Buenas noches a todos,

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving with your families near and far. It was another nice long weekend with lots of things to do for the upcoming holidays. However, we are not there yet and we need to keep plugging along during the month of December. We are still working with our likes and dislikes and learning how to talk about what we like as well as what other people like. Since last week was a very short week, we finished up a few loose ends and had a quick quiz. This week we will be back to normal as we work with partners, do some writing, finish our listening activities, finish our cultural notes on Puerto Rico, learn about the concept of "de" (most of which we already know) finish our autobiography pictures, present our autobiographies in front of the class, and have one more quiz before the test on chapter 2 next week. We will also have homework and continue to review all our new vocabulary and verbs.

Tarea por la semana del 26 de noviembre:

lunes noche: paquete - pagina 14 ejercicio 11, pagina 20a ejercicio 28, pagina 20v ejercicio 21
martes noche: paquete - pagina 21 - todos los ejercicios
miércoles noche: finish your autobiography picture and practice for your  oral presentation.
jueves noche: paquete - paginas 23 y 24 - todos los ejercicios. Estudien - Hay un examencito mañana.
viernes noche: nada

Next week we will be continuing with our presentations, doing some group games, changing seats, and taking our chapter 2 test probably el miércoles. We will also be reading our on going dialog and watching the video that goes with the chapter.

¡Hasta mañana!   Señora Schneider

Buenas noches a todos,

Hope you all had a good long weekend. Now it is time to get back to work after having a few days off. This week we will be learning about things that we like for  fun and food, learning some new adjectives to go with those items, pick some new partners that we didn't get to pick last week, do some whole class and partner activities with "gusta", finish our listening sheet, and learn how to link all our new information together. We will be continuing with our homework packets and will need to take good notes in order to do our homework well.

Tarea por ésta semana: (homework for this week):

martes noche: Pagina 19v- ejercicios 17 y 18, pagina 14 - ejercicios 9 y 10.
miércoles noche: pagina 18- ejercicios 21 y 22, pagina 20v -  ejercicios 19 y 20.
jueves noche: pagina 16  y 19a - todas las paginas.

There is a possible quiz on this  Friday 11-16 depending on how we  do in class this week. I will let you know as the week goes on. I will be staying after school this week on Tuesday 11-13 until 3:00 pm and Thursday 11-15 until 3:30. None of the teachers will be able to stay on Wednesday as we have a after school mandatory staff meeting probably until 3:00 pm.

!Hasta mañana!   Señora Schneider

¡Hola clase!

This week will be another fun filled week as we are finishing our Day of the Dead presentations, having a quiz on the adjectives, ages, and question words, and learning how to say what we like and don't like in reference to food and entertainment. More new vocabulary, more new adjectives, but fun vocabulary! We will also be getting new partners with map buddies, finishing up our old packet by Wednesday and getting a new one for Thursday night.

Homework for this week: (tarea por ésta semana):

lunes noche: finish paginas 6 y 15. !Estudien porque hay un examencito miércoles!
martes noche: paquete - paginas 12 y 13A !Estudien porque hay un examencito mañana!
miércoles noche: vocabulario from vocab sheet- put in seccion tres- 5 columns - mas, fem, etc.
jueves noche: paquete nuevo-parte 2- paginas 19V y 20A.
viernes noche: nada

This will be a quick week with a half day on Tuesday, excitement about the real election and our election in school (good job with the set-up), a quiz on Wednesday, and starting new vocabulary. Don't forget- !no hay escuela el lunes!

Hasta luego,     Señora Schneider

¡Buenas noches a todos!

Well, we have had an exciting past few days with Huracan Sandy, no power, and in some cases, no water. Thank goodness things are trying to get back to normal. Last week, we started learning about adjectives, ages, and cultural notes about Puerto Rico. We still need to work with the new adjective vocabulary and will be having oral presentations using pictures that you have drawn of yourselves. After having a half day last week, attending a yearly foreign language conference last Friday, having 2 no school days this week, and another early release day next Tuesday on election day, we are having trouble getting into a consistent routine for optimal learning, but we will get there. We just need some patience and a bit more studying.

This week, we will learning about the Mexican and Latin American holiday Los Dias de los Muertos or the Day of the Dead. Celebrated at the same time as Halloween, All Saints Day, and All Souls Day, we will be learning how this holiday is similar to Halloween and what the major differences are also. It is a family oriented celebration of ancestors and loved ones that have passed away. On Friday, we will be bringing in one picture of a deceased loved one or pet along with a article that represents that person's interests and likes, presenting them to the class, and putting them into our classroom "ofrenda" or altar. It is a very interesting project that everyone seems to enjoy. We will be continuing presentations into next week, however the items are due this Friday. Presentations will be in English, although there might be a few questions that I will ask in Spanish that we all should know how to answer.

Tarea por ésta semana: ( homework for this week):

miércoles noche: calendarios de noviembre - 8 cosas de los dias de los muertos, en color y en español. You have a list of items that you can use for your 8 pictures after listening to our classroom discussion.

jueves noche: bring in a picture of a deceased relative or pet and be prepared to talk about that person's or animal's favorite activities, favorite foods, age, personality, and any other interesting facts that you can share with the class. This is not a written project, but you will be graded on your presentation.

I am still available for extra help and make up work (classwork, homework, and finishing quizzes and tests) tomorrow and next week on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Test corrections and retakes  are going on now for the major test we just got back today. My policy is any quiz or test under a 70% can be corrected up to 4 per trimester. Make sure you come to see me because the trimester ends the week of Thanksgiving which is el 22 de noviembre.

Hasta mañana,      Señora Schneider



  

¡Hola clase!

This week we will be starting a new chapter (2) after finishing chapter 1 last week. If you still need to finish the test or quiz or make up the listening exercises, homework packet, or classwork, please see me as soon as possible. I will be staying after school today and Thursday,  but not tomorrow as it is an early release day.

Chapter 2 will be fun a chapter as we will be learning adjectives to describe people, talking about our likes and dislikes and learning how to talk about people's ages. We have some good activities to go with our new chapter. We have a new packet this week so the assignments will start again. If you did not pass in your old packet, you need to finish it and give it to me for credit. We also will be learning fun facts about Puerto Rico and have already done an activity for the introduction.

Tarea por la semana: (Homework for the week)

lunes noche: pagina 6 ej. #14, pagina 15 ej #6
martes noche: paginas 16 y 17 (todas las paginas) (the whole page)
miércoles noche: paginas 11y 13v (todas las paginas)
jueves noche: paginas 14 y 18 (todas las paginas)
viernes noche: nada

Friday should be an interesting day. Please come in ready to work and have your puzzle thinking caps on. !Hasta luego!   Señora Schneider

Buenos dias a todos,

This week is a review/catch up week as we are preparing for our first Chapter 1 test starting on Wednesday, October 17 and continuing to Thursday the 18th. We are finishing up our packets, our cultural notes, and reviewing everything that we have learned so far. The test will be on basic greetings,  goodbyes, how are you and the responses, where are you from and the responses, the date, the time, the seasons, the months,  the days of the week, telephone numbers, emails, numbers to 100, the verb "ser" which is the verb "to be" and how to change it's forms which is called conjugation, accents on the words we have learned so far, cultural notes on Spain, and subject pronouns. It is basically everything we have learned so far except the weather.

We have been working with partners and in groups, along with individual accountability to review and we will be starting a new chapter next week after we see the video on chapter 1 on Monday. Friday the 19th there are no classes due to our Spirit Day celebrations so there is no homework from me on Thursday night. Please see the schedule below for the other days.

Tarea: Homework:

lunes noche: finish packets with 4a and 8a. Skip ex 11, we will do that one in class. Study!
martes noche: finish vocabulary sheet and the euro sheet we had in class last week. Study!
miércoles noche: En el libro (BOOK) paginas 32 y  33 ejercicios 1 thru 6.  1st section. Study!
jueves noche: ¡No tarea!

Hasta mañana, Señora Schneider

Buenas noches a todos,

I hope you all had a nice 3 day weekend! We are now ready to get back to work by practicing how to use conversational time, days of the week, months, seasons and the questions that go with them. We are still reviewing all our basic expressions that are used with finding out basic information such as names, feelings, capitals, countries, where people are from, time, weather, phone numbers, emails, and the verb "to be" otherwise known as "ser". We are still learning some cultural notes about Spain and general Hispanic culture. We will be having our last quiz on this chapter 1 on Friday, October 12 and we will be having our first major test next week probably Wednesday or Thursday. All of the above information will be on it.

Homework (la tarea) for this week:

martes noche: paquete paginas 8v and 10v - the whole pages.
miércoles noche: paquete paginas 7v and 11v - the whole pages.
jueves noche: paquete paginas 7a and 10a - the whole pages. Study for quiz on the above items, especially phone numbers, emails, and time, but you will see some old questions on there too.

I will be staying after school Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. Next week I can stay Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday and will be in the classroom on Thursday but will be having after school Spanish classes and not really available for one on one help.

Hasta luego,  Señora Schneider