaluation

Evaluación Martes – Los saludos y las despedidas

Evaluation Tuesday – Greetings and Farewells

En Clase:

Escribimos conversaciones con nuestro vocabulario de sludos y despedidas

We wrote conversations with our vocabulary on greetings and farewells

Hablamos del programa de estudios
We talked about the syllabus 

La tarea:

Estudia para la evaluación

Study for the evaluation

Check out these links to the practice worksheets

Saludos y despedidas worksheet 2
Saludos y despedidas worksheet 2_Answers
Saludos y despedidas worksheet 3
Saludos y despedidas worksheet 3_Answers

Follow this link to play practice games. http://quizlet.com/25377810/saludos-y-despedidas-flash-cards/

En Clase:

Aprendemos los saludos y despedidas

We learned the greetings and farewells.  Follow this link to download a copy of the vocab list and worksheet. 

Hablamos de la differencia entre la forma usted y la forma tú; formal v informal

Today we talked about the difference between the usted form and the Tú form; formal v informal

La tarea:

Study for the quiz on Tuesday.