In Eight Grade Spanish, students started the quarter off with their first unit called, “LA COMIDA,” which means, “THE FOOD.” If the students didn’t eat a good “desayuno / breakfast,” then they walked out of class singing one of the songs they learned, “¡Tengo, tengo, tengo hambre!” which means, “I am, I am, I am HUNGRY!”
They learned how to discuss their likes and dislikes, how to order when in a restaurant, and how to describe their food. One of the questions theyworked 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 learned 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 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 vocab,” said Señora Aldridge
In Sixth Grade, they started the quarter off with re-learning some of the basics of Spanish. The last time these students were in Spanish class was in their kindergarten year. The first unit was about El Alfabeto / The Alphabet, Los Colores / The Colors and Los Números 0-100 / The Numbers 0-100. The students had an assignment where they had 12 corazones / hearts that had the Spanish color word under them and the students had to color each heart the correct color. Señora Aldridge said, all of the students did MARAVILLOSO!
¡Estoy muy orgullosa de todos de mis estudiantes! / I am very proud of all of my students!