Kindergarten Class Visitor

Kindergarten was greeted with a class visitor this week!  We read the book Go Away Green Monster, and the students were so excited to see that Green Monster came to visit!  We practiced the parts of the face, made our own class monster, and then put him back together again to be ready to visit the next group of students!  Here are some of the crazy monsters that the Kindergarten classes made!

Mrs. Kimball's Class Monster!

Mrs. McDonalds Class Monster!

Mrs. Seim's class monster!

 

¿Qué te duele???

¿Qué te duele???  What hurts???  We have been practicing body parts!  Today we did a partner activity similar to an activity explained in a previous post.  However, we are working on body parts this time.  Check out this video to see how this activity works.  One partner asks what hurts and the other one has to guess what hurts!  While the sentence is not perfect Spanish, they are doing a great job starting to put phrases together!

How do we get to school???

Como vamos a la escuela?  We have been learning about different forms of transportation in 2nd and 3rd grade.  Today we graphed (hicimos un gráfico) how each of us gets to school.  Here is some of the vocab you need to know!

 

Coche- Car

Autobus- Bus

A Pie- On Foot

Camion- Truck

Bicicleta- Bicycle

 

Here are the results from Kenwood:

 

Mrs. Griffin- 3rd Grade

Mrs. Stamp- 2nd Grade

Mrs. Naber- 2nd Grade

Ms. James-3rd Grade

Here are the results from Pierce: 

 



Mrs. Brautigam's- 2nd Grade

Mrs. Smith-2nd Grade

Here are the results from Garfield:
 



Mrs Cooper-2/3

Mrs. Boche-2/3



Mrs. Norton-2/3

Que tiempo hace hoy?

This week we started a new activity in the 2nd and 3rd grade classrooms, a guessing game.  I loved walking around the room as students worked well in partners.  Not only were they working together, they were speaking 100% in the target language!  Wow!  Here is what the activity looked like.

*Students were given a partner.  They each had an identical card that contained each of the 6 weather terms that we know.  They then put a divider/folder up between them so they could not see each others cards.  One of them had a cube and placed it on one of their weather terms at random, then asked their partner "Que tiempo hace hoy?" (What is the weather like today?).  Their partner had to guess where they placed their cube...all in Spanish!  What a fun guessing game!

Senorita Schwartz modeling what to say...

Students at Kenwood playing the game.

Here are some other students doing an awesome job! 

 

Why learn a language?!?

Just came across this awesome video.  I think it explains pretty well why I believe so strongly in learning another language and is easy for students to understand!  Check it out and spread the word that learning languages is both fun and useful!

 

 

This is another video...can you guess who it is???