Announcements:

• Monday 9/11 is Dress Down: Bears/Packers
• All students must have headphones or earbuds at school by Monday, 9/11.
• Pantry collection is Thursday, 9/14.  Please help us in bringing in items that are designated per grade level.  
• Curriculum Night is Thursday 9/4 at 6:00 PM
• Spirit Run & Rosary launch Friday 9/15

*As we begin to work with homework on google classroom, please be patient as we work through some technical issues with Savvas*

3rd-4th grade

• Students know know Me llamo and their days of the week

• 3rd-4th grade will read Margret y Margarita and begin creating their pasaporte.
• Next week 5th Grade will read “Quiero Viajar. Students will finish their Pasaporte as we begin our journey learning the Spanish language.
• Students will understand the story ”El Grito” (the cry for independence from Spain) the Students use the phrase ‘“Viva Mexico” “Viva la Virgin de Guadalupe and Viva la independencia in the context of hearing the story “El Grito.

6th -8th grade

• Students now know greetings: Buenos días, Buenas tardes, Buenas noches, Hola! And como esta/estas? 
• 6th Grade just began to practice their numbers this week.
• 7-8th graders can now say numbers up to 30 fluently. We will continue to practice numbers up to 100.  
• Students will continue to practice their numbers.

Our first Food Pantry collection is Thursday, September 14th.  Please help us in bringing in items that are designated per grade level.  

3rd - 5th grade

• Next week we will read “Margaret and Margarita” as well as “Quiero Viajar '' students will prepare for an imaginary trip to a Spanish Speaking country and create their passport. Their pictures will go home with them next weekend.
• Students will identify the United States on the globe and they will identify the flag of the U.S. 
• Students will gain knowledge about the various methods of transportation used for international travel.

6th - 8th grade:

We will continue with the pre-lesson: Para empezar Students had fun learning how to greet their classmates with their new Spanish name. 

Next week we will focus on the following Objectives: 

• Respond to classroom directions
• Begin using numbers
• Tell time
• Identify body parts
• Use the Spanish alphabet to spell words

We had a great first week!

We started off with our safety procedures and classroom expectations. Our 4th and 5th graders had fun discovering the Spanish classroom as well as translated our first back-to-school “Brain pop Español” video.

In Middle School students wrote about what they did over the summer and translated it into Spanish and they presented it in Español. 

Next week as we begin our first full week; I will continue to review safety procedures, and classroom expectations with 3rd grade and the other 4th grade class. As I meet with the classes throughout the week, I will update our progress by grade. 

I am looking forward to meeting with all of the students and having fun learning Español!

3rd - 5th grade:

We will begin with Lesson 1: Me llamo and Un viaje internacional

• Students will prepare for an imaginary trip to a Spanish Speaking country and create their passport.
• Students will identify the United States on the globe and they will identify the flag of the U.S. 
• Students will gain knowledge about the various methods of transportation used for international travel.

Parents: I will be taking a picture of the students and printing them out so that they can glue their picture onto their passport project. If you do not wish for me to take a picture of your child please send me an email letting me know.

6th - 8th grade:

We will begin with a pre-lesson: Para empezar 

Objective: 

• The students will pick their Spanish name that they will use while in Spanish class.
• Students will introduce themselves to one another and learn how to greet people at different times of the day.
• Listen to greetings and announcements with audio ( please have the student bring their headphones to class).
• Respond to classroom directions
• Begin using numbers
• Tell time
• Identify body parts
• Use the Spanish alphabet to spell words
• Talk about things related to the calendar
• Describe weather conditions
• Identify the seasons
• Compare the weather in the Northern and Southern hemispheres.

• Review safety procedures 
• Go over class room procedures
• Walk through how to join Spanish class on google classroom
• Introduction of students will be done in English first .Then, students will be asked to translate introduction into Spanish (in class work).

• Read story on pages 79
• Complete pages 80 and 82 only

• Complete pages 97 and 98

• Translate pages 116-117
• Complete pages 118-120
• Only do bottom of 119