¡Hola Clase!

We are coming up on the last week before the holiday break and we are wrapping up a few items plus learning about holiday traditions in various Hispanic countries. We will also be making Mexican tin ornaments, finishing presentations from last week, playing "ponga" for a vocabulary review, and having a quick quiz on that vocabulary from pages 82 and 83 in the book on Wednesday.  We might also read a traditional holiday poem in Spanish and English and listen to some music as we make our ornamentos.

This week will be a lighter homework week:

lunes noche: pagina 23 en el paquete.
martes noche: pagina 18 and the vocabulary sheet that I will pass out in class. Study for quiz tomorrow. The quiz is on the verbs that we have learned so far the nouns that go with them. No sentences, just fill in the blanks.
miércoles noche: If you have any sharpies, bring them in tomorrow for our ornaments.
jueves noche: nada
viernes noche : nada


I want to wish all my students and their families and happy and safe vacation and Happy Holidays no matter what your traditions are! ¡Feliz Navidad! from Señora Schneider

¡Buenas tardes a todos!

This week, we are starting Chapter 3 and will really be ramping up what we learn. We are now starting to learn about the different types of verbs in Spanish such as "AR", "ER", and "IR". We started a verb list, will be composing a list of nouns that go with the new verbs, using pictures to help us with the action words, learning how to use "con" = with,  learning about the verb to want = "querer", working with partners while using the pictures, playing a few words games and finishing our presentations from last week, and probably having a short quiz on Friday on the new verbs and nouns.

Flashcards might be helpful for the verbs and the nouns that go with them. Studying the expressions  will be helpful when we have our class activities. This chapter will separate the men/the women from the boys/the girls. If you have not been studying much, it will catch up with you now.

Tarea por la semana:

lunes noche: paquete nuevo: pagina 25 ejercicios #1 y #3, pagina 28 toda la pagina. (whole page).
martes noche: paquete:  pagina 26 ej #4, pagina 29 toda, pagina 30 #15.
miércoles noche: paquete: pagina 21 toda, pagina 25 ej #2, pagina 26 ej # 4 y 5.
jueves noche: paquete: pagina  22 toda, pagina 30 #16 y 17. !estudien los verbos and el vocabulario!
viernes noche: nada    

La semana proxima (next week)

Holiday traditions in different Hispanic countries, mexican tin ornaments, ponga, make ups before vacation, listening activities, video dialogs, and other fun activities.

¡Hasta mañana!  Señora Schneider

Buenas tardes a todos,

This week, we are finishing up Chapter 2 about our likes, dislikes,  and how  to  describe them. We are also doing our oral presentations in front of the class with our pictures that we drew of ourselves. The students need to have their face, their name, their made up age, their capital and country, 4 adjectives describing themselves,  2 likes and 2 dislikes and tell us why they like and dislike their items. They also need their telephone number or their email address. We will be doing a few presentations everyday while the audience takes notes. This is a culminating activity of almost everything that we have learned so far so it will count as a test grade, the picture is a quiz grade, and the notes are a classwork grade. We started the presentations last week and they will be going until next week.

We are also having a test this week on Chapter 2 on the same things as mentioned above. We have been reviewing in class with partners and doing classwork together, plus having homework that reflects the review. Most of us should be in good shape. It will help if you look over the noun vocabulary, the adjectives, the cultural notes on Puerto Rico, gustar, "de" the subject pronouns, the question words,  how to use por qué vs. porque, "no" and how to conjugate "ser".

Tarea por la semana del 3 de diciembre:

lunes noche: finish vocab sheet both halves, finish pronoun sheet and question sheet that I passed out.
martes noche: finish the story paper that we started in class -need 10 sentences min. Will be graded. Study!
miércoles noche: calendario de diciembre- 8 holiday/winter items in color and labeled in Spanish
jueves noche: In the book -pages 82 and 83. Put new verbs in notebook. "AR" verbs on "ar page, "ER" verbs on er page, "IR verbs on ir page.
viernes noche: nada  

Please study for the test on Chapter 2. Use flashcards if you are shaky on the vocabulary.  Keep practicing for your presentation if you have not already done it!

Hasta mañana,   Señora Schneider

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