Elementary Spanish News - April 2014

Cultural activities are fundamental when learning another language. Andrea from the Global Education Center taught Lower Elementary and some Early Childhood students Folkloric Dancing from Mexico.
Her instructions were in Spanish.



Lower Elementary students are learning about parts of the plant and parts of the flower.  They had a chance to decorate their pot and then plant some seeds in it.  Students will take their plant home as soon that they are ready.


First year students are using sequence cards to make a Spanish story or sentences.  I’m amazed by how many Spanish words they use in their stories!


Lower Elementary is working on a play about community members in the Community. We included some gardening vocabulary in our play.


Lower Elementary students enjoy listening to stories and reading to other friends.


Elizabeth, Claudia Santibaňez's sister, visited us from Chile and gave Middle Elementary students a cultural presentation in Spanish.  They asked her about weather, 
education, language, volcanos and life in Chile.


Middle Elementary students are working on personalization.  The students fill in blanks in a story.  They use an element from the class story to make a personal, unique story of their own.  Animales de la selva – jungle animals and A que hora . . .?  At what time . .?  are the two stories that they are working on.



To practice adjectives, they are describing members in their group. Divertido!



Upper Elementary students are working on two stories. In both the stories they practice interrogative pronouns, possessive pronouns, and numbers as pronouns.  The names of the stories are La Novia Que Cocina Mal and Los Pantalones Pequeňos.  To reinforce the vocabulary, students did an activity in which they scramble words that they used in the stories.



Upper Elementary students are working on making Spanish commercials. Each student views 10 Spanish commercials, then they choose which one they like the most.  They then separate into groups to make their own Spanish commercial.  It is a big cultural activity in which the students 
compare similarities in other cultures.  


Upper Elementary's animation video is complete!  This video consists of student created animation drawings from one of the books they wrote for the Vanderbilt Children's hospital.  UE parent, Brad Talbott, took the drawings and put them together to make this wonderful video.  Muchas Gracias Brad!!

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