Bienvenidos a la clase de Español

Welcome to Spanish class

PRE-K

We began the year with learning each other’s names.  They were then taught Hello (Hola) and Goodbye (Adios).  We start off each class by singing the Hello song in Spanish.  This helps us remember how to say hello in Spanish and each other’s name.  We end each class by singing the Goodbye song.  Ask the children about these songs.

The children have been introduced to the verbal pronunciations of numbers 1 – 5.  They have also been introduced to four colors both verbally and written.   
Red (Rojo), Blue (Azul), Yellow (Amarillo) and Green (Verde)

KINDERGARTEN

The children have been introduce to the Hail Mary in Spanish.  We start each class with a greeting and praying the Hail Mary.  At this time, they are just following along with me.  

The children are learning their colors.  They are using their notebooks to learn how to write the Spanish color words.  They are also working on activities that will help them recognize the Spanish color words and match them up with the colors.


FIRST GRADE

We start each class with a greeting and praying the Hail Mary.  In first grade they will be working on learning and memorizing the prayer.

We have been reviewing the numbers 1- 10 and colors.  We have been writing them in our notebooks and doing activities to help us remember as well.


SECOND GRADE

We also start each class with a greeting and praying the Hail Mary.  In second grade they will learn and memorizing the prayer.

After reviewing our numbers and colors we have moved on to learning some basic expressions like:

How are you? - ¿Cómo estás?
What's your name? - ¿Cómo te llamas?
How old are you? - ¿Cuántos años tienes?

THIRD GRADE

We start each class with a greeting and praying the Hail Mary.  The third graders have memorizing the prayer.

We have been doing a lot of review.  We've reviewed and written our numbers 1 -39 and our colors in our notebooks.   We then had some fun with numbers and colors.  We've also reviewed our basic expressions.   

The children have had some fun trying to use those basic expressions.

FOURTH GRADE

We start each class with a greeting and praying the Our Father in Spanish.  The fourth graders are learning and memorizing the prayer.

The fourth grade has also reviewed the numbers 1 - 39 and the colors.  They have also written them in their notebooks and we've done several activities to help remember the proper Spanish spelling.

After going over the basic expressions I created some simple conversation skits for them to try with each other verbally.   

FIFTH GRADE

We start each class with a greeting entirely in Spanish and praying the Our Father.  The fifth graders have memorizing the prayer.

The fifth grade has reviewed the colors, the numbers 1 - 39 and moved on to learn the numbers up to 100.   They have written them in their notebooks and we've done several activities to help us remember the proper Spanish spelling.  They have also reviewed the Days of the week, and months of the year.

The children also went over the basic expressions and were introduce to a few more expressions.  They then needed to use of these expressions by writing their own script and verbally presenting it.

MIDDLE SCHOOL

We also start each class with a greeting entirely in Spanish and praying the Our Father.   

The middle school students are learning regular verb conjugations in the indicative mood.   (The indicative is one of three moods in Spanish. The indicative mood is typically used for making factual statements or describing obvious qualities of a person or situation.)

SIXTH GRADE We started off the year by doing review to help us remember some of what we've learned and help any new students get caught up.   So far, we reviewed our colors and introduced a few more.  We’ve gone over the numbers 1 – 100 and learned how to write and say the numbers up to 199. 

The children are learning regular " ar" verb conjugations.  The conjugations are in the indicative mood in the present tense.  

They have also been re-introduced to the Spanish alphabet in order to begin practicing reading Spanish.


SEVENTH GRADE
We also started off the year by doing review to make sure we remember some of what we've learned.   So far, we reviewed our colors and introduced a few more.  We’ve gone over the numbers 1 – 100 and learned how to write and say the numbers up to 1,000.   We've also review the rules on how to make nouns plural and the Spanish questions words.

They have also reviewed the Spanish alphabet in order to continue reading in Spanish and work on verbally spelling words using the Spanish letters.

The children are currently working on the regular " er" verb conjugations.   The conjugations are also in the indicative mood in the present tense.  


EIGHT GRADE
We also started off the year by doing review to make sure we remember some of what we've learned and help any new students get caught up.   So far, we reviewed our colors and introduced a few more.  We’ve gone over the numbers 1 – 100 and learned how to write and say the numbers up to 1,000.   We've also review the rules on how to make nouns plural and the Spanish question words.

They have also reviewed the Spanish alphabet in order to continue reading in Spanish and work on verbally spelling words using the Spanish letters.

In addition to learning the indicative mood in the present tense, they are also learning the Preterite past tense, and the future tense.  They are currently working on the regular " ar" verb conjugations in all three tenses.
 

PLEASE ADOPT SPANISH

I would like to introduce the children to multiple mediums for learning the Spanish language.  It's my desire to make learning Spanish interesting and fun.  With this in mind there are several items I would like to have as part of the classroom.

-  Chapter books in Spanish
 

• Pobre Anna    (There are several books in this series all under $8)
• Berto   (There are also several books in this series all under $8)
• I would appreciate any books in the Porbre Anna and Berto series. 
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• Graphic novels in Spanish
• or Books they know and enjoy but in Spanish like:
  • The magic tree house
  • Harry Potter
  • A series of unfortunate events
  • etc.

Thank you in advance for any help with any of these.

Mrs.  Maria Arroyo