Shortened by Snow

8th grade Spanish students used their abbreviated Spanish week to do a review of chapters 3, 4, & 5 of their novela, "Las Aventuras de Isabela." Review was in the form of a Kahoot activity. We will be reading chapters 6 & 7 next week. Grades for chapters 5, 6, 7, will be posted by the end of next week on Infinite Campus.

7th grade Spanish students had one day this week in Spanish. We were able to review our stories for this unit using Kahoot. Our three stories that needed reviewing were:
* Kevin va a la jungla
* Relájate
* El Canguro se llama Charlie
***Spanish 7th grade only - an invitation to be part of a Tuesday Moore Time conversational Spanish meeting. This is being offered to serious Spanish students who would like to improve their conversational skills. Please encourage your children to take advantage of this opportunity!

6th grade Spanish students did a Kahoot review in Spanish that practiced gender agreement, number agreement, colors, days, months, seasons, classroom objects, body parts, and animals in the present tense.

Mid-point check

8th grade Spanish students completed chapters 4 & 5 of our novela, "Las Aventuras de Isabela." Chapters 1-4 have now been posted on Infinite Campus. Please be sure all chapters are up to date.
Chapters this week:
* Capítulo cuatro: El caballito (y otras aventuras)
* Capítulo cinco: La zapatería

7th grade Spanish students did two new TPR stories. Students have been acting out these stories and answering clarifying questions both orally and in writing. The stories this week included:
* El canguro se llama Charlie
* Conocemos a Lucía
***Spanish 7th grade only - an invitation to be part of a Tuesday Moore Time conversational Spanish meeting. This is being offered to serious Spanish students who would like to improve their conversational skills. 

6th grade Spanish students have been doing oral workshops and TPR acting this week. Their story this week was called "El gallo de bodas" (The Wedding Rooster) which is a Cuban folktale.

TPR Storytelling (Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling TPRS) is method of teaching foreign languages where a mixture of reading and storytelling help students learn Spanish in the classroom setting. The method works in three steps: 1.) Vocabulary structures are learned and are taught using a combination translation, gestures, and personalized questions. 2.) Those structures are used in a spoken class story; and finally, 3.) These same structures are used in a class reading. Throughout these 3 steps, the teacher will use a number of techniques to help make sure the target language is comprehensible to students; including careful limiting of vocabulary, the constant asking of comprehension questions, frequent comprehension checks and very short grammar explanations known as "pop-up grammar."

**A reminder to all grades that progress reports will be going out by the end of next week and it is important for all students to hand in any outstanding assignments. **

Testing Week

8th grade Spanish students have had an interrupted week of Spanish due to high school visits to Casco Bay and Deering as well as ACCESS and Smarted Balanced testing. As a result, most groups completed "Capítulo tres: Las Estatuas" from our mini-novela "Las Aventuras de Isabela." We also refreshed some of our reading and language acquisition with Kahoot review.

7th grade Spanish students have continued "Los Cuentos" (their short stories unit.) The stories featured this week include:
* Kevin va a la jungla
* Relajaté
We have been reading these stories using TPRS which is explained below:

TPR Storytelling (Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling TPRS) is method of teaching foreign languages where a mixture of reading and storytelling help students learn Spanish in the classroom setting. The method works in three steps: 1.) Vocabulary structures are learned and are taught using a combination translation, gestures, and personalized questions. 2.) Those structures are used in a spoken class story; and finally, 3.) These same structures are used in a class reading. Throughout these 3 steps, the teacher will use a sumber of techniques to help make sure the target language is comprehensible to students; including careful limiting of vocabulary, the constant asking of comprehension questions, frequent comprehension checks and very short grammar explanations known as "pop-up grammar."

6th grade Spanish students had an abbreviated week of Spanish due to testing. Students had at least 1 Spanish class this week in which we did a "¿Quién es? (Guess Who?) activity with animals. Students listened to descriptions of different animals and guessed in Spanish. This was a oral participation grade on Infinite Campus. Have a wonderful Martin Luther King Jr. day!

El año 2015

8th grade Spanish students have begun their first novela called "Las aventuras de Isabela." We begun by reading our first two chapters this week and discussing the chapters in class orally and also wrote about the story using guiding questions. Our first two chapters were:
* Capítulo uno: Yo soy Isabela
* Capítulo dos: Yo saco fotografías

7th Spanish students have begun their storytelling unit. We read the short stories "El gato feo" (The Ugly Cat) and "El número de teléfono" (The Telephone Number). Students created story maps and organized the sequence of events with these graphic organizers. We also used some Reader's Theatre's to reenact the stories and dialogue. 
***Spanish 7th grade only - an invitation to be part of a Tuesday Moore Time conversational Spanish meeting. This is being offered to serious Spanish students who would like to improve their conversational skills. 

6th grade Spanish students were tested on "Partes del cuerpo" (their first quiz in Spanish this school year). Grades for this unit will be posted by the end of the week on Infinite Campus.