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!