January - Español. T.P.R.S.

“Show, Tell, and Read”

Lower Elementary students are practicing storytelling.  A student demonstrates comprehension by retelling a story and using his or her own words to recount the event.   As the activity builds, the students gain confidence in making presentations and their ability to speak the new language grows. It also helps them to improve their fluency.

As the weather gets cold, students are learning the names of the clothing they are wearing by using vocabulary cards. We made sentences using the verbs lleva (wears), canta (sings) and va (goes). We read a story about going to a store and sang a song about clothing and going to the store to buy specific items.

We put on a fashion show in which students described what the models were wearing, and we talked about what people wear in different parts of the world.

How do we use the Spanish-English dictionary? Some Lower Elementary students are very curious about how to find words that they may not be familiar with.

Middle Elementary students are using descriptions of what everyone is wearing to make individual stories.  We use cognates to help students get involved in the story and follow it from beginning to  end. To practice story-writing, students fill in blanks in a group story, then use an element from the class story to make personal, unique stories of their own.

 

We use prepositions such as arriba (up) and abajo (under) as a fun way to describe a member of the group and where he/she is in the class. This activity gets everyone moving.

 

Knitting is being introduced to some Lower Elementary students and to all of Middle Elementary.  Middle Elementary students have started a knitting project. Everything looks good!

Upper Elementary students are taking Spanish novels home. Students are reading stories that are compelling to them. After they finish they have the choice to make a Spanish book report, an oral presentation, or draw the story using sequences.

One group is working with the Indirect Object Pronoun. Students are making oral and written sentences. We will continue to use the I.O.P.  in our stories and other activities all through the rest of chapter 7-9 in Pobre Ana.

Another group did a presentation in which each student picked a verb to conjugate in the past tense. After the verb was conjugated,  they made sentences with it. The presentation name was "¿Qué hiciste durante el fin de semana?" What Did You Do This Past Weekend?

Then a third group of UE students did a writing project in which they answered five questions. All the answers were written completely in Spanish!