Week of 9/1/25
5th Grade:
Last week, students began creating drawings to represent the activities they did over the summer. Alongside their drawings, they filled the page with vocabulary words we reviewed in class that connected to each image. We also started presentations, giving students the opportunity to share their drawings and practice speaking the vocabulary aloud.
- This week we will wrap up student presentations of their drawings..
- Students will also begin learning “los saludos” (greetings) and how to use them depending on the time of day. Some of the greetings we will practice include: Buenos días, buenas tardes, buenas noches, ¿Cómo te llamas?, ¿Cómo está usted?, Estoy bien, Hasta luego, Hasta pronto, ¡Chao!, and ¡Adiós!
- In addition, students will start working on their Los Saludos practice packets and begin building their Spanish Flipbook. This project will take a few weeks to complete. The first section of the flipbook will focus on greetings, introducing oneself, and common ways to say goodbye.
6th Grade:
Para Empezar – Auténtico 1 (En la escuela).
Students will begin working from the hardcover Auténtico 1 textbook. During this unit, they will learn to:
- Listen to greetings and announcements using Savvas
- Read a description of the weather and a list of school supplies
- Students will practice reading / speaking how to introduce themselves to others and practice speaking how to greet people at different times of the day. In a partner setting students will also practice speaking “see you later” and “how is it going”?
7th - 8th Grade:
At the end of last week students began to write a short paragraph in Spanish about what they did over the summer. The activity encourages them to apply past-tense verbs (pretérito) and vocabulary related to summer activities. Students were asked to write 4–6 sentences in Spanish answering the question: ¿Qué hiciste en el verano? They are to use at least three different verbs in the past tense (for example: fui, viajé, nadé, comí, jugué).
- Students will present their paragraph with the class - Classwork posted in google classroom.
Later this week students will read a parallel short story to prepare for a review game, gaining familiarity with terms from the upcoming music video ¿Puedo ir al baño? From our new program of Senor Wooly.
- 7th Grade students will be given the story to read in class at a Novice Low level.
- 8th Grade students will be given the story to read in class at a Novice Mid level.
Objective: By engaging students through multiple senses, this activity helps them store new language structures effectively and helps them to remember more easily during future speaking and writing.
Señor Wooly – First Assignment: Students will be given Nugget 1 for the video ¿Puedo ir al baño?.
- 7th Grade will be given the assignment in Novice Low
- 8th Grade will be given the assignment in Novice Mid
Nugget 1 includes the following activities:
- Ver el video – Watch the video
- Al principio o al final – Beginning or End
- Melodías mezcladas – Mixed Melodies
- Detective lingüístico – Language Detective
- Letra loca – Crazy Lyrics
- Llena el espacio en blanco – Fill in the Blank
- Chorus Focus – Chorus practice
- Letra by Letra – Line by Line
