¡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



  

¡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

Buenos dias a todos,

I hope you are having a good week! We are still pretty much on track for classroom activities. The only thing that I am changing is the quiz on Friday. We will be having that next Wednesday as Monday is Columbus day with no school. It will be on the new expressions such as "Where are you from?" "What's your telephone number?", "What's your email?", and "What time is it?". We will also have some of the old expressions which we are still practicing in class. You should also be trying to remember the capitals and the hispanic countries. There are 21 of them. In the meantime, we will be continually reviewing the expressions with classroom activities and partner work. Please come prepared to class to work!

Updated homework for Thursday night:

jueves noche: new packet (paquete nuevo) paginas 5a y 6a- completen las dos paginas (complete both)  
viernes noche: nada, pero hay un examen el miércoles proximo - ¡estudien! Study for Wed quiz!

Hasta mañana, Señora Schneider

Buenas noches clase,

Just a quick update to let you know what we will be doing this week. This week, we will finish the notes on Spain, do some listening activities, learn about phone numbers, emails, how to tell time, review capitals and countries, practice more numbers, learn more about the verb "to be", hopefully play bingo, and finish our license plates and classroom expressions and possibly have another quiz this Friday on more expressions and number

Homework for tonight is:
lunes noche: new paquete- pages 4a and 5v, whole pages
martes noche: pages 3a and 6v, whole pages  
miércoles noche: calendario de octubre -8 Halloween items
jueves noche: new paquete -TBA plus study for a possible quiz on the newest expressions for Friday.  

I will be returning your dialogs this week and your quizzes from last week on the expressions. Some of you need to study more please! I will be staying after school until 3:00 everyday this week but Friday. Late bus starts this week on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Grade close for progress reports on Friday pm and the students will receive them on Friday the 12th. Students may retake quizzes or tests  that are below a 70%.

Have a good night! Hasta mañana  Senora Schneider

Buenas noches a todos,

After having a numbers quiz last Friday, we will now have an expressions quiz on Tuesday. We have been practicing these basic greetings, goodbyes, nice to meet you, how are you and the responses and other little expressions that will be on a matching quiz. Everyone has a typed review sheet that we reviewed in class today. Tonight's homework will also help review. We will also be having our first chapter quiz on Friday of this week on the same expressions plus "where are you from?" and the responses.

We will be brainstorming Spanish capitals and countries and using them in our conversations this week with the other expressions that we know. We will be learning more facts about Spain, do some listening activities, some partner activities, and learn how to recognize subject and verbs in our sentences.

Now that the cold and flu season is here and many students have been out for a few days already, it is very important that you all look at the blog to try to keep up with the homework and see what we are doing in class so that you can keep current and not get too far behind. We almost always take a few notes each day in class, so you should check with a friend in your class to get the notes. I usually stay after school 2 or 3 times a week so that students can make up work or come for extra help. You may also come before homeroom to make up something that only takes a few minutes to do. There is no reason why anyone should fall behind in my class.

Homework for the week of 9/24/12

lunes noche: paquete- pagina 1a #'s 1 and 3, pagina 2a # 5.
martes noche: no tarea Yom Kippur
miércoles noche: no tarea Yom Kippur
jueves noche: new packet - paginas  3, 5, 6 -subject to change- update by Wednesday. study for quiz
viernes noche: nada

¡Hasta mañana!       Señora Schneider

Buenos dias a todos,

This week we have some outside school activities going on which is affecting our Spanish and school  schedule. This week we have a half day on Tuesday, a magazine drive on Tuesday, Reading testing on Tuesday, plus no homework on Monday and Tuesday nights because of the Jewish holiday observations. So,  therefore, we will not have any classes on Tuesday. However, our schedule gets back to normal on Wednesday and so begins the homework and back to a normal routine.

This week we will be reviewing numbers, expressions, greetings and goodbyes, plus learning how are you and the responses, choosing buddy clock partners, writing dialogs and performing dialogs. We started learning facts about Spain and will continue to do so for the next week. We will also be having a short quiz this week on the numbers. Last week we made calendars in Spanish and practiced the numbers and days of the week and this week we have been practicing the alphabet and numbers with our "placas" or license plates. We should be ready for Friday's number quiz to 100.

Homework for this week:

Wednesday night (miércoles noche): Packet- page 1v exercise #3, page 2v exercises 4,5,6 (whole page)
Thursday night (jueves noche): packet- page 1a exercise #2, page 2a ex# 4, page 3v ex# 7.

STUDY FOR NUMBER QUIZ ON FRIDAY!

Hasta luego.      Señora Schneider

¡Hola Clase!

We are off to a good start in our clase de español! So far we have learned the alphabet, numbers to 100, the days of the week, the colors,  the months, some weather,  basic greetings and goodbyes, birthdays, international symbols, calendars, some animals, and some cultural facts about languages.  I hope that you are having fun and learning at the same time.

We will be having homework Monday through Thursday most weeks and very rarely homework on the weekends. We will be taking notes, doing listening activities, writing dialogs, working with partners and groups for class activities, and having quizzes and tests from time to time. Next week I will begin posting the homework and other information for the week. Until then....... ¡Adios!  Señora Schneider