¡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