All classes celebrated Dِía de los Muertos, a Mexican holiday,
on Nov. 1 and 2! We had fun learning
about the origins of this holiday and whether you can actually eat sugar skulls! We also visited Sra. DeCossio’s Day of the
Dead table and saw the typical decorations, food, candy and candles that are usually
included in this celebration. 4th
grade saw a short video on how to make sugar skulls. 5th grade saw a beautiful short video
about the relationship between monarch butterflies and Día de los Muertos
celebrations.
3rd grade
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This quarter 3rd graders are learning
about how to talk about their home. This
week they drew the main rooms of their home, labeled them in Spanish and wrote
about their homes. Then they shared with
partners about how many bedrooms and bathrooms are in their home, and what
color their rooms are.
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Later this quarter, students will sketch their neighborhood
and talk about the places in their neighborhood in Spanish.
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The students will learn about Argentina later this
quarter and what types of geography, culture and foods they might encounter if
they were to visit Argentina. They’ll learn about gauchos, Iguazu Falls, las
Pampas and the vast diversity of geography found in Argentina – such as
rainforests, Andes mountains, and the glaciers of Patagonia!
Link to Quizlet vocab for Unit 2
4th grade
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This quarter 4th graders have learned
about direction and how to find places using direction vocabulary: far, near,
beside, in front of, behind. They drew
their placement in their classroom and learned how to say where different
students were located in the room in relation to themselves.
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This week they spoke in Spanish with partners about
where different people in the class are located.
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This week we started creating drawing their neighborhood
and learning how to talk about where the places in their neighborhood are in
relation to their home and school.
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The students will be learning about Paraguay later
on this quarter and what types of geography, culture and foods they might encounter
if they were to visit Paraguay. They’ll
learn about the dry Gran Chaco, the Pantanal wetlands, Iguazu Falls and Itaipú,
the enormous hydroelectric plant that was an collaboration between Brazil and
Paraguay.
Link to Quizlet vocab for Unit 2
5th grade
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This quarter 5th graders reviewed
clothing vocabulary and added more detail so that they could describe what clothing
they would wear if they were playing sports or playing with friends, skiing in
the mountains, or if they were at school.
They drew people doing these
activities, labeled all the clothing in Spanish and then talked with partners
about what they were wearing and if they liked those activities.
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For the next couple weeks, the students will be spending
a little time on verb conjugation and learning how to form verbs and why it is
necessary for writing and talking in Spanish.
We’ll be learning this in the context of what activities we do in
certain rooms of our home. For example: I eat with my family in the dining room. We prepare meals in the kitchen. I talk with my friends in the living
room. I clean (or not clean 😊
) my bedroom and bathroom!
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Later this quarter the students will get to
create their ideal neighborhood, given their preferences and will use this to talk
about places in Spanish.
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The students will be learning about Spain later
on this quarter and what types of geography, culture and foods they might encounter
if they were to visit Spain. They’ll
learn how Spain is where Spanish originated, some distinctions in how they speak
in Spain v. other Hispanic countries, Flamenco, bull fights, the Alhambra, the importance
of the Moors in their influence on language, culture, learning and architecture
that they brought with them.
