Tuesday, January 28, 2014

¡Buenos dias a todos!

This will be a busy week as we are starting to present our autobiography projects to the class in Spanish. The drawings look fantastic and colorful. Everything that you put on there should remind you about what to say. Remember, the only words on the drawing are your Spanish name and the capital and country. You will also need to draw 2 likes and 2 dislikes, your phone number or email, the flag, and yourself of course. You will also need to describe yourself with four adjectives and tell us why you do like and don't like at least one item each. This counts as a test grade, so you need to practice. We will be presenting all week and perhaps into next week depending on how fast it goes. Good luck!

We will also have a quiz on conjugating "AR" verbs on Wednesday (tomorrow) and what they mean. We will also be doing a lot of review with verbs games, desk verbs, and connector 4. Partners and groups are a must.  We will probably have a chapter 3 test at the end of next week and a quiz at the beginning of the week, so be prepared and study all week!

Tarea por esta semana:

lunes noche: "IR" sheet, and paquete pagina 25, ejercicio 14.
martes noche: pagina 58 en el paquete. There is an essay here that I will collect! ¡Estudien!
miércoles noche: New sentence sheet- numeros 1-11 en español
jueves noche: 12-22 en la pagina nueva
viernes noche: nada o estudien.

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

¡Buenos dias a todos!

Hope you all had a nice long weekend and are ready to get back to work. This week we will be focusing on how to conjugate and use "AR" verbs in Spanish. Hopefully, we already know what they mean, we just need to learn how to use them in sentences with our adverbs of time, places, times of day, with whom, and with what kind of weather. We will also be playing a few verb games for review, finishing our cultural notes, reviewing our newer verbs and starting a project that will include a drawing of yourself with pictures of 2 each of your likes and dislikes, a made up age, a random Hispanic country and capital, that country's flag, and all of that will be in color. This picture will be used for an oral presentation in front of the class. The rubric on how I am going to grade the oral presentation for a test grade (40%) is on the back of the directions for the project. There will also be a grade for the picture (30%), and the audience participation form (20%). This is a culminating project of many of the things that we have learned so far, so you need to practice for your oral presentation. We will be going over this in class this week and the expectations that I have for you. We will be starting to present these on Monday, January 27.

Last week we started conjugating "AR" verbs and had much success with that. We also learned new expressions, practiced more weather, and learned about some more irregular verbs such as "ir", "tener", and "jugar". We had some cultural notes also.

This week might be a mixed up week because of the snow and I might be out again to take my mother to the hospital for her back surgery/procedure. I will keep you all posted. It is a short week also. We will all do the best we can!

Tarea por esta semana:
martes noche: paquete: Paginas 20 y 35. Todas las paginas.
miércoles noche: paquete: Todas las paginas 24 y 33.
jueves noche: paquete: Todas las paginas 26 y 27.
viernes noche: el proyecto: Ustedes necesitan practicar para tu presentación oral por el lunes 27/1.
  
¡Gracias!   Señora Schneider
  

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Buenos dias a todos,

There has been a change in the homework for Thursday 1-16 tonight's homework. Please do page 25 exercises 12 and 13 and page 34 exercises  26 and 27. Do not do page 27 at all. We have not covered all the material and I don't want you to do them incorrectly because you don't have all the information.  Do page 34 first. It has everything you need to do a good job!

Also, there will be a project coming up next week that I hope you will enjoy. More details to follow.....


Gracias,   Señora

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Buenas noches a todos,

Too late tonight to be writing, but here goes. We have another busy week changing partners using the Mexican states, learning how to conjugate the verb "to go", learning and using adverbs of time and frequency, learning about more cultural notes, and conjugating the verbs to have, to play a sport, and regular "ar" verbs. We will be learning about more questions and expressions and practicing them in class. There are no quizzes this week but there will be one next week.

With the half day on Wednesday, things will be a little crunched for time, however, we still should be able to finish our classwork and homework. Things are going to get more difficult this term with a lot of new vocabulary, verb conjugations, and new expressions. Flashcards and continual review at home will help you study!

Just wanted to let you know that my mother has been very sick with spinal bone fractures, so staying after school will become more difficult for me at times. I stayed after yesterday and today, nothing on the 1/2 day, and possibly Thursday barring any last minute doctor's appointments. Thank you for your understanding. I will still announce when I can stay.  

Tarea por esta semana:

lunes noche: paquete -pagina 31 ej 19 y 20, pagina 32 ej 21, 22, y 23.
martes noche: paquete: pagina 29 # 22 y 23, pagina 36 # 29 y 30.
miércoles noche: paquete: pagina 27 # 19, pagina 28 # 20 y 21.
jueves noche: paquete - pagina 25 # 12 y 13.
viernes noche: nada. No hay escuela el lunes.

Possible project coming up next week. More details to follow......... Señora

Monday, January 6, 2014

¡Feliz Año Nuevo a Todos!

Happy 2014! I hope that you all had a restful and fun vacation and enjoyed the holidays with your family and friends. We had an unexpected bonus of 2 extra days so I  hope that you all caught up on your sleep! The second half of the year will be busy as we will be learning many new concepts and  new vocabulary in Spanish.

This week we will be doing our January calendar with instruments, learning about King's Day and more Texas/Hispanic culture, focusing on memorizing our new verbs and their definitions, working in groups and partners with our vocabulary, starting a new packet, doing some listening activities and brainstorming places that we can go from vocabulary we already know. Hopefully we will start learning more adverbs of time to enhance our sentences. We will also have a vocabulary quiz on the verbs on Wednesday and another quiz on Friday with writing sentences, matching and multiple choice on the verbs, gustar with and without an extra verb, the nouns, and how to use querer in sentences and how to conjugate it. . Wednesday's quiz should be a heads up for Friday's quiz.

Tarea por esta semana:
 lunes noche: calendario de enero: 8 instrumentos en color, en español, y con el, la, los, y las. ¡Estudien!
martes noche: papel de vocabulario parte uno y 10 frases en español del trabajo de clase. (sentences from classwork). Study for vocabulario/ verb quiz.

miércoles noche:  En el libro, lista de vocabulario a las paginas 94 y 95. Seccion 3,  5 columnas.
jueves noche: Paquete nuevo pagina 31 ejercicios #18, #19, #20 y pagina 36 # 31 ¡Estudien! examencito mañana. (See above paragraph for more quiz info).

viernes noche: nada


¡Hasta luego! Señora Schneider