jueves el 21 de octubre

quiere	wants
va	go
está	is
están	are
quiere ir	wants to go
novia	girlfriend/fiance
mujer	woman
con	with

We read pg 2-3 in the Piratas book in Spanish together as a class and then with partners we tried to translate what we had read.

We also did an activity with the following phrases:
me gusta...... "I like"
no me gusta.... "no me gusta"
me importa.... "matters to me"
no me imprta.... "doesn't matter to me"

**** FIESTA next Tuesday!!!****

viernes el 15 de octubre

Guiding Question:
Why is it important to preserve natural resources and historical sites?
Learning Objective: TSW acquire new vocab of "Los Sentimientos" (feelings) from a children's book Zoomies y Los Sentimientos.

First we attempted to read a childrens book in spanish. We were allowed to get out of our seats and sit "criss cross applesauce" on the floor. Unfortunately a few students couldnt handle the change in routine, and we had to return to our seats. Then we watched a video over south america, and took notes on the video. Some notes were:
            Iguacu falls is much bigger then niagara falls and getting bigger
            Galapagos Islands also are home to many rare species that only exist in this remote place.
If the island were destroyed we would lose these creatures forever due to extinction.

lunes el 11 de octubre

Guiding Question: How did we first learn to speak a language?
Learning Objective: TSW (the student will) be able to use the verb estar to describe mood and location

The first thing we did was took a quick quiz to see what we know.  Next we watched an update about the trapped miners in Chile.  Next we had a quick story tell about emotions using the verb estar.  There are notes on the class Wiki.  A couple volunteers used models from the class to resite vocab.  The last thing we did was took our quiz another time to see if we did better. 

Tarea: be ready to use the verb "estar" in speaking and writting on Wed. 

martes el 5 de octubre

Hola!

Today in class we updated (as a class) our vocab list on the class wiki and watched the blabberize projects from our class.  We reflected on the projects using the rubric and assigned a point value.  This gave us an opportunity to further our understanding of the standards-based system we are using.

Tarea: review vocab on our class wiki AND comment on this blog to the following prompt...
What is your feedback of the blabberize assignment?  What did you like about it? What would have made it a better assignment for you?

Hola y Bienveidos to our new class Blog!  It is my hope that we can use this blog as a tool to keep everyone--students and parents--up to date on our progress in class.  I will be blogging in the very beginning, but eventually the class will be inputting what we did in class each day.
viernes el 1 de octubre:
Today we continued to work on the laptops to finish our Blabberize project.  This is our big speaking assessment for Criterion B.  These are DUE in my email inbox before first period Monday!!!  After the project has been saved, you will need to click Share~copy the URL into an email from your groupwise acct to mine.  crivera@summit.k12.co.us

If you have sent me your blabberize project then you have no homework! 
Sra. Rivera