I have enjoyed seeing the students jump right in with practicing their Spanish through new tonguetwisters, new songs in Spanish, and their first dialogue. At the beginning of the year I enjoy getting the students out of their comfort zone and more comfortable using the language through these types of activities. Hopefully you are hearing your students sing some part of a Spanish song, or saying some part of "Pepe Piña pica papa..." or trying out a Spanish phrase like, Buenos días.
All the classes did a brief review of the Spanish alphabet and pronunciation of the letters; 4th and 5th grade learned the "mosca" song - just ask your child if they can sing a part of "ini misci piribi in li pirib" and hopefully they'll grin a bit! We also reviewed how to greet and say goodbye to others. They recently practiced and performed a short conversation for the class greeting another person and I was pleased to see many students accept the challenge of memorizing part of it!
We have already begun the short chapter on family members, so you will start to see homework having to do with that chapter. I generally do not assign all the workbook pages for a chapter on one day. For example, the pages that are for Family Vocab 1.2 will be WB p. 8-10; however, I will spread those pages out over the course of a week to a week and a half. Then we will start the next Vocab 1.3, and so on. Each chapter has 3 pages in the workbook, and the end of a unit has 2 pages of review.
During class, we rotate between using the textbook and speaking, reading and listening activities, and then doing a moderate amount of writing to also solidify the vocabulary.
In order to facilitate learning the vocabulary, I encourage the students to make use of the quizlet website or app. They can also make flashcards if this is preferred.
The quizlet website is:
https://quizlet.com/ACCSpanish345
Click on the correct grade, and then make sure the "sort" is by "alphabetical", and not by "recent". This will make it easier to find the correct list.
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Gracias!
Sra. Watne
