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