miércoles el 29 de febrero

En Clase:

• Jugamos a "Avalancha"
• We played "Avalanche"
• Tomaron una evaluación de "decir la hora" y de "gramática y vocabulario viejo, mixto"
• You took an assessment on telling time and on old, mixed grammar and vocab
• Introduje el proceso de escribir
• I introduced the writing process

Tarea:

• WRITE PARAGRAPH 1!  Shoot for 70-85 words.  Please follow the guidelines that are very clearly articulated in the documents located in the "Artist Statements" folder on my awesome google site.

martes el 28 de febrero, 2012

En Clase:

• Hicieron una actividad de escribir un párrafo sobre una película.
• You did an activity writing a paragraph about a movie.
• Jugamos a sillitas musicales
• We played musical chairs
• Escribieron tarjeta 3 para los SLCs
• You wrote the third note card for your SLCs

Tarea:

• Finish your SMART goal note card if you haven't yet.  Here is a presentation to help you if you forgot what to include.
• Study for the assessment on time and mixed old stuff.

lunes el 27 de febrero, 2012

En Clase:

• Jugamos al BINGO con la hora
• We played "BINGO" with time
• Aprendieron de Diego Rivera 
• You learned about Diego Rivera.  You can watch the video here. Here is the worksheet on which students took notes while they listen.
• Preparamos para las SLCs
• We prepared for SLCs.  If you want to view the notecards, go to my AWESOME, IMPROVED google site and go to the "SLC Prep" folder.  There you'll find the handout from class today and the powerpoint presentation w/ Juana's notecards.

Tarea:

• REQUIRED: Come tomorrow with notecards 1 & 2 READY.  
• Optional: Decir La Hora worksheet.

New Improved GOOGLE SITE!!!

Tu maestra muy inteligente finalmente ha hecho un sitio organizado de GOOGLE.  

For (almost) all of the stuff we've done this year, you can now go to the Español 1 Files subpage of Becca's google site and you'll find it all there.  Of particular note is the folder labeled "Review/Repaso" in which you will find the review worksheets from the packet you received this week and an answer key for all of those sheets.

YAY!

viernes el 24 de febrero, 2012

En Clase:

• Miramos Mi Vida Loca episodio 17
• We watched My Crazy Life episode 17
• Trabajaron en sus obras de arte
• You all worked on your art pieces

Tarea:

• Obras are DUE: lunes el 27 de febrero a las 3:15pm.
• If you are looking for old vocabulary lists or grammar handouts/powerpoint presentations, check my google site.

miércoles el 22 de febrero, 2012

En Clase:

• Escuchamos a una canción
• We listed to a song
• Trabajaron en sus obras
• You worked on your art pieces

Tarea:

• Obras are due lunes el 27 de febrero a las 3:15pm.  Plan accordingly.  You will have about 1.5 hours to work on them in class tomorrow and Friday.
• Here is the answer key to the review packet I distributed in class today.  You will have a mixed old grammar assessment and a telling time assessment on Tuesday, February 28th!!!

Review/Repaso

Hey Students-

If you are excited about reviewing "old stuff," there are a lot of practice quizzes posted on my quia site and there are also a lot of vocabulary activities available at conjuguemos's site.  Some of the vocab. units we've done here are: colors, House: daily routines, and many of the body parts words.

I will also come with some hard-copy mixed review handouts on Wednesday!

Hope the art projects are coming along nicely!

-Becca

Para el fin de semana largo

Hey folks -- For the long weekend, here are some things to keep in mind!

1. I will be giving you about 2 hours 15 minutes to work next week between Wednesday and Friday. Please plan accordingly and get work done over the long weekend.  
2. If you have a project where you are doing most of your work outside of class, I will have review packets and steps for our writing phase ready for you to work on in class next week.
3. Your final pieces are due on February 27th at 3:15pm.  
4. There will be an assessment on "mixed old stuff" and telling time (along with time expressions like "¿Qué hora es?" and "de la mañana" "en punto" "de la tarde" "de la noche" etc.  Most of these terms are in your packet or we have worked with them in class.

If you missed the presentation on Dalí, here is the powerpoint with notes. I want you to know the definition of surrealism and the symbols you see.

martes el 14 de febrero, 2012

¡Feliz día de San Valentín!

En Clase:

• Hicimos esta actividad de decir la hora
• We did this activity about telling time
• Miramos episodio 16 de Mi Vida Loca
• We watched episode 16 of My Crazy Life
• Trabajaron en sus obras de arte
• You all worked on your art pieces 

 Tarea:

• Nada 
• Take a look at standards on which you've received low scores and consider reassessing.

lunes el 13 de febrero

En Clase:

• Jugamos a sillitas musicales para repasar gramática
• We played musical chairs to review grammar
• Contestaron preguntas de comprensión de Dalí en grupos
• You all answered comprehension questions about Dalí

Tarea:

• Bring in your art supplies to get going on your art projects!

viernes el 10 de febrero, 2012

En Clase:

• Repasamos mucha gramática en un juego.
• We reviewed a lot of grammar in a game.
• Tomaron una evaluación de vocabulario del calendario, los números 0-100, y gramática mixta, vieja
• You took an assessment on calendar, numbers, and mixed old grammar

Tarea:

• Write your proposals and email them to Becca (beccakatz.teacher@gmail.com) by el domingo (Sunday) a las 7 por la noche (7pm).  Yes, Sunday at 7:00pm.
• It should include the following things:
•  Your selected art form (What are you going to make?)
• Your rough sketch (verbal, in English, or an actual sketch that you turn in separately from your email) of your piece
• The 2+ ways in which you will be influenced/inspired by your mentor.

jueves el 9 de febrero, 2012

En Clase:

• Practicamos con decir la hora
• We practiced with saying the time
• Discutimos nuestras ideas de nuestras obras de arte original
• We discussed our ideas about our original art pieces
• Leímos una lectura de Salvador Dalí.
• We read a reading about Salvador Dalí

Tarea:

• If you're not done with your artwork research - FINISH IT and bring it to class to hand in FIRST THING!!!
• Practice with numbers 0-100 here: http://www.spanishspanish.com/numbers/numbers_practice100.html 
• Practice calendar vocab on my quia site

martes el 7 de febrero, 2012

En Clase:

• Escribieron de sus dibujos de los días de la semana
• You all wrote about your days of the week drawings
• Corregimos la tarea
• We corrected the homework
• Leyeron de las obras de arte orginales que van a crear
• You all read about the pieces of original artwork that you are going to create

Tarea:

• Hora/Calendario hoja 2

lunes el 6 de febrero, 2012

En Clase:

• Jugamos a BINGO
• We played BINGO
• Tomaron apuntes de la presentación del vocabulario del calendario
• You all took notes on the calendar vocab presentation
• Empezaron sus dibujos de los días de la semana
• You all started your drawings of the days of the week

Tarea:

• Do page 4 of the calendar vocab notes packet.

viernes el 3 de febrero, 2012

En Clase:

• Miramos el resto del documental de Frida Kahlo
• We watched the rest of the Frida Kahlo documentary
• Miramos episodio 15 de Mi Vida Loca
• We watched episode 15 of My Crazy Life
• Jugamos a José Dice
• We played Simon Says
• Tomaron una evaluación de partes del cuerpo
• You took an assessment on body parts

Tarea:

• Nada.  If you're a flashcardy person, make flashcards for the calendar/time expressions vocabulary.

jueves el 2 de febrero, 2012

En Clase:

• Miramos La Cinta Que Envuelve Una Bomba", un documental de Frida Kahlo
• We watched "The Ribbon Around a Bomb", a documentary about Frida Kahlo

Tarea:

• Study body parts vocab (see the blog post below this for a link to the conjuguemos site) for the assessment tomorrow.
• Here is an answer key for the homework (body parts and numbers) from last night.
• FINISH your artist research form if you haven't finished it yet!!!  It's due by the end of the day tomorrow.

Partes del Cuerpo

You can practice body parts on conjuguemos, but here are some things you should know:

• (the) ears - I taught you "(las) orejas" but conjuguemos uses "los oídos".  You can use either - I don't care.
• There are other words we don't have as vocab. SO YOU DON'T HAVE  TO KNOW THESE WORDS but you will see them:
• the jaw = la mandíbula
• the cheek = la mejilla
• the hip = la cadera
• the abdomen = el abdomen
• the thigh = el muslo
• the calf = la pantorrilla
• the hair = el cabello / el pelo
• the gums = las encías
• the forehead = la frente
• the eyelid = el párpado
• the breast = el pecho (same as chest)

miércoles el 1 de febrero, 2012

En Clase:

• Practicamos los números en la actividad de la guía telefónica
• We practiced numbers in the "telephone guide" activity
• Escuchamos la canción "El Chico del Apartamento 512" de Selena
• We listened to the song The Boy from Apartment 512 by Selena
• Corregimos la tarea. 
• We corrected the body parts homework.  Here is the answer key to that.  And here is the answer key to the numbers homework (see p. 2).
• Uds. trabajaron en sus investigaciones de artistas
• You all worked on your artist research.

Tarea:

• Cuerpo - hoja 3 + Números hoja 2
• FINISH artist research form by the beginning of class on Friday!!!