Monday, March 24, 2014

Buenas noches a todos,

We are still learning new concepts and vocabulary this week and will be finishing up chapter 4  before we go to Washington D.C.  We will be revisiting "er" and "ir" verbs,  adding on new verbs to our lists, continuing our invitations and responses, working the verb "to go" as a future tense, doing some more listening activities, practicing our new verbs, and having a quiz on this material at the end of the week. There will be a chapter 4 test next week, probably Thursday, that will include all of the above plus classes, school supplies, all the verbs, the verbs "venir" and "tener" plus all the tener expressions, review of time, and adverbs of time.

We now have finished picking our new Spain map partners, changed seats and groups, and will continue to practice our new vocabulary. We will be doing more partner and group activities to finish off the week before the quiz. We are also finishing and continuing to pass back more papers and classwork that we started before the third term started. We all need to be focused, work diligently for the rest of the term, and complete all the classwork and homework in order to have a successful third trimester. There might be some extra emails going home to encourage more timely homework!

Tarea por esta semana:

lunes noche: pagina 45 #19 y pagina 46 # 21 y 22. ¡Estudien!
martes noche: pagina 37 # 16 y pagina 38 #18  ¡Estudien!
miércoles noche: pagina 47 # 23 y 24 y pagina 48 # 25 y 26  ¡Estudien!
jueves noche: pagina 35 # 13, pagina 36 # 14, parte 2 vocabulario, y ¡ESTUDIEN! Hay un examencito  mañana.
viernes noche: nada

Buena suerte.     Señora Schneider  

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

¡Buenos dias a todos!

¡Bienvenidos a la primavera! Welcome to spring! It's not quite here yet, but hopefully it's on it's way. This week will be a bit mixed up as we have a half day Wednesday and  MCAS on Thursday and Friday, grades closing and being finished and report cards on Friday. We started the week with a Soduko puzzle in Spanish using vocabulary instead of numbers. There were some students who were not familiar with this type of puzzle so it was a bit challenging. Working with a partner helped immensely.

We will also be adding to our adverb vocabulary, verb vocabulary, and school supply vocabulary. We are going to start a unit on invitations and how to invite friends and family to various activities that we have learned. We will also learn how to accept and refuse politely to invitations. We will also be learning the immediate future with the verb "IR", which is to go and do some communicative activities with a partner. Hopefully, we will rearrange the room and get new seats and new groups and set our selves up with a new partner map. We will also have listening activity in there too. No quizzes this week!

Tarea por esta semana:

lunes noche: pagina 36 ejercicio 15, pagina 43 # 15 y 16.
martes noche: pagina 37 ejercicio 17, pagina 40 # 22.
miércoles noche: pagina 35 ejercicio 12, pagina 44 # 17 y 18.
jueves noche: pagina 39 # 19 y 20, pagina 45 # 20.

The goal is to finish chapter 4 before we go to Washington DC. That means we have 2 1/2 weeks to study and finish up. The third trimester flies by fast so we still need to work hard and move along. Don't get left behind! Another quiz next week and the test the week after.

This week I am staying Monday, Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday each day until 3:00 pm. There is no late bus this week, so you must find your own way home. ¡Buena suerte! Good luck.  

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

¡Buenos dias estudiantes y padres!

We are now in full swing with Chapter 4 with classes, school supplies, expressions with the verb "to have" such as to have hunger, thirst, to have to do something, to feel like doing something, to be in a hurry, to have an appointment, to be years old, and to be sleepy. We are finishing up notes on Costa Rica, writing many sentences using all of our expressions, and asking and responding to various questions. We continue to do listening activities, homework, and quizzes. We are also using the verb "venir" to come and will be brainstorming various places to come or to go in Spanish. Our calendar this month is about places to go.

Tarea por esta semana es:

lunes noche: calendario de lugares - 8 places in Spanish
martes noche: pagina 60 dos paginas - separate from the packet. Study to have expressions and to come for the quiz tomorrow.
miércoles noche: old packet - pagina 34.
jueves noche: paquete nuevo: paginas 36 #15, 40 #21, 41 # 14.
viernes noche: nada

Gracias  - Señora

Monday, March 3, 2014

Buenas noches a todos,

Two weeks to go before report cards! The countdown is on. Please make sure that you have made up your work for me and finish your retakes and test corrections this week. I am staying on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of this week until at least 3:00pm each day. Come see me if you have any questions about your grade on your work!

Last week, we started chapter 4 about school supplies and courses at school. This week, we will be learning the courses and supplies plus the verb tener and expressions that go with tener, finishing Costa Rica notes from last  week, doing some listening activities, working on graphic organizers for vocabulario,  learning how to use cuanto, mucho and poco with the vocabulary and working on our schedules.

We will be having a vocabulary quiz on Tuesday about school supplies and courses and another one on Friday with the same things plus cuanto, mucho and poco, and how to use them in a sentences.

Tarea por esta semana:

lunes noche: Paquete-pagina 31 ejercicios 2 y 3, pagina 32 # 4 and the vocabulario sheet - the top half only.Estudian por favor!
martes noche: paquete page 40 # 8 y 9, and the schedule (el horario)

miercoles noche: paquete pagina 41 # 10 y 11

jueves noche: pagina 42 # 12 y 13. Pagina 33  # 7. ¡Estudien por favor.

viernes noche: no tarea
 
Gracias, Señora