In eighth grade Spanish, the students have started the quarter off with their first unit called, “LA COMIDA,” which means, “THE FOOD.” If the students don’t eat a good “desayuno / breakfast,” then they walk out of class singing one of the songs we learned, “¡Tengo, tengo, tengo hambre!” which means, “I am, I am, I am HUNGRY!”
The students are learning how to discuss their likes and dislikes, how to order when in a restaurant, and how to describe their food. One of the questions they are working on is, “¿Qué te gusta comer?” / What do you like to eat? One of their assignments was to create a Google Slides presentation with “Me gusta” / I like and “No me gusta” / I don’t like statements with a picture or GIF that represented each statement. Once finished, the students presented their sentences to the class, to get some practice with speaking in Spanish. They all did un trabajo fabuloso / a fabulous job!
In seventh grade, the first unit of the quarter is called, “Yo soy / I am” and the students have been learning how to describe themselves with adjectives. In Spanish, all nouns are either masculine or feminine and adjectives must agree with the noun (or pronoun) they describe in gender and in number. This means that if the noun an adjective describes is feminine, the adjective must be feminine, and if that same noun is also plural, the adjective will be feminine and plural as well. This is easiest to see when dealing with people, since we are either male or female. Students just completed an assignment where they created a Google Slides presentation with “Yo soy” / I am and “Yo no soy” / I am not statements, along with a picture or GIF that represented each statement. Just like eighth grade, they presented their sentences to the class for Spanish-speaking practice.
"Another great experience and it was so much fun to see how the students view themselves. I was very impressed with the students’ pronunciation of our Spanish words," Aldridge said, adding, ¡Estoy muy orgullosa de todos de mis estudiantes! / I am very proud of all of my students!