Progress Reports

8th grade Spanish students completed chapters 5 & 6 of our novela "Las Aventuras de Isabela." Please be sure all chapters are up to date.
Chapters this week:
* Capítulo cinco: La zapatería
* Capítulo seis: Zapatos para la familia
Students also did a review activity of chapters 3-5 on Kahoot.

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:
* A Kahoot activity that reviewed their stories (Kevin va a la jungla, Relájate, and El Canguro se llama Charlie
* A Marcos le gusta hablar
***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 these past 2 weeks.

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 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students that progress reports are going out this week. This is your reminder to submit any outstanding work and raise your grades!*