Buenas tardes a todos,

We will be  learning more interesting things this week about telling time, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, colors, classroom expressions, and cultural notes about the Euro and the artist Pablo Picasso. When we start telling time in Spanish,  right now we will be using conversational time, not military time. Some students have trouble telling time when we get to quarter of six (5:45)  or five of ten (9:55), so it might be confusing because we are in such a digital age. Analog clocks can be a bit tricky!

We have been using and working in partners on many days and it seems to be going smoothly. We will be doing more of that and some group work too as the weeks go on. Last week worked out well with some  book exercises, our first listening exercises, 2 quizzes and a bingo game. We also learned about conjugating the verb (to be) and how we use pronouns in Spanish. It was eye opening for some students! Some cultural notes about Spain rounded out the week.

This week will be a bit different, however. I will be needing leg surgery on Wednesday and will also be out on Thursday and Friday to recover. While I am out, the students  will still have homework in their new packets plus some other activities if they do not finish them in class. I am planning the best way to have minimal impact while I am gone. The same substitute should be in to cover for maximum continuity. I expect the students to cooperate with each other, finish all their work, and be respectful to the substitute. It will be collected and graded also.  Sorry for the inconvenience, but it is a surgery that I can no longer put off. Thank you in advance for your understanding.

Tarea esta semana:

lunes noche: Old second packet- Pages 3g, 4g, and 4a which will finish that packet, all the sheets.
martes noche: New packet - Pages 6a and 7v, the whole page on both.
miércoles noche: Finish any left over worksheets for collection and do the time worksheet. (separate)
jueves noche: New packet - pages 5a and 7a the whole sheet on both.
viernes noches. Nada- Have a good weekend.

¡Buena suerte!  Señora Schneider

  

¡Hola clases!

Just a quick update to this past Monday's blog. We will be having another more formal quiz on Friday that will be on How are you? and all the responses, Where are you from, where is he/she from? and all the  responses, all the hellos, the goodbyes, nice to meet yous, and basic words like classmate, student, friend, boy, girl, teacher, Mr. Mrs. Miss, how to pick out a subject and verb, Who is she/he? and responses.

If you need extra help studying, I am staying after this Thursday until 3:15 and you can also make flashcards to help you study. See me with any questions.

Buena Suerte,   Señora Schneider

Buenas noches a todos,

I hope that you all had a nice weekend and are ready to get back to work. This week we will be focusing more on facts about Spain, hispanic capitals and countries, cultural notes about general hispanic facts, questions such as where are you from, how are you, what is your telephone number, and using more pronouns  and the verb ser (to be). We will also be crafting our responses to the questions and using exit cards to discuss our feelings and where we are from. We will be doing some listening activities with our new expressions, practicing our numbers, using the book more, and working with partners more often this week. We will have another quiz on Tuesday on the questions about how are you, the responses, where you are from, and the responses, and receive a new packet too.

La tarea por esta semana es:

lunes noche: paquete viejo (old packet) pagina 3v ejercicios 7,8,9, and 5a ej. 5 y 6. Study for quiz.
martes noche: paquete nuevo: (new packet) pagina 4v toda la pagina ( whole page).
miércoles noche: paquete- paginas 5v y 6v.
jueves noche: bingo card about numbers and expressions.
viernes noche: nada


Buena suerte,    Señora Schneider

Buenas noches a todos,

It was nice meeting some of our parents of our students last Thursday night in spite of the heat and the Patriots game. The students wrote and practiced some dialogs and set up and passed in beautiful calendars with pictures of animals in color and labeled in Spanish along with the numbers and days of the week written out in Spanish. We also learned numbers up to 100, learned some new expressions such as "How are you?" and all the responses and received and covered our books. Thank you!

This week we will be setting up buddy partners for future class work, changing seats, having a quiz on all the greetings and goodbyes along with what's your name, his name, her name, my name is, who is he, she, this is my friend, my classmate, my teacher, learning our countries and capitals, asking and telling where you are from, practicing the how are you responses, learning more about accents, and possibly learning about telephone numbers and emails.

We have a half day on Wednesday with much shorter classes, a quiz on Tuesday, and we will learn about how words are masculine, feminine, and plural and how that all works. I will be staying after school on Tuesday and Thursday this week as the late bus starts this week also. Some of you need to stay for some make up work already! So much to do!

La tarea por esta semana es:

lunes noche: vocabulary sheet to help review for the quiz-fill in the English, and paquete 1v ejercicio 3 and pagina 2v ejercicio 6.  Study for quiz.

martes noche: Paquete - pagina 2a ejercicio 4 and pagina 12v ejercicios 31 and 32.

miércoles noche: paquete - pagina 1a ejercicios 1,2,3, and pagina 2a ejercicio 5.

jueves noche: paquete - 3v ejercicios 7,8,9  and pagina 4v ejercicios 10 y 11.

viernes noche: nada= nothing

Buena suerte -good luck! Señora Schneider

¡Buenos dias clase!

Welcome to a full week of school with no interruptions. I think we are ready to pick up the pace and really start to learn and enjoy Spanish. This week we will be learning new expressions to put in our notebooks, sharing dialogs and conversations with me and your classmates, learning and reviewing numbers up to 100, practicing vocabulary and new expressions that we will be learning everyday, learning more about the colors, starting a calendar for September and learning new vocabulary that goes with that, passing out your books which need to be covered, hopefully finishing our birthdays and license plate activities, working together in groups and partners, and starting a good routine for homework. It will be fun, but busy! If you are absent, you will need to get the notes from a classmate to catch up. Homework will be posted on the blog.

La tarea por esta semana es: (The homework for this week is)

lunes noche: el paquete (the packet): pagina 5v ejercicios  11 y 12, pagina 6v ejercicios 3 y 4.
martes noche: el paquete: pagina 5v ejercicio 13, pagina 6a ejercicios 7 y 8.
miércoles noche: calendario de septiembre con 8 animales en español y en color.
jueves noche: el paquete: pagina 1v ejercicios 1 y 2, pagina 2v ejercicios 4 y 5.
viernes noche: no tarea

Buena suerte- good luck and have a great week!   Señora Schneider

Buenos dias a todos,

We are off to another good start this week with a few language surveys, more weather, more numbers,  alphabet review, new names, money envelopes, new expressions, birthdays, name tags, and general review. There is no homework this week due to the Jewish holidays on Wednesday and Thursday night, however, we did need to bring in a colored name tag for today. There will be a quick little alphabet quiz on Friday for the letters in Spanish and we will be reviewing all week to get to that goal.

I hope you are all enjoying the class so far. We will be picking up the pace next  week with more consistent homework and the passing out of the books. Don't forget to cover your books when you get them!  Have a good week!

Señora Schneider